domingo, 31 de março de 2019

A música onde me oiço...
josé

Nesta nova colecção, tive dificuldade em saber por onde começar.
Claro, tinha o incontornável Bach ou Mahler. Mas o Requiem de Zimmerman é talvez a opus magnum do século xx, aquela que atravessa na sua estrutura as múltiplas vozes da vida e da morte desse século.
Composto entre 1967 e 1969, para dois declamadores, para solistas soprano e barítono, 3 coros, uma banda de jazz, órgão, gravações e uma orquestra junta e justapõe a uma Missa de Finados do rito latino textos literários, filosóficos, religiosos e políticos.
Três poetas são citados: Mayakovsky, Konrad Bayer e Sergei Yesenin, três poetas que se suicidaram, o que veio a acontecer também com o compositor.
A toda esta estrutura integram-se gravações com a voz de Ludwig Wittgenstein (Investigações Filosóficas), de James Joyce lendo o monólogo de Molly Bloom, de Kurt Schwitters, de Ezra Pound, de Albert Camus, de Hitler, de Alexander Dubček e outros, criando uma polifonia de ideias e sons que são a própria identidade múltipla do século XX.
No plano musical, Zimmerman interliga e cita diversos compositores, desde o Tristão e Isolda de Wagner até ao Hey Jude dos Beatles, passando pelo meu amado Milhaud.
No fundo, um requiem de um século de morte e guerra, um requiem que entra nos mais sombrios momentos da humanidade e mostra como a experiência da morte se tornou uma experiência de massas e multidões. Uma obra única que atravessa, como uma lâmina cortante, o que há de mais profundo em nós e nos deixa numa espécie de apocalipse de emoções e pensamentos.
A escutar como quem escuta o seu próprio pensamento!
josé, 2018

segunda-feira, 25 de março de 2019

Double Bill
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1- Alyonka,(Алёнка), Boris Barnet, 1961
2 -Aniki-Bóbó, Manuel de Oliveira, 1942
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Thirst for Love (Japanese: 愛の渇き Ai no kawaki), Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1967
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“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love


Thirst for Love
Ai no kawaki
Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara
Produced by Kazu Otsuka
Screenplay by Toshiya Fujita
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Based on Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima
Cast
Nobuo Nakamura as Yakichi Sugimoto
Ruriko Asaoka as Etsuko
Akira Yamanouchi as Kensuke
Yuko Kusunoki as Chieko
Yoko Ozono as Asako
Junko Shinami as Nobuko
Takayuki Iwama as Natsuo
Tetsuo Ishidate as Saburô
Chitose Kurenai as Miyo
Music by Toshiro Mayuzumi
Cinematography Yoshio Mamiya
Edited by Akira Suzuki
Release date
18 February 1967
Country Japan
Language Japanese
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Eternity and a Day,(Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα), Theo Angelopoulos, 1998
com Bruno Ganz, num dos seus mais belos e profundos papéis

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Alexandre: I know that one you will leave. The wind pushes your eyes away but today give me this day as if it was the last.

Alexandre: Why, mother, nothing happens as we wish? Why? Why does one have to rot in silence torn between pain and desire? Why did I live my life in exile. Tell me mother, why can't one learn to love?

Alexandre: My only regret, Anna - but is it only one? - is to not have finished anything. I left all as a draft, shattered words here and there.


Eternity and a Day
Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Produced by Theo Angelopoulos
Eric Heumann
Giorgio Silvagni
Written by Tonino Guerra
Theo Angelopoulos
Petros Markaris
Giorgio Silvagni
Starring Bruno Ganz
Isabelle Renauld
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Music by Eleni Karaindrou
Cinematography Yorgos Arvanitis
Andreas Sinanos
Edited by Yannis Tsitsopoulos
Release date
23 May 1998 (Cannes Film Festival)
Running time
132 minutes
Country Greece
Language Greek
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La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962

