#movie list
Movies I saw last month:
The Batman (2022), West Side Story (2021), Titane (2021), The Adam Project (2022), The Power of the Dog (2021), Morbius (2022)
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Movies I saw last month:
Moonfall (2022), Kimi (2022), The Dark (2018), Death on the Nile (2022), Uncharted (2022), BigBug (2022), The Cursed (2021)
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Movies I saw last month:
The Contractor (2022), Black Crab (2022), Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Coming Home (2020), The Northman (2022), Life: Love on the Line (2020)
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While doing posts on contemporary regional Indian period movies, I made a rough list of Indian period films. These are listed below. Some are historicals but the bulk fall into the 19th and 20th century. The list is fairly rough so feel free to add more, especially if they are in languages other than Hindi.
Pic 1: Vidyapati (1937), Pic 2: Jeevan Smriti (2013)
Pre-Mauryan
Maurya Empire/Buddhist/Post Buddhist
Vidyapati (Bengali?/Hindi, 1937)
Ashok Kumar (Tamil, 1941)
Veer Kunal (Hindi, 1945)
Ashad Ka Ek Din (Hindi, 1971)
Siddhartha (English, 1972)
Utsav (Hindi, 1984)
Trishagni (Hindi, 1988)
The Cloud Door (Hindi, 1994)
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (English, 1996)
Asoka (Hindi, 2001)
Anahat (Marathi, 2003)
Mirch (Hindi, 2010) (in part)
Rudhramadevi (Telugu, 2015)
See also wikipedia.
Mughal Period/Post Mughal
Pukar (Hindi 1939)
Anarkali (1935, 1953,1955, 1966, various languages)
Meera (Tamil/Hindi, 1945)
Mughal-e-Azam (Hindi, 1960)
Taj Mahal (Hindi, 1963)
Ghashiram Kotwal (Marathi, 1976)
Jodhaa Akbar (Hindi, 2008)
Urumi (Malayalam, 2011)
Aravaan (Tamil, 2012)
Bajirao Mastani (Hindi, 2015)
Rama Madhav (Marathi, 2014)
Colonial India/Early 20th century/Pre-independence
Devdas (various languages, 1928-2013)
Pioli Phukan (Assamese, 1955)
Charulata (Bengali, 1964)
Chameli Memsaab (Assamese, 1975)
Shatranj ke Khilari (Hindi, 1977)
Junoon (Hindi, 1977)
Umrao Jaan (Hindi, 1981,2006)
Massey Sahib (Hindi, 1985)
Mogamul (Tamil, 1995)
Vanaprastham (Malayalam, 1999)
Hey Ram (Tamil/Hindi, 2000)
Pinjar (Hindi, 2003)
Noukadubi, Bengali, 2011)
Makaramanju (Malayalam, 2011)
Bal Gandharva (Marathi, 2011)
Paradesi (Tamil, 2013)
Rang Rasiya (Hindi, 2014)
Kaaviya Thalaivan (Tamil, 2014)
Taptapadi (Marathi, 2014)
Rajkahini (Bengali, 2015)
1950s
Shadows of Time (Bengali, 2004)
Parineeta (Hindi, 2005)
Vaagai Sooda Vaa, (Tamil, 2011)
Bombay Velvet (Hindi, 2015)
1970s
Border (Hindi, 1997)
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (Hindi, 1998)
Om Shanti Om (Hindi, 2007)
Kaalbela (Bengali, 2009)
Natarang (Marathi, 2010)
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (Hindi, 2010)
Shala (Marathi, 2011)
Barfi! (Hindi, 2012)
Dutta vs Dutta (Bengali, 2012)
1980s
Subramaniapuram (Tamil, 2008)
The Dirty Picture (Hindi, 2011)
Manjadikuru (Malayalam, 2012)
Dwaar (Assamese, 2013)
Amara Kaaviyam (Tamil, 2014)
1990s
Timepass (Marathi, 2014)
David (Tamil, 2013)
Haider (Hindi, 2014)
Dum Laga ke Haisha (Hindi, 2015)
Also see short wiki list.
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Chungking Express (1994)
Dir. Wong Kar-wai
one million yen girl (2008)
And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
Dir. Sean Baker
Perfect Blue (1997)
Dir. Satoshi Kon
Carol (2015)
Dir. Todd Haynes
Films I’ve Seen in 2022: April
The Bad Guys (2022)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Morbius (2022)
Grease (1978)
Black Panther (2018)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Spider-Man Homecoming (2017)
The Lost City (2022)
Matilda (1996)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Reading
- The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles (1949)
- Bitch Planet vol 1 - DeConnick & Landro (2015)
- Bitch Planet issues 6 & 7 - DeConnick & Landro (2016)
- Paper Girls vol 1 - BKV (2016)
- Black Panther issue 1 - Ta-Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze (2016)
Television
- X-Files Seasons 3 & 4 - Chris Carter (1995)
- Fortitude - Simon Donald (2015)
- Veep Season 5 Episode 1 - Armando Ianucci (2016)
- Silicon Valley Season 3 Episode 1 - Mike Judge (2016)
Film
- 10 Cloverfield Lane - Dan Trachtenberg (2016)
- Midnight Special - Jeff Nichols (2016)
- Young Ones - Jake Paltrow (2015)
- The Force Awakens - JJ Abrams (2015)
- Casper - Brad Silberling & Phil Nibbelink (1995)
- Confirmation - Rick Famuyiwa (2016)
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Frank Oz (1988)
- Lemonade - Beyonce & Co (2016)
Music
- Bleached - Welcome the Worms (2016)
- Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (2014)
- Frankie Cosmos - The Next Thing (2016)
- Beyonce - Lemonade (2016)
- Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
- Prince - Sign O’ The Times (1987)
- Prince - Lovesexy (1988)
- Prince - Controversy (1981)
- Prince - Prince (1979)
Books
- Bassoon King - Rainn Wilson (2015)
- The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (1963)
- Sphinx - Anne Garreta (2015)
- Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein (2015)
- Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
Television
- Vinyl Episodes 4-6 - Terence Winter (2016)
- House of Cards Season 4 - Netflix (2016)
- X-Files Season 1-2 - Chris Carter 1993)
- Les Revenants Season 2 - Fabrice Gobert (2015)
- Documentary Now Season 1 - IFC (2015)
Film
- Hail Caesar - Coen Brothers (2016)
- Me, Earl and the Dying Girl - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (2015)
- Finding Vivian Maier - John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (2013)
- Room - Lenny Abrahamson (2015)
- Bridge of Spies - Spielberg (2015)
Music
- Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home (2015)
- Eskimeaux - O.K. (2015)
- Bleached - For the Feel (2014)
- Bleached - Ride Your Heart (2013)
- A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
- Marian Hill - Down (single 2016)
- Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered (2016)
- LaBelle - Nightbirds (1974)
- Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (2008)
- Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (2014)
- Rilo Kiley - RKives (2013)
Movies every cinephile should see (in my opinion)
- Pulp Fiction
- Into The Wild
- Almost Famous
- The Breakfast Club
- The Big Lebowski
- Django Unchained
- The Wolf Of Wall Street
- The Truman Show
- Predestination
- Shutter Island
- Sin City
- Kill Bill
- Matrix
- When Harry Met Sally
- Grand Budapest Hotel
- Upside Down
- La La Land
- Mr. Nobody
- The Prestige
