The Seventh Art

The Inception, by C.Nolan.

2011-12-21T14:25:00.000+01:00

The satisfaction of seeing this film will depend on the ability of the public to understand what is happening on the screen, as the narrative structure is based on levels where the action takes place simultaneously with speed mismatches while the time passes. I'm pretty sure "Inception" not going to be understood by all the effort involved to understand the plot.

Christopher Nolan took ten years to carry out this film which includes the ability of people to enter the world of dreams. No technological explanations such as "Star Trek" how does such a feat, so there is a script built as a maze where the goal of Cob (Leonardo DiCaprio) is more valuable than money, but the ways to achieve this are as complex as the dreams of where the information is.
Nolan in his script plays a lot with visual concepts of the subconscious, is a kind of staging of the sleep process where you can be involved in the creation of a world limited by your own ability. It's amazing to have the ability of a God. The time must have gone on polishing this work deserves recognition!
The visual effects beyond the boundaries of fantasy, because they are a reflection of ideas built on reality. The last act where Cob and Ariadne (Marion Cotillard) walk through a city built from nothing, is a pleasure to be hold. I can not forget the direction of Nolan who also wrote the screenplay, which follows the Dark Knight style with large majestic shots filmed on location, always with enough light to keep details in truth there are no tricks and no money should be spared in this production , 200 million are reflected on the screen.

Nader and Simin, The separation.

2011-12-20T18:24:00.000+01:00

The best compliment you can make to a movie, with apologies to those addicted to extravagant style is that it seems real life. Asghar Farhadi is of those few directors who knows how to be present without being noticed, which directs the service history. Nader and Simin, is a countless moods, pressing paradoxes, human fragilties to the surface, and makes the tragedy facing forward, without frills or beads but with a privileged domain of time and space.

The drama emerges tanned underground under the misfortune of their vulnerable inhabitants overboard Farhadi impossible balance between emotion steely splashing the story from beginning to end and the sobriety of a narrative strategy balancing clean, brightly polished that instrumentalized the silence and frustration to that intangible, define the humanity of the story hurtful.
Farhadi fled at full speed from the clichés inherent unfortunately true Iranian auteur, and the man-woman cliches that, from the coarseness of social realism in a country in which cinematically, it seems, there is no room for short stories, just for big with a message.
Nader and Simin, cutting a small universal history (a rare virtude in the Middle Eastern film), in which the premises (the impact of religion mainly) qualify the story, not define it. The result is a movie that smells of truth to every dodge, an anecdote, a marital rift, which triggers a tragedy without fuss multidimensional dosed with an exquisite sensitivity.

Draw the tape also one of the parent-child portraits, thanks to a spectacular display of interpretations, most authentic and awe that has recently paraded a screen truncated loyalty, the need for a lie, betrayed trust, the disappointment of a traumatic trip to the adult world ... undergroud little dramas that crawl under the skin of this great film, which carry off all the awards at the last Venice Film Festival.

"The professional" Luc Besson

2011-12-15T11:08:00.001+01:00

Love comes in strange circumstances, perhaps because it is only this: complicity, connection, to be on the same side of the pond, to feel recognized in the other. Who cares about something as silly as the age or circumstances. Something that many people could see unethical or unhealthy, maybe it's something as simple as affection, such as wanting to be next to eachother, sharing life. This love Mathilda (Natalie Portman) and Leon (Jean Reno) in one of the best Luc Besson's films "The Professional".

Everyone knows that Luc Besson likes soulful murderers, the murderers of murderers, with rules, discipline, and a sad story in the past. Cute and lonely people with particular habits, like Nikita, Zoe Saldana and recently in Colombia, who liked to dance and love after doing the dirty work. In The Professional, Leon drinks milk and has rules: no killing or women, or children, exercise, ordered his clothes, he likes music and especially loves his plant. He who is extremely quiet, does not socialize with anyone until he meets Mathilda, a Natalie Portman at least 11 years, which acted as well as in his latest film, with which he won an Oscar.

I am not an homophobic :) "Before Night Falls"

2011-12-02T20:14:00.000+01:00

I saw this film some years ago and today I would like to share it with you, also it remind me of a great night in a gay club in Berlin, Berghain. I wanna dedicate this film to all my gay friends and to some of my friends who thought that night in Berlin that I was a homophobic just because I said: "Oh my God, I've never seen so many gays together" it was a great night :)

“Before Night Falls” is such a vivid experience that it holds you fully in each moment. Even if you’ve read the memoir of the Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas on which the film is based, from scene to scene there’s no telling how painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel, or his wonderful star, Javier Bardem, will tackle what comes next. “Feverish” has been the word used to describe the movie in many of its reviews. But in confidence and sensuality “Before Night Falls” suggests the calm that can come with fever, that heightened and slowed state of awareness where each perception and sensation takes on a vibrant clarity.

