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036, de Juan Fernando Andrés Parrilla y Esteban Roel García Vázquez
reminds me of my war for my passport. it took me 4.2 YEARS to get my passport!!! bloody Government Office drone and their love for 'paperwork'!
 amazing film!!!




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City of God (Citade de Deus)

monkeyrating: 9/10 

genre: drama crime

waddabout: a tale of the circle of life through the lives of the youths living in the very violent, crime soaked slums of CITADE DE DEUS. And its based on a true story!

isay: if i ever make a movie - this is how it will be! the movie ain't just a movie - its a story of life. a tale worth being told and a visual experience worth being experienced! absolutely timeless!

monkeyrespect to: Director Fernando Meirelles, gets all the monkey respect monkey can give - the movie is god-fucking-fantabulous! the way the story is told is just brilliant in every way. this movie is a storyteller's dream!

The cinematography will have you gripped in the first 10 minutes itself - and what's more is that it dosent slack all through the movie. so definite monkeyrespect and the well deserved oscar to César Charlone. The camera movements and techniques put CG to shame! 
The editing by Daniel Rezende is so slick!!!! not at one point do you feel that any part of the story's fabric is ruptured! despite being such a long and complicated!!! almost as if the editing is invisible! that's the true art of a master tailor - a dress that stupefies you, but without a single hem or stitch ever being visible! 

trivia note: All of the amateur actors were recruited from favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro, and a couple of them - eg. Buscapé/Rocket actually lived in the Cidade de Deus

 
Watch the trailer: 

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one flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)

monkeyrating: 9/10
 (i seriously considered giving this movie a 10/10)

genre: drama

waddabout: A free spirited man cons his way into a mental institution in lieu of prison, and rallies the patients together to rebel against an opressive nurse (ratched) whose only joy in life seems to be opressing these patients.

 
isay: one of the few movies that will haunt you for life with its meaning and unbiased view of the world. must must must watch!

monkeyrespect to: Jack Nicholson is THE MAN to watch out for!!!
and the movie is TOTTALLY DESERVING OF EVERY OSCAR IT WON!!!!!!!!!!

Best Actor in a Leading Role Jack Nicholson

Best Actress in a Leading Role Louise Fletcher

Best Director Milos Forman

Best Picture Saul Zaentz Michael Douglas 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' became the first film in 41 years to sweep the major categories of best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay.

Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material Lawrence Hauben Bo Goldman

Watch the trailer: 


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Rise of the Planet of the apes

pandarating: 8/10
(IMDB LINK)monkeyrating: 7/10
(applies for non hard core P.O.T.A fans)

genre: Action drama Sci-fi

makers: Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writers: Pierre Boulle, Rick Jaffa, and 1 more credit »Stars: James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto

waddabout: A genetically enhanced chimp who displays near human intelligence is raised up by a geneticist.

isay: The movie is well written and well executed. At 97 minutes the runtime might feel a tad short for this kind of drama/action movie but it holds the viewers attention and gets it point across. atleast extremely well for the first half.
The movie is full of small homage's to the first movie - so hardcore POTA fans gotta love it!

pandarespect to: The studio and the makers for attempting a reboot after 2001's weird Goth Planet of the apes with a twist in the end which made ZERO sense. This movie is a prequel of sorts to 1968's Planet movie and might spin off into its own franchise.

The biggest selling and potentially stumbling point of the movie is the CGI, all the apes are computer generated and one can only imagine how much work went into making them look this real. Other than super expressive eyes, the apes looked completely real, and better than Navi's in 2009's Avatar for the simple reason that these apes are in real world San Francisco and not a new planet. Some people might say the CGI is obvious, but its only obvious because we know them to be CGI, to a layman they look and act real.

trivia note: "Get your filthy hands off me you damn dirty ape" makes a big comeback with a very surprising Theater gasping word spoken at the end of that dialog. SEE the movie to find out what was said and by whom. SHOCKER IT IS!!!!!

