tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38199848744974300692024-03-05T02:43:01.331-08:00Rachelle and CinemaAn European Girl trapped in Hollywood tries to deal with the bridge between cinema and life.Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-37074074748733916192015-01-07T04:47:00.000-08:002015-01-07T04:47:50.699-08:00The Documentary Roundtable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've only seen <i>The Case Against 8 </i>and <i>Life Itself. </i>I am dying to see the others, </div>
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which are <i>Virunga, Citizenfour, Last Days in Vietnam, Keep on Keepin' On </i>and <i>Tales of the Grim Sleep.</i></div>
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There's maybe a different atmosphere than say, the Directors, there's definitely a greater sense of togetherness. There are a lot of experienced working men in here, like steve James and Nick Broomfield or women like Laura Poitras and Rory Kennedy, but there's also this Australian drummer called Alan Hicks, who directed his first documentary and end up being grabbed by Havery Weinstein. </div>
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This is always a must, for me.</div>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-8299082599153526232015-01-02T17:14:00.002-08:002015-01-02T17:14:32.799-08:00The Year of 2014, Part II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Was that my Top Ten
of the Year? Oh wow, what an underwhelming year, for me at least. It seems that
over the years I feel this lack of films in my life (every year I seem to
complain about the lack of films I watch, always wanting to see more)! Let me
tell you, it comes this time of the year and all I want to do is watch films. I
feel underwhelmed anyway. I wanted more Mommy’s. I wanted Searching for Sugar
Mans and Pride and Prejudices and Brokeback Mountains and Sennas!</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Tom à la Ferme</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – If it isn’t Xavier Dolan filling my
cinematographic year! I adore Tom à la Ferme. There’s this moment in the film,
with the introduction of a new character that feels like a punch or a slap in
the face. I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Locke</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – What a competent and solid and well made
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Belle</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – You should know by now I’m a great sucker
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Starred Up</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – Another solid British drama. I admire the
storytelling a great deal. I enjoy these voices coming from a personal journey
and then writing these specific stories you see it reflected on this original film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Frank</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – This is a really good film. A film I should
write about. It is actually really good. It is a great portrait of modern
times, of being an artist and being an artist in recent times, it is about
mental health and it is not lightly handled, it is so sober and poignant, there
are a lot of good points throughout the film and then you have these great
comic timings, some describe it as dark comedy. Great performances too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Calvary</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – First of all, Calvary is about a place and
its community. It’s fun, also so dark and quite reflective. This film is so good. This one is also a huge punch in the stomach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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otherwise always worth being remembered for, <a href="http://rachelleandcinema.blogspot.pt/2014/02/other-films-seen-in-january-part-i-docs.html">here’s</a> the link to what I wrote at
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present – </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Such an interesting and worthy
documentary about Abramovic. This was necessary and she deserves it. Also, I
found it a treat to see how much of a human being she can be (I just sounded
stupid), in the way she cares for attention, in the way she wants to have a
companion that loves her and then the ability to stare at other people’s eyes
all day and many other “endeavors”!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">20 Feet From Stardom – </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Perfectly composed film. It’s well
made, in the sense that has everything on its place, the story growth, the
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Still Alice</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> – Those pleasant surprises I
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Favorite Gay Film – </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Between <b>Pride </b>and <b>Tom à la Ferme. </b>And
<b>We Are the Best - </b>It isn’t
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<b><span lang="EN-US">A.C.O.D. Touchy Feely.
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of her four films this year, I have to mention <i>The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby</i> - <i>Them</i> because she’s so so so good, along with James McAvoy. I also have to mention <i>Interstellar</i>,
as I loved her presence from the moment we are hit by her appearance on that
tiny TV Screen. I can’t wait to see her in <i>A
Most Violent Year</i>. Jessica Chastain deserves all the accolades and
everything and every great role because Jessica Chastain is this special human being in a place called Hollywood, where she has this ability to
be an upfront person, someone who expresses her thoughts and they’re often so
poignantly in accordance with today’s society and culture. Just by reading any
of her interviews, at the end, I just think, wow. Is she even real?</span></div>
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she has the ability of culminating or really representing her career with these
two very distinct films. Probably one of the most thrilling events of the
season is to watch Julianne Moore in Still Alice and Julianne Moore in Maps to
the Stars. This juxtaposition is what us actressexuals live for! She also had <i>Non-Stop,</i> <i>The Hunger Games </i>and <i>Seventh Son</i>!This year she will win her Oscar, it's her time and it's about recognition.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Marion Cotillard </span></b><span lang="EN-US">in <b>The
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- This woman is first class.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sentence, a look, a moment, a mannerism. In Boyhood, the second part of the
film, when the kids are teenagers, it’s in fact Mason’s Birthday and he and his
sister are taking a trip with his family’s father to where he lives now, and so
Patricia is saying goodbye, just looking at them go. To me, this look is
everything, it comes down to this moment, she can’t stand to see them going
away and it’s all in her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maria - They’re all so good! She prints these characters with such a strong
will and presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Knightley and like Alicia Vikander, a star is born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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significant turns I’ve seen. It is so marked. It is so strong. Bill Hader
becomes this broken man. It is one of those cases where the devotion is so
marked you’re astonished. There’s no Bill Hader, he disappeared completely. He
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<b><span lang="FR">The Immigrant. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">Under the Skin. Tom a la ferme. Nebraska.
