Billy Wilder
“He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age”.

Tim Burton
“He is famed for his dark and quirky films, such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he co-wrote and produced. He is also famous for being the director of several blockbusters including Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Brasileiro
“Ciclo dedicado a explorar o cinema Brasileiro. Fernando Meireles e Walter Salles (entre outros) serão realizadores a conhecer”

“Os Piores Filmes de Sempre”
Uma fina selecção daqueles filmes que pertencem à distinta categorias de “tão maus que se tornam bons”.

“Mulher”
“Ciclo dedicado à mulher e à adoração do universo feminino (Almodovar,…)”

E agora algumas dicas sobre os ciclos a concurso:

Billy Wilder
“He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood’s golden age”.

Ron Jeremy
Um nome, um estilo, um marco

David Cronemberg
“He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people’s fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres.”.

“Os Piores Filmes de Sempre”
Uma fina selecção daqueles filmes que pertencem à distinta categorias de “tão maus que se tornam bons”.

Jean Luc Godard
“Many of Godard’s films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history. In addition, Godard’s films often citedexistential and Marxist philosophy”.

Sociedades Distópicas
Ciclo dedicado a filmes cujo tema são sociedades distópicas e governos totalitários, e nas lutas de alguns cidadãos pela libertação e a procura da verdade. Pensem em Clockwork Orange e Matrix… (nota: estes não farão parte do ciclo; surprise surprise…).

Sobre os ciclos em escolha:

Drogas
Filmes que retratam o uso de drogas, sendo este o motor do filme. As escolhas variam entre filmes ultra-realistas e filmes com uma boa dose de surrealismo…

Vampiros
Alguns dentes afiados e um bocadito de SANGUE!!

Jean Luc Godard
“Many of Godard’s films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history. In addition, Godard’s films often citedexistential and Marxist philosophy”

Ron Jeremy
Um nome, um estilo, um marco

Kim Ki-Duk
“Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic ”art-house” cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit”

David Cronemberg
“He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people’s fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres.”

O vosso guia espiritual,
Nuno Ferreira

Sobre os filmes que compões o ciclo:

1) Me and You and Everyone We Know
“One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2005, Me and You and Everyone We Know is also one of the most original feature debuts you’re ever likely to see. Winner of the Camera d’or Award for best first film at the Cannes Film Festival, it’s an altogether charming display of talent for writer, director, and costar Miranda July, a performance artist making a promising transition to film. Her loose-knit tale of love and longing encompasses a large cast of quirky and memorable characters, foremost among them being Christine (July), a forlorn dreamer who falls in love with Richard (John Hawkes, from HBO’s Deadwood), who’s going through a traumatic divorce. Richard is desperate to be a good father to his seven- and 14-year-old sons, both of whom have experiences that push Me and You to an almost perverse level of audacity, but July handles their potentially troubling scenes with such delicacy and tact that they seem almost miraculously innocent. The whole film is like that: It never,ever goes where you think it’s going to go, and every scene tingles with humor, affection and curiosity for its characters. As it turns routine days into joyous opportunities for discovery, July’s remarkable film is not for all tastes, but if you’re looking for something new, different, and defiantly out of the mainstream, this gentle comedy’s for you.”

2) Half Nelson
“Sometimes people are attracted to each other because of their differences. When there’s a nebulous attraction between a teacher and a young teenage child–as in the superb Half Nelson–the relationship has all the makings of confused disaster. Though there are a few uncomfortable moments when it’s not obvious whether Dan (Ryan Gosling) and Drey (Shareeka Epps) might cross the line, the attraction between the pair is culled less from sexual tension than desperation. Dan is an idealistic history teacher in an inner-city school. Drey is one of his brightest students. For both, drugs represent something that may help them escape their worlds. He takes drugs to dull his dissatisfaction with himself. She views drugs as a possible way to better her life, even though she knows her brother’s foray into that trade landed him in jail. Bleakly filmed and well told, Half Nelson soars because of the immaculate acting by Gosling and Epps. With his impish smile, Gosling provides a character that is at once disarming, alluring, and pitiful. As the young girl who’s already seen too much hardship in her life, Epps plays her part with just the right amount of hardened raw emotion. While the ambiguous ending may not please fans weaned on happy Hollywood finales, it’s a fitting and believable close to a thought-provoking film”

3) Los amantes del Círculo Polar
Watching the Spanish film Lovers of the Arctic Circle is like slowly falling into a yearning and melancholy dream. Two children–Ana and Otto–meet and instantly know that they’re soul mates. Their parents–one of whom is divorced, the other a widow–also meet and fall in love. Now that they share the same house, Ana and Otto (by now teenagers) become secret lovers. But troubles intervene: Otto’s mother dies, for which Otto blames himself and his father, and he leaves Ana and becomes a airplane pilot. Though their paths cross again and again throughout their lives, they keep missing each other until the power of their love finally draws them together. But the hypnotic power of Lovers of the Arctic Circle lies in how the movie unfolds, deftly shifting back and forth between the different perspectives of Ana and Otto. The gradual interweaving of their lives accumulates into a metaphysical swoon; rarely is the notion of romantic destiny made so heartfelt and so mysterious at the same time.

