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2014-04-27

Quotation of the day (from Red Corner script)

When I was a child, I would come to this park and play.
My grandmother told me why the bamboo is here.
She said, "It is waiting for the wind to touch it. "
"It is filled with emotions. "
"Listen to the sound and you can feel them".

From Red Corner (Justiça Vermelha)

2011-06-18

Letters to Juliet: What and if

"What" and "if" two words as nonthreatening as words come. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: "What if?"...

I don't know how your story ended. But I know that if what you felt then was love - true love - then it's never too late. If it was true then it why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart...

I don't know what a love like that feels like... a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for... but I'd like to believe if I ever felt it. I'd have the courage to seize it. I hope you had the courage to seize it, Claire. And if you didn't, I hope one day that you will.

2011-01-08

Citação do Dia / Quotation of the Day - Janus and The Tourist

Elise: It's the um...the Roman god, Janus. My mother gave it to me when I was little. She wanted to teach me that people have two sides. A good side, a bad side, a past, a future. And that we must embrace both in someone we love. And I tried. (in The tourist a movie with Angeline Jolie and Johnny Depp)

2010-10-17

The Love Godess Rita Hayworth

Rita Wayworth [Margarita Carmen Cansino] was born on Ocober 17 in Brooklyn, New York, 92 years ago. The Love Goddess left us on May 14, 1987, when she died from Alzheimer's disease.

She was married for five times: Edward C. Judson, Orson Welles, Dick Haymes, Prince Aly Khan and the film director James Hill.

Her Filmography is very extensive and wide: since comedy until drama, since crime until musical. In 1964 she won the Best Actress Golden Glob Award for her play in Circus World.

Let's remember her in The Lady from Shanghai

Rita Hayworth - Please Don't Kiss Me

2010-07-18

Quotation of the day - Omar Khayyám

Drink wine, this is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

(Toward the beginning of the film 'Unfaithful', Paul tells Connie to open a book to page 23 and she reads that passage)

2010-06-25

Quotation of the day: It's the memory of another life you could have had

Gavin Banek: It's like you go to the beach. You go down to the water. It's a little cold. You're not sure you want to go in. There's a pretty girl standing next to you. She doesn't want to go in either. She sees you, and you know that if you just asked her her name, you would leave with her. Forget your life, whoever you came with, and leave the beach with her. And after that day, you remember. Not every day, every week... she comes back to you. It's the memory of another life you could have had. Today is that girl (in Changing Lanes)

2010-02-06

Invictus: Great film

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

2009-10-20

My blueberry Nights

"Um interessante filme sobre amores, desilusões, perdas e recomeços. Marca a estréia da cantora Norah Jones como atriz e do diretor chinês Kar Wai Wong em Hollywood. Vale a pena pelo cuidado técnico do diretor e por sua forma característica de narrar uma história. Um filme bem cuidado e interessante nos detalhes". (daqui)

2009-09-07

The centenary of Elia Kazan's birth

Elia Kazan [Elia Kazanjoglous] was born in Constantinople, Turkey, on September 7, 1909 to Greek parents. His family emigrated to the United States in 1913 and settled in New York City. Kazan became one of the most visible members of the New York elite. His carreer in theatre and as film director was remarkable. He was a cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. Elia Kazan won three-time Academy Award winner [Two Academy Awards for Best Director, for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954) and in 1999 an Academy Honorary Award for the Lifetime Achievement], five-time Tony Award winner, four-time Golden Globes winner and other important prizes.

"Driven by enormous—some have said ruthless—ambition, Kazan is simultaneously celebrated today as one of the great stage directors-turned-filmmakers and ceaselessly rebuked for his troubling voluntary testimony against former colleagues and companions during the notorious witch hunts orchestrated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952".(from here)

I remember very well two of his films: The East of Eden (1955), with the unforgettable James Dean Splendor in Grass (1961); the first one belongs to my list of the 20 Best films of all time. Let's remember a clip:

Elia Kazan died in New York City on September 28, 2003.

2009-08-22

100th birthday of Julius J. Epstein,the screenwriter of Casablanca

Julius J. Epstein born on August 22, 1000 years ago, in New York City. He was an Amerifcan screenwriter who had a long career, most noted for the adaptation - in partnership with his twin brother, Philip, and others — of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's that became the screenplay for the film Casablanca (1942).

Julius and his brother Philip G. Epstein are the only twins to have been awarded Oscars when they won in the writing category for this romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid.

Julius Epstein died on December 30, 2000, in Los Angeles, California.

2009-02-07

Ribeirinho faleceu há 25 anos!

Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro, o Ribeirinho, morreu em Lisboa faz hoje 25 anos (n. em Lisboa a 21 de Setembro de 1911). Grande actor, proporcionou-nos momentos inolvidáveis de boa disposição e bem estar conjuntamente com outros grandes actores, nomeadamente António Silva e Vasco Santana

Recordemo-lo nesta passagem de «O Pátio das Cantigas»

«Das duas uma: ou és um anjo, ou és um demónio ou estiveste a fazer poucochinho do Rufino»

Ribeirinho e Maria da Graça no Pátio das Cantigas

2009-01-20

Beautiful movie stars Barbara Stanwyck and Audrey Hepburn died on this day

Barbara Stanwick dies at her home in Santa Monica, California on Jan 20, 1990 (born in New York City on July 16, 1907). American actress. Stanwyck starred in almost a hundred films during her career and received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress: Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). In her best films (such as The Lady Eve) she often mixed a worldly toughness (a husky voice, an earthy sense of humor) with heartbreaking vulnerability, particularly in her early Pre-Code films.