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<span lang="EN-US">It all started a year ago, for me at least, as the series' Pilot premiered in January. <i>Les Spread the Word</i> has been developing this project for over two years. What a rewarding experince. So much talent!</span></div>
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they are my favorite films of the year. I saw Suzanne in May, while Xavier was
premiering his soon to be Cannes’ darling and I guess other than that, the only
things they have in common is that they’re Francophone and they made me cry
like hell, big ugly crying and sobbing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They’re clearly hotter than 12 Years a Slave
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Mommy </span></i><span lang="EN-US">is inventive and loud and grand and stylish and
beautiful and musical. It focuses on the great intense love between mother and
son, that it is also problematic because of the son’s mental health. For a
while, the entrance of Kyla in their life, their shy neighbor, infuses and
maybe even strengths their relationship, it becomes this trio of broken hope.
The performances are high and breathless and full of life, they are as touching
as they are real. And then the songs, which I pretty much based my review on,
they’re such a big mark. It is only natural that he started working on this
film after working on this video clip starring his soon to be actor, Antoine-Olivier
Pinot, and the way he pictured the song and the sequence of this boy getting
married and such, basically Diane’s dream sequence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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driven by these touching performances of this great cast. The story revolves
through the years, where we see these young sisters growing up, having a single
father with very little means and often absent because of his work. Suzanne and
Maria are actually very decent young women, but Suzanne gets pregnant at a very
young age by a young man that isn’t quite straight in life and that will
eventually be <i>the end</i> for Suzanne, as
she is completely head over hills with him and will never be able to overcome
that. There’s a lot of suffering in the story, for sure, but it is also about the
human being’s resilience, about the way we keep fighting and moving forward.
Katell shows us the way we deal with love, unconventional mother and son
relations, about the love of a father, the love of a sister and finally, it is
utterly earth shattering the way she reflects our flaws. Like I said, the
performances are a huge part of this film, obviously driven by a compelling and
competent screenplay. Adèle Haenel conveys a freer woman, and the way we see
her suffering because of her sister, the way it affects her, this is probably
why she got that glorious César Award. But to me, it comes down to Sara
Forestier. The way she conveys emotion, the way she is so attached to this
character that you can’t really see anyone else. It is one of the most touching
performances I’ve seen recently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sara Forestier that I cried and cried and cried for half an hour, like I
couldn’t stop. The last shot is her face, she gives this gentle, almost shy and
a bit hopeful smile…just remembering Sara Forestier, her face, is making me
cry! Also, I think of these three Dolan’s darlings, Suzanne (Clément), Anne
Dorval and Antoine and the last scene between the two women – we feel so much
of the strong and meaningful connection between the two, the pain they feel for
the position they are now, it is like their emotions in this scene not only
resume Mommy and its message, but it expresses what they’ve been through over
the past few months and how this will leave a mark on them for the rest of
their lives. We are so incredibly connected to them, it is like we are there or
we want to be there, we want to shout at them we want to hug them and tell them
it will be alright, even though it might not be, and you want them to hug each
other and feel each others’ love and acceptance and care. But that doesn’t
happen. Sometimes it is a dialogue, sometimes there’s no dialogue, just a look,
just a sentence to break me down completely. Anyway, this is what I live for,
when I see a film and how wonderful can it be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I love Xavier Dolan, I’m a huge fan of his work
all around, it is my type of cinema and it is the cinema I aspire one day to
maybe create. Xavier Dolan also has a special place in my heart because
basically I see him grow as I grow along with him. It is funny how Xavier Dolan
mentions <i>Titanic</i> so often. He is so
my generation. Even in the way he references Home Alone in Mommy - when Steve
puts some aftershave, probably from his fathers, in his face and shouts or when
Diane is coming from the groceries and the bag cracks open. We both grow up
watching these films each Christmas. Obviously, everyone watched Home Alone,
but it is part of our growing up. And then the songs. We’ve both the same age,
we’ve been seeing the same films on TV…kind of, so it is a really special time
to follow this now new world’s cinema It Boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the top. You’re in the theater, witnessing this raw film, you feel it in your
skin and as the film ends, you leave the theater sore, the story and those
characters, this man’s life follows you back home. What a great film. Steve
McQueen is so intelligent and it is a pretty unique thing to watch a film as
raw as this one. The dialogue is just brilliant, the performances and the
staggeringly beautiful scenery is all part of a film to remember. Oscar Winner
of the Best Picture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interesting dialogues and ideas to get your mind satiable and fervent, besides
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required story to be told…not that required, but it is lovely when it happens,
because a story like this doesn’t come often, trust me. Not so often we come
across with this unique and witty voice, in the writer of We Are the Best. This
is the film where we can feel the good intentions and care and maturity to the
bone. It is like the I Am Not a Hipster, in terms of truthful honesty. And it
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because of Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche’s act. It is one of this year’s
treat! It’s so great, it’s so yummy, it’s first class act. It is also a good
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get to fight and live their romantic ideas. I think Mike Cahill is one of those
hopeful dreamers and his follow up to the accomplishing and unique <i>Another Earth</i> is great. He elevates
