Neil Burguer, 2006
Com Edward Norton, Jessica Biel
Falta profundidade a este filme agradável de Domingo. A enorme metáfora que encerra, a ilusão do palco aplicada à vida, não é, convenhamos, surpreendente.
12/07/2017
09/07/2017
For whom the bell tolls
Ernest Hemingway, 1941
Arrow Books, Penguin Random House
Vívido episódio de acção, amor e morte. Os básicos blocos para construir uma guerra. Homenageia touradas e pinta a tragédia da guerra, por maior que seja a nobreza dos seus participantes. Robert Jordan é um herói condenado à morte repleto de vida, tal como o mundo à sua volta. Hemingway consegue parar o tempo, fazê-lo descorrer muito lentamente e quase colocar-nos lá, na carne daquelas pessoas.
P54 Robert Jordan pushed the cup toward him. It was a milky yellow now with the water and he hoped the gypsy would not take more than a swallow. There was very little of it left and one cup of it took the place of the evening papers, of all the old evenings in cafes, of all the chestnut trees that would be in bloom now in this month, of the great slow horses of the outer boulevards, of bookshops, of kiosks, and of galleries, of the Parc Montsouris, of the Stade Buffalo, of the Butte Chaumont, of the Guarantee Trust Company and the Ile de la Cite, of Foyot's old hotel, and of being able to read and relax in the evening; of all the things he had enjoyed and forgotten and that came back to him when he tasted that opaque, bitter, tongue-numbing, brain-warming, stomach-warming, idea changing liquid alchemy.The gypsy made a face and handed the cup back. 'It smells of anis but it is bitter as gall,' he said. 'It is better to be sick than have that medicine.' 'That's the wormwood,' Robert Jordan told them. 'In this, the real absinthe, there is wormwood. It's supposed to rot your brain out but I don't believe it. It only changes the ideas. You should pour water into it very slowly, a few drops at the time. But I poured it into the water.' 'What are you saying?' Pablo said angrily, feeling the mockery. 'Explaining the medicine,' Robert Jordan told him and grinned. 'I bought it in Madrid. It was the last bottle and it's lasted me three weeks.' He took a big swallow of it and felt it coasting over his tongue in delicate anesthesia. He looked at Pablo and grinned again."
p89 We ate in pavilions on the sand. Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Pastries delicate and flaky and the fish of a richness that was incredible. Prawns fresh from the sea sprinkled with lime juice. They were pink and sweet and there were four bites to a prawn. Of those we ate many. (...) All the time drinking a white wine, cold, light and good at thirty centimos the bottle. And for an end; melon. That is the home of the melon.
p141 They trusted you on understanding the language completely and speaking it idiomatically and having a knowledge of the different places. A spaniard was only really loyal to his village in the end.
First Spain of course, then his own tribe, then his province, then his village, his family and finally his trade. If you knew Spanish he was prejudiced in your favor, if you knew his province it was that much better, but if you knew his village and his trade you were in as far as any foreigner ever could be.
p136 In Madrid I wanted to buy some books, to go to the Florida Hotel and get a room and to have a hot bath, he thought. I was going to send Luis the porter out for a bottle of absinthe if he could locate on at the Mantequerías Leonesas or at any of the places off the Gran Via and I was going to lie in bed and read after the bath and drink a couple of absinthes and then I was going to call up Gaylord's and see if I could come up there and eat.
243. You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrassing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Charters Cathedral at León and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado. It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it.
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing.
447 Golz watched the planes with his hard proud eyes that knew how things could be and how they would be instead and said, proud of how they could be, believing in how they could be, even if they never were, ' Bon. Nous ferons notre petit possible' and hung up.
449 Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
p89 We ate in pavilions on the sand. Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Pastries delicate and flaky and the fish of a richness that was incredible. Prawns fresh from the sea sprinkled with lime juice. They were pink and sweet and there were four bites to a prawn. Of those we ate many. (...) All the time drinking a white wine, cold, light and good at thirty centimos the bottle. And for an end; melon. That is the home of the melon.
p141 They trusted you on understanding the language completely and speaking it idiomatically and having a knowledge of the different places. A spaniard was only really loyal to his village in the end.