View the trailer: 

for the review of the ORIGINAL  - PLANET OF THE APES: http://monkeyworksmovies.blogspot.com/2011/04/planet-of-apes-1968.html

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13 assasins (2010)

monkeyrating: 8/10 

genre: drama action adventure history

waddabout: A group of men of honor come together to assassinate an evil shogun.

isay: this movie will make you want to go beserk with a katana all over the yard!!!! insanely awesome!!! 

monkeyrespect to: Takashi Miike - This director has acommplished a task almost impossible - REMADE an incredible classic in a way that's not just TRUE to its epicness, story and soul, but also remarkably a more well shot film! An entertainer with its sense and sensibilities intact!
The action choreographer and the cinematographer have done a brilliant job! They've made the camera literally sway with the action. I'm pretty keen on action scenes and yet i found it almost impossible to find any wedge between the flawlessly choreographed scenes - WHICH ALSO POINTS ANOTHER ACT OF BRILLIANCE - SEAMLESS EDITING!
The sound is brilliant too - explosive and cutting. but the music doesn't stay in you head. it just leaves you wishing it would.

Watch the trailer: 



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Silence of love: Thai Life insurance

Thailand seems to have developed a trend in making SHORT FILMS as ads - and i'm LOVING this trend. i just hope it comes to india soon. these are the kind of ads i want to make. i'd love to make.

this film is the story of a mute father and his daughter.... told in a touching, beautiful way.


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Love Story in Milk

a love story of two simple milk bottles. beautiful concept. beautifully executed and a simple, take away message with a lot of meaning.
a great short film. a touching, memorable ad.
a rare combination of simplicity, effectiveness and great execution in film.



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A Claymation Experiment

THE FIGHT: 
i was just playing around with clay to roughly demo a claymation concept. A fight between a green mango and mint - which ends up creating a new Minto Gol green mango variant.

Tools: this was made within half an hour on my office desk. using an ordinary Lumix digital camera, windows movie maker and some paper. the sounds have been recorded on my Blackberry phone.

DISCLAIMER: this is not meant as a commercial and has not been made for any financial purposes. this is only a personal project.

- Pushkaraj Shirke

Jack Daniels: Yee-haw poster Documentary

i'm  a lover of old things. art the way it used to be. i love the difference a hand makes to a piece of art - the way it transcends a simple promotional piece of paper, to a work of art. and im glad jack daniels made this little documentary ad film which captures the art of poster making and printing.
watch it. it takes you back in time!

The Spielberg Curriculum - 206 movies Steven says you must see

This certainly qualifies as a strange news item of the day, but one that's rather interesting. This is currently being circulated on Twitter.

This is a list of 206 movies unofficially referred to as the "Spielberg Curriculum" that all filmmakers must see if they want to work with him.

The list is full of a great many classic films, but also some extremely obscure ones. Yes, most filmmakers have probably seen 12 ANGRY MEN and THE GODFATHER, but many young up and comers probably haven't seen anywhere close to the whole list. 

Spielberg says he'd be shocked if they'd seen 30 of them.

I've seen about 56+. honestly, really slow - arty farty films bore me.

Here's the full list for those interested - makes quite an interesting watchlist if you ask me: 

1.12 Angry Men         Sidney Lumet         Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda

2.2001                       Stanley Kubrick          Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood

3.400 Blows                 Francios Truffaut         Jean-Pierre Leaud

4.8 1/2                         Federico Fellini          Marcello Mastroianni

5.Adam's Rib                 George Cukor          Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy

6.Alfie                         Lewis Gilbert          Michael Caine, Shelley Winters

7.Al Capone                 Richard Wilson          Rod Steiger

8.All About Eve                 Joseph Mankiewicz     Anne Baxter, Bette Davis

9.All That Jazz                 Bob Fosse          Jessica Lange, Roy Scheider

10.American In Paris         Vincent Minnelli          Gene Kelly

11.And Justice For All         Norman Jewison         Al Pacino, Lee Strasberg

12.Annie Hall                 Woody Allen         Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

13.Apartment, The                    Billy Wilder         Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine

14.Apocalypse Now        Francis Coppola         Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen

15.All/Presidents Men         Alan Pakula         Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford

16.Baby Doll                 Elia Kazan         Carroll Baker, Karl Malden

17.Bang/Drum Slowly         John Hancock            Robert DeNiro, Michael Moriarty

18.Barefoot In/Park         Gene Saks                 Jane Fonda, Robert Redford

19.Battleship Potemkin         Sergei Eisenstein       Vladimir Barsky

20.Belle De Jour                 Luis Bunuel         Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel

21.Best Years/Lives       William Wyler         Fredric March, Harold Russell

22.Big Sleep, The         Howard Hawks         Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall