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La Jetée
Directed by Chris Marker
Produced by Anatole Dauman
Written by Chris Marker
Starring Hélène Chatelain
Davos Hanich
Jacques Ledoux
Narrated by Jean Négroni
Music by Trevor Duncan
Cinematography Jean Chiabaut
Chris Marker
Edited by Jean Ravel
Production
company
Argos Films
Distributed by Argos Films
Release date
16 February 1962 (France)
Running time
28 minutes
Country France
Language French
German
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Mujo, Akio Jissoji, 1970


Mujo
Directed by Akio Jissoji
Starring
Kotobuki Hananomoto
Akiji Kobayashi
Eiji Okada
Kin Sugai
Ryō Tamura
Minori Terada
Michiko Tsukasa
Distributed by Art Theatre Guild
Release date
8 August 1970
Running time
143 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
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L'Invitation au voyage, Germaine Dulac, 1927

L'invitation au voyage
Charles Baudelaire

Mon enfant, ma soeur,
Songe à la douceur
D'aller là-bas vivre ensemble!
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble!
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Des meubles luisants,
Polis par les ans,
Décoreraient notre chambre;
Les plus rares fleurs
Mêlant leurs odeurs
Aux vagues senteurs de l'ambre,
Les riches plafonds,
Les miroirs profonds,
La splendeur orientale,
Tout y parlerait
À l'âme en secret
Sa douce langue natale.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l'humeur est vagabonde;
C'est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu'ils viennent du bout du monde.
— Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D'hyacinthe et d'or;
Le monde s'endort
Dans une chaude lumière.

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
— Charles Baudelaire



Invitation to a Journey
1927 ‧ Drama/Short film ‧ 40 mins
Director: Germaine Dulac
Music composed by: Catherine Milliken
Story Germaine Dulac et Irène Hillel-Erlanger from L'Invitation au voyage of Charles Baudelaire
Cast: Emma Gynt, Raymond Dubreuil, Robert Mirfeuil, Lucien Bataille, Paul Lorbert, Tania Daleyme, Djemil Anik
Screenplay: Germaine Dulac, Charles Baudelaire, Irène Hillel-Erlanger
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Phantom Love (2007), Nina Menkes
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Phantom Love
2007 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 27m
Initial release: January 19, 2007
Director: Nina Menkes
Screenplay: Nina Menkes
Music composed by: Rich Ragsdale
Producer: Kevin Ragsdale
With
Lena Bubenechik
Young Mother
Juliette Marquis
Nitzan
Marina Shoif
Lulu
Bobby Naderi
The Lover
Michael Joseph Carr
Newscaster


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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (1922- 2019), 2000
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"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."
Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24,1922 – January 23, 2019)

Pouco há dizer sobre Jonas Mekas, a não ser, um dos maiores cineastas de todos os tempos.
José


As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Directed by Jonas Mekas
Produced by Jonas Mekas
Written by Jonas Mekas
Music by Auguste Varkalis
Cinematography Jonas Mekas
Edited by Jonas Mekas
Distributed by Canyon Cinema
Release date
November 4, 2000 (London Film Festival)
Running time
288 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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An Elephant Sitting Still (Chinese: 大象席地而坐), HuBo, 2018

Um dos melhores filmes que vi em 2018, a seu tempo no Festival Indie de Lisboa, e que voltei a rever recentemente. Um filme entre o trágico e o vazio, entre a deriva e o nada. Uma espécie de poema visual e existencial sobre as penumbras de um conjunto de pessoas que procuram um elefante meio-real-meio-mítico, que pratica a difícil arte de estar sentado indiferente a tudo. Como nós...
José

An Elephant Sitting Still (Chinese: 大象席地而坐) is a 2018 Chinese film written, directed and edited by Hu Bo (also known by his pen name Hu Qian). The first and last film of the novelist-turned-director, Hu who committed suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, it is based on a story with the same title from his 2017 novel Huge Crack. It made its world premiere in the Forum section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.