The movie isn’t always a model of clarity. Schnabel immerses us in the atmosphere before giving us our bearings and he doesn’t always identify the characters or their relation to each other. But the occasional confusions are a small price to pay for a director who places enough trust in his audience’s intelligence to not spell everything out for them, to work allusively rather than declaratively to convey the meanings of Reinaldo Arenas’ life.

A Prophet: No 19 best crime film of all time!!!

2011-12-01T00:17:00.000+01:00

With a lot of memories, tenderness and love for a very good friend of mine, I recommend you this almost perfect creation, the person who once recommended it to me is a great camara man and knows a lot about film industry! Please take it in consideration :) For you Tom!

The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Audiard's brilliant 2005 film, was the study of a Parisian delinquent whose past is prised open to reveal a delicate, artistic sensibility at odds with his criminal lifestyle. In this, Audiard's 2009 follow-up, Malik (the young protagonist, played by Tahar Rahim) is neither a hardened criminal (though he is imprisoned at the start), nor does he seem to harbour any secrets in his past, artistic or otherwise. When he is committed to brutal French prison, he is a blank slate waiting to be filled.

Malik is not without talents: in fact, he turns out to be supremely capable. His advantage is the fact that he is a middle-man in every respect, belonging neither to the gang of Corsican hoods who adopt him as a gofer, nor the Muslim brotherhood who, given his north-African origins, expect his allegiance. What ensues is both thrilling and – in its cold indictment of the French prison system – terrifying. The plot is intricate and tightly wound, and Audiard exerts formidable control over every frame so that two and a half hours flash by in an instant. The nightmarish assassination scene will make you wince every time you roll your tongue.

"Sleeping Beauty" and sexual nightmares

2011-11-28T19:09:00.000+01:00

"Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple." With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre sexual nightmare. The film is set in Australia but conceived in a high, contemporary European style: it is perpetually a surprise to realise the dialogue is in English and not French or Austrian-accented German.

It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret sexiness in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut.

Author-turned-director Julia Leigh has certainly made an assured debut, which evidently owes nothing to Jane Campion who has "presented" this movie in some kind of Executive Mentor capacity. Instead, Leigh aims for the occult ritual of Buñuel and the formal exactitude of Haneke: rigorously framed and composed shots.

Emily Browning gives a fierce and powerful performance, which should put her in the running for the festival's best actress prize; she is Lucy, a student who takes part-time jobs to pay her tuition. These include medical experimentation – an almost unwatchable, and crucially penetrative process in which a tube is inserted into her gullet – and occasional prostitution. From here, Lucy is inducted into a niche sex industry: elderly gentlemen in tuxedos hold dinner parties and pay beautiful young women to wait on them, almost naked. Her success leads to a lucrative "sleeping beauty" gig. She is drugged and these ageing, sagging sensualists can do whatever they wish to her naked body, except penetration. But Lucy becomes obsessed with knowing what is being done to her.

The movie's emotional seriousness consists in Lucy's unhappy backstory: it is not merely a need for cash that has led her to this, but a kind of trauma and self-hate. She evidently had a painful and complex relationship with an agoraphobic drug addict called Birdmann (Ewen Leslie); he was and is clearly in love with her and, on her many visits, her affectionate friendship is complicated by unexpressed guilt at not feeling the same way or wanting to sleep with him.

All of this Browning suggests in her sulky pouts, her suppressed tears, her angry blankness: especially when talking to her alcoholic mother on the phone. It all leads to the grotesque situation of lying in a drugged stupor for men who wish to indulge in a necrophile-rape fantasy. The sleeping beauty of the original fable fainted on pricking her finger on a spinning wheel, an image of a moment's daring combined with one of women's work and torpid docility. Lucy is certainly doing women's work: but what is she doing? Will she wake up to what is happening?

The stomach-turning "sex" scenes themselves brutally show how unlovely is the ageing male body: and the penises here are pitifully unable even to attempt penetration. To some, the situation may call to mind Almodovar's Talk to Her or perhaps the denouement of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle. But there is force and originality in Leigh's work. Sleeping Beauty is an impressive technical display, though no more than the sum of its parts.

