Interpreting Film Noir: Sidney Pollack’s The Interpretor and Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho

Saw The Interpreter. Caught it at Fame, Andheri, where, I’m relieved to report, the projection is just as good as ever (I hadn’t been there for a few months, and if you recall, I grumbled recently about how Fun Republic’s projection has deteriorated). Now, for some people the big name in that movie is Nicole Kidman. Maybe even Sean Penn. Both those people, I like a lot. But it’s the director that really gets my molasses flowing. Sidney Pollack is one... Read More

Stephen King & Me: An unfinished introduction from an unpublished book

This one is part of the unfinished introduction to a non-fiction book I was to write on Stephen King. It was meant to be part of the Pocket Essentials series, a set of little pocket-sized books, all exactly 100 pages, published in the UK. I’d earlier written a Bollywood Pocket Essential, which sold quite well. (It sold even better after my Ramayana series was published.) It was probably the last commercial writing assignment I took on, before I dumped it all and got down... Read More