jasonjose

jasonjose

Favorite films

  • The Tree of Life
  • Vertigo
  • Iruvar
  • Ordet

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  • Interstellar

    ★★★★

  • Aavesham

    ★★★½

  • The Fall

    ★★

  • Blue Valentine

    ★★★½

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★

    Had such a special experience watching this with my friends at Westend tonight.

    Looking underneath the bloatedness of the second half, it's almost elevating - the audaciousness of Nolan's imagination, the uncharacteristic earnestness with which he ties up the elements of this expansive story. Love must win, and love has to be the only answer. Love invariably carries the seed of faith, and the cold interminable "logic" of material living, conveniently guised in scientific idiom, cannot be our reason for…

  • Aavesham

    Aavesham

    ★★★½

    Could only watch half of it this time, but I'm just so amazed by how well Jithu Madhavan understands Bangalore. The lovely sunrise/sunsets in BLR, abandoned roads near Devanahalli, funny correlation between Malayalis and juice shops, more and more things just stick out to me, more things that relate to my lived experience in this city.

    One of my favourite laugh-out-loud moments in the film is when Ranga & Co. beats Kutty & Co. outside the college, and Ranga tells the college…

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  • Bata Boy and Crocs Girl

    Bata Boy and Crocs Girl

    ★½

    So I actually watched this film when it released, and I write first impressions here whenever I watch a film so I'm logging this here to say that the experience was quite underwhelming lol.

    This whole milieu of young well-adjusted adults figuring out situationships seems to exist in a vacuum on paper, because at no point does this film seem to question or uncover who these characters are beyond what's between them. It feels like a 38 second Nirmal Pillai…

  • Village Rockstars 2

    Village Rockstars 2

    ★★★★

    cheers to the best film I've seen at MAMI so far. Double cheers to meeting Rima Das (director) and Bhanita Das (lead actor) of this film after the screening and being able to congratulate them on this achievement.

    Cause what an achievement this film is for Indian cinema! I have not seen the prequel yet this film is an opening up of something deeply imaginative on the part of the director. Something profoundly elemental and truthful.

    Nature is the silent…