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March 27, 2017March 27, 2017prahladsrihari

Solaris (1972): A Cinematic Odyssey

March 2, 2017March 2, 2017prahladsrihari

English, motherf**ker, do you speak it? (Part 5)

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017prahladsrihari

English, motherf**ker, do you speak it? (Part 4)

February 28, 2017March 1, 2017prahladsrihari

English, motherf**ker, do you speak it? (Part 3)

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017prahladsrihari

English, motherf**ker, do you speak it? (Part 2)

February 26, 2017March 1, 2017prahladsrihari

English, motherf**ker, do you speak it? (Part 1)

November 28, 2016February 26, 2017prahladsrihari

5 must watch films from the Criterion Collection (November edition)

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Solaris (1972): A cinematic odyssey that was the supposed Soviet answer to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Read TheIronicMan to find out what Salman Rushdie thought of the original and the remake. #tarkovsky #solaris #stanislawlem #criterioncollection #salmanrushdie #scifi #theironicman Ashar-ing a cinematic revolution Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard at a protest to reinstate Henri Langlois as director of the Cinematheque Can you tell me who else joined the crusade or signed the petition? #XICMag #frenchnewwave #nouvellevague #godard #chabrol #langlois #cinematheque #mumbai The corridor of redrum. #XICMag #stanleykubrick #theshining #heresjohnny #room237 #allworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboy #redrum Of dark matter and energy. Weekly geeking out with my main man, @jayshankar_ramu along with @thequirkyscribbler @konpalpatni @insiyaburmawala and @abhinavjaisingh #XICMag #openthepodbaydoors #stanleykubrick #2001aspaceodyssey #starchild #hal9000 It was a metaphor for the protagonist's lost youth and innocence in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Now the word finds itself in the OED lexicon. Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #rosebud #citizenkane #film #orsonwelles #xanadu #theironicman What do you call a trigger-happy man who believes in the inevitable justice of a nuclear Armageddon? Think Stanley Kubrick films. Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #strangelove #drstrangelove #petersellers #stanleykubrick #triggerhappy #armageddon #theironicman Did you know the word Padawan, meaning an apprentice or student, was coined by George Lucas himself? Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #starwars #jedi #theforce #padawan #yoda #obiwankenobi #theironicman Did you know the word bunny-boiler comes from the film Fatal Attraction in which a vindictive Glenn Close disrupts the life of an adulterous Michael Douglas in a way that PETA surely wouldn't have approved? Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #glennclose #michaeldouglas #fatalattraction #bunnyboiler #poorrabbit #PETA #theironicman Did you know the word shagadelic is now part of the Oxford English Dictionary? Thanks to the groovy Austin Powers films set in the swinging 60s. Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #austinpowers #groovy #swinging #shagadelic #ohbehave #the60s #theironicman Do you have a friend who selfishly hogs the joint? What does his greed have to do with a famous American screen legend? Read and find out: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigin #bogart #humphreybogart #joint #passthejoint #maryjane #filmnoir #theironicman Did you think badabing was just a stripclub in The Sopranos? What does it have to do with The Godfather? Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com #cinema #etymology #wordorigin #badabing #godfather #sonnycorleone #sopranos #mafia #theironicman What did the Friend Owl in Bambi mean when he says, "Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime"? Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com/ #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #bambi #twitterpated #theironicman Did you know the word paparazzi comes from a 1960 Federico Fellini film? Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #fellini #italian #marcello #sylvia #anitaekberg #paparazzi #fontanaditrevi #theironicman Did you know the word gaslighting comes from a 1944 film starring Ingrid Bergman? What does it mean? Read: https://theironicman.wordpress.com #cinema #etymology #wordorigins #gaslight #ingridbergman #theironicman

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