quarta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2010

''as a boy, all John Lennon needed was love.''

Nowhere Boy.

Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. With Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas.

Imagine John Lennons childhood A spirited teenager, curious, sharp and funny, growing up in the shattered city of Liverpool. Two extraordinary sisters tussle for his love - Mimi, the formidable aunt who raised him from the age of 5 and Julia, the spirited mother who gave him up to Mimis care. Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into art and the new music flooding in from the US. His fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the young Paul McCartney. But just as Johns new life begins, the truth about his past leads to a tragedy he would never escape.




segunda-feira, 27 de setembro de 2010

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity."




domingo, 26 de setembro de 2010

There's one in all of us.

Where The Wild Things Are.

2009, directed by Spike Jonze. With Max Records, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener.






quinta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2010

existimos em função do futuro.

O homem não é de modo nenhum a soma do que tem, mas a totalidade do que não tem ainda, do que poderia ter. E, se nos banhamos assim no futuro, não ficará atenuada a brutalidade informe do presente? Sartre

quinta-feira, 16 de setembro de 2010

"Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin."

When You're Strange

Directed by Tom DiCillo. A chronological look at The Doors, focusing on lead singer, Jim Morrison (1943-1971), from the formation of the band in 1965, it's first gigs, and first album, to Morrison's death, after years of alcohol and drug use. Along the journey, we see archival footage of rehearsals, performances, and private moments including a Miami concert resulting in Morrison's arrest and trial for indecency. His love of the spotlight, his desire to be a poet, and his alcohol-fueled mood swings lead to a back and forth between public and private desires, successes, and failures. The band's music plays throughout

















segunda-feira, 6 de setembro de 2010

"It's a strange world."

Blue Velvet (1986). Directed by David Lynch. With Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern.






















'But when she left, gone was the glow of
Blue velvet
But in my heart there'll always be
Precious and warm, a memory
Through the years
And I still can see blue velvet
Through my tears'

empty.

Desfazes-te em nada numa fracção de segundo, e eu nem dou por isso. Tenciono detectar o fundamento que te corroeu e o que consigo alcançar é uma teia nebulosa e decadente onde não há qualquer inicio delimitado ou fim para conhecer. Tantas linhas e nenhum conteúdo para absorver, tantas horas e nenhum minuto elucidativo. As percepções prováveis estão extintas, são nulas. O bicho que sobreviveu está cada dia mais débil, mais viscoso. E o que se conjecturaria se não uma morte certa? Depois de um esmagamento tão atroz não há como persistir, a saída é única, o destino singular.