23.Bicycle Thief                Vittorio de Sica         Lamberto Maggiorani

24.Big Chill, The                 Lawrence Kasdan     Goldblum, Hurt, Kline, Close

25.Birds, The                 Alfred Hitchcock         Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor

26.Body Heat                 Lawrence Kasdan      William Hurt, Kathleen Turner

27.Bonnie & Clyde         Arthur Penn         Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway

28.Breakfast/Tiffany's         Blake Edwards         Audrey Hepburn, Mickey Rooney

29.Breathless                 Jean Luc Goddard    Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Segal

30.Bridge/River Kwai         David Lean         Alec Guiness, William Holden

31.Brief Encounter         David Lean         Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson

32.Bringing Up Baby         Howard Hawks         Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

33.Bullitt                         Peter Yates         Steve McQueen

34.Butch/Sundance        George Roy Hill         Paul Newman, Robert Redford

35.Cape Fear                 J. Lee Thompson        Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck

36.Casablanca                 Michael Curtiz         Bergman, Bogart

37.Celebration, TheThomas Vinterberg

38.Champ, The                 Franco Zeffirelli         Jon Voight

39.Charade                 Stanley Donen         Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

40.Chase, The                 Arthur Penn         Brando, Duvall, Redford

41.Children/Paradise                  Marcel Came  Etienne Decroux, Arletty

42.Chinatown                 Roman Polanski         Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson

43.Citizen Kane                 Orson Welles         Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles

44.Clockwork Orange        Stanley Kubrick          Malcolm McDowell

45.Close Encounters         Steven Spielberg         Richard Dreyfuss, Ted Garr

46.Come Back/Sheba         Daniel Mann           Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster

47.Cool Hand Luke         Stuart Rosenberg         Paul Newman

48.Conversation, The         Francis Coppola         Gene Hackman

49.Day/Earth/Still         Robert Wise         Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe

50.Days/Wine & Roses         Blake Edwards         Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick

51.Deer Hunter, The         Michael Cimino            DeNiro, Walken, Streep

52.Dog Day Afternoon         Sidney Lumet          John Cazale, Al Pacino

53.Double Indemnity         Billy Wilder                  Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck

54.Doctor Zhivago         David Lean          Julie Christie, Omar Sharif

55.East of Eden                 Elia Kazan         James Dean, Jo Harris

56.Exorcist,The                 William Friedkin         Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller

57.Face In The Crowd         Elia Kazan          Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau

58.Five Easy Pieces         Bob Rafelson          Karen Black, Jack Nicholson

59.Fly, The                 David Cronenberg      Jeff Goldblum

60.French Connection        William Friedkin         Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider

61.French Conn. 2        John FrankenheimerGene Hackman, Fernando Rey

62.From Here/Eternity         Fred Zinneman         Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster

63.Fugitive Kind, The         Sidney Lumet         Marlon Brando

64.Gaslight                 George Cukor         Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

65.General, The                 Buster Keaton         Buster Keaton

66.Gntlmn’s Agrmnt        Elia Kazan                  John Garfield, Gregory Peck

67.Giant                         George Stevens         Dean, Hudson, Taylor

68.Gone With/Wind         Victor Fleming         Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh

69.Grand Illusion         Jean Renoir          Erich Von Stroheim

70.Great Escape, The         John Sturges         Steve McQueen

71.Godfather, The        Francis Coppola         Marlon Brando, Al Pacino

72.Godfatherr II, TheFrancis CoppolaAl Pacino, Robert De Niro

73.Godfather III, TheFrancis CoppolaAl Pacino, Andy Garcia

74.Graduate, The         Mike Nichols         Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman

75.Grapes Of Wrath         John Ford                   Jane Darwell, Henry Fonda

76.Great Santini, The         Lewis John Carlino      Robert Duvall

77.Guess Who's…        Stanley Kramer         Sidney Poitier

78.Guns Of Navaronne         J. Lee Thompson        Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn

79.Heiress, The                 William Wyler         Montgomery Clift, Olivia/Havilland

80.High Noon                 Fred Zinneman         Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly

81.Hud                         Martin Ritt                   Patricia Neal, Paul Newman

82.Hunter, The                 Buzz Kulik         Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach

83.Hustler, The                 Robert Rossen         Jackie Gleason, Paul Newman

