No hurry

A few hours after the Oscar ceremony this year, I think the best film of the present is that the white tape of Michael Haneke, which I hope at least will not discuss the prize for best film non-English speaking.

Because Michael Haneke, used to hit and disturb the viewer to dissecting his films the reasons for human violence, this one has been able to do so sublime, telling us the story of a Protestant village northern Germany during the years prior to the start of the 1st World War.

The description of a puritanical society, perfect, idyllic in appearance, discovering a world dominated by men humiliated, which to achieve their lower instincts, do not hesitate to abuse his power instilled hatred, revenge and survival of the fittest. The culture of corporal punishment, the coldness and rigidity of thought, the weak and the aversion to intol.lerància different, become a dangerous habit that is transmitted to children, who gather as a life philosophy shaping character later burst more violently in adulthood.

Certainly, the film with a fantastic black and white photograph - as if it were another character - is a tale, a metaphor that attempts to answer because the whole society would years later the national-socialist ideas without strange - and assuming it as the logical and true. The pace and static scenes, as a portrait may be signed by the same customs Dreyer and treatment of any bitterness and inner character to remember some moments Bergman more dismal. Directing actors is masterful. Remarkable is the interpretation that the director manages to Austrian children. Especially, the sons of the Protestant aturmentats, where only their eyes are able to convey his world.

A wonderful movie if you have not already seen it can run to see. Apart from spectacular to see big productions like Avatar, there must be time to see movies in case!

About reading stories John Cheever Reading Group Salt Library, the CinemaFòrum we used to see "The Swimmer" (The Swimmer, 1968) a film by Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack, where Burt Lancaster is probably his best role, along with his memorable performance in "Il Gattopardo".

The film, a metaphorical perspective throughout the film, tells the personal journey of Ned Merrill, an attractive middle-aged man who decides one day to the road from the house of some friends to his own, to the pools of its other known properties. During this strange adventure, will be Ned recalling old times, sharing them with different characters with whom was found making his thought in a bizarre exercise in increasingly deep personal introspection.

The film is more interesting developments in the vision we are offered the protagonist's increasingly dense, deep and nuanced layer to layer (or rather, swimming pool) to get to where ultimately exposed nakedness of his soul.

Especially interesting scenes dialogue with former lover (filmed entirely by Sydney Pollack) and the old girl babysitting for their children.

A good film for review and taste as it deserves to retrieve it or if you have not seen.

He can not avoid. It is good.

Yesterday ceremony of the 2010 Goya was the best of recent years and will surely be one of the most memorable, and that is all there helped. L 'Andreu Buenafuente formatted uninterrupted advertising with your personal sense of humor and so do managed to keep a steady pace of innovation and entertainment to avoid falling into the tedium inherent in the classical awards. The appearance of the great Rosa Maria Sard along with the final surprise assistance of Pedro Almodovar, was the end of the night rounded on Celda 211 won, AGORA received technical awards only three days with family and Garbo were collect some deserved awards Catalan cinema.

I am aware that if given the Goya for best showman this would have been without discussion by Andrew. Please someone send an SMS to Billy Crystal told her that there is his alter ego Catalan.

"If I were God, would this world so that you could have now."

There may be a greater love of a father for his son? In a world without hope or future, where everything is dead, lifeless and where the few humans who are struggling to survive deshumanitzadament like animals, I find that there is no proof that the larger estimate of the father, who knowingly there is no way out, stands up without losing the essence that makes us men. His is a Histor survival following a path, a road that you know will take them nowhere, that will only continue, continue with life, keeping the "inner fire" that you would rather not turn in any way, despite all the difficulties who live and come to know.

This movie based on novel.la "The Road" by American writer Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer Prize and author of other works into a film like No Country For Old Men), the spectator gets hit together with a sensational photograph, where the climate devastating wake of post-nuclear product leaves us all with a heavy heart.

Of particular interest are the performances of Viggo Mortensen, who artistically re-poured herself into her personate as we have already used, the child Kodi Smit-McPhee in a difficult role for her age, and of Charlize Theron, which gives life to a mother with feelings that are difficult to digest and leaves us wanting more minutes of footage to try to interpret and understand the reason for their decision.

A good film like that sure though, in my personal opinion, is an end to corrupt a little history honorably had explained everything to us until then.

Had been too long that would unfairly leaving Ordet, the most important film of the legendary Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, the drawer of the outstanding masterpieces of view, but this weekend, finally I could make myself the gift of his viewing.

All film evokes a work of art, as if it were a painting or a portrait by an artist who made customary flight details to the smallest detail of a puritanical society and mysticism. A world that, while peasant and mundane, her life governed by principles submitted by the most fervent religious beliefs.

The austerity, subtlety and depth with which explains the debate between faith and reason - the central theme in the film - through some images completely focused on the expressiveness of the characters, to the mysticism that destil.la highlight the final scene, everything is detailed and accurately with a sensitivity that moves.

A different film, unconventional and really worth it recover.