An Elephant Sitting Still
Directed by Hu Bo
Produced by Fu Dongyan
Screenplay by Hu Bo
Based on An Elephant Sitting Still
by Hu Bo
Starring Zhang Yu
Peng Yuchang
Wang Yuwen
Liu Congxi
Music by Hua Lun
Cinematography Fan Chao
Edited by Hu Bo
Production
companies
Dongchun Films
Release date
February 2018 (Berlinale)
Running time
230 minutes
Country China
Language Mandarin
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La leggenda del santo bevitore, Ermanno Olmi, 1988

La leggenda del santo bevitore
The Legend of the Holy Drinker film
Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Written by Ermanno Olmi
Tullio Kezich
Starring
Rutger Hauer as Andreas Kartack
Sandrine Dumas as Gabby
Dominique Pinon as Woitech
Anthony Quayle as The Distinguished Gentleman
Sophie Segalen as Karoline
Cécile Paoli as Fur store seller
Jean-Maurice Chanet as Daniel Kanjak
Dalila Belatreche as Thérèse

Music by José Padilla Sánchez
Ilter Pelosi
Igor Stravinsky
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Edited by Paolo Cottignola
Ermanno Olmi
Fabio Olmi
Release date
2 September 1988
Running time
127 minutes
Country Italy
France
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Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison, 2016


Dawson City: Frozen Time is a 2016 American documentary film written, edited and directed by Bill Morrison and produced by Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux. It was screened in the Orizzonti Competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. It concerns the history of Dawson City, Canada, deep in the Yukon, from its creation during the Klondike Gold Rush culminating in the 1978 discovery of 533 silent film reels, thought to be lost, that had been buried in 1929 in a former swimming pool or hockey rink. Along with the lost films, there was also rare footage of other historic events, including the 1919 World Series.
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Dawson City: Frozen Time
Directed by Bill Morrison
Produced by Bill Morrison
Madeleine Molyneaux
Written by Bill Morrison
Music by Alex Somers
Edited by Bill Morrison
Production
companies
Hypnotic Pictures
Picture Palace Pictures
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Cineteca Bologna
Release date
September 5, 2016 (Venice)
Running time
120 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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Marketa Lazarová, František Vláčil, 1967
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Marketa Lazarová
Directed by František Vláčil
Produced by Josef Ouzký
Screenplay by František Pavlíček, František Vláčil
Based on Marketa Lazarová
by Vladislav Vančura
Starring Magda Vášáryová
Josef Kemr
František Velecký
Naďa Hejná
Jaroslav Moučka
Narrated by Zdeněk Štěpánek
Music by Zdeněk Liška
Cinematography Beda Batka
Edited by Miroslav Hájek
Production
company
Barrandov Studios
Distributed by Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release date
6 October 1967 (Czechoslovakia)
30 August 1974 (United States)
Running time
165 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech
German
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Glumov's Diary, Eisenstein, 1923

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Animals don't sleep. In the dark after nightfall
They stand over the world like a stone wall.

The cow's sloping head
Rustles its smooth horns in the straw.
Its stony brow bears down
Dividing ancient cheekbones,
And inarticulate eyes
Look around with effort.

The horse's face is lovelier and wiser.
He hears the speech of leaf and stone.
Watchful, he knows the roar of beasts
And the nightingale's murmur in the decrepit wood.

And, knowing all, whom will he tell
Of his enchanted visions?
The night is deep, and on the dark horizon
Formations of stars rise.
The horse stands like a knight on guard
A wind plays across his fine hairs,
His eyes blaze like two enormous worlds,
His mane spreads like the mantle of a king.

And if a man could see
The horse's magic face,
He would tear out his feeble tongue
And give it to the horse. Indeed
The magic horse deserves a tongue!

Then we would hear words.
Words as big as apples. Thick
As honey or creamy milk.
Words that pierce like flame
And, flying into the soul, like fire into a hut,
Illuminate its beggarly attire.
Words that do not die
And about which we sing songs.

But now the stable is empty,
The trees have also gone away,
A stingy morning has swaddled the hills,
Opened the fields for work.
And the horse in the cage of its traces,
Pulling a covered wagon,
Looks with resigned eyes
At the mysterious, immobile world.

