The Movie Book

SMALL WORLD 299 Amélie (Audrey Tautou) plays jokes on the bullying grocery-store owner (Urbain Cancelier) for his cruelty to Luc ...

300 WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY STANCE! LAGAAN / 2001 A story about a village cricket match in India under the British Raj in the 1890 ...

SMALL WORLD 301 Bhuvan (Aamir Khan) dances with Gauri (Gracy Singh) as the rest of the village looks on in one of the movie’s se ...

302 IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE FORGING OF THE GREAT RINGS THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING / 2001 N ot since the bib ...

SMALL WORLD 303 Four hobbit friends, Merry (Dominic Monaghan), Frodo (Elijah Wood), Pippin (Billy Boyd), and Sam (Sean Astin), s ...

YOU NEED MORE THAN GUTS TO BE A GOOD GANGSTER. YOU NEED IDEAS CITY OF GOD / 2002 ...

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306 CITY OF GOD S tylish, compelling, and hugely entertaining, Fernando Meirelles’ City of God (Cidade de Deus) also has a serio ...

SMALL WORLD 307 experience of growing to adulthood in the City of God. To achieve this, Meirelles did not bind himself to the na ...

308 CITY OF GOD 00:10 The Tender Trio rob a motel with Li’l Dice as lookout. We later find out that Lil’ Dice went back afterwar ...

SMALL WORLD 309 publishing without his permission the pictures he took of Li’l Zé. Rocket is sure that this has placed his life ...

310 LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU. WEEP AND YOU WEEP ALONE OLDBOY / 2003 O ldboy (2003) is the second entry in the Vengea ...

SMALL WORLD 311 Park Chan-wook Director Park Chan-wook was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1963. While studying philosophy at col ...

312 YOU DON’T KNOW ME BUT I KNOW YOU THE LIVES OF OTHERS / 2006 T he Lives of Others was inspired by an image formed in the mind ...

SMALL WORLD 313 During an evening at the theater, Wiesler’s boss, Lieutenant-Colonel Anton Grubitz, points out the target for Wi ...

314 F airy tales abound with the sinister and the macabre. Good invariably conquers evil, but the battle is hard fought and evil ...

SMALL WORLD 315 What else to watch: La Belle et la Bête (1946, pp.84 –85) ■ Spirit of the Beehive (1973, pp.214–15) ■ The Compan ...

316 PAN’S LABYRINTH Vidal and Ofelia can both be considered true believers, each fully convinced of the validity of the world th ...

SMALL WORLD 317 The portal will only open if we offer the blood of an innocent. Just a drop of blood: a pinprick, that’s all. It ...

318 THIS IS OUR DESTINY SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE / 2008 S et in Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire tells the rags-to- riches story of a kid ...