"Donnie, what did Roberta Sparrow say to you?"

16-02-2013

"She said that every living creature on Earth dies alone."

"Every living creature on Earth dies alone"

Já vi o Donnie Darko... 5 vezes?

Skate for polar bears.

Parque Nascente @ Fim-do-mundo aka Rio Tinto

Sexta fui ver o "Couples retreat", que foi o filme mais "tarde de domingo" que vi numa "sexta à noite" de sempre, enquanto que na segunda foi o "Up in the air", que foi giro e profundo qb - com ele perfiz mais idas ao cinema numa semana do que em 2009 inteiro.

Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens.

Bilhete comprado.

Metrópolis

Fui ver isto de graça, graças ao cine-clube da FDUP (já lá vi dois grandes filmes). Grande obra-prima do cinema e essas coisas todas. Aproveitei e levei a máquina, já que ando a usá-la muitas poucas vezes.

24-11-2009

Tropic thundah

Kirk Lazarus: Everybody knows you never go full retard.

Tugg Speedman: What do you mean?

Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed...


Menor que três.

I IX VIII IV (I)

O'Brien: What are your feelings towards Big Brother?
Winston Smith: I hate him.
O'Brien: You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him.

Pedro :awe:

::: The heart is a drum machine :::

Music is the sound of the order and chaos of the universe.

Music is like an energetic code.

It is, in a sense, kind of a piece of magic.

Music is a way of giving what you're feeling inside to the other person.

Your body is constantly making music. It doesn't stop, from the moment you're born until your last breath. You're constantly making music from inside.

-> The heart is a drum machine

Gran Torino

"Mr. Eastwood has a knack for storytelling. Instead of being preachy or having an all to obvious agenda, he lets his viewers make up their own minds. His characters don't have a message, they have a life and make no excuses for who they are. In so many subtle and intelligent ways we are allowed to make our own choices. Like with Kowalski in the movie, you are not confronted with a role model hammering home all those "life's important messages", but rather with a movie saying "Look! This is the way it worked out for me. And I think I know a few tricks that might help you, but in the end it's your own life. However, you have to trust me when I say that there are a some things you don't want to see or experience!".

IMDB

A ir ver em breve.

Magnolia

Isto tudo porque ando a reparar que o Porto está infestado de magnólias por todo o lado, lembrei-me agora do filme, que é mega (L).

In the New York Herald, November 26, year 1911, there is an account of the hanging of three men. They died for the murder of Sir Edmund William Godfrey; Husband, Father, Pharmacist and all around gentle-man resident of: Greenberry Hill, London. He was murdered by three vagrants whose motive was simple robbery. They were identified as: Joseph Green, Stanley Berry, and Daniel Hill. Green, Berry, Hill. And I Would Like To Think This was Only A Matter Of Chance.

As reported in the Reno Gazette, June of 1983 there is the story of a fire, the water that it took to contain the fire, and a scuba diver named Delmer Darion. Employee of the Peppermill Hotel and Casino, Reno, Nevada. Engaged as a blackjack dealer. Well liked and well regarded as a physical, recreational and sporting sort, Delmer's true passion was for the lake. As reported by the coroner, Delmer died of a heart attack somewhere between the lake and the tree. A most curious side note is the suicide the next day of Craig Hansen. Volunteer firefighter, estranged father of four and a poor tendency to drink. Mr. Hansen was the pilot of the plane that quite accidentally lifted Delmer Darion out of the water. Added to this, Mr. Hansen's tortured life met before with Delmer Darion just two nights previous. The weight of the guilt and the measure of coincidence so large, Craig Hansen took his life. And I Am Trying To Think This Was All Only A Matter Of Chance.

The tale told at a 1961 awards dinner for the American Association Of Forensic Science by Dr. Donald Harper, president of the association, began with a simple suicide attempt. Seventeen-year-old Sydney Barringer. In the city of Los Angeles on March 23, 1958. The coroner ruled that the unsuccessful suicide had suddenly become a successful homicide. To explain: The suicide was confirmed by a note, left in the breast pocket of Sydney Barringer. At the same time young Sydney stood on the ledge of this nine-story building, an argument swelled three stories below. The neighbors heard, as they usually did, the arguing of the tenants and it was not uncommon for them to threaten each other with a shotgun, or one of the many handguns kept in the house. And when the shotgun accidentaly went off, Sydney just happend to pass. Added to this, the two tenants turned out to be: Faye and Arthur Barringer. Sydney's mother and Sydney's father. When confronted with the charge, which took some figuring out for the officers on the scene of the crime, Faye Barringer swore that she did not know that the gun was loaded. A young boy who lived in the building, sometimes a visitor and friend to Sydney Barringer, said that he had seen, six days prior, the loading of the shotgun. It seems that the arguing and the fighting and all of the violence was far too much for Sydney Barringer, and knowing his mother and father's tendency to fight, he decided to do something. Sydney Barringer jumps from the ninth floor rooftop. His parents argue three stories below. Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney in the stomach as he passes the arguing sixth-floor window. He is killed instantly but continues to fall, only to find, three stories below, a safety net installed three days prior for a set of window washers that would have broken his fall and saved his life if not for the hole in his stomach. So Faye Barringer was charged with the murder of her son, and Sydney Barringer noted as an accomplice in his own death. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just "Something That Happened." This cannot be "One of Those Things... ” This, please, cannot be that. And for what I would like to say, I can't. This Was Not Just A Matter Of Chance. Ohhhh.

These strange things happen all the time.

D: It is written

Engraçadito e cativante Ok, numa segunda reflexão, o filme prima pela representação real da podridão, pobreza e vida de dog-eat-dog (slumdog, lol) das favelas indianas. Gostei principalmente dos pormenores do irmão-filho-da-p*ta-que-no-fim-arrepende-se-e-faz-a-boa-acção-do-dia-no-final (hey, arrependimentos assim não é qualquer um), da frieza e da maneira como o Jamal se foi lembrando das respostas (hey, a vida não é um poço sem fundo de ironia?) e de como sempre lutou para ficar com a Latika e, por último, do pormenor sempre presente do "destino" (hey, It is written!).

Bom filme para sofá, cobertor, milka-bolacha (em troca dos prometidos rebuçados da régua) e vir para casa da zona de Lordelo do Ouro com pés prontos a voar a qualquer momento. Pic-nics nocturnos À entrada de prédios também são visões regulares naquela zona.

Phantasforto

24-02-2009

Ontem foi este:

21.15h - The Escapist – Rupert Wyatt – GB, Ire – 102 min SR
Frank Perry é um condenado a prisão perpétua, da qual apenas cumpriu 12 anos. Quando a filha tem graves problemas e fica doente, Perry sente que tem de a ver antes que seja tarde. Para isso, há que fugir da cadeia. Assim, contacta um grupo de prisioneiros, todos eles com histórias de fugas, mas que, para complicar tudo, se detestam entre eles. Em comum, apenas um desejo, a fuga.

IMDB / Trailer

Nada à partida me faria pensar que não ia deixar de ser um jail-escape movie, mas surpreendentemente, não só a acção de fuga se passa ao mesmo tempo que a estória que leva à fuga, como no final somos brindados com um plot twist tão fixe como foi o do The Shawshank Redemption.

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