AKIRA (1988)

Uma animação à frente de seu tempo. Vi esse filme quando era moleque, e não entendi nada. Mas me recordo bastante das cenas de violência, dos efeitos especiais inéditos, como as explosões e faíscas de bala. Nada melhor do que rever adulto, pra ver se se entende agora.

ONCE (2007)

Entre as muitas formas de arte, a música é a mais bela. Cinematograficamente, o filme é simplório, mas as canções e o papel que a música tem na transformação da vida dos personagens é fantástico. Eles amarram o roteiro de uma forma real e bela. São duas pessoas humildes, excluídas, com empregos ordinários, que escondem por trás um talento, pra vida e pra música, que julgam terem perdido.

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CONTE COMIGO (2001)

A cena em que o Mark Ruffalo chora, à beira da cama, resume o sentimento do filme. São dois irmãos sufocados por problemas cotidianos que se encontram depois de anos, esperando que o outro veio para ajudá-lo. Mas como ajudar alguém quando já se está tão cansado? O carinho, a fraternidade, a compreensão e o sacrifício são só alguma dessas coisas, que mesmo sem ter, é possível oferecer ao outro, de coração.

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L.A. STORY

It's ironic that comedian, writer, and actor Steve Martin became best known for a brand of goofy, zany, physical humor replete with spoofs of low-I.Q. simpletons. Since the late '80s, he's been busily creating stage two of his career marked by the classy, erudite, intellectual, and satirical where before he was base, broad, and low-brow. The original Martin was a lot of fun with an arrow through his head or dressed like King Tut, but his later work is his best stuff. It includes Roxanne (1987), A Simple Twist of Fate (1994), Bowfinger (2000), his plays and essay collections, and supporting roles in high-class fare such as Grand Canyon (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), and Joe Gould's Secret (2000). This comedy, which skewers the airy, weightless culture of Los Angeles with wicked, fiendish glee, while at the same time joyfully embracing such elements as New Age music and the city's meteorological perfection, is one such example of Martin's "stage two" best. Whether he's skating through the L.A. County Museum of Art or sending up the town's insatiable taste for customized coffee (pre-Starbucks, no less), Martin's perception is keen, his poisoned pen sharp, and his sense of the sublimely ridiculous acute as ever. If a handful of elements in L.A. Story (1991) are dated (freeway shootings, for one example), it's only because his has transformed into a keenly observed, timely comedy. Richly rewarding and enormous fun, it's one of a great artist's best films.

As duas melhores cenas de um filme belo e esquecido. O amor nas condições atmosféricas. Quem ver, que julgue. Esse é para um cara que é fã desse filme...

SON OF RAMBOW

As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 80s, two boys who couldn't be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a well-mannered schoolboy being raised in an ultra-religious community that deplores such corruptive distractions as television and seeks to maintain its purity by severely limiting contact with the outside world. In order to exorcise his creative inner demons, Will has taken to sketching imaginative drawings and complex illustrations. Lee Carter (Will Poulter) is the school terror, a rampaging hellion whose overaggressive behavior has made him an endless source of frustration to the faculty, and a source of fear to his fellow classmates. As fate would have it, Will is in the school hallway avoiding exposure to the classroom television when a fed-up teacher ejects Lee from the classroom. Though at first it appears as if Lee is about to torment timid Will just as he does the rest of the student body, the two form a tight bond after Will convinces Lee to view a bootleg copy of Rambo: First Blood. When Lee informs Will that he wants to shoot a homebrewed version of the violent action film for an upcoming amateur filmmaking contest, a sudden streak of rebellion prompts his sheltered classmate to readily agree. As the summer wears on the two boys set out to create the ultimate no-budget action movie, but their grand vision hits an unexpected hitch when a busload of French exchange students arrive at the school and the leader of the pack attempts to hijack the production.