Each year at this time, we can find summaries of all the film we've seen in recent months. Random making lists, I would also, but I'd rather do it and we shall soon see what promises to be interesting:

• The white ribbon, Michael Haneke. The film is preceded by the recognition everywhere has been presented. A lot of awards for this film's German director always interesting and complex.
• Invictus, by Clint Eastwood. The new film from Clint increasingly better. Gran Torino dfícil shall overcome (my favorite film of 2009).
• On hostile ground, in Kathryn Bigelow. A movie-complaint about the Iraq war that they say will be one of the most important films of the year. The U.S. has been released with much success.
• Precious, Lee Daniels. A social drama of the last Sundance Festival, the meeting point of cinematic gems.
• Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton's. A new film that will exploit the new business of 3D, but this time the hand of the brilliant Burton. We hope not only to remain 'pretty box'.
• The Ghost Writer, by Roman Polanski. Polanski's new film after having passed a difficult year.
• Source of Christopher Nolan. Forthcoming proposal of the director of Memento and The Dark Knight. To take into account the seriousness and innovation that is always in their projects.
• Erica, Daniel Benmayor. This touches us closely: a recreation of the Battle of El Bruc. We hope you can return the drums to sound, and sound good.
• The Green Hornet, from Michel Gondry. Fim expected that Gondry's creative dream always takes unconventional proposals that break schemes.
• Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu. The Mexican director of Amores Perros, 21 grams and Babel has filmed in Barcelona with Javier Bardem. The comparison is inevitable with Allen. We hope for better.
• The Tree of Life, by Terrence Malick. Last proposal of a director little known by the public, but the ingenious author of Bad Lands (Bad Lands, 1973) and The Thin Red Line (The Thin Red Line, 1998). This time with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, actors who were beating each job they do.

We hope that all movies are great and we do enjoy.

Finally reached our cinemas announced as the Avatar from James Cameron.

From the point visually represents a step forward in making digital. The detail and perfection of the world created, and the natural elasticity of the movements of characters, and textures of all the elements both inert and the living is incredible and gets left us speechless, sunk in the armchair.

But beneath this technological milestone, Cameron remains a director who complies well with virtualization scenarios and offers very little depth in his films. If Titanic, we river two hours waiting for the ship is sinking while we explained in a very shallow and conventional love story between a couple of different social classes in Avatar, past the first few minutes of novelty which details the world and the situation where we do not escape any viewer will like and what things will be more or less the result of all this. And that is the legendary Hollywood Manicheism good very good and very bad bad together simple structure with the introduction of + conflict + final battle, and the expected story of impossible love between two beings of the worlds engulfing everything, there are very present.

The script borrows much of its essence from other films such as Matrix or alien, being basically a modern cowboy. However, a western immersed in a digital world and virtual, with good (Indians) who are fighting for their land and mother nature and some bad (Yankees) and powerful evil driven solely by their greed.

A movie worth seeing if you enjoy and expect more than they intended.

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Incomplides promises. Angel Quintana.
Avatar. Salvador Montalto.
Avatar makes history. El Pais. Rocio Ayuso.

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small! "

Taking advantage that the Film Library of the Government this past November has been scheduled a series of films of Billy Wilder, I was hitting the Cuquet review Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Twilight of the gods in Spain.

After almost 60 years, the film remains as exciting and maintaining one of the best films in film history. The superb resolution of the script tireless Wilder and Brackett, the legendary performance of Gloria Swanson and the presence of casting legendary figures such as Erich von Stroheim, Cecil B. DeMille, Buster Keaton, HB Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson (sensational tribute to silent film) make the film is still remembered as a masterpiece, a joy that occasionally we like to look back and admire.

Although the film is pure cinema: Wilder gives us a worldview of Hollywood of the 40s with their characteristic look full of irony and black humor. Deep knowledge of the language of cinema, offers unforgettable scenes as the initial contrapicat scriptwriter died in the pool (who becomes the narrator of the history) and the poignant final scene on the steps of Norma Desmond (All right, Mr.. DeMille , I'm ready for my close-up).

Surrounded by great professionals (and friends) and Charles Bracket Fanz Waxman - author of a soundtrack inseparable from the images - with costumes by the legendary Edith Head, and enjoying the magnetism of the aforementioned characters of silent film, Sunset Boulevard, becomes a critical world of Hollywood, but made by someone who does not forget also that at no time in part.

Movies like that I love you long time (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime, 2008) are necessary to remind us that we are weak and frail men in pain, but that is deeper than this, we able to reach and surpass it with us autoreconstruir effort.

The French director, Philippe Claudel, best known as FANCI novelist and university professor engaged in anthropological and literary subjects, in this his first film is able to convey with great sensitivity the ordeal of a woman, after spending to fifteen years in prison, will continue fighting for freedom now being supported by her sister and for society. A poignant story. Jails and prisons with bars inside superables only with the passage of time and spirit of survival inherent in men.

Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, known by the public for his role in The English Patient, gives an interpretation of round splendid. With its beautiful and sad eyes, their silences and gestures help us understand the interior of a troubled mother and wife who had to suffer the social rejection of everyone, even his parents. His sister, played by Elsa Zylberstein (whom we know little to our country but in France if it has a certain renown), will become your starting point, after 15 years of absence to start their reunion and release inside.

A magnificent French film that is a difficult issue, which gets stir consciences and make us think.

The scouts Cau Salt this year celebrating its 50 years.

Few things are worth more than 50 years held a group of people who still do things with enthusiasm and sincere manner. A Scout movie!

For many years you all!