Welcome back to campus! We hope that your summer was fun - but it is now time to strap in for the new semester.
To help you unwind after a week of shifting rooms and cleaning, we have three amazing movies lines up for the weekend; Stories about a deranged soldier, a misled dramatist, and a (very sad) musician.
Woyzeck (1979) - SATURDAY (03-08-2024)
Director: Werner Herzog
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 82 min
Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices – the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, Woyzeck is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. Woyzeck, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck’s being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?
You can find out more about the film here.
Reactions from the audience
This movie has been given a rating of 7.0/10 CGPA based on 2 reviews! (Wow, what a large number!).
Here are some reactions from the audience:
Unravels like a Shakespearean tragedy. Kinski lives the character as best as he always does. However this perhaps is the worst production of Herzog. From lighting to editing ― how bad could it be coming from a master.
It’s a well-crafted movie with eerie score.
The depiction of different classes is well portrayed. The movie showcases the very long oppression of Aristocrats against poors and crippling of the bourgeois class.
Eva Mattes has a great performance in the film.
Mephisto (1981) - FRIDAY (02-08-2024)
Director: István Szabó
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 145 min
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supersedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
You can find out more about the film here.
Reactions from the audience
The movie has been given a rating of 7.66/10 CGPA based on 6 reviews! By the way, CGPA is now our official rating scale - and it stands for Cinema Grade Point Average. Funny, we know.
Here are some reactions from right after the movie:
Amazing
Pretty impressive and detailed script
If this isn’t the best of world cinema then I don’t know what is. I wonder how I never heard of it ! Kudos to whoever suggested this.
Never watched a german movie before especially from the perspective of the german civils against the Nazis.
Very boring movie. Not at all understandable.
Rockstar (2011) - SUNDAY (04-08-2024)
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Run Time: 159 min
The film follows Janardhan Jhakar in a series of flashbacks and flash forwards, how the small collage boy became an international rock sensation “Jordan”. To chase his dreams of a rockstar, the wanna-be singer his counseled that music and feelings only come with pain. In the process of which, he meets Heer, a tough on the outside and popular college girl, the both become friends, and as time passes by his dreams of music fade away as they spend time together. When Heer moves away, Janardhan is thrown out of his house because of family misunderstandings. As he bides his time at a local mosque, his passion for music comes back to life. He is soon signed by a record label, where he makes more enemies than friends, his tour takes him to Prague, where he is reunited with a married Heer. Things go awry when the two share an intimate moment, and Jordan his deported to India on trespassing charges filed by Heer’s husband. Now an angry painful and lonely Jordan embarks on his journey to become a Rockstar.
You can find out more about the film here.
Reactions from the audience
The movie has been rated 6.47 CGPA based on 17 reviews (Now, that my friends, is a large number).
We asked the audience - “What scene stuck with you to the very end?”
Sadda Haq!!
End scene within curtains - “Bahar reh nahi paunga main”
The Nadaan Parinde sequence
None
His conversation with katana bhai after when he was pulled from slum playing guitar
Uska blood count bad gya h 😂
Junglee jawani
Nargis Acting was very touching (not to forget the magical touch).
AR Rahman’s magic in the background made all the scenes worth watching, except the actress was acting funny. Kudoos to Ranbeer, he pulled it off brilliantly
