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Jeet Thayil

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Biography:

(Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images) I could live in a world without red meat and fiction, but take away seafood and poetry and I'm gone too.

Publications:
Favorites:

Blade Runner, Kagaz ke Phool, Satyricon, Sacrifice, Down By Law

Location:

New York City, the center of the universe.

Official Website:

http://www.rediff.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Masked and Anonymous (2003) 26% EDIT “Even a stone Dylan fan -- and I've been one since my early teens; I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now -- would find it difficult to sit through this moldy exercise in evasion and bloat.” – Rediff.com Aug 7, 2003 Full Review Capturing the Friedmans (2003) 97% EDIT “Capturing the Friedmans captures a time when greed was good, mullets were cool, and hysteria was everywhere.” – Rediff.com Jun 23, 2003 Full Review The Eye (2002) 64% EDIT “Oh yeah, I was scared -- scared that I'd wake up before the credits rolled.” – Rediff.com Jun 13, 2003 Full Review Finding Nemo (2003) 99% EDIT “A clown fish without a punchline, a blue tang without a memory, a scarred prison hero fish, and a stoner dude sea turtle make for this summer's tallest fish tale.” – Rediff.com Jun 7, 2003 Full Review Down With Love (2003) 60% EDIT “A not-so-innocent romp that is part Mills & Boon and part Hustler.” – Rediff.com Jun 7, 2003 Full Review The Shape of Things (2003) 64% EDIT “Little more than a clever undergrad thesis gone awfully wrong, it turns on the less than shocking proposition that women are as unlikable as men.” – Rediff.com May 21, 2003 Full Review Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003) 73% EDIT “Born liar or windbag? Either way, Fellini clearly likes telling women to spread their legs. Wider.” – Rediff.com May 14, 2003 Full Review Lilya 4-Ever (2002) 84% EDIT “Repeatedly hammers home the message that this is a vile world filled with vile men and women; and that children are the main victims of their perpetual evil.” – Rediff.com May 6, 2003 Full Review XX/XY (2002) 42% EDIT “An empty passion play with the sort of druggy glamour you would expect from a movie about growing up privileged and stoned in NYC.” – Rediff.com Apr 24, 2003 Full Review Spun (2002) 36% EDIT “A white-knuckle ride to the edge of town, I liked it in a sick and twisted sort of way.” – Rediff.com Apr 2, 2003 Full Review Stone Reader (2002) 83% EDIT “Stone Reader is the story of a Quixotian quest by a man who is more than an ideal reader. Mark Moskowitz is the sort of reader writers live for.” – Rediff.com Mar 14, 2003 Full Review Spider (2002) 84% EDIT “Spider owes everything to its two British stars, Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson, whose sexually charged ballet is its centre, as is the question: Mother or whore?” – Rediff.com Mar 10, 2003 Full Review Chicago (2002) 87% EDIT “Chicago glorifies murder, glamorizes sex & death -- in other words it is just right for today's unsunny times.” – Rediff.com Mar 3, 2003 Full Review Final Destination 2 (2003) 52% EDIT “The virtuoso opening car crash is in itself worth the price of admission. It is choreographed like an automotive death ballet, slow motion sequences stretching out each moment until breaking point and then some.” – Rediff.com Mar 1, 2003 Full Review How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) 42% EDIT “How to lose an audience in 10 ways” – Rediff.com Feb 14, 2003 Full Review The Pianist (2002) 95% EDIT “Roman Polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'Shindler's List' - it is more than merely a Holocaust movie.” – Rediff.com Jan 24, 2003 Full Review About Schmidt (2002) 86% EDIT “About middle-aged angst; about an American malaise; about an American original; about Shmidt” – Rediff.com Jan 17, 2003 Full Review The Hours (2002) 79% EDIT “Where suicide is a heroic act rather than a permanent solution to a temporary problem” – Rediff.com Jan 14, 2003 Full Review Catch Me if You Can (2002) 96% EDIT “The modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases” – Rediff.com Dec 23, 2002 Full Review Talk to Her (2002) 91% EDIT “Call him twisted. Call him sick. But call Pedro Almodovar a master. And call 'Talk To her' a masterpiece.” – Rediff.com Dec 5, 2002 Full Review Solaris (2002) 66% EDIT “If Steven Soderbergh's 'Solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure.” – Rediff.com Nov 25, 2002 Full Review Frida (2002) 77% EDIT “The canonization of St Frida informs and diminishes the movie.” – Rediff.com Nov 14, 2002 Full Review How to Draw a Bunny (2002) 85% EDIT “How do you make a movie about the most famous unknown artist in the world?” – Rediff.com Oct 30, 2002 Full Review Secretary (2002) 78% EDIT “I have seen the future and her name is Maggie Gyllenhaal.” – Rediff.com Oct 7, 2002 Full Review Invincible (2001) 55% EDIT “The invincible Werner Herzog is alive and well and living in LA” – Rediff.com Oct 7, 2002 Full Review
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