himself and I Origins is where he dreams a little bit bigger, where he takes a
step forward, he keeps being himself, following his ideas and being a dreamer,
basically. Good God, this film is so romantic. I’m a sucker for romance,
Cahill. Anyway, I found this film interesting from the very beginning. I wanted
to know and wondered what this film would be, what he would be showing us. And
that is cool. He proves us his meaningful presence in the new wave of American
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Sorry I'm late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY Adèle Haenel.</div>
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I haven't seen <i>Fighters</i> or <i>Love At First Sight </i>or the original titled <i>Les Combattants.</i> This is the one I'm dying to see. I've seen <i>Suzanne</i>, which I will talk about it next, and I've seen <i>L'Homme Qu'on Aimait Trop, </i>which I haven't mentioned yet.</div>
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The now called <i>Seances</i>, the project by Guy Maddin will be premiering this January on the Sundance Film Festival. Or is it <i>The Forbidden Room</i>? Well, I'm not sure what's the title but I know Guy Maddin will be showing his work there. Adèle also signed for a new project, directed by the female french filmmaker Anne Fontaine, called <i>Les Innocents</i>, based on a true story about the Second World War (I'm in heaven). She's also attached to another project called <i>Les Ogres, </i>directed by a young female filmmaker called Léa Fehner. The story is about the theater world. As I mentioned sometime this year, I think, she will no longer work with Cécile De France (heart wrecking).</div>
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Rachelle.</div>
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breathless sobs invade your heart as you’re going through some sort of heavily
required catharsis for the human beings you are experiencing the lives of? I
guess this is what cinema is all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Being a film person, I certainly
suffer from the knowledge of the films I see. Cases like <i>La vie D’Adèle</i>, where I can quite frankly screw up the whole film
experience, or even <i>Boyhood</i> and many
other films, where I know exactly what I’m seeing and what to expect. That’s
why when I have a film that completely surprises me feels so great and wins me
over. But then I have Mommy, where I knew was I was expecting and the
expectations were high, coming from the incredible Cannes success; when I know
the artist so well, feeling so compelled by his films. ‘Xavier Dolan? Now that’s living cinema at
its fullest.’ I said something like this before watching Mommy. I certainly
wouldn’t disappoint the person I was expressing this, even more, Xavier Dolan
didn’t disappointed me, as he filled me with life for a couple of hours. This
is the film I was waiting for, not just from Dolan and not just the
expectations, but in general, this is the film I want to see every year, this
is my kind of film. And Xavier Dolan was able to surpass all of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Music
has become a huge part of my year. This Christmas, I decided to make a mix tape
for my sister, so I’ve been going through the songs we used to listen as we
were growing up. Music can become a huge part of our memory source. I may not
remember events, but I remember listening these songs. So I’ve been going
through songs such as The Verve’s Better Sweet Symphony, Garbage’s Stupid Girls,
Oasis’ Wonderwall or recently the awesome debut albums by Florence and The
Machine or Lana Del Rey. It is pretty incredible and sweet how sometimes things
fall in this nearly perfectly balanced moment. From the very beginning of <b>Mommy</b>, as Dido’s White Flag played, it
seemed as if it was meant to be for me to watch the film the moment I saw it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mommy
is a rollercoaster of strong emotions, but so much of it is in the lyrics of
the songs he smartly chooses to play. Mommy starts out with a written explanation
about a Canada’s legislation on mental health in the near future. Then you have this serene moment
of this woman, before you are hit, or literally so, she is hit by a car while
driving to someplace. Diane Després is introduced to us in all her glamour and
unwarranted straightforwardness and wit. She discusses with a supervisor of the
institution her son is in and ends up taking him home. So Diane and Steve come
home while <i>Dido’s White Flag</i> plays in
the background. If you go on and carefully listen the lyrics of this song, it pretty
much resumes the entire film and it could as well be the representation of
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and Steve have to quickly adjust to their new life, together again, alone in
their household. It’s not easy for them, but Diane just keeps fighting and not
taking any moment to get depressed or anything of the sort, no matter how
actually difficult this must be for her, how hard it is for her to deal
with emotional conflicts towards her son, who can be as unpredictable and as difficult.
As Steve and Diane furiously and quite freely argue, whether at the house, or
even inside a taxi cab, you can’t help but remember Dolan’s first film <i>J’ai tue ma mère. </i>Sorry Dolan, but these
two fighting inside the car immediately takes me back. Indeed, Dolan brings
back the mother son relationship to its center. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
songs go from a freer moment of both anger and bliss, as Steve rides his
skateboard accompanied by <i>Counting Crows’
Colorblind</i> to others. Out of a severe moment when Steve comes so close to
hurt her mother out of pure uncontrolled anger, their front neighbor comes in
the scene. She calms down Steve, somehow. Diane decides to invite her for
dinner. Kyla suffers from a severe stutter; she always been shy, she explains,
but since a year ago it got worse, so we know she’s taking a sabbatical year
from teaching (as Susanne was in Dolan’s first film)… Kyla doesn’t talk much,
but it is not because she stutters, it is clearly because of something else we
don’t know about, because she decides not to say it. So then comes <i>Celine Dion’s On En Change Pas </i>and Diane
and Steve that make Kyla sing along. Another musical moment whish basically
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starts homeschooling Steve, as Diane tries to find a job. <i>Eiffel 65’s Blue</i> starts playing while Kyla teaches Steve. This
music is frantic and it is exactly where Steve’s mind probably is a lot of the
times, another musical moment that fits perfectly, where we have Kyla freaking
out with Steve’s moods and eventually the both coming together to a mutual understanding.