First Spain of course, then his own tribe, then his province, then his village, his family and finally his trade. If you knew Spanish he was prejudiced in your favor, if you knew his province it was that much better, but if you knew his village and his trade you were in as far as any foreigner ever could be.
p136 In Madrid I wanted to buy some books, to go to the Florida Hotel and get a room and to have a hot bath, he thought. I was going to send Luis the porter out for a bottle of absinthe if he could locate on at the Mantequerías Leonesas or at any of the places off the Gran Via and I was going to lie in bed and read after the bath and drink a couple of absinthes and then I was going to call up Gaylord's and see if I could come up there and eat.
243. You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrassing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Charters Cathedral at León and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado. It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it.
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing.
447 Golz watched the planes with his hard proud eyes that knew how things could be and how they would be instead and said, proud of how they could be, believing in how they could be, even if they never were, ' Bon. Nous ferons notre petit possible' and hung up.
449 Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
20/05/2017
Golden Exits
Alex Ross Perry, 2017
Com Emily Browning e Craig Butta, Adam HorovitzEscola de Woody Allen. Aquele trabalho é metáfora da captura pela na prisão solitária da média vida, melancolia do meio. Lolita adulta e imprevisível. Diálogos inverosímeis? Belo. E não é que o protagonista 'quasi-bibliotecário' era rapper dos Beastie Boys?
14/05/2017
Flores
Jorge Jácome, 2017
Belos Açores sentimentais. Ilha lilás e ameaçadora na sua suave beleza - inundada por hortênsias. Um espelho dos sentimentos de saudade e amor dos soldados-exploradores, que vegueiam pela ilha com um prazer solitário, unidos.
Semente Exterminadora
Pedro Neves Marques, 2017
Gostei dos lugares industriais e das paisagens, da filmagem da fábrica.
O enredo desencaixa-se.
Campo de Aviação
Joana Pimenta, 2016
Muito experimental.
Diogo Baldaia
Miragem meus putos, 2017
Gostei da forma como filmou o futebol e como transmitiu a suave e inquietante sensação de ser criança.
Belos Açores sentimentais. Ilha lilás e ameaçadora na sua suave beleza - inundada por hortênsias. Um espelho dos sentimentos de saudade e amor dos soldados-exploradores, que vegueiam pela ilha com um prazer solitário, unidos.
Semente Exterminadora
Pedro Neves Marques, 2017
Gostei dos lugares industriais e das paisagens, da filmagem da fábrica.
O enredo desencaixa-se.
Campo de Aviação
Joana Pimenta, 2016
Muito experimental.
Diogo Baldaia
Miragem meus putos, 2017
Gostei da forma como filmou o futebol e como transmitiu a suave e inquietante sensação de ser criança.
#flores #jorgejacome #indielisboa #super16mm #walk&talk #blackmaria #martasimoes
Uma publicação partilhada por Daniel Alvarenga (@dgalvarenga) a
The construction of Villa Além
Ana Resende, Miguel C. Tavares, Rui Manuel Vieira, Tiago Costa, 2017
Talvez mais para arquitectos, mas belo. A conversa deixa perceber melhor as nuances e as escolhas menos óbvias feitas na realização. A casa de Valerio Olgiati é um objecto misterioso, que, premeditadamente, ficamos sem conhecer na sua plenitude. Não é um documentário. É uma homenagem, mais do que à casa, à construção da casa.
Talvez mais para arquitectos, mas belo. A conversa deixa perceber melhor as nuances e as escolhas menos óbvias feitas na realização. A casa de Valerio Olgiati é um objecto misterioso, que, premeditadamente, ficamos sem conhecer na sua plenitude. Não é um documentário. É uma homenagem, mais do que à casa, à construção da casa.
Uma publicação partilhada por Daniel Alvarenga (@dgalvarenga) a
Before the flight
Laurence Bonvin, 2016
Belas imagens de Abdijan. Estática, de tripé, com a vida do dia-a-dia, que trouxe de volta velhas memórias. Lugares de mistério, graça e velho uso. A vida decorrendo, sob uma suave antiga geometria. Paz de contraste com os agitados dias políticos que se repetem.
Belas imagens de Abdijan. Estática, de tripé, com a vida do dia-a-dia, que trouxe de volta velhas memórias. Lugares de mistério, graça e velho uso. A vida decorrendo, sob uma suave antiga geometria. Paz de contraste com os agitados dias políticos que se repetem.
