I found that classic films like Charade, His Girl Friday, and Dressed to Kill are available for free on Archive.org. Charade is often called the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made, though it’s actually by Stanley Donen.
I built an interactive quiz featuring 30 classic 1980s Tamil songs by Ilayaraja. Challenge yourself to guess the movie titles from audio clips. I wrote a custom mapTamil function and used SHA1 hashing to secure the answers.
I spent years hand-transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes strip to build a searchable text index. After a massive traffic spike from Reddit and MetaFilter, I received a copyright takedown notice and had to remove the archive.
I recount my grueling two-round interview experience with Boston Consulting Group. Despite handling complex case studies on cement and food processing, I was ultimately rejected for a "lack of structure," a vital lesson for any aspiring consultant.
I navigated corporate resistance to open source by demoing prototypes directly to business leads and avoiding the 'open source' label with IT. I learned to deliver the full stack personally while adapting to rigid infrastructure constraints and security policies.
I curated this 1990s series analyzing Ilayaraja's use of Carnatic ragas in Tamil cinema. I explore his handling of Chakravaagam, Sindhu Bhairavi, and Kaappi in films like Chembaruthi, providing links to listen as you read.
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Dhar18 Oct 2005 10:25 am:
Wow! This is amazing. Have been trying to lay my hands on His Girl Friday for quite some time.
WILDMAN3 Mar 2009 5:30 pm:
RE: CHARADE…DOES THE PD INCLUDE THE MUSIC?
S Anand3 Mar 2009 6:19 pm:
I’m not quite sure, really… it’s been a while. Besides, it looks like the page I’d linked to has vanished. Maybe it’s no longer in public domain.
Unidyne27 Jun 2010 5:19 am:
There’s a debate on the film’s public domain status, because the music composed for it and the story on which it was based are both under copyright. Also, while the film has a number of Hitchcock style touches (big name stars, plot twists, romantic scenes), it was directed by Stanley Donen.
Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)11 Jul 2011 12:56 am(pingback):
[…] can easily be mistaken for an Alfred Hitchcock film. With wit to spare, the presence of Gary Grant and an innocent […]
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