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Reviews
Manhattan (1979)
Cinemascope well used
we all are fascinated by the cinema scope(CS) vision and what beautiful image it gives us. it is a debatable weather it resembles our normal vision or not but one things for sure we hardly give importance to things too far left and right of our vision. keeping this in mind its really not advisable to make use of it in each and every film. i have spent so much time writing so much about cinema scope is bcoz after watching several films i finally got to see an extremely good use of this sort of aspect ratio, WOODY has definitely made an important decision and has made the most of it.
the introduction of Manhattan in the early scene, the long walk of two friends after dinner, wide roads of the city, woody's apartment, Murphy's phone conversation, all shout out the brilliant use of CS. woody very smartly squeezes the frame by placing something in the foreground, or keeping the actors in a closer frame as and when required.
overall it gives us an expression of vastness of city and makes a exuberant locale for the characters to play their part. gordon willis' ligting also helps in making the picture look life-like and get the feel of manhattan(check out the use of no light,blackout) well to say the least i have never seen manhattan (with my own eyes) but because of such a detailed work i have a glimpse of it.
good work woody (your films have never failed to fascinate me no matter how many times i may see them)
Antareen (1993)
antareen
how many of us will deny the fact that we alwaz wanted to talk to some strangers, and when the stranger is from d opposite sex the excitement and anxiety doubles. 'antareen' meaning confines is a story about the conversation of two lonely figures, one a lonely writer the other a lady suffering from grave circumstances. One night while staying at his friends ancestral home the writer receives a call but nobody speaks. Next night the phone rings again. This time there is a lady and the two start talking. Days pass by and there conversation multiply. The lady a prisoner of circumstances confines in the writer. She gets someone who had the patience to listen to her pain and agony. They make an imaginary world of their own. Then in the middle of a fateful night this world thus built collapses. Both of them carry on with their respective lives but there is a lot of passion and desires in it....
Like always Mrinal Sen excels in showing a complex story in a realistic fashion. The conversations of the two characters sounds very natural. The movie has a mystery at every point and u are always lookin forward for more. Applaudes for certain camera angles. All in all its a fantastic film with some very realistic performances.