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Koyaanisqatsi - Godfrey Reggio

By Srikanth Srinivasan | September 30th, 2008 | Category: Cinema, Hollywood Classics | 4 comments

There are not many films that urge the audience to get involved and direct the course of the film. The audience is made into puppets whose emotions are controlled by the strings attached to the director’s whims. Koyaanisqatsi takes the meaning of independent viewing to a whole new level, with the film achieving form as decided by the viewers. Hence the film becomes a unique experience for each viewer and differing largely from others’. Koyaanisqatsi is a non-narrative film whose USP remains…


To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee/Robert Mulligan

By Samakshi | May 24th, 2008 | Category: Cinema, Classics, Fiction Books, Hollywood Classics, Literature | No Comments »

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird… Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” [...]