I used to listen this song so much when I was a kid. I have an older brother,
and that’s probably where this comes from. I used to listen this song on my
brother’s walkman, I think. It’s incredible, memory wise. And Xavier Dolan’s being the
similar age as myself, will be doing this to me quite a lot throughout the
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Wonderwall</b> is one of the most cinematic, expressive and vivid moments of cinema
this year. Oasis’ Wonderwall is a world where these three human beings co-exist
in some approachable harmony and things seems to happily move forward as we can
see in their smiling faces. It’s a marvelous moment, where Xavier Dolan wins our
hearts so freaking easily, smart guy, using the aspect ratio as a way to tell
us – here, this is the moment where they are free and breathe happily. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You may want to resist the effect, but you
really can’t. </span></span>“Because
Maybe You’re Gonna be the One that Saves Me”, Gallagher says. It is a dreamy
scenario, indeed, and we are filled with hope for these human beings,
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<span lang="EN-US">Mommy
is irresistibly unpredictable, when at the same time we know exactly where the
story will led to. Steve’s uproaring nature, eventually, will lead Diane to
make a hard decision and having a huge effect on their lives. This film can be
so stylish, so unpredictable, sexual and musical and it is, but it is also
mature, it is also inventive and timeless. Xavier Dolan has made yet another
incredibly unique and personal film, full of live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It
is all about emotion, hard emotions, strong emotions; it’s all about characters
and their strong emotions, bursting out. The aspect ratio is because of that. The
use of the songs is for that. Some may feel it is actually too much. The
performances are over the top. The emotions are too showy and over the top. The
use of Steve’s mental health is too much. Kyla, the neighbor, is another strong
cliché. It may be repetitive. Etc etc etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You
do have all of this. It may be an extreme portrait. But the thing about Xavier
Dolan’s work is that he cares. We are all quite vulnerable and so is Xavier
Dolan, but he is not afraid to show it on screen. When I saw Xavier Dolan debut
film a few years ago, the thing that stayed with me was his strong personality,
his mark. When you see a film by him, you can’t help but think of all his
previous work, as well as when you’re watching the films, you inevitably have
specific expectations. But I don’t really care. I love them and I love Mommy. Obviously, his style is remarkable;
their films have so much style is crazy. Mommy brings all of that. But stories
about mothers are never ‘enough’, or told enough. He may have the cliché neighbor
in Kyla, but her care is so real, Suzanne Clement’s performance is so touching.
The scene at the end, the last scene between Kyla and Diane, is so heartfelt,
you just want these women to hug each other and be happy. Not every filmmaker
has the ability to convey such real characters, and make its audience feel so utterly connected to the story. They burst out of the screen and we want to jump inside the screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Die by Lana Del Rey</i> is the last song that is played in the film, a song I had heard the day
before, at home, while I was going through my old mixed CD’s, and it makes you
have a lot of feels!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Old and the Young is a beautiful song by the American band called Midlake that I love so much. Sometimes I found this song heart breaking and at the same time refreshing, but I think of it as really really special.</div>
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A big part of Clouds of Sils Maria is about the old and the young, but it is specially about the distance between the two, about the way one positions itself in life and the different approaches that comes with age. The way a woman feels about her age, how she reacts and grows old. </div>
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I admire the effort of Clouds of Sils Maria, it is such an interesting subject matter to dive into. I gradually liked the film more and more. I feel like I want to take it layer by layer, every bit of it and dig into it. At times it feels like the ideas are beautiful fighting their arguments through and at other times because these ideas are so good there isn't perhaps enough argument and actions but at the end of the day there's only so much you can tell in a story, or do with a story and with a certain film structure. That's also why I appreaciated this film so much, because of its layers. I will gladly dive into them with pleasure. In fact, this is the kind of film that makes me desperately want to speak with other people about, to go deep into it and discuss it. I love that!</div>
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Maybe I'll write a more extented review of this film, it deserves. </div>
Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-89812488529185049032014-12-25T08:08:00.004-08:002014-12-25T08:08:52.930-08:00Ava's Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Message from Ava DuVernay from her Facebook page. Merry Christmas.Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-84883129597287623942014-12-19T16:29:00.004-08:002014-12-19T16:29:53.907-08:00Pic of the Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-5022288632385200692014-12-19T06:08:00.002-08:002014-12-19T06:08:50.676-08:00Making Boyhood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A good way to describe <b>Boyhood</b> is that it is special.</div>
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Pretty basic isn't it? But it is.</div>
Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-34772802079637477052014-12-19T06:02:00.001-08:002014-12-19T06:02:05.813-08:00Rave Reviews<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This seems quite the challenging film. </div>
Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-73658164078214359732014-12-15T15:37:00.001-08:002014-12-15T15:37:16.844-08:00Knight of Cups<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The beauty of these films are really the challenge of it, I think. Though I have this really strange feeling because ever since I saw <i>To the Wonder </i>trailer, I found it so ridiculously laughable...It was after watching <i>The Tree of Life </i>and finding it earth shattering. Completely opposite feelings. So, I don't really know. But I want to see this one (though it will be hard).</div>
Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-69604185094358841242014-12-12T19:07:00.000-08:002014-12-12T19:07:27.964-08:00Thanks Parks Crew<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ladies and Gentlemen, it is happening.</div>
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Thank you ALL for the brilliancy and for making me laugh so much, I had probably the best giggles of my life. No joke. In addition to the laugh, I learned so much with Parks and Recreation. So much. I grew up with Parks and Recreation, I started to appreciate life and its comic tones with Parks.</div>
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<br />Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-86685559247329566422014-12-11T13:26:00.000-08:002014-12-12T16:45:52.444-08:00Ridiculous History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is what it is and well, if there is such history, today, one couldn't and shouldn't be more glad than that person be someone like Ava DuVernay. Right? No matter how frustating this history might be!<br />
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As I said, about Ava DuVernay being the right kind of person for this frustating history, here is her response to her Golden Globe nomination:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The "first" of it all is the bittersweet part. I'm certainly not the first black woman deserving of this. You can't tell me that since 1943 there's not been another black woman who's made something worthy of this kind of recognition. But for whatever reason it hasn't happened. The time is now. I thank them for recognizing Selma. I just hope … that we get through all the 'firsts,' that we can just get to the good stuff and that people can just make their work and move on from [that conversation]."</span></span></blockquote>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-1968840331132299212014-12-10T18:55:00.000-08:002014-12-10T18:55:03.461-08:00The Art of Loosing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-35652620746926465552014-12-08T18:11:00.000-08:002014-12-08T18:11:34.609-08:00Boyhood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Boyhood, in my
quiet and pretty personal ambitious resume, is a simple story, that feels like
so much and all at the same time like nothing, not exactly nothing, but
seemingly uneventful, when all in itself it is exactly what life is, what life
feels like. I mean, how “uneventful” it is to watch someone grow? Can you feel
yourself growing, can you ‘see’ it? You don’t really feel it and you don’t
really see it. It just happens. And that’s what Boyhood is, that’s what life
is. And at least that’s how I feel right now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is when you’re
a liberal, campaigning ferociously for Barack Obama and then you end up
marrying the most American Republican family. When you keep doing the same
mistake towards men because you want so much to feel safe and be a family,
because that’s just the way one feels towards life, the falling in love and the
inevitability of falling in love with the wrong person. When you’re a teenager
and you question and they question you when you have no idea, no fucking clue
of what’s coming and what are the answers. And maybe you never will, exactly.
It’s nothing and it is everything. And some part of this ‘nothing’ and some
part of the ‘everything’, you know, this American tale of growing up, of
family, of patriotism, of technology and social growth, is in Boyhood.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Boyhood is a
singular journey, or the vision, of this one individual named Richard
Linklater. One you can be a part of, because he makes a living as an artist,
the storyteller that gives us these unique experiences of seeing someone grow
up throughout twelve years. Richard Linklater made a unique film. No doubt. It is
actually like I’m watching this film with these great impeccable visual
effects, like we’ve never seen anything like it, like Richard Linklater should
be rewarded for the visual effects he created in this. This film is exactly
what he wanted, it is a whole, it is a complete thing. And I think it couldn’t
possibly be anything else than this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I knew exactly
what I was having and so now, as I’ve seen it and experienced it, I do think about
what else this film could have been. Though I don’t want it to be anything
else, I really don’t. It just can’t be. I guess, as you go home, the continuing
experience of Boyhood is to go and perhaps write you own tale of your own
story, of your own growing up, which can be so different from Mason’s. Or maybe
appreciate parents a little bit more, or maybe be more grateful to the people
around you, because that’s what this film is about. So now, I wonder about
time, as time is such an essential figure to Boyhood, time and growing up to
experience this film and value it in different moments of my life, as it will
certainly be the case. For now, I thank Richard Linklater for the experience
and I praise him for his tremendous work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-47176194733750290472014-12-04T13:48:00.003-08:002014-12-04T13:48:42.512-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Where's the film??</div>
<br />Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-16156841401778146512014-11-26T05:01:00.001-08:002014-11-26T05:01:50.688-08:00K-Stew<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">On a serious note,
I feel like nominating Kristen Stewart the Breakout Star of the Year. Along
with Keira Knightley, for instance, they both bring three good films that are
challenging from a creative and accomplishing perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I really enjoyed
Kristen Stewart’s performance in <i>Camp
X-Ray</i>, I really liked this film. It feels like a flawed film but it is also
so well constructed visually and consistent and the performances are spot on.
