29 de outubro de 2008

"Canção ao Lado"

Música popular portuguesa com 'Variações Goldberg" na letra?
Mas a música popular portuguesa não era só pimba?
Contrabaixo?... Tuba?!


Fon-fon-fon - Deolinda

Ja dizia o outro, quem já não tem capacidade de ser surpreendido está morto.

24 de outubro de 2008

Movie Quotes #5

"May you have food and rainment,
A soft pillow for your head,
and may you be forty years in heaven
before the devil knows your're dead!"


Brinde irlandês que dá título e premissa inicial a:

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
(Antes que o diabo saiba que estás morto.)

Um dos melhores filmes do ano.

23 de setembro de 2008

O Melhor Adepto do Universo

E o trofeu capitão Moura foi para...

Visconde da Apúlia


11 de setembro de 2008

"My Way"

"My Way" é a minha obcessão do momento. É apenas uma canção, anuo, mas compôe a voz e sobretudo a figura de Frank Sinatra, como pira Olímpica para a sua chama. Sinatra que já por si suporta um brilho ímpar, ele é "O Padrinho" em palco.

Num rodízio de versões da música encontrei uma interpretação de Robbie Williams que me fez pensar, o que seria deste tipo, se o Homem, para mais o Inglês, não inventasse os tablóides. E a bebida. E as drogas.

É certo que uma pessoa se pôe a jeito, mas digam lá o primeiro adjectivo conduzido no vosso encéfalo, quando ouvem o nome Robbie Williams: super-estrela pop mimada-egocêntrica e/ou talento extraordinário?


31 de agosto de 2008

The English Patient

THE PATIENT
- Read to me, will you? Read me to sleep.

KATHARINE (O/S)
"My darling, I'm waiting for you -
how long is a day in the dark, or a
week?

…the fire is gone now, and I'm
horribly cold. I really ought to
drag myself outside but then there
would be the sun…

I'm afraid I waste the light on the
paintings and on writing these
words…

We die, we die rich with lovers and
tribes, tastes we have swallowed
bodies we have entered and swum up
like rivers, fears we have hidden
in like this wretched cave…

…I want all this marked on my body.
We are the real countries, not the
boundaries drawn on maps with the
names of powerful men…

…I know you will come and carry me
out into the palace of winds, the
rumors of water… That's all I've
wanted - to walk in such a place
with you, with friends, on earth
without maps.

The lamp's gone out and I'm writing
in the darkness…"

Almásy, the English Patient, begins to sing - Szerelem,
Szerelem - until that also fades and is replaced by the
woman's tender lament heard at the beginning of the film,
singing for all that has been lost.

The sound of gun fire…

THE END.

Um romantismo
CLÁSSICO,
porém
ÚNICO
e por isso mesmo
ÉPICO.

30 de julho de 2008

Um vídeoclip sem vídeocamera


Radiohead - House of Cards


22 de julho de 2008

Olá campistas

Pois é, finalmente o descanço do guerreiro.
Finalmente férias.
Férias de papo para o ar.
E férias a consumir o que os exames não nos deixaram consumir.

Minhas sugestões para bons consumos:

TV/Séries
  • Californication
  • Extras

Cinema
Em sala:
  • Batman, The Dark Knight.
  • Tropa de Elite (para quem ainda não viu).

Em DVD:
  • Le Scaphandre et le Papillon.
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Música
Ao vivo:
  • Diana Krall - Cool Jazz Fest, dia 30 de Julho, Oeiras.
  • Herbie Hancock - Porto Blue Jazz, dia 6 de Agosto, Porto.
Em CD/mp3:
  • Dead Combo - "Lusitana Playboys".
  • António Pinho Vargas - "Solo".
Literatura
  • José Saramago - "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" (também para preparar o filme, sim).
  • Philip Roth - "Indignation".
Boas férias.

30 de junho de 2008

Imprensa Desportiva X


Faço meu este post.

1 de junho de 2008

29 de maio de 2008

"Ensaio Sobre A Cegueira"

Falamos de "Blindness" (Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira), filme de Fernando Meirelles (Cidade de Deus, O Fiel Jardineiro,...) adaptado da obra homónima de José Saramago.
Em Cannes, o filme foi recebido com frieza pelos críticos.
Saramago, o próprio, recebeu-o assim:

21 de maio de 2008

Michael Clayton #2 - "I'm Shiva, the God of Death."


Michael Clayton #1


Uma das melhores introduções da história do cinema. Visceral, mesmo!

[
first lines]
Arthur Edens: Michael. Dear Michael. Of course it's you, who else could they send, who else could be trusted? I... I know it's a long way and you're ready to go to work... all I'm saying is just wait, just... just wait and please just hear me out because this is not an episode, relapse, fuck-up, it's... I'm begging you Michael. I'm begging you. Try to make believe this is not just madness because this is not just madness. Two weeks ago I came out of the building ok, I'm running across 6th avenue there's a car waiting, I've got exactly 38 minutes to get to the airport and I'm dictating. There's this panicked associate sprinting along beside me, scribbling in a notepad, and suddenly she starts screaming, and I realize we're standing in the middle of the street, the light's changed, there's this wall of traffic, serious traffic speeding towards us, and I... I freeze, I can't move, and I'm suddenly consumed with the overwhelming sensation that I'm covered in some sort of film. It's in my hair, my face... it's like a glaze... a coating, and... at first I thought, oh my god, I know what this is, this is some sort of amniotic - embryonic - fluid. I'm drenched in afterbirth, I've breached the chrysalis, I've been reborn. But then the traffic, the stampede, the cars, the trucks, the horns, the screaming and I'm thinking no-no-no, reset, this is not rebirth, this is some kind of giddy illusion of renewal that happens in the final moment before death. And then I realize no-no-no, this is completely wrong because I look back at the building and I had the most stunning moment of clarity. I... I... I realized Michael, that I had emerged not from the doors of Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen, not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm, but from the asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the... the... the poison, the ammo, the defoliant necessary for other, larger, more powerful organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity. And that I had been coated in this patina of shit for the best part of my life. The stench of it and the sting of it would in all likelihood take the rest of my life to undo. And you know what I did? I took a deep cleansing breath and I put that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself as clear as this may be, as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe I witnessed today, it must wait. It must stand the test of time, and Michael, the time is now.

in Michael Clayton.