84.His Girl Friday         Howard Hawks         Cary Grant

85.Holiday                 George Cukor         Cary Grant Katherine Hepburn

86.I Confess                    Alfred Hitchcock    Montgomery Clift, Karl Malden

87.Immigrant, The         Charlie Chaplin         Charlie Chaplin

88.In A Lonely Place       Nicolas Ray         Humphrey Bogart

89.In/Heat Of/Night         Norman Jewison         Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger

90.Indiscretion/Wife        Vittorio de Sica         Montgomery Clift Jennifer Jones

91.It Happened/Night         Frank Capra           Claudette Colbert Clark Gable

92.It's A Wonderful Life         Frank Capra           Jimmy Stewart

93.Jdgmnt/Nuremberg         Stanley Kramer           Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster

94.Julius Caesar                    Joseph Mankiewicz       Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston

95.Kramer Vs. Kramer         Robert Benton               Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep

96.Last Detail, The         Hal Ashby           Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid

97.Last Picture Show        Peter Bogdanovich       Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shephard

98.Last Tango In Paris         Bernardo Bertolucci      Marlon Brando

99.Lawrence Of Arabia         David Lean           Peter O'Toole

100.Little Foxes, The         William Wyler               Bette Davis, Teresa Wright

101.Lolita                 Stanley Kubrick           James Mason, Peter Sellers

102.Lonelyhearts         Vincent J. Donahue      Montgomery Clift

103.Long Day's Journey   Sidney Lumet           Katherine Hepburn, Jason Robards

104.Long Hot Summer      Martin Ritt           Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward

105.Lost In America         Albert Brooks           Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty

106.Lost WeekendBilly Wilder           Ray Milland

107.Love Story         Arthur Hiller           Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal

108.M                 Fritz Lang           Peter Lorre

109.Magnif. Ambersons    Orson Welles          Tim Holt, Orson Welles

110.Magnificent Seven     John Sturges          Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen

111.Man/Shot Liberty…    John Ford          Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne

112.Manchurian Cand.     John Frankenheimer    Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra   

113.Marathon Man           John Schlesinger         Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier

114.Marty                 Delbert Mann         Ernest Borgnine

115.Mean Streets           Martin Scorsese         Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel

116.Men, The          Fred Zinneman           Marlon Brando

117.Metropolis          Fritz Lang          Brigitte Heim, Theodore Loos

118.Midnight Cowboy         John Schlesinger        Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voiqht

119.Miracle/Morgan's…     Preston Sturges          Bobby Watson

120.Misfits, The         John Huston          Clift, Gable, Monroe

121.Mississippi Burning     Alan Parker          Willem Defoe, Gene Hackman

122.Missouri Breaks        Arthur Penn          Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson

123.Modern Romance       Albert Brooks         Albert Brooks, Bruno Kirby

124.Modern Times         Charlie Chaplin         Charlie Chaplin

125.Mr. Smith Goes To…  Frank Capra         Jimmy Stewart, Claude Rains

126.Mutiny/Bounty             Frank Lloyd         Marlon Brando

127.My Fair Lady        George Cukor         Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn

128.Nashville            Robert Altman         Ned Beatty, Jeff Goldblum

129.National Velvet           Clarence Brown         Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor

130.Network                 Sidney  Lumet          Faye Dunaway, William Holden

131.North By Northwest    Alfred Hitchcock         Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint

132.Notorious         Alfred Hitchcock         Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant

133.No Way To Treat…    Jack Smight         Rod Steiger

134.Odd Couple, The        Gene Saks                 Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

135.On the Waterfront       Elia Kazan          Brando, Malden, Steiger

136.One/Cuckoo's Nest     Milos Foreman         Jack Nicholson, Danny Divito

137.One-Eyed Jacks         Marlon Brando             Marlon Brando, Karl Malden

138.Ordinary People         Robert Redford           Mary Moore, Donald Sutherland

139.Panic/Needle Park     Jerry Schatzberg           Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino

140.Papillion                 Franklin Schaffner        Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen

141.Party, The         Blake Edwards           Peter Sellers

142.Parallax View        Alan Pakula            Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn

143.Patton                 Franklin Schaffner         Karl Malden, George C. Scott

144.Pawnbroker, The         Sidney Lumet               Rod Steiger

145.Philadelphia Story      Georqe Cukor           Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

146.Public Enemy, The     William Wellman           James Cagney

147.Psycho                 Alfred Hitchcock          Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins

148.Quiet Man, The         John Ford            John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara

149.Raging Bull         Martin Scorsese           Robert DeNiro

150.Rain People, The        Francis Coppola          James Caan, Robert Duvall

151.Raintree County         Edward Dmytryk           Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor

152.Ramblin' Rose         Martha Coolidge          Laura Dern, Robert Duvall

153.Real Life                 Albert Brooks           Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin

154.Rear Window        Alfred Hitchcock           Gace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart

155.Rebel W/out Cause   Nicholas Ray           James Dean, Natalie Wood

156.Red River         Howard Hawks             Montgomery Clift, John Wayne

157.Reflections in a…       John Huston           Marlon Brando, Julie Harris

158.Requiem for a…         Ralph Nelson           Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason

159.Rosemary's Baby      Roman Polanski           Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon

160.Runaway Train         Andrei Konchalovsky   Eric Roberts, Jon Voight

161.Safety Last      Harold Lloyd        Harold Lloyd

162.Sand PebblesRobert Wise           Steve McQueen

163.Saturday Night Fever John Badham          John Travolta

164.Sayonara           Joshua Logan        Marlon Brando

165.Scarecrow           Jerry Schatzberg      Gene Hackman, Al Pacino

166.Scarface                 Brian De Palma         Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer

167.Scent Of A Woman     Martin Brest               Al Pacino

168.Searchers, The         John Ford           John Wayne, Natalie Wood

169.Serpico                 Sidney Lumet             Al Pacino

170.Seven Samurai         Akira Kurosawa         Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune

171.Seventh SealIngmar Bergman         Max Von Sydow

172.Signal 7             

173.Singin' In the Rain      Stanley Donen      Gene Kelly, Rita Moreno

174.Smiles of a…         Ingmar Bergman      Jarl Kulle

175.Soldier In The Rain    Ralph Nelson              Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen

176.Some Like It Hot         Billy Wilder                 Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe

177.Sound Of Music        Robert Wise            Julie Andrews

178.Splendor/Grass      Elia Kazan           Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood

179.Stagecoach                John Ford         James Mason, John Wayne

180.Star Is BornWilliam Wellman      Janet Gaynor, Fredric March

181.Star Wars                George Lucas             Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford

182.Streetcar/Desire        Elia Kazan         Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh

183.Suddenly Last…     Joseph Mankiewicz     Clift, Hepburn, Taylor

184.Sullivan's Travels      Preston Sturges      Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea

185.Sunset Boulevard        Billy Wilder                 William Holden, Gloria Swanson

186.Sweet Bird of Youth    Richard Brooks      Paul Newman, Geraldine Page

187.Taxi Driver         Martin Scorsese         Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel

188.Teahouse of the…     Daniel Mann      Marlon Brando

189.Tender Mercies      Bruce Beresford      Robert Duvall

190.Third Man, The         Carol Reed         Orson Welles

191.Three Days/Condor    Sidney Pollack         Faye Dunaway, Robert Redford

192.To Kill/Mockingbird     Robert Mulligan      Gregory Peck

193.Tootsie         Sidney Pollack         Dustin Hoffman

194.Tree Grows in…      Elia Kazan           James Dunn, Peg

195.Trip To Bountiful, A     Peter Masterson      Geraldine Page

196.Two Rode Together    John Ford           Jimmy Stewart

197.Verdict, The         Sidney Lumet         Paul Newman, George Mason

198.Vertigo                 Alfred Hitchcock         Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart

199.Viva Zapata      Elia Kazan           Marlon Brando, Karl Malden

200.Wait Until Dark      Terence Young      Alan Arkin, Audrey Hepburn

201.West Side Story      Jerome Robbins      Rita Moreno, Natalie Wood

202.White Christmas      Michael Curtiz      Bing Crosby

203.Who's Afraid…      Mike Nichols          Richard Burton

204.Wild One, The      Laszlo Benedek      Marlon Brando, Lee Marvin

205.Wild River           Elia Kazan           Montgomery Clift

206.Young Lions, The      Edward Dmytryk      Brando, Clift

PHEWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, how many have you gotten through? With how many movie fans out there, I bet we have some fans out there that have a pretty decent percentage completed.

It's entirely possible this list might not in any way be related to Spielberg (I'm surprised there isn't more sci-fi), as it's going to be tough to get confirmation, but it's sure not a bad list to have if you want to expand your knowledge of film.

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