#Abidjan #IndieLisboa #LaurenceBonvin #beforetheflight #films #cotedivoire pic.twitter.com/UdmL7muWgR— Daniel Alvarenga (@dgualvarenga) May 14, 2017
07/04/2017
O último mergulho
São Jorge
Com Nuno Lopes
Aquelas fotos de Lisboa lembraram-me várias vezes o tipo
sentado no nighthawks do Hopper, desta vez num diner da Bela Vista a cobrar
dinheiro. O Olivier é o resgate, o Raposo é Salazar mutado, os cobradores o
FMI, e o Jorge é Portugal e todos os que cá vivem e viveram: trágico e heróico. Muito bonito o que aconteceu naquela sala.
12/02/2017
La La Land
A noite da iguana
Tennesse Williams,Encenador por Jorge Silva Melo, 18 Janeiro 2017
com Nuno Lopes, Maria João Luís e Joana Bárcia
Quando alguém constrói uma obra de arte sobre a qual fala durante o tortuoso processo, o interlocutor vai imaginando algo. Por vezes a criação é um mundo paralelo ao imaginado, com toques em comum, mas muito diferente. Como gémeos falsos. A iguana foi liberta sublime e cansada, destruída e destituída, a sentir saudade da prisão antes mesmo de a abandonar. Ou será que nunca abandonou essa corda que a fixava no lugar? Por fim, a iguana odiada, réptil, encontra lugar para si, liberta. Fiquei com a leve sensação que sim.
Ama San
Claudia Varejão, 2016Aquela delicadeza é enganadora. As elegantes mariscadoras/pescadoras são muito mais do que isso: atletas do Olimpo na água e na família. A Claudia pintou um quadro notável noutra língua, noutras cores, noutro quadro mental, noutro universo.
Gosto da cena do jantar colectivo, do jantar solteiro, do fogo de artifício, do pano branco antes da máscara, dificílimo de dobrar, qual origami, cuja razão de ser não percebo, apenas a beleza.
I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach, 2016com Dave Johns
Um grito emocionante de revolta. O homem perdido, mastigado nas engrenagens de uma política burocracia contemporânea, se é que esta alguma vez não foi política. Tantas e demasiadas vezes a faltar a humanidade básica. As pessoas fazem a diferença nos postos que habitam, independentemente, até certo ponto, das regras que os envolvem. Que herói e que choradeira, mas só mesmo no fim. Os trabalhadores do centro de emprego de Newcastle não gostaram, dizem não reflectir de forma precisa a realidade. Ken Loach afirma o contrário.
05/02/2017
Rogue One: a Star Wars story
Gareth Edwards, 2016Com Felicity Jones
Espectacular e muito satisfatória destruição de uma enorme nave em pequeníssimos pedaços. Primeira parte aborrecida. Segunda bem boa. Visualmente, muito respeitador dos clássicos, basta olhar para os uniformes do Império.O cenário tropical agrada-me e, dentro da enorme fantasia, ata pequenas mas importantes pontas soltas da trilogias de 77-83 que pareciam ilógicas e tontas.
Lo and Behold, reveries of the connected world
Werner Herzog, 2016

Premonitório? Interessante. Num tom seco e irónico, Herzog leva-nos à volta do mundo para visitar as encruzilhadas da tecnologia. Uma máquina que lê pensamentos? Pessoas alérgicas à tecnologia, às ondas dos telemóveis? Exploramos o primeiro computador da rede internet, de resistência militar. Uma louca família atacada pela turba das redes sociais, porque eram ricos, tinham um Porsche? Nem sei. E a parte boa: os habitantes do planeta a encontrarem a cura para uma doença através de um jogo em rede.

Premonitório? Interessante. Num tom seco e irónico, Herzog leva-nos à volta do mundo para visitar as encruzilhadas da tecnologia. Uma máquina que lê pensamentos? Pessoas alérgicas à tecnologia, às ondas dos telemóveis? Exploramos o primeiro computador da rede internet, de resistência militar. Uma louca família atacada pela turba das redes sociais, porque eram ricos, tinham um Porsche? Nem sei. E a parte boa: os habitantes do planeta a encontrarem a cura para uma doença através de um jogo em rede.
Life Itself
2014, Steve James
Maiores inimigos, odiados rivais, as circunstâncias forçaram-nos a sentarem-se lado a lado para conversar sobre uma paixão comum: o cinema. Ao longo dos anos evoluem do despreco para um respeito mútuo muito escondido e por jfim para uma profunda amizada e até amor. Duro, terno e belo.
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