There’s a lot of talent exuding in this film and the filmmaker Peter Sattler
will go far. It is not at all an easy subject to approach, to write a
conventional three part storyline about the soldiers working in Guantanamo Bay
and so it becomes an interesting meditation on the American war and its history
and how both sides from the equation are perceived. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reviews for her. I haven’t seen this one, but I can hardly wait. I will be very
interested in seeing her here because I know this role was really important to
her and she got really connected to it, even having a permanent tattoo of her
character, and it is certainly a role that is the closest to Kristen Stewart’s self
and one we haven’t seen probably in quite a long time. And finally <i>Still Alice</i>, another supporting role that I’m sure will be
interesting to see. Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart sounds great to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is a “wonderfully
challenging” prospect the idea that she’s now thinking and will eventually
pause on the ‘acting’ and will be spending more time doing other creative endeavors.
This doesn’t sound that bad because I’m looking forward to take a look at her
work other than acting. She has written poems and she’s also mentioning short
films. That’s what we need, female voices and art from their perspective. I’m
sorry I sound so boring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I obviously haven’t
come to realize that we are almost at the end of the year and in no time I will
be actually looking over the films I’ve seen throughout the year and picking
the ones who I believe have stood out and make me want to mention, and others
that make me want to mention for intriguing reasons! In my brain, it is like
middle of the year. The other day I mentioned December like I was in May. I’ve
seen over one hundred and twenty or thirty films this year, give or take. It is
nothing, isn’t it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-71092391958060127132014-11-26T02:46:00.005-08:002014-11-26T02:59:30.225-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Knowing Martin Luther King Jr story, knowing the history of the United States of America and following today's events around 'Ferguson', it makes for a reasonaly poignant point to makes way more films like Selma, to have and value artists like Ava DuVernay.</div>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-4329113759345795562014-11-26T02:34:00.002-08:002014-11-26T02:34:11.919-08:00Begin Again - Ambivalences<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">These days it is
harder and harder for me to create empathy with films, especially with stories
and I hate it. This is the thing I’m supposed to be good at doing, or rather,
what I enjoy the most. My perspective watching <b>Once</b> and now <b>Begin Again</b>,
has to be completely different. Am I this ugly cynic who just watches and
enjoys painful dramas? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Once</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> takes place in Ireland, a European country,
similar to my own. It is easy to create empathy with our protagonists, an Irish
lad and a young Eastern immigrant, young talented musicians working with
something they absolutely love even though they don’t have necessarily the
greatest means to achieve a certain success. Their journey becomes quite
intimate, quite personal and with an inspiring hope necessarily based on love.
They don’t really have much, but they’re just being themselves really.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a mixture of success and failure, in certain ways. It takes place in New York,
an utterly rich place in diversity, culture, let alone people from all over the
world. Some have the greatest means, for example, the owner of the Record
Label, played by Mark Ruffalo. Then you also have a musician who had a
tremendous success with its previous work, the soundtrack to a film, and his
girlfriend, also a musician, but simply not known, they’re Gretta and Dave. She
does not go public, so to speak. You immediately think they could be the young
couple from Once.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Like so often in
life, you have someone looking for something and someone who has that
something, but they just don’t know each other, can’t reach each other or so
often don’t have the means to reach for that middle term. Dan, the owner of the
Record Label is the one searching; he searches for something to fulfill his
soul, musically. Gretta, the young musician who isn’t interesting in going
public with her music, and just broke up with his musician beau, is the one
having that something to fulfill someone else’s heart. In this film, they
happen to meet. Dan is able to convince Gretta of producing an album recorded
literally in the streets of New York. And just like that, they record an album.
It’s the American dream! The thing I have a hard time with because the American
dream is a lie. And the music isn’t that special, but that’s another story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Again</b>, however, gives us something recognizable and relatable that it is
inherently artistic and that’s an artist’s unrelentlessness to not give value,
in a way, to a determined level of success, and in some cases, even actually
being heard. It just doesn’t matter to them. The notoriety, the money, etc.,
they will do what they love anyway, they will not change their ways. They are
quite ready to be poor. This is how Gretta is, to a certain extent (clearly
without the poor part). She does decide to record the unusual album, but at the
end she also doesn’t care if no one pays her, or better, she has the ability
and power really to not give in to a label, no matter how independent and open
to his artists it might be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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way more than it actually looks, I think. It not only portrays artists, their
own unrelentlessness to discredit success, but it also portrays the Music
industry and the recording issues of the moment. It is quite sober. Then finally,
it really does the unthinkable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let’s all take a
moment now. Let’s all take a moment, because Begin Again is a film where
there’s a female protagonist, or you can also say that is a co-lead with Mark
Rufallo. Even so, Gretta, played by the worth every second on screen Keira
Knigthley, a female, who comes to New York with her solid boyfriend who dumps
her after a cute Asian assistant, is incredibly talented, doesn’t give a fuck
