Happy Antipodean (Free subscription) | yesterday
Review: City of God, dir Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund (2002)If you've ever been sick of watching Pulp Fiction and wondered what influence it has had on cinema, this film is a good place to look for the jaded movie buff. In fact, it improves on its predecessor by a long mile. At three hours it should have been a stretch on my patience, but the pace never lets up; the story...
Nouse.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... normally wouldn’t be able to enjoy. We saw an interesting portrayal of the blind last year, when Fernando Meirelles followed up City of God and The Constant Gardener with Blindness. The story upon which it was based was made readily available in Braille, and its author José Saramango was happy for it to be adapted for the screen as long as the characters had no names, and the city...
Final Cut (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
(again, no films I haven't seen made the list so there is no About Schmidt, Adaptation, The Bourne Identity, Far From Heaven, The Hours, The Pianist, Red Dragon, Road to Perdition, Talk to Her, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Spirited Away or Monsoon Wedding) Best Picture : Chicago Highest grossing film of the year : Spider-Man Critics favourite : Hukkle and Deserted Station (100%) 1. City of God Director : Fernando...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... 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...