Photo: Barbara Stanwick

Audrey Hepburn dies on Jan 20, 1993, in Switzwerland (b. in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929). Film and theatre actress, Audrey Hepburn was one of the leading Hollywood actresses during the 1950s and 1960s. She won an Academy Award for her paper as Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953) and received four more Academy Award nominations, including one for her iconic performance as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). In 1964, she played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, the critically acclaimed film adaptation of the play. In the 1970s and 1980s Audrey Hepburn starred in few films and instead devoted her time to her children. From 1988 until her death in 1993, she served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work.

Photo: Audrey Hepburn

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2008-12-27

Sugestão de serão

Sem futebol, pode disfrutar em casa (por causa da crise!) de um bom serão familiar televisivo com a programação da RTP 1. Para além do filme «Charlie e a Fábrica de Chocolate» (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, realizado por Tim Burton e que está previsto para as 21 horas, pode assistir, logo a seguir, ao espectáculo que Carlos do Carmo apresentou, no Pavilhão Atlântico, no passado dia 20 de Novembro, a propósito dos seus 45 anos de carreira e que contou como convidados com Mariza, Camané, Carminho, Gil do Carmo, Bernardo Sasseti e a cantora basca Maria Berasarte.

2008-12-11

Manoel de Oliveira - Centenário do mais «jovem» cineasta em actividade

Manoel de Oliveira faz 100 anos. Desde Douro faina fluvial (o seu primeiro filme em 1931) e Aniki-Bóbó (a sua primeira longa metragem e apontado como pioneiro do neo-realismo em Portugal) a Singularidades de Uma Rapariga Loura (em produção), Manoel de Oliveira tem uma carreira excepcional, internacionalmente reconhecida, ainda que em Portugal o espectador comum não partilhe (por via dos longos planos fixos e sem grande acção, de que os seus filmes são impregnados) entusiasmadamente os encómios da crítica especializada.

Nascido no Porto, a 11 de Dezembro de 1908, Oliveira, doutorado honoris causa pela Univerdidade do Algarve, um dos maiores cineastas do mundo pode ser apontado como um expoente da cultura portuguesa, com uma marca singular na história do cinema, porque usando as suas próprias palavras «Qualquer coisa que eu filme, deixa de ser o que é para se tornar o que eu filmo».

A Zon Lusomundo lançou uma edição especial (e numerada) que nesta época natalícia pode constituir uma oferta excepcional.

Mais sobre Manoel de Oliveira

2008-08-22

22 de Agosto Dia de cineastas : Glauber Rocha e Arthur Duarte

Glauber_Rocha em 1981 (nascido em 14 de Março de 1939) e Arthur Duarte (nascido em 17 de Outubro de 1895) um ano depois, faleceram neste dia 22 de Agosto. Ambos realizadores de cinema o primeiro brasileiro e o segundo português, tiveram grande influência na cinematografia de cada um dos países. Praticamente despediram-se da vida na mesma cidade: Lisboa.

Glauber Rocha que vivia em Sintra, acabou por ir morrer no Rio de Janeiro depois de doença, foi o realizador entre outros de Barravento e da trilogia Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964) -talvez o seu mais aclamado filmo -, Terra em transe (1967) e O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro (1969) este último que lhe valeu o prémio de melhor realizador em Cannes. É visto com um dos melhores realizadores brasileiros de todo o tempo e líder do movimento Cinema Novo.

Arthur Duarte [Arthur de Jesus Pinto Pacheco] começou a sua carreira no cinema como actor em Paris em 1925, encetando uma carreira como actor de cinema, com pequenos papéis em várias produções. Com contrato dois anos mais tarde com a empresa UFA roda algumas dezenas de filmes na Alemanha, Suiça e Áustria. Foi, porém como realizador que ficou como um marco histórico no cinema português.

A sua primeira longa metragem foi em 1938 numa adaptação do romance de Júlio Dinis Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca. Viria a ficar conhecido na comédia tendo realizado filmes inesquecíveis como: O Costa do Castelo(1943), A Menina da Rádio (1944), O Grande Elias, O Noivo das Caldas (1956), entre outros filmes.

Para além das longas metragens, realizou também, curtas metragens, documentários e filmes publicitários.

Relembramos uma passagem de «O Costa do Castelo» com o grande António Silva

Ver Glauber Rocha in IMDB e Educação UOL
Arthur Duarte in IMDB e in Instituto Camões

2008-07-14

Remembering Ingmar Bergman on his 90th birthday

Ernst Ingmar Bergman born in Upsala, Sweden on July 14, 1918 (d. July 30, 2007 in Fårö, Sweden). He was a Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of modern cinema. In his 40-year career, Bergman made about 50 films – and made a star of his muse, actress Liv Ullmann. Nine-time Academy Award-nominated, only as Best Foreign Language Picture his films won for three times. Anyway his career brought a plenty of awards and nominations.