4) Garden State
Zach Braff (from the TV show Scrubs) stars in his writing/directing debut, Garden State–normally a doomed act of hubris, but Braff pulls it off with unassuming charm. An emotionally numb actor in L.A., Andrew (Braff) comes back to New Jersey after nine years away for his mother’s funeral. Andrew avoids his bitter father (Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter) and joins old friends (including the superb Peter Sarsgaard, Boys Don’t Cry) in a round of parties. Along the way he meets a girl (Natalie Portman, Beautiful Girls) with demons of her own; bit by bit the two offer each other a little healing. Plotwise, Garden State is familiar stuff, a cross between The Graduate and a Meg Ryan movie, but Braff has an eye for goofy but resonant visual images, an ear for lively dialogue, and a great cast. The result is surprisingly fresh and funny.

Sobre os filmes que compõe o ciclo:
1)Paris Je T’Aime
“In PARIS, JE T’AIME, celebrated directors from around the world, including the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, Wes Craven, Walter Salles, Alexander Payne and Olivier Assayas, have come together to portray Paris in a way never before imagined. Made by a team of contributors as cosmopolitan as the city itself, this portrait of the city is as diverse as its creators’ backgrounds and nationalities. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in oe of the city’s neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyond the ‘postcard’ view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen. Racial tensions stand next to paranoid visions of the city seen from the perspective of an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer’s bourgeois environs. An American starlet finds escape as she is shooting a movie. A man is torn between his wife and his lover. A young man working in a print shop sees and desires another young man. A father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. A couple tries to add spice to their sex life. These are but a few of the witty and serendipitous narratives that make up PARIS, JE T’AIME.”

2)In Bruges
“Colin Farrell and Academy Award-nominee Ralph Fiennes star in this edgy, action-packed comedy, filled with thrilling chases, spectacular shoot-outs and an explosive ending you won’t want to miss!
Hit men Ray (Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson, Harry Potter) have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it’s in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life & death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss (Fiennes)!
Get ready for the outrageous and unpredictable fun you will have In Bruges, the movie critics are calling, “wildly entertaining” “

3)Manhattan
Nominated for two Academy AwardsÂ(r)* in 1979 and considered “one of Allen’s most enduring accomplishments” (Boxoffice), Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen’s first film in that format) and accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score, Woody Allen’s aesthetic triumph is a “prismatic portrait of a time and a place that may be studied decades hence” (Time). 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), he doesn’t love and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), who’s writing a tell-all book about their marriage and whom he’d like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend’s sexy intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac’s quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshakeandthe gateway to true love is a revolving door”

4)Crossing The Bridge – The Sound of Istambul
“Fatih akin introduces an international audience to the diversity and uniqueness of musical creativity in the heart of istanbul ranging from modern electronic rock and hip-hop to classical arabesque. German-born Turkish director Faith Akin captures in his film the endless variety of the different styles in music and songs in Istanbul, a city that is a bridge between East and West, a city that is uniquely located on both sides of the Bosporus, in Europe and in Asia. Kurdish dirges represented by Aynur, who performs her own brand of Kurdish gospel music, passionate and melodic. We are introduced to Romany instrumentals, to Orhan Gencebay, who has been called the Elvis of Arabesque music – sounds of music are heard everywhere in the city as Faith Akin takes us into underground clubs, to the street performers, and to recording sessions. German bassist Alexander Hacke who comes to Istanbul to play and to learn about Turkish music quotes Confucius, “To understand the place, you have to listen to the music it plays”"

Cohen
“For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films(…) They are known in the film business as “the two-headed director”, as they share a similar vision of their films.”

