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sâmbătă, 26 iulie 2014
Cinematograful viitorului - Alain de Botton
"Cinema is the most prestigious cultural activity in the modern world. It is for us what theatre was in the age of Shakespeare or painting was in the days of Leonardo da Vinci: the art form with the biggest impact, the largest budgets, the most widespread audiences. Cinema is deeply powerful. There’s still a way to go before society as a whole wakes up to what we should properly ask of it." - Alain de Botton
eseul complet aici (in limba engleza):
marți, 16 iulie 2013
Croaziera poloneză
Patru tovarăşi de călătorie stau la taclale pe un vas de croazieră. Înlocuiţi în monologul de mai jos "polonez" cu "românesc" şi veţi regăsi părerea multor compatrioţi despre filmul românesc:
"Mie nu îmi place să merg la cinema. În special, nu îmi place să merg la filme poloneze. Pur şi simplu mă plictisesc. Filme străine, da! Mă uit cu plăcere. Pentru că filmele străine sunt bune, ştiţi? Cumva, cînd te uiţi la ele, nu ştiu...poţi să le simţi. Pur şi simplu simţi. Dar filmul polonez, domnule, e plictisitor. Nu se întîmplă nimic, dom'le. Nimic. Îţi zic, dialoguri proaste...Foarte proaste dialogurile în filmele poloneze. Niciun pic de acţiune. Nu se întîmplă nimic. E surprinzător că nu urmează modelul străin. Ia de exemplu un actor străin. Faţa lui arată ceva. Nu ştiu cum să spun, dar...arată ceva. Actorul polonez e ceva vid. Nimic. Absolut nimic. Să spunem că actorul polonez joacă, da? Am văzut odată aşa o scenă. De exemplu, aprinde o ţigară. O aprinde şi, domnule, se uită aşa. Prima dată în dreapta. Apoi în stînga. În faţă şi...nimic. O ţine aşa una într-una. Pur şi simplu o tărăgănează la nesfîrşit. Eu stau în cinematograf şi mă uit. Stau şi mă uit, cum să zic...normal. Mă uit, mă uit şi, domnule, îmi vine să plec din sală. Şi plec! Domnule, cine plăteşte pentru asta? Tu, eu, dumneavoastră, doamnă. Noi plătim. Sunt banii noştri, domnule! Întreaga societate plăteşte."
duminică, 24 februarie 2013
Amour in 30 de cuvinte
Amour (2012), r. Michael Haneke
You know what real love is? It's wiping someone's arse or changing the sheets when they've wet themselves. And letting them keep their dignity so you can both go on.
(The Deep Blue Sea, 2011, r. Terence Davies)
marți, 19 februarie 2013
De ce e Dirty Harry atat de 'dirty'?
I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
Dirty Harry, 1971, r. Don Siegel
Dirty Harry, 1971, r. Don Siegel
"Dirty Harry presents a San Francisco overrun by crime and sexuality, as represented by the red-light district, a woman known as ‘‘Hot Mary,’’ a homosexual in the park, a sexual threesome involving two women and a man, a bank robbery which takes place as Harry eats his hotdog lunch, a frequently robbed liquor store, and of course Scorpio himself. Scorpio is a character without backstory, but his long hair and peace symbol belt buckle identify him with the hippies, the antiwar movement, and the social changes of the 1960s. In terms of local San Francisco history, he is also identified with the serial killer known as Zodiac, a notorious figure who wrote taunting letters to the newspapers and was never caught. Scorpio preys on the weak and kills for pleasure, which makes him unpredictable and hard to stop. Only Harry’s fanaticism, equal to or greater than Scorpio’s, is able to stop the killing.
Harry himself is out of control. He is called ‘‘Dirty Harry’’ because of his general misanthropy, because he takes all of the police department’s dirty jobs, and because he does not stay within the limits of law and custom. A relevant usage of ‘‘dirty’’ circa 1970 would be ‘‘illegal, unethical, and violent,’’ as in ‘‘dirty’’ espionage or a ‘‘dirty’’ war. Note that this is a quite different metaphoric use of ‘‘dirty’’ from the ‘‘dirty hippies’’ in Joe, or the ‘‘dirty foreigners’’ in Kristin Ross’s Fast Cars, Clean Bodies. ‘‘Dirty’’ is a rich, multivalent term in modern Western societies. In Dirty Harry, the argument for illegal and unethical operations would be that society is breaking down, conventional lines of authority are ineffectual (neither the mayor nor the district attorney has a clue about how to fight crime), and only heroic action which goes beyond arbitrary rules can stem the tide." (Peter Lev: American Films of the '70 - Conflicting Visions, p31)
sâmbătă, 29 decembrie 2012
'It's just a business'
"My friend, Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words 'All men are created equal', words he clearly didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He's a rich white snob who's sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fuckin' pay me." (Brad Pitt explicandu-si filozofia de ucigas cu simbrie in Killing Them Softly, r. Andrew Dominik)
vineri, 2 martie 2012
Earth 2
"Within our lifetimes, we've marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it's us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?"
(llihaC ekiM :.r, htraE rehtonA)
ps. sau vedeţi scena întreagă, frumoasă, inubliabila, mai jos:
sâmbătă, 25 februarie 2012
The Golden Lady
"People don't think anymore. They feel. Do you know? One of the great problem of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than that they do care about thoughts and ideas. Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become...habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become."
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