"The Debt" Mossad Agents

2011-11-28T18:38:00.000+01:00

The Debt is an unusually smart spy film, telling a good story without losing credibility. The Mossad protagonists aren't the super-efficient (if troubled) heroes of Munich, but inept amateurs whose convoluted plan goes awry. The richly drawn characters help a lot: the love triangle that develops is tastefully handled, and Vogel is given a human side to balance out his evil nature. The second half of the film, with the protagonists perpetuating a face-saving lie that echoes down through the decades, provides some disquieting food for thought. How much of any country's national myth is built on convenient, self-aggrandizing falsehoods?

The 1960s scenes are brilliant: well-acted, cleverly plotted and gripping, the flashbacks make for engrossing viewing. The modern day scenes are servicable but suffer in comparison: the trio's future relationships are hinted at, but we don't learn enough about the intervening thirty years to make their older incarnations compelling. Then there's the contrived ending, which tries too hard to mix an intellectual message with a crowd-pleasing climax.

John Madden's direction is assured without being flashy, his crisp staging of key scenes (especially a railyard shootout) and Ben Davis's photography the perfect air of tension. The film is carefully crafted, with the flashbacks and modern scenes complementing each other perfectly.

Jessica Chastain is having a breakout year, with roles in this film, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and The Help. She's just about perfect here, a wonderful mixture of vulnerability, toughness and doubt. Sam Worthington (Avatar) scores with a quietly intense performance and Marton Csokas (Lord of the Rings) is perfect. Jesper Christiensen (Quantum of Solace) gives a wonderfully complex performance, making Vogel a very human monster. Helen Mirren makes the most of her limited role, but Tom Wilkinson (Valkyrie) and Ciaran Hinds (Munich) are wasted.

The Debt is a solid spy thriller. Despite its flawed conclusion, it remains a smart, thought-provoking film.

My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist

2011-11-17T00:34:00.002+01:00

Directed by Karan Johar, 'My Name is Khan' tells the story of an autistic man Rizwan Khan (played by Shah Rukh Khan), who is caught in the aftermath of the September 11 militant attacks in the United States.

Khan, co-actor Kajol and Johar are teaming up after more than eight years, in what has been billed as one of the biggest releases to come out of Bollywood in a while.

The film is widely anticipated by fans of Khan and Kajol, whose great on-screen chemistry have helped deliver several hits in the past.

Fox Star Studios has signed a deal to finance and distribute the film, which unconfirmed media reports have pegged at 21 million USD.

However, both Johar and Fox have refused to confirm the figure, which, if true would be the highest ever for a Bollywood film.

"This film will be a step towards Indian cinema reaching worldwide," Khan said. India, home to the world's most prolific movie industry, has long tried to draw wider audiences, including by forging ventures with Hollywood studios looking to offset sluggish box-office sales with new markets and cheaper production costs.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2011-11-16T00:21:00.000+01:00

The film begins with the sentencing of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), a notorious murderer. Between the reading of the sentence and the execution, the story of his life is told in flashback, beginning with his abandonment at birth in a French fish market. Raised in an orphanage, Grenouille grows into a strangely detached boy with a superhuman sense of smell. After growing to maturity as a tanner's apprentice, he makes his first delivery to Paris, where he revels in the new odors. He focuses on a girl selling plums (Karoline Herfurth) and startles her with his behavior. To prevent her from crying out, he covers the girl's mouth and unintentionally suffocates her. After realizing that she is dead, he strips her body naked and smells her until the scent fades. Afterwards, Grenouille becomes haunted by the desire to recreate the plum slicing girl's scent.

Filming was originally planned to begin in the third quarter of 2004 but the filmmakers had trouble finding the right actor to play the protagonist Grenouille. The search to find an actor to play Grenouille took nearly a year. On casting agent Michelle Guish's advice, Tykwer went to see Ben Whishaw perform as Hamlet in Trevor Nunn's production of the play. Tykwer immediately felt that he had found the actor for the role. An audition followed which convinced Eichinger of Whishaw's potential as well. Eichinger described Whishaw as embodying both "the innocent angel and the murderer." Regarding his search to find an actor, Tykwer said "it only really seemed plausible to choose someone for this role who was completely unknown. You could also say a 'nobody' who is to become a 'somebody' - because that's what the story is about too."