about labels and actually recording for them, who then leaves her boyfriend and
records an album, and at the end of the film, does not choose either of her
male co-protagonists, her boyfriend Adam Levine, nor the record owner Mark
Rufallo. Utterly unprecedented. You seriously cannot believe it and it feels
wonderful. Keira Knightley’s smile at the end is everything. Great end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and how, but this film looks like nothing special, a minor Hollywood product
but at the same time, it brings solid insight because it actually tells
something and it is honest. So I had a hard time throughout the film,
convincing myself a young musician playing in the streets and bars is able to
live in New York, even though where he actually lives could probably be the
size of my bedroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-88477200300674164612014-11-25T05:59:00.000-08:002014-11-25T05:59:46.145-08:00Under the Skin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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both made me feel numb, as I barely made it, barely touched my conscious
surface, as at the same time, it made for an interesting experience. It is not
a common film, and it seems, especially in the first half, or probably
throughout the majority of the film, that nothing really happens. A woman takes
an odd alien transformation, and then travels around Glasgow streets meeting
random men and taking them out…of space. Why go over that number of subjects,
as in humans, when we already know the outcome, we already know what’s
happening? Or maybe we don’t really know what happens, we only know what the
woman will do. The thing is, that’s probably the point, and the point has to be
to show this number of different ordinary people that come towards this young
woman, for a number of indifferent reasons. And how this pleasantly and warm
and good looking woman can be someone and something completely harmful, just
utterly unpredictable and capable of anything. Human or non human, the truth is such outcome rings real for us in here on earth on every given situation. It
is an unusual experience and sometimes hard to go through, like the scene where
you have a young couple with a baby on a beach, where we can see the man gradually
drowning, the woman being taken by these unknown people and the baby staying
alone in this cold windy beach crying his lungs out. It challenges you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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composed, to the detail and it’s beautiful. And I would think it is not necessarily
bad to stare at Scarlett Johansson and pretty and often blank canvas for what
it seems to be infinite hours…until you come to the conclusion that basically life
is fucked up for humans as it is, imagine for aliens…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brazillian coming of age tale, where teenagers will be teenagers, classic on the edges, </div>
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Rachellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730687185920195418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819984874497430069.post-35682172706916347892014-11-24T03:37:00.002-08:002014-11-24T03:37:38.103-08:00Interstellar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">All I know is that
things happen for a reason. But do they really? I don’t have a clue actually. As
I don’t have a clue of the world’s possibilities, though I might have an idea
they are quite vast. But don’t come talking about time travel…I’m kidding! When
I say things happen for a reason then time travel probably fits in this
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m not a space
science engineer kind of person. Needless to say, I’m not a science fiction
kind of person. My current science fiction fandom stretches as far as Orphan
Black, I don’t know if you heard about this little Canadian show about a clones’
conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Interstellar, the Nolans’ go beyond the science…if I could say such a thing. Or
better, he makes for a pleasantly admirable attempt at connecting science and
human emotion and reason, and future and choices into one story with minimal
identity and identification. First of all, Interstellar gives you plenty to
chew on. Even if you don’t have a clue about space and what the hell means
warmwhole and gravity, even if the few dimensions you know are the psychological,
physical and emotional. It makes you ponder on a few perhaps basic human conditions
on earth. Like our future, but first of present. And this is where Christopher
Nolan comes in and makes a difference, especially when the previous version, the
Spielberg one, included aliens and other different story driven ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I remember when I was
a kid, in a science class, ask the teacher how does the earth is round and we’re
able to stand in two feet. I remember her uncomfortably replying something
short and leave the question for some other time or something. Gravity must
have been some of the words used. I’m actually remembering those classes when
we were learning the solar system and all that wasted time. I’m a believer I never
really learned much in school or maybe because I was never a good student. Anyway,
even if you’re maybe one of my failing cases, I believe there are a few things
you can spend some time meditating on. I give credit to the older brother Nolan
for transforming this story to a whole new meaning and props to these actors
for making it feel real. However how much the soundtrack sucks!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now I’m going to
deviate from the subject matter a little bit. Believe it or not, I was having parallel
thoughts as I was watching Matthew McConaughey Anne Hathaway and Jessica
Chastain trying to save the human race. Talking from a European point of view, I
need to remember you folks out there that it has to be a little awkward for us
to watch a film where the American Citizen is the ultimate hero, the pretty
much only source of human kind able to save the world. It’s interesting how I don’t
read anything about this. They mention the Russians, it’s interesting how they
didn’t brought Russians to space or encountered Russians in Space or even
Chinese, as we all know how China is becoming and will certainly be the world’s
biggest…deal breaker. Anyhow, if it wasn’t for the mention of Russians and the
suggestion that the moon travel was fiction and propaganda made by the US, you
could almost believe that there were only Americans living on Planet Earth.
