Eros

Ainda nao tinha visto este "The hand". Porque o netflix insistia em nao o disponibilizar...ate agora. Mais uma vez o WKW nos leva pela mao, nos faz subir os degraus apertados do corredor mal iluminado de uma qualquer Hospedaria Hong Kong e nos mostra o mundo da Miss Hua. Gong Li fascinante, os qipao (longos) estupidamente elegantes e finalmente...Mr Zhang, personificacao do proprio WKW, o alfaiate que conhece, reveste e venera o corpo feminino. E eu que pensava que nao havia nada mais bonito para ver, fiquei apatetada a prolongar aquele momento de abraco com lagrimas e boca escondida por uma mao de unhas pintadas. I became a tailor because of you...

The name is Ralph Fiennes

E nao e que conheco um Fiennes ha um ror de tempo e so ontem e que fiquei a saber que este e primo do outro Fiennes, um dos actores que mais admiro? Primo! OMFG.

#4 of "Ten" - and the joy of instant gratification

"We're unhappy, dependent, clinging. When we were little, we clung to our mother and father. Then to another boy, then to our child. When our child is taken, we cling to our work. Like idiots"

Ten
A movie by writer-director Abbas Kiarostami

Obrigado Luisa!

"Up" and the power of being 5

Conversa depois de ver "Up", o novo filme em 3D da Pixar, ainda sentadinhos a mastigar pipocas.

So AC, did you cry?
No...
Not even when Ellie died?
No…
Wow, how insentitive, cold-hearted… You didn’t cry even when Mr Fredricksen realized that Ellie had filled out the blank pages of the adventure album after “Stuff I am going to do” with pictures of their life together?
No…
You're cold… What about you Andrea, did you cry?
Noooo!!! I am 5!!!!!

Bitching about a bitch*

Aquela mulher irrita-me profundamente, acho que no processo perdeu um bom pedaco de cerebro. Fez-me dizer duas asneiras (das mas) seguidas e bater o pe como os garotos quando estao muito zangados.

* nao uma “seeing eye bitch”, mas uma filha-da-mae (bipede) de primeirissima qualidade.

Growing pains

Lars Lindstrom: How'd you know?
Gus: How'd I know what?
Lars Lindstrom: That you were a man
Gus: Ahhh. I couldn't tell ya.
Lars Lindstrom: Was it... okay, was it sex?
Gus: Um. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh, yeah, yeah it's kind of - it's uh - no. Well, it's kind of sex but it's not uh, you know? I don't know. I don't know. It's - uh - good question, good question.
Lars Lindstrom: Yeah, but I have to know
Gus: [dryer buzzes] Hold that thought.
Gus: [in basement] You know, you should ask Dagmar
Lars Lindstrom: I did ask Dagmar. And she said that I should ask you.
Gus: Okay, you know I can only give you my opinion.
Lars Lindstrom: That's what we want
Gus: Well, it's not like you're one thing or the other, okay? There's still a kid inside but you grow up when you decide to do right, okay, and not what's right for you, what's right for everybody, even when it hurts.
Lars Lindstrom: Okay, like what?
Gus: Like, you know, like, you don't jerk people around, you know, and you don't cheat on your woman, and you take care of your family, you know, and you admit when you're wrong, or you try to, anyways. That's all I can think of, you know - it sound like it's easy and for some reason it's not.


Lars and the real girl (2007)

Splendor in the grass

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind...

William Wordsworth

Ka Fai

O ultimo filme que vi do Wong Kar-wai “Ashes of time redux”, e a re-edicao do “Ashes of time” de 1994. Nao tinha visto o original porque sinceramente nao aprecio o estilo wuxia. Mas ainda assim adiccionei-o a lista do Netflix, afinal era de esperar que WKW fizesse algo diferente com o genero. La estava a Carina Lau, impossivelmente bela. [Soube ha pouco tempo que casou com o Tony Leung Chiu-wai no Verao do ano passado; mas que mania as pessoas bonitas se casarem entre si, acho muito mal, injusto ate. Fim de discurso]. O filme e complexo, eliptico qb mas – claro- visualmente fabuloso. Como diz um amigo meu, e um daqueles filmes em que quanto mais cedo nos deixarmos abandonar as caricias das invocacoes visuais, mais extraordinaria e a experiencia.

Entao va, a razao pela qual eu gostei mais do filme do que seria de esperar nao tem nada a ver com a arte do WFW, com a maravilhosa cor da areia do deserto ou os efeitos especiais das cenas de kung fu. E uma razao muito mais parva. E o Tony Leung Ka Fai. Pois este nome Tony Leung e uma fonte de mal entendidos sobre a qual ja escrevi. Eu tenho uma relacao especial com o Ka Fai, o chinaman de “o amante”. A beleza dele perturba-me.

Persona

Nao pude deixar de sorrir ao rever a entrevista da Bibi Anderson sobre a sua participacao no filme "Persona". Nao me lembro exactamente das palavras dela mas disse qualquer coisa deste genero "nunca sei como responder a esse tipo de perguntas...nao percebo, nunca percebi qual a visao do Ingmar para este filme nem o seu significado". Ri-se, e segundo me parece, nao e de embaraco.

