Sunday 1 April 2012

"quand on retrouve la couleur, c'est très agréable, parce qu'à force de tourner en noir et blanc on finit par trouver le monde vraiment gris"
- Entretien avec Philippe Garrel, Cahiers du Cinéma, Octobre 2011
(uma das entrevistas que mais ficou na minha memória)

Film, Film, Film



Voilà uma animação de 1968 do animador russo Fyodor Khitruk que aqui satiriza a indústria cinematográfica de uma maneira muito perspicaz.

Steal like an artist.

Criterion goes Kindergarten. Or doesn't it?

Historically, the policier and the family comedy were two distinct categories. Then, in 1990, Kindergarten Cop gave us all a lesson in genre revisionism. With muscular sensitivity, Hollywood’s last action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger embodies detective John Kimble, who is compelled to go undercover as a teacher of five-year-olds in order to catch a ponytailed drug dealer. Though it’s distinguished by pulse-pounding suspense, a Crayola-bright palette by cinematographer Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver), and trenchant observations about education in the Bush I era, the film’s emotional center is Schwarzenegger’s gruff yet good-tempered interaction with a class full of precocious scamps, including a tumor-forewarning death-obsessive and a genitalia expert. By leavening a children’s film with enough violence to please even the most cold-hearted bastard, director Ivan Reitman shows that he refuses to color inside the lines.

Simplesmente a melhor piada do dia das mentiras.