One of the main challenges of making the film was to convey the smells and the world of scents that Grenouille experiences. Tykwer said that to him Perfume"was much more a film about the importance of smell in our life than a film that tries to be smelly." The filmmakers strived to convey smell visually without the use of colors or special effects, Griebe says "people see the fish market full of raw, bloody fish, and they know it stinks; they see a field of lavender and know it smells wonderful. We show Grenouille taking in smells by cupping his nose, and by doing close shots of his nose, and that's it!"

Principal photography began on July 12, 2005 and concluded on October 16, 2005. The first 15 days was spent entirely on the largest stage of Bavaria Film Studios in Munich, shooting the scenes between Baldini and Grenouille in the former's workshop. All of the scenes with Hoffman were completed within the first eleven days. Most of the remaining scenes were shot in Spain, specifically in Barcelona, Girona and Figueres. The streets of Barcelona stood in for that of Paris. El Gòtic, Barcelona's historic town center, was converted into a Paris fish market. The Poble Espanyol, an open-air museum in Barcelona, was the location for the climatic orgy scene. To create an authentic dirty look, the film's crew included a "dirt unit" of about 60 people whose job was to distribute detritus over the city. Two and a half tons of fish and one ton of meat was dispersed over El Gòtic. Several mountain and forest scenes were shot in the environs of Girona. The city also provided the location of the home and studio of Madame Arnulfi. Sant Ferran Castle in Figueres provided the location for the tannery, the Paris city gates and the dungeon which Grenouille is imprisoned in. The cave in which Grenouille discovers he has no scent was also located in Figueres. Some landscape shots, including those used as Grasse's lavender fields, were filmed in Provence, France in late June 2005, before principal photography started.

Polanski and Vampire Killers

2011-11-12T01:18:00.000+01:00

One of his funniest films, a lot of surprising moments, and a lot left for our imagination. Polanski filmed it in 1967 so the quality of the video is still the good old one. It is something like a vampire smart soap opera with a lot of snow! We can also see Polanski acting in his movie, he's a good actor too.

Coming straight on the heels of Polanski's international success with Repulsion, the film was mounted on a lavish scale - color cinematography, huge sets in England, location filming in the Alps, elaborate costumes and choreography suitable for a period epic. Previously accustomed only to extremely low budgets, Polanski chose some of the finest English cinema craft artists to work on the film: cameraman Douglas Slocombe, production designer Wilfrid Shingleton. Polanski engaged noted choreographer Tutte Lemkow, who played the titular musician in Fiddler on the Roof, for the film's climactic danse macabre minuet.

During filming the director decided to switch formats to anamorphic while filming on location. Flat scenes already filmed were optically converted to match.

Paris Je t'aime

2011-11-12T00:58:00.000+01:00

...And I love them both, the city and the surprising creation of 18 shortfilms in two hours film. The directors of the film made a awsome job, some of them are quite famous, like Cohen brothers, Alexander Payne, etc.

Since for the week-end I am leaving my beloved city of Girona and going to Paris once again I wanted to share this movie with you or just remind that it exists. It's always nice to watch it again. The combination of the stories is creative, you don't have time to get bored and of course the incredible streets and cafes of the city of love, you can't miss it!!!

"Manhattan" by Woody Allen

2011-11-08T23:03:00.000+01:00

Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress. The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan accompanied by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

The famous bridge shot was done at 5 am. The bridge had two sets of necklace lights on a timer controlled by the city. When the sun comes up, the bridge lights go off. Willis made arrangements with the city to leave the lights on and he would let them know when they got the shot. Afterwards, they could be turned off. As they started to shoot the scene, one string of bridge lights went out and Allen was forced to use that take.

According to Allen, the idea for Manhattan originated from his love of George Gershwin's music. He was listening to one of the composer's albums of overtures and thought, "this would be a beautiful thing to make ... a movie in black and white ... a romantic movie". Allen has said that Manhattan was "like a mixture of what I was trying to do with Annie Hall and Interiors. He also said that his film deals with the problem of people trying to live a decent existence in an essentially junk-obsessed contemporary culture without selling out, admitting that he himself could conceive of giving away all of "his possessions to charity and living in much more modest circumstances", continuing, "I've rationalized my way out of it so far, but I could conceive of doing it".

Melancholia by Lars von Trier

2011-11-08T22:49:00.001+01:00

Lars Von Trier is back with his new film, officially premiered in Cannes 2011.

Described as "A beautiful movie about the end of the world", MELANCHOLIA tells the story of two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg), who find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth.

Trier's initial inspiration for the film came from a depressive episode he suffered and the insight that depressives remain calm in stressful situations. The film is a Danish production with international co-producers in Sweden, France, Germany and Italy. Filming took place in Sweden.

