So after I got home from my Art History class tonight, I looked up all the films we have to watch on NetFlix and found all but 2. Three haven’t been added to the NetFlix library yet, but at least they have them listed as comnig soon. So over the next semester, half of my NetFlix movies will consist of various Middle Easter, Arabian, and Indian (Hindi) films. I’m fairly excited and am looking forward to the first one arriving.
Mostly, I’m just glad I don’t have to rely on the media library or personal copies to view everything. These won’t become official movie night movies or anything, so you don’t need to worry about movie night becoming exceeding bizarre. Though, if there was interest, I could probably do one or two movie nights from the syllabus.
- Veer-Zaara (2004)
- Alexandria … Why? (1978)
- Satin Rouge (2002)
- Mother India (1957)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Paheli (2005)
- Mississippi Masala (1992)
- Wedding in Galilee (1988)
- Kandahar (2001)
- Bollywood Bound (2003)
- Devdas (2002)
- Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
- The River (1951)
- Lajja (2001)
- Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
- Bride and Prejudice (2004)
- Leila (2000)
- Swades (2004)
- Divine Intervention (2002)
- Swati (1986)
- Chalte Chalte (2003)
- Earth (1998)
- Rana’s Wedding (2002)
- Paradise Now (2005)
- Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)
- The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
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I recommend striking Bride and Prejudice from the list.
a) it sucked, especially compared to Bend it Like Beckham (from the same makers)
b) it’s not a Hindi movie, it’s totally Western-made, so it doesn’t count for your criteria. heh.
Well, this list isn’t actually optional, its the list of movies we will watch, on our own or in class, we will watch them.
Oh weird, somehow I didn’t get that it was for a class. Well that’s really dumb, then… they picked a few pretty bad movies. And now that I look at it, Mississippi Masala isn’t a Hindi movie, either, but that one’s really good.
Have fun watching the suckfest that is Bride and Prejudice, though. 🙂
She has five that are considered “Transnational” which aren’t from the region, but portray it.
Some of the others (specificially from the smaller countries) are chosen because they’re really the only movie available to us from that country.
She was also going for a specific representational feel since we are studying the PostColonial Representation in art and film.
Wouldn’t mind them as movie night films…
Of course you should be quick to say “come to movie night then!!” 😉
Only have seen a few on this list. And Bride and Predjudice wasn’t that bad. But yes, not quite so good either. But it is an interesting “transitional” film as the teacher seems to place it. No less because they took a ‘western’ story of Pride and Predjudice and adapted it to a modern eastern setting. I thought it being a quasi-musical style was interesting.
Wedding in Galilee is a very good movie. Its a Palestinian film and very smartly portrays the cultural tensions withough making it the elephant in the room. I liked how it just simply dealt with the lives involved.
Sounds like an interesting class.