Nikolay Alexeyevich Zabolotsky (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Заболо́цкий; May 7, 1903 — October 14, 1958), in Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky: Selected Poems (Multilingual Matters) Paperback – July 1, 1999, translator Daniel Weissbort .
In 1928, Zabolotsky founded the avant-garde group Oberiu with Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. The group's acronym stood for "The Association of Real Art" (in Russian, Объединение реального искусства).




Glumov's Diary
1923 ‧ Short film ‧ 5 mins
Glumov's Diary is a key step in Eisenstein's career as it marks his transition from theatre stage director to film director.
Initial release: 1923
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Screenplay: Sergei Eisenstein
Story by: Alexander Ostrovsky
Producer: Aleksandr Khanzhonkov

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Mayak (Russian: Маяк, meaning The Lighthouse), Mariya Saakyan, 2006

Mariya Saakyan (1980-2018) foi uma jovem realizadora arménia que, na sua curta carreira, revitalizou o cinema arménio. Dela só vi dois filmes, este e o I'm Going to Change My Name, basicamente as duas primeiras longas. Falou-se muito do universo de Tarkovski, o que me irrita sempre, como se os universos poéticos viessem todos do mesmo lado e da mesma forma e como, muito típico no Ocidente, muitas vezes decorrente da ignorância, Tarkovski fosse o sumo sacerdote do cinema russo. De facto, só de memória, conseguiria citar uma dezena de directores de cinema russos bem superiores a Tarkovski e alguns da sua geração. Mas deixemos os cultos de personalidade em paz e lamentemos primeiro a morte prematura de Saakyan e, segundo, deixemos respirar a realidade dolorosamente transfigurada dos seus filmes, sobretudo este, um filme de regressos, sob o som abafado dos morteiros que alguns se divertiram a fazer explodir nos países do Cáucaso numa tentativa de fazer implodir a Rússia, que ainda hoje não foi posta de parte. Na vez que estive na Geórgia e Arménia, notava-se um ambiente infestado de espiões, sobretudo na Geórgia, preparador dos chamados movimentos genuínos populares.
Nada disto está presente no filme: o que está presente nele são cicatrizes interiores de fugas, de feridas, de medos e um olhar poético que tenta compreender uma realidade abusada e que afectou, calculo, uma geração de jovens a quem a autora pertenceu. Numa peregrinação por uma aldeia de memórias, entre o pó exterior e as névoas interiores, uma jovem tenta compreender um mundo ao qual tem dificuldade em voltar e sente a pulsação profunda do que foi abandonado, do que ficou abandonado à beira de precipícios incompreensíveis. No fundo, entre murmúrios, a vida torna-se estranha a ela própria, como se pairasse num vazio e abrisse uma cratera de silêncio ou se tornasse um farol abandonado no meio dos oceanos interiores e exteriores em que todos vivemos.
José

Ps: Só para referir que no filme entra uma das actrizes que admiro, Sofiko Chiaureli que habitou filmes de Tengiz Abuladze, Sergei Parajanov ou, o hoje pouco falado e injustamente, Giorgi Shengelaia.



Mayak
Directed by Mariya Saakyan
Produced by Anton Melnik
Written by Givi Shavgulidze
Starring Anna Kapaleva
Olga Yakovleva
Sos Sargsyan
Sofiko Chiaureli
Ruzana Avetisyan
Mikhail Bogdasarov
Anastasiya Grebennikova
Music by Kimmo Pohjonen
Cinematography Maxim Drozdov
Distributed by Andreevsky Flag Film Company
Release date
2006
Running time
78 min.
Country Russia
Armenia
Language Russian
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Woman and the Glacier, Audrius Stonys, 2016

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Woman and the Glacier: Thirty years of solitude
by Marta Bałaga in CINEUROPA

In his new documentary Woman and the Glacier , recently named Best Lithuanian Film and Best Film in the Baltic Gaze Competition at the Vilnius Film Festival , director Audrius Stonys turns his attention to Aušra Revutaite, a Lithuanian scientist who has spent 30 years in almost complete isolation, studying climate change on the Tuyuk-Su glacier, suspended in between Kazakhstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Residing 3,500 metres above sea level in a research station that, to put it mildly, has seen better days, Revutaite quietly examines the changes caused by the outside world – invisible to most, but not to someone who knows where to look.