Sukhdev Sandhu wrote from Cannes in The Daily Telegraph that the film "at times comes close to being a tragi-comic opera about the end of the world", and that "The apocalypse, when it comes, is so beautifully rendered that the film cements the quality of fairy tale that its palatial setting suggests."

Al Pacino "Scarface"

2011-11-08T22:30:00.000+01:00

Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana. A contemporary remake of Howard Hawks' original 1932 film of the same name, the film tells the story of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who comes to Miami in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift, and becomes a drug cartel kingpin during the cocaine boom of the 1980s. The movie chronicles his rise to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.

The film is dedicated to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, the director and principal screenwriter of the original 1932 film, respectively.

The initial critical response to Scarface was mixed, with the film receiving criticism for its violence and graphic language. The film was widely criticized by the Cuban community in Miami, who objected to various aspects of the film, and the fact Cubans in it were compared with criminals and drug traffickers.

The film has since gathered a cult following and has become an important cultural icon (particularly in the hip hop community), inspiring posters, clothing, and many other references. The film's grainy black and white poster is a popular decoration and is still in production; as a result of its popularity it has been parodied many times.

"Crazy Stupid Love" with Ryan Gosling

2011-10-26T23:37:00.000+02:00

Film directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, written by Dan Fogelman, and starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon. The film was released on July 29, 2011

Would you ever take the advice of your thirteen-year-old self? Would you look back to your days as a batch of hormones and angst and say, “I was so wise back then. What happened?” Crazy, Stupid, Love. takes an “out of the mouths of babes” approach to serious romantic relationships and as a result an honest but funny relationship dramedy gets a saccharine sheen that completely overwhelms the film in the final act. Ultimately, great performances and cute humor.

Playing off of Carell allows Gosling to explore a comic side we’ve rarely seen from him before. Gosling seems to be having a blast as the smooth-talking, completely confident Jacob. It’s an incredibly smart performance because Gosling tinges everything with a little bit of innocence and softness so that Jacob never comes off as sleazy or insecure.

So much of Crazy, Stupid, Love. is working against its cloying script. The entire adult cast turns in great performances that are sweet without being sappy, emotional without being manipulative, and funny without being obvious.

The Tree of Life

2011-10-25T22:33:00.000+02:00

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American drama with experimental elements written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Sean Penn (he will appear a lot this year :), Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain (the promise of the moment, you can also see her in "The Debt"). Malick's film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man's childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and the inception of life on Earth. After decades in development and missed 2009 and 2010 release dates, the film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its technical and artistic merits, but there were also polarizing reactions in response to Malick's directorial style and, in particular, the film's fragmented non-linear narrative. But also because of making a difference in the time line it is interesting to see the film.

MUST Watch of the season "Drive"

2011-10-24T23:40:00.000+02:00

A long time ago, as a young filmmaker besotted with the hard-boiled pleasures of classic Hollywood, Jean-Luc Godard claimed that all anyone needed to make a film was a girl and a gun. In his new movie, “Drive,” Nicolas Winding Refn, in thrall to a later Hollywood tradition, tests out a slightly different formula. In this case all you need is a guy and a car (late-model silver Chevy Impala). An incredible film, emotional and crazy, a bit impossible because the main character seems a bit bipolar but def. a must see of this year. Also should say that the B.S.O. makes it even better, music that at least I already downloaded and will listen a lot this days. I think i had a strange sensation after watching the film because it combines action, blood and romance. It's like a bloody thriller romance. The softness of Mr. Gosling’s face and his curiously high-pitched, nasal voice make him an unusually sweet-seeming avenger, even when he is stomping bad guys into bloody pulp. I also really liked the postproduction and the frames. As we can see the title is in pink, and it reminds me of the neon 80's.

Julianne Moore in Savage Grace

2011-10-21T21:26:00.000+02:00

Savage Grace is a 2007 film directed by Tom Kalin and written by Howard Rodman, based on the book Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson. The story is based on the dysfunctional, allegedly incestuous relationship between heiress and socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son, Antony. Julianne Moore makes an incredible interpretation. She is distant and close to us at the same time, and she transmits her lonelyness and sadness and at the same time keep us wondering about who is she in reality.