Think about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Interesting prospects are happening 'over at the' Oscar Season (Awards Season, you call it).</div>
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"May the best woman win!" - Sasha Stone from Awards Daily wrote <a href="http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2014/11/a-movie-star-crashes-the-best-director-race/">this article</a> where she ponders the Angelina Jolie case, and her film Unbroken. It is a really peculiar situation to ponder upon. And one that will need a lot of help and conscious analysis from wonderful femininsts like Sasha Stone, which I believe is really one of the women's saviours of Hollywood town. God, if she is needed.</div>
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In this article titled "A Movie Star Crashes the Best Director Race", she writes about the current situation where a great part of the Oscar pundits are choosing Unbroken to be the Best Film of the Year, when no one actually saw it. The film premiered in Sydney, a couple of days ago, but no one is allowed to talk about it until the first day of December. The word of mouth from the premier in Sydney is that it was 'warmly' received. As Sasha Stone been remembering us throughout the season, is that it is really hard to live up to these kind of expectations, where the film needs to be almost perfect to live and not immediately drown.</div>
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Ava DuVernau on the set of her film <b>Selma.</b></div>
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The other woman from this season is the inspiring Ava DuVernay.</div>
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Over at Indiewire, two articles just came out about her. Peter Knegt, covering awards season, writes about the history that can be made with the nomination of Ava DuVernay for Best Director. The nomination alone. Similar to what I <a href="http://rachelleandcinema.blogspot.pt/2014/11/hopes.html">wrote</a> two posts ago, he lays out the 'correct' Oscar data and analysis of Ava DuVernay's possible history. If Sasha Stone is a saviour, then Melissa Silverstein, over at the Indiewire's Women and Hollywood, is the ultimate, relentless warrior. I'm a huge admirer. She also released an article today writing about Ava DuVernay. Melissa also writes about Oscar history and statistics, but she reminds us that the beauty of what's happening to Ava DuVernay is that it is on a big scale, the Oscar scale, the world wide, everyone watches Oscars - scale.</div>
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Here's an interesting trivia from <b>Selma</b> she wrote-</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;">And speaking of writing, the credits on </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Selma</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;"> will say a man named Paul Webb wrote the film. He wrote the first draft. He wrote a movie that was more of a tete-a-tete between King and President Lyndon Johnson. He wrote about two guys. In the film business, it is usual for other writers to take passes and do polishes on scripts. Because of rules (some ridiculous and plainly unjust) and contracts, there are lots of instances where people whose words we hear onscreen don't get the credit. That is the case with </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Selma</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;">. While Paul Webb might get the credit for this film, he did not write what we are seeing up there. He knows it. The studio knows it. The producers know it. Everyone knows it. He could have given Ava a co-writing credit (which she was promised), but he has at all turns not been interested in acknowledging that this is a joint piece of work. Shameful.</span></span></div>
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So let's go over it again, because it really is an amazing history:</div>
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11 Films in 86 years, directed by women, were nominated for Best Picture.</div>
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In 86 years (423 nominations, 'chances'), only <b>four</b> women got nominations for Best Director, including the win for Katherine Bigelow. All of them were white.</div>
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The first woman ever to be nominated for Best Director was only in the seventies, 1977, for an Italian woman with a Foreign film, she was called <b>Lina Wertmuller. </b>Then more than a decade later, an Australian, <b>Jane Campion</b> for her film The Piano. This was 1993. Than ten years later, came young American woman, in the Twentieth First Century, the first American woman is nominated for Best Director. In 2009, the historic year when Katherine Bigelow won for her film The Hurt Locker.</div>
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Again, of these 423 chances, only FOUR WHITE WOMEN were nominated for Best Director, and now THREE BLACK MEN were nominated for Best Director. I don't even know which one is more shocking. The first Black Man ever to get nominated for Best Director was only in the nineties, 1991. As Peter Knegt writes, Woody Allen alone was nominated for as many times as the women and black men put together.</div>
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Well, it isn't that different with the other branches. No woman was ever nominated for Best Cinematography. The writers brunch must be pretty mediocre as well. Gillian Flynn is pretty much going solo this year.</div>
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It is the deadliest fact - America is a staggering racist country. And the way they 'treat' women has been downgrading, just getting worst to a ridiculous point. You can see that just by looking at the History of the American Cinema, with the statistics on Box Office, etc, etc, etc. Because again, it goes the same with the Black, Hispanic, Gay, all the minorities.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Think of the way many men and women have talked about David Fincher's </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Gone Girl. </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm in no way mentioning the people who didn't enjoyed the film on its own terms.</span></div>
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Gone Girl. Some people felt really disappointed because they weren’t able to
fully enjoy the film because of their high standards on David Fincher. I think it is a
solid storytelling, pretty solid on pretty much everything. It’s a pity one isn’t
able to enjoy the film as much as one wants because of such perspective. I
don’t think they have to worry about disappointing their friends because the film is
pure entertainment (also masterful). </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Talking from the
American Cinema history, it is a relevant film. To me, it was pure
entertainment. Who cares if it is one of the best films of the past decade or
so? I don’t think saying Gone Girl isn’t a brilliant masterpiece or that it
isn’t David Fincher best film is an excuse to downgrade Gone Girl. The film is
really good. It isn’t much of an argument. It’s a pity people don’t enjoy this
film because of these reasons, but these are somehow the least offensive. Some
other excuses get to do with the story content, meaning, the feminism. This one
is pretty ridiculous. To say the film, I mean the story, the one adapted from the novel, is anti-feminism because it portrays a negative portrait of a woman is
plain wrong. This is where Sasha Stone comes in and is the Women's saviour. We all know, what this is a representation of a human being.
Period. Forget gender sweethearts. I think we all know that representing an
unsettling woman doesn’t mean women are all unsettling. We shouldn’t even be
discussing such argument. It’s just so archaic. But anyway, one has to make
sure to emphasize on the obvious. </span>“I wish I could
stoop to the womanly art of communication.” This sentence was written by a
woman, from a men’s perspective, private thought, and one I utterly relate to,
being a female myself. As I relate so often with Nick.</div>
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Sasha Stone brilliantly summs up in <a href="http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2014/10/strong-woman-sparks-debate/">this article</a> of hers, I think, the Gone Girl and the woman 'issue'. It's a great read.</div>
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