A cinemateca em casa

"Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta - well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream - little eddies and waterfalls - but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way."

The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck
(Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson)

Memorable quotes -2

If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything, I'll kill ya. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive Nick. Now, do you understand everything I've just said? Cause' if you don't, I'll kill ya!

Same movie, same guy

Memorable quotes -1

If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it.

Lock, stock, and two smoking barrels

O inicio...

"Acclaimed as one of the finest Japanese films of the decade, "Maborosi" is a story of great love, inexplicable loss, and at last, hope and regeneration. Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years ago, a beautiful young mother struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, with time, she awakens to find love, understanding, happiness and a sense of peace."

"Maborosi" or "Maboroshi no Hikari" - o primeiro filme do Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Blindness - parte 1

Fui ler as criticas das “pessoas normais” que como eu foram a estreia do Blindness na sexta feira passada – pessoas normais em oposicao aos criticos de cinema. Ponto final paragrafo.
Confesso que nao fiquei surpreendida pelos comentarios de quem classificou o filme como uma bosta de primeirissima categoria. Dei-me ao trabalho de ler grande parte dos textos de quem deu nota F (a pior) ou D (logo a seguir na escala da mediocridade), nao sei, devo ter tendencias masoquistas... O que me assustou (bem, nem por isso) e que quem justificava a classificacao so o fazia com 1-liners sem o minimo de profundidade, ou melhor, esqueca-se a profundidade, sem o minimo de “insight”. As bimbas metidas a mall-barbies ficaram horrorizadas com o filme que classificam de “very scary” e que, OMG, nao vao conseguir dormir nos proximos 15 dias. Ou seja, uma tragedia so comparavel ao partir de uma unha recem arranjada, a francesa. Que a cena de violacao era “graphic and unecessary”. Ora o meu dicionario webster explica que “graphic” neste contexto quer dizer “vividly or plainly shown”. Como nao e o caso de cena em questao, fica a duvida (duh) se as/os bimbas/os falharam 6th grade english class. Again, nao me surpreende. Mas o comentario mais comum era “the plot is unrealistic” e “I wasted 2 hours of my life” “what the f*** was that all about, did they get infected with a virus or something?”. Que grande desgraca, perder duas horas. A falta de realismo so e objectavel quando mostra o lado feio da natureza humana, quando nao ha happy end? Estou furiosa e nem sei porque. Alias, sei. Irrita-me que quem nao gostou nao tenha razoes mais validas que “unrealistic plot” e que nao tente alinhavar umas quantas frases objectivas e bem estruturadas sobre as suas razoes. Eu ate admito que os yahoo users (que o meu amigo R tanto gosta de consultar antes de por os pes numa sala de cinema) poderao ser um grupo biased e nao correspondente a generalidade, mas temo que a realidade seja ainda pior. Nao esquecer, os yahoo users deram “B” ao “breaking the waves”. E isso chega-me.

Uma perola...
O Mick LaSalle, critico de cinema do San Francisco Chronicle escreve, no final do seu texto...
Advisory: Dogs tearing the flesh off of corpses, rape, murder, chaos, misery and people being unpleasant with each other.

Ai sim, "people being unpleasant with each other"?…how unrealistic that is…

Blindness ou "o ensaio sobre a cegueira"

Estreou hoje ca no burgo. Fui ver.
I am going to sleep on it.
Mas tirei notas. Mas li o livro duas vezes. Mas.

Porra hoje ate os bartenders no Cascal estavam de trombas. Que se passa com o mundo meu Deus?

Ate amanha.

Chamem a Policia

Nao consigo dormir...nao, nao e insonia. E uma bruta festanca em casa do vizinho. E 1.30 da manha. Nunca ouvi tanta f word junta. Parece que estou num filme do Tarantino.

Jules: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... stop right there. Eatin' a bitch out, and givin' a bitch a foot massage ain't even the same fuckin' thing.
Vincent: It's not. It's the same ballpark.
Jules: Ain't no fuckin' ballpark neither. Now look, maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but, you know, touchin' his wife's feet, and stickin' your tongue in her Holiest of Holies, ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport. Look, foot massages don't mean shit.
Vincent: Have you ever given a foot massage?
Jules: [scoffs] Don't be tellin' me about foot massages. I'm the foot fuckin' master.
Vincent: Given a lot of 'em?
Jules: Shit yeah. I got my technique down and everything, I don't be ticklin' or nothin'.
Vincent: Would you give a guy a foot massage?
[Jules gives Vincent a long look, realizing he's been set up]
Jules: Fuck you.
Vincent: You give them a lot?
Jules: Fuck you.
Vincent: You know, I'm getting kinda tired. I could use a foot massage myself.
Jules: Man, you best back off, I'm gittin' a little pissed here.

Pulp Fiction, 1994

Another one...

"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER! "

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury...

"You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?"

One of the many fantastic lines in "The Devil's Advocate".
Al Pacino as John Milton.