Silk Cut – Kanchivaram

Hot on the heels of a fairly good recommendation by my friend, yet another recommendation from another friend cropped up almost from nowhere. Actually, it’s not much of a surprise: we’ve constantly been updating each other on the movies that we have caught at the festival (“Dude, you’ve GOT to go see ‘Sell Out!’”). Generally speaking, though, it is often based on the fact that we have indeed seen the film, rather than thinking that the poster actually looks nice.

Having said that, the poster for Kanchivaram wasn’t all that bad either.

Take A Hike! – Film Ticket Price in Malaysia (part 1)

Note: Originallly written on the 26th of December 2008 in a Facebook post.

So I got up two days ago, went straight into the dining hall for a cup of coffee where today’s newspaper was lying untouched. You see, I don’t usually read the newspapers but something caught my attention on the front page in today’s edition. It was a line saying “Malaysian will soon have to pay RM20 to watch this…” followed by a picture from Disney’s ‘Bolt’ and then another line saying “…and only RM12 for this”, followed by a picture of the ridiculous ‘Cicak Man’. The words that automatically came out of me after reading that was what.the.f*ck? So I skipped to page 10 to read the whole article.

Made Up – Fiksi

“Oh, I was really looking forward to that one,” said my friend. He had caught a screening of ‘Fiksi’ by Mouly Surya that day itself, and was buzzing with excitement. “Joko Anwar wrote the script. You can’t miss it, Fikri. You have to go and watch it.”

Now, I get a lot of such recommendations from a wide variety of people. Some have been films that made me think a little bit more, made me feel a little bit more, even made me cry a little (though in order to protect my macho reputation, I shall not reveal that ‘Love Actually’ is the movie in question). Some, admittedly, were as pure as 100%, Grade A, New Zealand horse crap. I don’t actually know how many horses they have in New Zealand, or even the type of horses they breed slightly south-east of Down Under, but they can’t be that great.