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Chega a passos largos a estreia de um dos inegáveis filmes do ano, e vai sendo altura de habituar os ouvidos... a Bane. Aqui vai uma ajudinha.

Depois de termos falado há dias no facebook sobre a questão, é hoje oficialíssimo:

The Hobbit vai ser mesmo dividido em três filmes. 

Peter Jackson escreveu na sua página de facebook:

"It is only at the end of a shoot that you finally get the chance to sit down and have a look at the film you have made. Recently Fran, Phil and I did just this when we watched for the first time an early cut of the first movie - and a large chunk of the second. We were really pleased with the way the story was coming together, in particular, the strength of the characters and the cast who have brought them to life.  All of which gave rise to a simple question: do we take this chance to tell more of the tale? And the answer from our perspective as the filmmakers, and as fans, was an unreserved ‘yes.'

We know how much of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance.  The richness of the story of The Hobbit, as well as some of the related material in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, allows us to tell the full story of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins and the part he played in the sometimes dangerous, but at all times exciting, history of Middle-earth.

So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of “The Hobbit” films, I’d like to announce that two films will become three." 

It has been an unexpected journey indeed, and in the words of Professor Tolkien himself, "a tale that grew in the telling."

O primeiro filme, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, tem estreia marcada para o final deste ano; o segundo capítulo, The Hobbit: There and Back Again chegará em Dezembro de 2013 e o novo terceiro filme tem estreia prevista para o verão de 2014, ainda que não haja ainda uma data definida para o título.

Muitos de nós já se questionaram sobre a verdadeira natureza dos acontecimentos sinistros que terão tido lugar antes da história invulgar de Jack Torrance no Overlook Hotel. E parece que a verdade está prestes a ser desvendada.

De acordo com o LA Times, parece que a Warner Bros. está a engendrar uma prequela do clássico de 1980 de Stanley Kubrick, focando-se na propriedade do Colorado, ainda que ninguém do estúdio tenha confirmado oficialmente.

Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island), Bradley Fischer e James Vanderbilt estariam, ao que foi apurado, envolvidos no projeto, que ainda estará numa fase muito primária de evolução.

Pode ser uma oportunidade para muitos pesadelos para os fãs mais hardcore do clássico de culto (ainda que este não tenha sido particularmente fiel à obra de Stephen King onde se baseia), mas também pode ser a chance de uma daquelas cada vez mais raras... boas prequelas. 

Impossível resistir...

Esta semana nos cinemas:

• The Dark Knight Rises              Nota IMDB8.9/10
• La Princesse de Montpensier              Nota IMDB 6.5/10
• Jin Líng Shí San Chai ("As Flores da Guerra")              Nota IMDB7.6/10 

O Festival de Cinema de Veneza é um dos mais importantes da temporada. Este ano, a 69ª edição decorre entre 29 de agosto e 8 de setembro, e foi revelada a fabulosa line-up que vos apresentaremos sem mais delongas. 

FILME DE ABERTURA (FORA DE COMPETIÇÃO)

• “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” Mira Nair (U.S.,Qatar)

EM COMPETIÇÃO

• “To The Wonder,” Terrence Malick (U.S.)
• “Something in the Air,” Olivier Assayas (France)
• “Outrage:Beyond,” Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
• “Fill The Void,” Rama Bursztyn and Yigal Bursztyn (Israel)
• “Pieta,” Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
• “Dormant Beauty,” Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
• “E’ stato il figlio,” Daniele Cipri (Italy)
• “At Any Price,” Ramin Bahrani (US, UK)
• “La Cinquieme Saison,” Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth (Belgium, Netherlands, France)
• “Un Giorno Speciale, ” Francesca Comencini (Italy)
• “Passion,” Brian De Palma (France, Germany)
• “Superstar, ” Xavier Giannoli (France, Belgium)
• “Spring Breakers,” Harmony Korine (US)
• “Thy Womb,” Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
• “Linhas de Wellington,” Valeria Sarmiento (Portugal, France)
• “Paradise: Faith,” Ulrich Seidl (Austria, France, Germany)
• “Betrayal,” Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)

FORA DE COMPETIÇÃO

• “L’homme qui rit,” Jean-Pierre Ameris (France)
• “Love Is All You Need,” Susanne Bier (Denmark/Sweden)
• “Cherchez Hortense,” Pascal Bonitzer (France)
• “Sur un fil,” Simon Brook (France/Italy)
• “Enzo Avitabile Music Life,” Jonathan Demme (doc) (Italy/U.S.)
• “Tai Chi 0,” Stephen Fung (China)
• “Lullaby to My Father,” Amos Gitai (Israel/France)
• “Shokuzai” (Penance), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
• “Bad 25,” Spike Lee (doc) (U.S.)
• “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” Mira Nair (India/Pakistan/U.S.)
• “O Gebo e a Sombra,” Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)
• “The Company You Keep,” Robert Redford (U.S.)
• “Shark (Bait 3D),” Kimble Rendall (China)
• “Disconnect,” Henry-Alex Rubin (U.S.)
• “The Iceman,” Ariel Vromen (U.S.)

