Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... him 1948 Bille August Danish director of The Best Intentions and Pelle the Conqueror fame 1955 Fernando Meirelles director of declining films: City of God, The Constant Gardner, Blindness . I'm not trying to be mean. But... um... do you have faith he'll pull out of it? Discuss. 1974 Giovanna Mezzogiorno of Vincere (2009) hoopla 1988 Nikki Blonsky I don't know about you but I could...
Cuaderno Latinoamericano (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles recently signed a deal with Universal Pictures, and this seems to be good news for the Brazilian movie industry. This article gives a lot of information about the cinema experience in Brazil and its declining state. When I was there, most of the movies came from Hollywood while only about one or two Brazilian movies would be in the theaters at one...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... out of five favelas in the city, including Cidade de Deus, which was made world-famous following Fernando Meirelles' film City of God. "We have to keep going and to accelerate implementation," Genro said. He announced the release of 75 million dollars for police pacifying efforts in the favelas. Cabral said that Rio authorities are working to "build a great policy that offers citizens,...
Double O Section (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... Given the many, many false starts over the past few years (at one point The Constant Gardener 's Fernando Meirelles was tipped to direct and more recently Sam Raimi was attached ; everyone from Ford to Ryan Gosling has been rumored to star at one time or another), a skeptic would be forgiven for assuming "never." Variety's Michael Fleming, however, is slightly more upbeat,...
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... Agnes Varda, Francois Truffaut, Roman Polanski, Jacques Audiard, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Fernando Meirelles, Nanni Moretti, Francois Ozon, Mike Leigh, David Chase, David Milch, Ed Burns and David Simon, to name just a few. I dream of a music career, playing the piano.I would love to work with Mike Leigh who is, in my opinion, one of the most truthful filmmakers in the world....
A TV Calling (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... Julianne Moore stars in a movie helmed by Cidade de Deus/The Constant Gardener ’s director, Fernando Meirelles. Don McKellar adapted the José Saramago novel of the same name. Also in the cast are Danny Glover, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga and Gael Garcia Bernal. IMDb’s one-line pitch: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
A film about struggling ballet dancers - with its premiere in one of the city's favelas – was the pick of this year's Rio de Janeiro film festival The Brazilian cinema showcased at last week's Rio de Janeiro film festival has a look and style clearly shaped by the country's international heavy-hitters, directors such as Walter Salles and Fernando Meirelles. But weirdly, the most...
