Broken Embraces (2009): Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's homage to filmmaking

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Almodóvar's ambitious film starring Penélope Cruz and Lluís Homar

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Broken Embraces (2009) - By Pedro Almodóvar

Our Rating: 7.0

IMDb Ratings: 7.2

Genre: Crime  | Romance  |  Thriller

Cast: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish | English

Runtime: 127

Color: Color

Summary: Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

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10 Great Web Sources for Movie Buffs

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Ten film blogs/sites every cineaste must visit

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In this post I will be talking about 10 amazing film blogs/sites that I feel every cinephile should include in his/her reading list. Each one of them is replete with high quality content dealing with films and related stuff that is enough to keep one hooked for days, perhaps months. Each and every entry in the list has something remarkable unique about it that completely differentiates it from the rest. But, the one thing that unites these blogs is that each one of them aims at bringing to its eclectic audience the absolute best in cinema: whether art house or commercial, contemporary or dated, national or international.

1). Movies that make you think

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“Mamaiji” (Grandmother): A Short Film By Oorvazi Irani

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Discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary 

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By Oorvazi Irani

“Mamaiji” (Grandmother): A Short Film By Oorvazi Irani - 6 min 55 seconds

I distinctly remember the day I got the idea to make the film on my maternal grandmother, and was questioned by my aunt, "Who would be interested in seeing a film on your grandmother?" She was trying to suggest it was an indulgence that carried very little value to people who did not know me. For a few minutes it was a setback, but I did not give up the idea of making the film as I believed that it was not necessary that a great film is made on an extraordinary subject, for its very commonness appealed to me and the challenge now was whether I could make the ordinary extraordinary. My grandmother was not a celebrity but she represented the common man, and I felt that was good enough. The appeal is that majority of the audience is nothing but the common man and will be able to identify with this simple ordinary human being. But the film had to go beyond being a mere home video of course and be elevated to art. The film is as much about an archetypical grandmother as it is about the personal story of Moti (Morvarid) Nadirshah Roowalla, my grandmother, who was born in Iran in 1927, and now lives in India.