From the very first scenes of Woman and the Glacier, it becomes perfectly clear that instead of focusing on the peculiarity of Revutaite’s situation, Stonys revels in her solitary existence. A voluntary Robinson Crusoe with only two playful pets to call her Friday, hers is a life punctuated by routine and overwhelming silence. Interestingly enough, it’s exactly that silence, broken only by the sound of dripping water and the relentless beat of her seismograph, that Stonys decides to respect. Devoid of explanatory voiceovers and talking heads – or, for that matter, any words at all – with the only music coming courtesy of a local artist, Woman and the Glacier is made by someone who has picked up the camera to observe, not to judge. Stonys’ life-long fascination with Sergei Loznitsa has never been felt more acutely.

It’s a fitting approach, too, as his documentary is not just another story about a person trying to survive in an unusual environment; after years of careful research and observation, Revutaite has pretty much become her surroundings. Alert to the glacier’s every movement, she is constantly looking for signals it may be sending her way.

And this is how things have been for years: by interweaving Revutaite’s everyday work with archival footage of her predecessors, Stonys acknowledges the people who, in a way, adopted the role of almost-mythical guardians, ready to react at the first sign of trouble. Although it may seem that not much has changed since those first visitors set up their camps in the Tian Shan mountains, this is clearly not the case. One look at the melting ice on the surface makes us realise that much.

Still, Woman and the Glacier is less a sobering commentary on the current state of our planet’s environment than an unassuming, surprisingly uplifting portrayal of a woman who may have been forgotten by the world, but who still manages to make her mark – however small it might seem to the untrained eye.

Produced by Radvilė Šumilė (UKU Films) and Riho Västrik (Vesilind), Woman and the Glacier was financed by the Lithuanian Film Center, Estonian Film Institute and Estonian Cultural Endowment. The world sales are handled by UKU Films.


Woman and the Glacier
2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 56 mins
Initial release: 2016
Director: Audrius Stonys
Screenplay: Audrius Stonys
Music composed by: Robert Jürjendal
Cast: Aušra Revutaite
Awards: Sidabrinė Gervė Award for Best Cinematography, Sidabrinė Gervė Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Roma, Alfonso Cuarón, 2018

Finalmente, Cuarón regressou aos bons velhos tempos do Y Tu Mamá También, (2001) que continua a ser, na minha opinião, a sua melhor obra. Filmado num formato esplendoroso de 70mm, embora Roma enferme dos defeitos de um filme de mainstream, não deixa por isso de ser um bom filme.
Falta-lhe, é certo, o vigor de escândalo e polémica que o Y Tu Mamá También tem e gerou, mas ainda assim mostra de uma forma perfeita a sociedade encapsulada e embalsamada de um México, poder-se-ia dizer, de um Novo Mundo que passou a ser jaula de escravos, servos e criados e transformou povos livres em mercadorias obedientes e passivas. A partir de um olhar confessadamente apolítico, como diz Cuáron numa entrevista, percebe-se como uma família de classe média se encerra numa espécie de bunker emocional, onde crises exteriores, muito longínquas, e interiores, muito próximas, se tornam sinais corrosivos de uma degradação inevitável. Nesse mundo, vínculos profundos prendem as pessoas umas às outras e tornam-se algemas difíceis de abrir. Por isso, o que acaba por perdurar é uma espécie de infância das emoções e de resignações, tão mais dramáticas, para quem vive encerrado numa cultura e numa língua que não são as suas e delas é criada, passiva e obediente.
José





Roma
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Produced by
Alfonso Cuarón
Gabriela Rodriguez
Nicolas Celis
Written by Alfonso Cuarón
Starring
Yalitza Aparicio
Marina de Tavira
Cinematography
Alfonso Cuarón
Edited by
Alfonso Cuarón
Adam Gough
Production
companies
Participant Media
Esperanto Filmoj
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
30 August 2018 (Venice)
21 November 2018 (United States)
Running time
135 minutes
Country
Mexico
United States
Language
Spanish
Mixtec
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