The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), Persona, The Virgin Spring in 1961; Through a Glass Darkly in 1962, Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop - 1972), Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander), and the comedy Smiles of a Summer Night are some of the best known Bergman films.

Ingmar Bergman in IMDB
Ingmar Bergman in Wikipedia

2008-03-25

David Lean born 100 years ago

Sir David Lean KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an Academy Award-winning English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India.

Let's remember Doctor Zhivago

He won two Oscars and had nine nominations:
Best Director in The Bridge on the River Kwai and in Lawrence of Arabia
Nominated for Best Director in Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Summertime, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India
Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay in Brief Encounter, Great Expectations and A Passage to India
Nominated for Best Film Editing in A Passage to India

2008-02-16

The 20 Best movies of all time

Eis o ponto da situação e uma sinopse da iniciativa lançada aqui no Nothingandall sobre a escolha pela blogosfera dos 20 melhores filmes de todos os tempos. A iniciativa começou em 26 de Janeiro de 2006 aqui com: Os 20 melhores filmes de todos os tempos por Nothingandall

Depois da participação de mais de vinte blogueiros ficou aqui o ponto de situação dos primeiros vinte aderentes.

Relembrando, cada participante retira da lista recebida dois dos filmes que dela constem (os dois de que menos gosta) e substitui-os por dois filmes que mais goste (e que não coinste da lista). Depois é só publicá-la no blog e endossá-la a outro blogueiro e assim sucessivamente.

Pois agora façamos nova actualização da iniciativa.

21. Actualização dos 20 melhores filmes por Fatyly

22. Actualização por Divas Contrabaixos

23. Actualização em Os 10 da minha vida (Lauro António) wow ... um especialista! (onde a iniciativa já chegou!

24. Actualização por Detesto Sopa (detesta sopa mas ama o cinema ah!)

25. Actualização por Não há nada como realmente

A lista foi endossada para Um ideal não muito perfeito. Ainda não foi dada resposta. Vou aguardar até ao fim de Fevereiro!

E a lista dos 20 melhores filmes de todos os tempos ao fim de 25 participações:

Vertigo (A Mulher que Viveu Duas Vezes) - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

Citizen Kane (O Mundo a seus Pés) - Orson Welles, 1941

East of Eden (A Leste do Paraíso) - Elia Kazan, 1955

Modern Times (Tempos Modernos) - Charles Chaplin, 1936

The Pianist (O Pianista) - Roman Polanski, 2002

Unforgiven (Imperdoável) - Clint Eastwood, 1972

The Godfather Trilogy (O Padrinho) - Francis Ford Coppola (1972, 1974, 1990)

Amadeus - Milos Forman, 1984

Persona (A Máscara) – Ingmar Bergman, 1966

Aniki Bóbó - Manoel de Oliveira,1942

E.T. - Steven Spielberg. 1982

Gone With The Wind (E Tudo o Vento Levou) - Victor Fleming 1939

Splendor in The Grass (Esplendor na Relva) - Elia Kazan, 1961

Morte a Venezia (Morte em Veneza) - Luchino Visconti, 1971

Ladri di biciclette (Ladrões de Bicicletas) (Vittorio De Sica) - 1948

Casablanca (Michael Curtis) - 1942

Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray, 1954

All That Jazz - Bob Fosse, 1979

Mujeres Al Borde de Un Ataque de Nervios - Pedro Almodovar, 1988

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Jim Sharman, 1975

2008-02-07

Recordando Ribeirinho na passagem do 24º. aniversário da sua morte

Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro, o Ribeirinho, morreu faz hoje 24 anos em Lisboa (n. em Lisboa a 21 de Setembro de 1911). Grande actor, proporcionou-nos momentos inolvidáveis de boa disposição e bem estar conjuntamente com outros grandes actores, nomeadamente António Silva e Vasco Santana.

Recordemo-lo nesta passagem de «O Pátio das Cantigas»

«Das duas uma: ou és um anjo, ou és um demónio ou estiveste a fazer poucochinho do Rufino»

Ribeirinho e Maria da Graça no Pátio das Cantigas

2008-02-05

Se, jie / Lust, Caution / Sedução, Conspiração - Angie Lee

Se, jie (2007)

Lust Caution is the new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is based on the short story by Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung with the screen newcomer Tang Wei.

In Shanghai, 1942, during The Second World War, Japanese occupies China. A young Chinese student girl left behind by father and finds herself, in amongst a group of students, has an objective: to kill an important politician who is colaborating with Japanese occupiers. The plan fails.

Three years later the plan is revalidated. The politician is now an important Minister and Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei) enters into resistence. Well after that the emotions, sex and diamonds make enough pressure to affect both principal characters. Lust, Caution is a tale of two lonely people, forced by circumstances to do what they have to. The weaker one fails ...

Nowadays there aren't movies with happy ends?

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