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Descobrir: Os Criadores de Saci (2014)
The thin line between real and extraordinary
There is no script in the making of documentaries, once said the Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho. He is right. When the director start the adventure of investigate the real world the documentary leads him out. The path of the characters, of the story, everything turns the idea into sounds and images. But in this particularly case, "Descobrir" is about a fantastic world. The world of the breeders of Saci, a kind of leprechaun of Brazil. If Saci really exists? If the breeders are lunatics? The answer you will find in the movie. "Descobrir" navigates the thin line between real and extraordinary. The movie try to discover new ways of telling a good story. Lie? True? Come find and discover your own Saci.
Não faz tanto tempo assim (2014)
Once upon a time the innocence of play without electronic devices
The interest thing is this video is the fact of the main character, the singer Mano Heitor, invites the young guy (Breno Pfister) to discover a world of opportunities outside the screen of a cell phone or even the video games. The message is sutil but important: teach our children to play in their own way, not in the way the electronic games wanted. Be free to find the adventures of life! And not only see in a big screen...
There are four "old" games show in the video. All of them are still common in the streets of Brazil. The first one is the kite. The second one is the little marbles. Then we saw the whipping-top and the soccer played with a ball made of socks.
Um Dia na Vida (2010)
A Day in the Life of Brazilian TV
The master of Brazilian documentary, Eduardo Coutinho, try to explore some different venues in probably his most controversy documentary. "Um dia na Vida" is a 90 minutes clip of almost 24 hours of recorded television broadcast. The images were collected during only one day in several TV channels of Brazil. Coutinho used to explore interviews in his work. Here it's different. Coutinho is just a watcher, as us. He watched all the TV programs and try to deconstructing them, mostly, Broadcast and News programs. The idea of recordings during only a day is similar to Ridley Scott's "Life in a Day", made a year later. Because of legal problems and copyrights, the movie is not released yet. There were selected sessions only in festivals, without selling of tickets. We watch the movie for free. By the end of the 90 minutes compilation of the best (or is it worst) of the Brazilian television, the feeling is unique: how poor is our popular culture today, addict to gossips and griped in a sort way of misery. Hail to the king! Hail to Coutinho!
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Sugesting love
Besides most of the non-christian people criticise the movie, Mel Gibson show to us not only the brutal " via crucis" of Christ, Gibson turns all the pain and hate that we feel about seeing the movie in true love.
The message that I take from this brilliant masterpiece is the same that Jesus show to us. Love the other just like ourselves. After the almost killing process of torture, Christ just ask to God forgive the sinners. This teach us a little of compassion in this world so full of hate and social diseases.
The total critics of the jewish people are infounding of data. I do not understand why they are too angry with the movie. Nothing that doesn´t be in the Bible is in the movie. Only the violence. That in my opinion is the freedom of an artist.
O Torturador (1981)
The brazilian Charles Bronson
The actor Jece Valadão, also know by his adventures with dirty women and drugs outside the screen, shows in this movie that your name is more strong that your performance. The movie is not so bad, but Valadão insist in the "Charles Bronson image". He uses a machine gun during all the movie, face the bad guys, sleep with all women he can, use a little mustache like Bronson's and kill everybody that stayed in your front.
Road to Perdition (2002)
THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The magnificent photograph brings to the film the most realistic
impression of the Depression Era. The movie in opposite of the
others Hollywood productions suggest the violence, as the same
way that the "noir" movies of the 40's do. Paul Newman's return is
perfect as John Rooney. The character in my opinion must give to
Newman his second Oscar. He is perfect. The music and the
movie walk together. They spoken the same language. You must
see this movie. Who is fan of the "film noir" and gangsters movies
will love this one as same as I.
Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
ONLY FOR LANCASTER'S FANS
I've seen this movie just because of Burt Lancaster. The whole picture is bad. The direction, the cinematographer, the actors. The only exception besides Lancaster is the score by Ennio Morriconne.
A Town Torn Apart (1992)
A Good School Movie
It's a good movie, with a good direction, and also good actors. The major character is an idealistic teacher who becomes the principal of a problematic school. His ideas "torn the town apart". He brings some revolutionary changes in the teaching methods that searching for the intellectual side of the stundents. In the line of Dead Poets Society.
C'era una volta il West (1968)
The Maestro
Sergio Leone is definitly the maestro of direction. The scene before the opening credits (when Charles Bronson kill three bad guys) show us the care with little details that Leone had. The fly in the face of the bandit and the way that it killed are hilarious and strong at the same time. Harmonica (character of Bronson) reveal the duality of personality, usual in Leone's films. The music of Ennio Morricone is classical. However, every western fan have to see this movie.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
Great Music, great performances
This motion picture is one of the most (or the best) western of all times. The music of Ennio Morriconne, the performances of the three major actors give to the film an extreme realistic atmosphere.
Wo hu cang long (2000)
The mistake of the academy
Honestly, I don't know what the members of the academy saw in this movie. Comparing this movie with Gladiator is hilarious. The only thing that is memorable and amazing in this picture is the beautiful photograph, the perfect direction and the excellent music BUT in the rest, the movie slips. People flying, walking and fighting in a branch of a tree, climbing walls,... If Wo hu zang long was nominated for ten categories, why Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were never nominated for an Oscar ?!?!