Salman Rushdie. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी (Devanagari), احمد سلمان رشدی (Nastaʿlīq); /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/;[3] born 19 June 1947[4]) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.
His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Home (2009. Samsara (2011. Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives – first look review.
It may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position.
Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok. It is ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen. The first scenes made me think that Wong Kar-wai had made a new film called In the Mood for Fear or In the Mood for Hate. Ryan Gosling plays Julian, the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. Both brothers are naturally angry and violent, though in keeping his feelings in check, Julian is of course by far the more unsettling. Top mind blowing movies you never saw - a list by sasharaskin.
Submarine (2010. Man on Fire (2004.
Fight Club (1999. The Social Network (2010) Crash (2004) City of God (2002. Layer Cake (2004. In the Name of Buddha (2002. 127 Hours (2010. Shutter Island (2010. Vera Drake (2004. Gladiator. Foreign Cinema. Kidulthood (2006.