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Sherlock Jr. was the first movie I stumbled upon, the silent movie from 1924 is a fun story about a movie projectionist who wishes to become a detective one day. His ambitions are put to a test when he finds himself wrongly accused of a crime he didnt commit.
2009 was another good year of film watching for me. I watched exactly the same number of movies as I did in 2008. A number like 119 is hard but a total pleasure to repeat.
Instead of throwing up stats I will list out a bunch of movies that I thought were really good. I will skip the obvious suspects(Avatar gets enough publicity as it is :D ) and point out movies(that I watched in 2009) that werent that popular but were great in their own regard.
Image via Wikipedia There is a famous anecdote about a wise master and a tea cup. This story is one of my favourite zen stories. The short version goes something like this: Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era, received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured … Read more
I dont like Multiplexes. I like the ability to get tickets without standing in long queues and to know that I can manage to get tickets for a movie even on its very first day, without taking a day off from office. I thank the multiplexes for that. But multiplexes have slowly killed off the … Read more