Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Today's Birthdays 11/09 1869 Marie Dressler is awesome. She gave one of the most aggressive Best Actress winning performances evah. If you haven't seen Min & Bill (1933), you must. You must, you must , you must . 1883 Edna May Oliver feisty character actress 1886 Ed Wynn Uncle Albert from Mary Poppins . He loves to laugh... long and loud and clear. Audiences were always ready to laugh along with...
A TV Calling (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Many movies are made each year, a few are box-office successes, and even less garner critical acclaim. Some great movies unfortunately pass through all the cracks and are almost never heard of, let alone recognized. This post is here to repair this terrible mistake with the five "under-the-radar" films you should check out right now. The films are here listed alphabetically, so pay no attention...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Like Fernando Meirelles’s Blindness, the film suggests that human civilisation is a precariously fragile veneer. Bands of cannibals roam the country; everyone is a potential threat. For those so clearly forsaken by God, He becomes a preoccupation. The man and his son reassure themselves that they are the “good guys”, although the child’s self-sacrificing generosity is somewhat...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
The success of the 2002 Brazilian film City of God helped launch a number of careers, not the least of which is director Fernando Meirelles, who went on to helm The Constant Gardener and Blindness. It also spawned a TV series spin-off and a sequel called City of Men, and even now any association with that original film is bound to draw some attention. With that being said, here's another gritty crime...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
The Machinist and Transsiberian director Brad Anderson will start shooting his next feature in October called Vanishing on Seventh Street. The screenplay, co-written by Anderson and Anthony Jaswinski (Killing Time), is set in a once-thriving city where shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear. Five survivors fight to stay alive while grappling with the meaning of existence. Hayden Christensen...
Good News Film Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Should I see it? No. Short Review: Blindness is right. You'll want to scrape your eyes out rather than sit through the final act fo this film. Fernando Meirelles directed a great film, Cidade de Deus "City of God " . It is a moving, sometimes shocking exploration into environment and character. It is a reminder of the power of cinema and is one of the best movies I've ever seen. This ain't...
CNN (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As the 2009 Cannes Film Festival draws near, filmmakers who have made the event's short list hope that their films will be blessed with that hard-to-earn Cannes buzz, which could lead to awards and financial success.
DVD Monthly Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles Reviewed by: Fergus McShane Price: £15.99 Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. It’s difficult to portray the physical conditions of human suffering on screen and have the audience thoughtfully empathise, especially if the condition is to do with the removal of vision (impossible to present [...]
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 04/20/2009
Blindness (2008 - Fernando Meirelles) - One of the more visually amazing films I've seen in some time...No, it's not like an eye-popping, colour-filled, Bava-lensed romp, but I found it extraordinarily inventive in its representation of how blindness set in on several characters. As well, throughout the film doubling occurs via repeated patterns, colours and mirrored images in many scenes and I
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
It was almost ten years ago that I first heard about Jose Saramagos book Blindness . By then, I had read his The History of the Siege of Lisbon . Even though the core concept of ..Siege of Lisbon was...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 03/30/2009
Based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (maker of City of God and The Constant Gardener), Blindness is a chilling parable set in an unnamed city stricken by an epidemic of blindness. As more and more of the population become infected, the authorities attempt to [...]
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
City of God director Fernando Meirelles has revealed he paid the price for letting Gael Garcia Bernal spoof a Stevie Wonder song in his new film Blindness.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
Website Buy it on DVD (Amazon) Read our review Fernando Meirelles interview
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 03/26/2009
Website Buy it on DVD (Amazon) Read our review Fernando Meirelles interview
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
Director Fernando Meirelles reveals the controversial vision behind Blindness.
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