Dezembro 14, 2011 - Publicado por Mistique - Comentários
The film Mysteries of Lisbon, by Portuguese producer Paulo Branco and Chile-born director Raul Ruiz, was nominated for three Satellite Awards, including Best Foreign Film, by the International Press Academy (IPA).
Based on a novel by Portuguese 19th century writer Camilo Castelo Branco, Mysteries of Lisbon has won several international awards, namely the San Sebastián Film Festival’s Silver Shell for Best Director, the Louis Delluc Prize, in France, and the São Paulo International Film Festival’s Critics’ Award, in Brazil.
The film was produced with a Portuguese and French cast. The Portuguese cast incudes Adriano Luz, Ricardo Pereira, Afonso Pimentel and Maria João Bastos. The French cast includes Clotilde Hesmé, Lea Seydoux and Melvil Poupaud.
Mysteries of Lisbon is the crowning achievement of the late Chilean film director Raul Ruiz also distinguished posthumously last week with the 2011 Special Award by the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
“Mysteries of Lisbon” was premiered in the United States in August and was distributed nationwide by Music Box Films.
Ruiz’ credits include Time Regained, his critically acclaimed adaptation of Proust’s Remembrances of Things Past and Genealogies of a Crime, both starring Catherine Deneuve, and Three Lives and Only One Death starring Marcello Mastroianni.
IPA is an organization of American and foreign journalists based in the United States which recognizes achievements in the fields of cinema, television, radio and new media. Members include working freelance and staff writers, bloggers, broadcasters, and photographers from more than 20 different countries as well as the US and territories. Originally known as The Golden Satellite Awards, the name was changed to Satellite Awards in 2003.
Raul Ruiz’s masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel (by Camilo Castelo Branco) evokes the complex intertwined narratives of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.
Dezembro 7, 2011 - Publicado por Mistique - Comentários
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward [2011] by director Peter Joseph is a 162 minute film work which continues what the prior two films of the Zeitgeist Film Series started: a critical look at the “Zeitgeist” or ‘Spirit /Awareness of the Time’. A prominent underlying thesis of the Film Series is that a great many notions, beliefs and practices currently engaged in today and assumed as “presupposed”, “given” or seemingly empirical to our societal approaches and values are not only intellectually/historically incorrect but highly detrimental to our personal and social progress and sustainability.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward focuses on the very fabric of the social order: Monetary-Market Economics. While the majority of the world today have slowly come to see some basic flaws in the economic system we share, as large scale debt defaults, inflation, industrial pollution, resource depletion, rising cancer rates and other signposts emerge to bring the concern into the realm of “public health” overall, very few however consider the economic paradigm as a whole as the source. The tendency is to demand reform in one area or another, avoiding the possibility that perhaps the entire system is intrinsically flawed at the foundational level. ZMF presents the case that it is, indeed, the very foundational mechanics of this system that generates the patterns of behavior and unsustainable methods of conduct that are leading to the vast spectrum of detrimental consequences both personal, social, and environmental and the longer they go on, the worse things will become.
On Jan. 15th, 2011, “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” was released theatrically to sold out crowds in 60 countries; 31 languages; 295 cities and 341 Venues. It has been noted as the largest non-profit independent film release in history.
Dezembro 2, 2011 - Publicado por Mistique - Comentários
“On October 31, 2011, the world’s population reached the 7 billion. Just 200 years ago, there were only 1 billion people on the planet, and over the next 150 years, that number grew to 3 billion. But in the past 50 years, the global population has more than doubled, and the UN projects that it could possibly grow to 15 billion by the year 2100. As the international organization points out, this increasing rate of change brings with it enormous challenges…
Much more intellectual honesty, moral courage and humane action is needed…”