Tim Burton
“He is famed for his dark and quirky films, such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he co-wrote and produced. He is also famous for being the director of several blockbusters including Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Ron Jeremy
Um nome, um estilo, um marco

Cidades
Aqui visitaremos algumas cidades por intermédio de grandes filmes

Sociedades Distópicas
Ciclo dedicado a filmes cujo tema são sociedades distópicas e
governos totalitários, e nas lutas de alguns cidadãos pela libertação
e a procura da verdade. Pensem em Clockwork Orange e Matrix… (nota:
estes não farão parte do ciclo; surprise surprise…)

Vampiros
Ciclo dedicado à temática do vampiro

Sobre Kar Wai Wong:
“award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films. Wong was listed at number three on the respected Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times”

Sobre os filmes que compõe o ciclo:
1) In the Mood For Love – Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
“Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are polite and formal-until a discovery about their respective spouses sparks an intimate bond. At once delicately mannered and visually stunning, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments in time. “

2) 2046 (2004)
“Hong Kong filmmaker Wai is such a visualist (Time magazine tabbed him as the “world’s most romantic filmmaker”), the images wash over with swirling smoke, neon lights, and the faces of his outstanding cast, all lovingly photographed and smoothly scored. There’s a lot more going on than the visuals, and Wai’s fans will certainly find more and more details on repeated viewings.”

3) Chungking Express – Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
“What Chungking Express does have is loads of energy and a gorgeous visual style that never gets in the way of engaging with the charming characters. The movie was shot on the fly by hip director Wong Kar-Wai (Happy Together, Ashes of Time), using only available lighting and found locations. The movie’s loose, improvisational feel is closer to Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless than any recent film–and that’s high praise. Quirky, funny, and extremely engaging, Chungking Express manages to be experimental and completely accessible at the same time.”

4) Fallen Angels – Duo luo tian shi (1995)
“this is antic, stylish, and oddly touching, all at the same time (…) is fragmented and oblique to the point of occasional incomprehensibility…but then suddenly something wild or wonderful happens, such as the moment when the killer leaves the scene of a spectacular shooting and is promptly waylaid by a cheerful old school chum on a public bus. These coups–whether lyrical, violent, or simply “how on earth did they get that shot?”–are tossed off by Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle with all the cool of the hired killer, as though the movie were a cigarette dangling from a pair of oh-so-casual lips. This is exactly why so many otherwise calm critics fell all over themselves in hailing Wong Kar-Wai as one of the most exciting filmmakers of his generation.”

Sobre os ciclos em escolha:

Brasileiro
“Ciclo dedicado a explorar o cinema Brasileiro. Fernando Meireles e Walter Salles (entre outros) serão realizadores a conhecer”

Jean Luc Godard
“Many of Godard’s films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history. In addition, Godard’s films often citedexistential and Marxist philosophy”

Tim Burton
“He is famed for his dark and quirky films, such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he co-wrote and produced. He is also famous for being the director of several blockbusters including Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Sociedades Distópicas
“Ciclo dedicado a filmes cujo tema são sociedades distópicas e governos totalitários, e nas lutas de alguns cidadãos pela libertação e a procura da verdade. Pensem em Clockwork Orange e Matrix… (nota: estes não farão parte do ciclo; surprise surprise…)“

Mulher
“Ciclo dedicado à mulher e à adoração do universo feminino (Almodovar,…)”

Kar Wai Wong
“award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films. Wong was listed at number three on the respected Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.”

Sobre os filmes que compõe o ciclo:
1) Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
“Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick’s cold-war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr. Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity(…) With dialogue (“You can’t fight here! This is the war room!”) and images (Slim Pickens’s character riding the bomb to oblivion) that have become a part of our cultural vocabulary, Kubrick’s film regularly appears on critics’ lists of the all-time best”

2) Lolita (1962)
“When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor’s sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, “How did they ever make a film of Lolita?” The answer is “they” didn’t. As he did with his “adaptations” of Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, and, especially, The Shining, Kubrick used the source material and, simply put, made another Stanley Kubrick movie–even though Nabokov himself wrote the screenplay(…) Perhaps not a Kubrick masterpiece, or the provocative film many wanted, Lolita still remains playfully fascinating and one of Kubrick’s strongest, funniest character studies”

3) The Party (1968)
“Though this film is a relatively minor one in the massive canon of Peter Sellers, it has moments of absolute hilarity. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers’s most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from India (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day’s shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party. That’s pretty much it as far as plot goes, but Edwards and Sellers know how to milk a simple idea for an unending string of slapstick gags. The result is a film that is episodic and sketchy, but also frequently loony in an inspired way”

4) Being There (1979)
“Thanks to an extraordinary, delicately balanced performance by Peter Sellers, Being There received mixed reviews during its theatrical release in 1979, but has since become a celebrated comedy with a loyal following. It’s one of the most unusual black comedies ever made, simply because it stretches a simple premise over 130 minutes of straight-faced, strangely compelling commentary on politics, media, and celebrity in media-savvy America(…) His simple phrases about gardening are misinterpreted as anything from economic predictions to sage political advice, and under the sharp direction of Hal Ashby, Sellers has the audacity to take this comedic conceit to its logical extreme. Being There is not for all tastes–especially not for those who don’t appreciate comedic subtlety. But as a showcase for the daring genius of Peter Sellers, this is a classic movie in a category all its own”