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Can foreigners break into #Hollywood? A break into films is hard. Particularly when you’re a foreigner. But is Hollywood more open or less open than other countries? If we go by iconic actors, the numbers are not encouraging. Just 2% of Will Smith’s co-stars are non-Hollywood. But over 30% of Jackie Chan’s co-stars are non-Chinese. But #clustering shows that Hollywood is actually among the most open to foreigners. #dataanalysis Read more at https://www.s-anand.net/blog/can-foreigners-enter-hollywood/ ...

Here are the top 1000 most popular movies on the Internet Movie database, along with their ratings and number of votes. I've also marked whether I've seen them or not, as of today. This list, incidentally, is part of my source for the post on popular lousy movies. Here is the Excel list of Top 1000 movies on IMDb. Comments Arch 1 Dec 2006 10:14 am: Your site is too good.I browse thru so many blogs every other day, but hav found nothing as entertaining and as informative as this one. U must be really gifted fella…Y dont u post some pics of ur kid … err 1 Dec 2006 10:04 pm: is to do. S Anand 1 Dec 2006 10:35 pm: Thanks, Arch. I haven’t gotten around to posting any family stuff. No specific reason. Maybe I will… Michelle 5 Dec 2006 12:36 pm: You have been writing movies, do you have top 10 books? DeuceLee 11 Dec 2009 2:37 am: Hi, I really love your imdb top 1000. Seriously it’s great info. Can you get an updated version from imdb and swivel? Looks like it’s been a while (2006). :-) Andreas Beer 20 Oct 2010 4:38 pm: Dude, you seriously should watch Yojimbo! Masterpiece! :D

How to safely land a plane - by blowing one of its wings off. Strangely, that’s what Superman does in Superman Returns. (see video of Superman saving a plane).

I’m getting addicted to memory-lapse related / alternate reality-based movies, like: Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, The Bourne Identity, Memento, The Butterfly Effect, 50 First Dates, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Groundhog Day, The Matrix, Frequency, The Usual Suspects, and Donnie Darko. Twin Peaks too, I guess. But that was too extreme for me. Next on my list are: Being John Malkovich, Paycheck, Adaptation, The Cell, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and The Manchurian Candidate. Comments Dhar 20 Jul 2005 10:13 am: How about Mulholland Drive? I really dont know what category to put it into. Wierd Mind Fuck is certainly one possibility. In fact all David Lynch movies can come under this category. S Anand 20 Jul 2005 3:28 pm: Mulholland Drive, yes. What others, though? Dhar 21 Jul 2005 1:02 am: The other movies that you can try are Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Lost Highway, The Eraserhead etc. Dhar 21 Jul 2005 1:06 am: Of the Lynch movies mentioned, I have so far seen only Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. The others are on the wishlist. :)

Bald actresses. They look nice without the hair too. Comments kesh 27 Feb 2009 8:53 pm: where s d photos ? S Anand 28 Feb 2009 7:55 am: Looks like the original link went bad. Have replaced it with a Google search.

Pride and Prejudice, from the director of Bend It Like Beckham. This doesn’t sound like a light entertainer the way Bend It Like Beckham was… via RobotWisdom

11 film-makers make films on 11/9/01. The films will be 11 min, 9 seconds and 1 frame long. via Plastic

Suku on movies. Beautiful. Says what I feel.

Good and bad physics in movies.

I saw Memento. This film is incredible. Of the class of “Citizen Kane”. Likely to win an Oscar? (It also stars Carrie-Anne Moss, of the Trinity fame in “The Matrix”.)

The Harry Potter movie is coming to India only in Apr 2002. :-(

Amitabh, Shyam and myself finally managed to see “Someone Like You” at Sterling. I arrived a bit early, at 10PM, and the show began at 10:45PM. The wait was well worth it, because it seemed to me that the who’s who of Mumbai fashion were parading about the theatre. Not that I recognised anybody, but then, not that I would recognise anybody anyway. We got corner seats, unfortunately, with the AC directly above us. The three of us sat huddled in the corner, trying to warm ourselves. Fortunately, the movie proved a hilarious piece.

Having spent several hours at office, Amitabh and I walked down to the Regal Cinema Hall to watch “The Emperor’s New Groove”. Given that it was a saturday afternoon, and a Disney movie, we were expecting only to see a family crowd, and weren’t disappointed. Tickets, as always in Mumbai, were a bit more expensive than we were used to. Rs. 60 and Rs. 80. We took the Rs. 60, and discovered that there was no difference between the two. Well, there was, but not much. ...

Warner Brothers are making a Harry Potter movie. Comments Khanjan 26 Sep 2008 12:27 am: Harry Potter is best movie. please watching me thi movies