FORA DE COMPETIÇÃO – Eventos Especiais

• “Anton tut ryadom” (Anton’s Right Here), Lyubov Arkus (documentary) (Russia)
• “Ya Man Aach” (It Was Better Tomorrow), Hinde Boujemaa (documentary) (Italy)
• “Sfiorando il muro,” Silvia Giralucci & Luca Ricciardi (documentary) (Italy)
• “Carmel,” Amos Gitai (Israel/France/Italy)
• “El impenetrable,” Daniele Incalcaterra & Fausta Quattrini (documentary) (Argentina/France)
• “Witness: Libya,” Michael Mann (documentary) (U.S.)
• “Medici con l’Africa,” Carlo Mazzacurati (documentary) (Italy)
• “La nave dolce,” Daniele Vicari (documentary) (Italy/Albania)

FILME DE FECHO

• “L’homme qui rit,” Jean-Pierre Ameris (France)

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Também o TIFF divulgou a sua lista de filmes em mostra na sua 37ª Edição, entre 6 e 16 de Setembro de 2012.

ESTREIAS MUNDIAIS

• Looper – Rian Johnson (Filme de Abertura)
• Cloud Atlas – Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
• Argo – Ben Affleck
• Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
• Love, Marilyn – Liz Garbus
• The Place Beyond The Pines – Derek Cianfrance
• Midnight’s Children – Deepa Mehta
• Hyde Park On Hudson – Roger Michell
• Great Expectations – Mike Newell

• Inescapable – Rubba Nadda
• Twice Born – Sergio Castellitto
• English Vinglish – Gauri Shinde
• The Perks Of Being A Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
• Thanks For Sharing – Stuart Blumberg
• End Of Watch– David Ayer
• Imogene – Robert Puccini and Shari Springer Berman
• A Late Quartet – Yaron Zilberman
• Much Ado About Nothing – Joss Whedon
• Frances Ha – Noah Baumbach
• The Time Being – Nenad Cicin-Sain
• Writers – Josh Boone
• At Any Price – Ramin Bahrani
• Venus And Serena – Maiken Baird
• Byzantium – Neil Jordan
• Quartet – Dustin Hoffman
• Ginger And Rosa – Sally Potter
• A Liar’s Autobiography – Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, and Jeff Simpson
• Foxfire – Laurnet Cantet
• In The House – Francois Ozon
• The Impossible – J.A. Bayona
• Hannah Arendt – Margarethe Von Trotta
• Mr. Pip – Andrew Adamson
• Capital – Costa-Gavras
• The Attack – Ziad Doueriri
• Zaytoun – Eran Riklis
• The Deep – Baltasar Kormakur
• Dreams For Sale – Nishikawa Miwa
• The Last Supper – Lu Chuan

ESTREIA INTERNACIONAL/NORTE-AMERICANA

• To The Wonder – Terrence Malick
• Anna Karenina – Joe Wright
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mira Nair
• The Company You Keep – Robert Redford
• Jayne Mansfield’s Car – Billy Bob Thornton
• A Royal Affair – Nikolai Arcel
• Dangerous Liasons – Hur Ji-Ho
• Thermae Romae – Hideki Takeuchi
• Caught In The Web – Chen Kaige
• Dormant Beauty – Marco Belloccchio
• Everybody Has A Plan – Ana Piterbarg w/Viggo Mortensen
• Kon-Tiki – Espen Sandberg
• Reality – Matteo Garrone
• A Few Hours Of Spring – Stephan Brize
• The Hunt – Thomas Vintenberg
• The Iceman – Ariel Vromen
• Lore – Cate Shortland
• No – Pablo Larrain
• Outrage Beyond – Takeshi Kitano
• Rust And Bone – Jacques Audiard
• The Sapphires – Wayne Blair
• Tai Chi O – Stephen Fung

ESTREIA CANADIANA

• The Sessions – Ben Lewis

"The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed."

O Homem que procurava incessantemente a cena perfeita.
O Homem que não tinha medo de arriscar.
O Homem que estava à frente do seu tempo.
O Homem que nunca ganhou um Óscar (vamos ignorar o de efeitos especiais), mas nunca precisou de um.
O Homem que além de fazer Cinema, foi Cinema.

Stanley Kubrick faria hoje 84 anos.

Infelizmente, o Homem não é para sempre. Felizmente, a sua obra é.

É isso mesmo. Criado por Milo Candice e Cindy Sanchez.

(Back to the Future)

(The Blues Brothers)

(Casablanca)

(A Clockwork Orange)

(Forrest Gump)

(Rebel Without a Cause)

(Wall Street)

Para mais informação (incluíndo a marca e preço de cada peça) podem mergulhar de cabeça aqui.

É isso mas não é para ler aqui.

Façam o favor de se dirigir à Vogue.pt, que é lá que o meu artigo está publicado, em primeiríssima mão.

(é só clicar na imagem para irem lá ter) 

Apesar de ser um realizador recluso, e algo ausente nos meios de comunicação - sempre quis deixar que os seus filmes falassem por si - Christopher Nolan nunca deixou de sublinhar que não haveria mais Batman no seu futuro depois de The Dark Knight Rises, o que não quer obviamente dizer que a saga de Bruce Wayne não tenha tido um efeito muito especial na sua vida pessoal e profissional.

Numa carta gentilmente transcrita por um fã, Nolan fala sobre a viagem que mudou os "filmes de suoer-heróis" para sempre, e como já era de se esperar, fá-lo de uma forma tão tocante, eloquente e reveladora que mais não se pode fazer que não lê-la.

"Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental."

Christopher Nolan (in  "The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy")

 

Renovando as palavras de outro meio, resta pouco mais a dizer que não seja: Nicely done, Mr. Nolan - as usual.