Barbara Baekeland's former lover, Sam Green, wrote an article pointing out events in the film that did not match reality. Referring in particular to the scene of Barbara, her son Antony, and Sam having a ménage à trois, he wrote, "it is true that almost 40 years ago I did have an affair with Barbara, but I certainly never slept with her son, and nor did she, to the best of my knowledge. Nor am I bisexual... She started telling people she had had an incestuous relationship with her son as a way of 'curing' him of homosexuality ... But I don't believe she had sex with Tony. I think she simply enjoyed shocking people."

It was an official selection at the 2007 London Film Festival, the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

This Must Be the Place and more Sean Penn

2011-10-21T00:06:00.001+02:00

This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The film was an Italian majority production with co-producers in France and Ireland. Principal photography began in August 2010. Filming took place in Ireland, Italy, as well as the states of Michigan, New Mexico and New York. The film played in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American drama with experimental elements written and directed by Terrence Malick. After decades in development and missed 2009 and 2010 release dates, the film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its technical and artistic merits, but there were also polarizing reactions in response to Malick's directorial style and, in particular, the film's fragmented non-linear narrative.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 American film, directed by Niells Mueller. It is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

And those are only some films where Sean Penn makes spending two hours of our day time on watching a movie just amazing.

Netsurfing (.)(.)

2011-10-17T22:36:00.001+02:00

Today I found some interesting webs and I want to share them with you, some photography, design, etc. They are pretty cool, so I think you will like them too!

http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/home/

http://www.neromagazine.it/n/

http://yatzer.com/

http://www.parkandcube.com/

Love and kisses, everybody need it, come on it's MONDAY! :)

Saturday/Sunday

2011-10-16T19:35:00.001+02:00

In one of Murakami's books it says something like: "...we don't choose our destiny, the destiny choose us". I want to believe that it's not true, that we can always change our life like we want to, it is just the matter of the efford. Why am I the way I am today, what are my memories and who would I be without them, how much my life would change if only one day in my life would be different? Would something be different if I wouldn't meet X but Y instead. Sometimes I think about if I would like to delite some "files" from my brain like if it would be my pc, I wish I could erase some memories, but we can't. The film "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" talks about our mind and our memories, about how would it be if we could erase them.

Biking with MacKenzie

2011-10-15T00:55:00.002+02:00

Those are part of my memories of the last year that I spend in Germany, this memories are so surrealistic now and seem so far away. Tonight I saw four different films at the same time, just changing the channel. "Lions for Lambs" of Robert Redford, "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" of Peter Greenaway, "Delicatessen" of Jean Pierre Jeunet. My choice is "Delicatessen" and it's great black humour, also fans of Amelie and Mr.Jeunet will like this smart and funny film. If after this one you still want to watch another movie, my second choice would be "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover" in the same surrealistic line that my mood tonight. The film directed by Redford is not bad, but not good either.

Pina Bausch von Wim Wenders

2011-10-13T23:26:00.001+02:00

This film was presented at the Berlinale 2011 Festival. "Pina"is a perfect combination of dance, theater and cinema. It is scened dance and a staged movie, strange and explosive combination that makes your sences work at maximum. I am a big fan of expressing feelings without words and I think nowadays words are overrated. For me this audiovisual production is the best as a combination of movement and sound because it makes you feel the whole 1h39min; it makes you sad and happy, it makes you lonely or in love, but you don't have even a second to be bored. I can't say what I love more than Dance, Theater and Cinema; only the three of them together. And to make a film putting theater and dance inside is hard. It is difficult to accomplish without making the final result a parody, a musical or something in between. But this production is serious, notorious and human performance, where everything is in perfect harmony. If somebody doesn't know who is Pina Bausch it's better if you check it in wikipedia cause I will not have space enough to explain everything about her brilliant career and personality :)

Find some time to enjoy it!

One day

2011-10-12T20:05:00.001+02:00

Today is the hispanity day so since I live in Spain there's no classes and no work for me today. I wanted to watch some easy movie to occupy my day with something that don't let your brain think about serious issues. So I opened my laptop and chose "One day" a film directed by Lone Scherfig, with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. I wouldn't expect that it will be a touching film. I would like to recommend it even knowing that the film critics don't have a good opinion of this film. At the end of the film I remembered that I started the book on which the film is based but i didn't like the book and I only red 20 pages. I should tell you that I watched the film twice, maybe because it reminded me how many times we forget about the only important thing in this life: the people we love and who love us.

Have a nice evening, hopefully in a nice company!

Shadows

2011-10-11T23:28:00.001+02:00

Analog photography, great image, nice shadows. Let your imagination play a bit and this picture will tell you a lot of stories. Remind me a setting from an old black and white film.

Artist Qp Zhang, Canada