Sunday, 19 February 2012
doodling
92 anos de Fellini, 20 de Janeiro de 2012
100 anos de Nino Rota, 3 de Dezembro de 2011
224 anos de Louis Daguerre, 18 de Novembro de 2011
137 anos de Houdini, 24 de Março de 2011
Depois de ter visto o google doodle para Truffaut fui ver outros, e descobri que Fellini fez 92 anos em Janeiro, e Nino Rota (um nome indissociável a Fellini), fez 100 em Dezembro. Tantos anos, que falta fazem.
"[I]n stark contrast to the oeuvre of his erstwhile New Wave comrade, Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut's films are not overtly political in any way. 'For right or wrong, I believe there is no art without paradox: now in the political film, there is no paradox, because already in the script, it is decided who is good and who is bad.' ... Truffaut's rejection of current topics or fashions is not a conservative one, but the need to retain a freedom and purity of expression uncluttered by the zeitgeist. For him, the eternal theme of Love 'is more important than social questions. It is the way to lead people to truth. There is more truth in sentimental relations than in social relations. There is more truth in the bedroom than in the office or the board room.'"
- Ronald Bergan in François Truffaut: Interviews
He made films that reflected his three professed passions: a love of cinema, an interest in the difficulties of male-female relationships, and a fascination with the problems of children.
Parabéns atrasados, François.
Saturday, 18 February 2012
the fallen divas
All about Eve (1950), Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A tensão constantemente em pico que sobe e sobe até consumir o espectador, acabando por cair numa cama decadente e pouco reconfortante.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
De repente vi-me sufocada por uma onda de trabalho e de falta de tempo, mas ainda consigo, às vezes, respirar quando, de repente, faço descobertas como estas. Fiquei o dia todo com esta música na cabeça e, em imensas tentativas falhadas, tentei recordar-me e imitar esta coreografia gestual comovente e marcante. Nunca Gershwin me pareceu triste, até aparecer Pina Bausch.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
La Tour du Cinéma
In 1957, François Truffaut wrote a script for a 25-minute film called Autour de la Tour Eiffel (Around the Eiffel Tower), about persons obsessed with getting to the tower, which they can see easily, but can never reach. In one version, a peasant finally reaches the top and sees “a Parisian Paris down to the fingertips”. The film was never made, but two years later, in the credits for Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows), Truffaut’s first feature, the camera scanning the streets of Paris comes to a halt at the foot of the Tower. Truffaut would collect replicas of the Tower in all sizes, which he displayed in his apartment in the 16th arrondisement, from which the Tower itself was visible.
O artigo completo aqui.
The White Shadow blogathon
Last year, the New Zealand Film Archive and the National Film Preservation Foundation announced that they'd discovered a tinted print of The White Shadow (1924), "an atmospheric melodrama starring Betty Compson, in a dual role as twin sisters — one angelic and the other 'without a soul.' With mysterious disappearances, mistaken identity, steamy cabarets, romance, chance meetings, madness, and even the transmigration of souls, the wild plot crams a lot into six reels." As David Sterritt noted in that announcement, though he was only 24 at the time, "Alfred Hitchcock wrote the film's scenario, designed the sets, edited the footage, and served as assistant director to Graham Cutts, whose professional jealousy toward the gifted upstart made the job all the more challenging."
Today, Farran Nehme, Marilyn Ferdinand and Roderick Heath have announced that their third For the Love Film blogathon, running from May 13 through 18, will be a fund-raising drive to rouse up the $15K needed to get The White Shadow on the NFPF site so that we'll all be able to see it for free for four months.
Apesar da blogathon ser só entre 13 e 18 de Maio quem quiser pode já doar (nem que seja apenas um bocadinho) neste site. Vá lá, quem é que não quer ver esta preciosidade de Hitchcock?! Eu já estou apaixonada por esta frame de Betty Compson.
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