4344 - O CONTADOR (2016)

 

Ben Affleck - até parado é ruim

O CONTADOR (THE ACCOUNTANT, USA, 2016) – Já foi dito (por mim, inclusive) que esse talvez tenha sido o papel mais adequado para Ben Affleck: um autista. No entanto, nem assim ele convence. Aqui, ele é um contador capaz de fazer qualquer maquiagem em contas de empresas – é um gênio nos números, cujas habilidades também incluem artes marciais e e perfil de matador. Muitos bons atores no elenco: JK Simmons, John Litgow e Anna Kendrick. É sempre bom ver um filme dando um inesperado destaque a Pollock. É aí o maior defeito do roteiro: ele foi treinado pelo pai militar. It had been said that this is maybe the most suitable role for Ben Affleck: an autist. Nevertheless, he is not convicible as an accountant able to embezzle any fraudulent operation – he is a math genius, whose abilities also include martial arts and a killer profile. This is is biggest flaw in the script: he was trained by his father, a military. The cast is outstanding: JK Simmons, John Litgow and Anna Kendrick. It is always good to watch a movie that gives an unexpected importance to Pollock. Amazon Prime.    

4343 - THE GREAT BUSTER KEATON (2018)

 

THE GREAT BUSTER KEATON, A CELEBRATION (USA, 2018) – Documentário sobre Buster Keaton, narrado por Peter Bogdanovich, cobrindo sua carreira e vida pessoal acidentada, desde os show de vaudeville até o estrelato em Hollywood.. Wonderful documentary on the inimitable comedic icon and filmmaker, Buster Keaton, compiled and narrated by fellow director Peter Bogdanovich who traces the comic's career and troubled life, from vaudeville child star to landmark Hollywood star and eventual global phenomenon with vintage clips of jaw-dropping sequences from Keaton's filmography of his epic death-defying stunts and daredevil display of acrobatics the likes not haven't been matched in generations. Super fans included are Richard Lewis, Mel Brooks, James Karen, Johnny Knoxville, Bill Hader, Werner Herzog, Carl Reiner, Cybill Shepherd, Nick Kroll, Quentin Tarantino, French Stewart and Jon Watts. A must for film buffs. Amazon Prime.

4342 - MEU AMIGO EXTRAORDINÁRIO (2023)

 

 MEU AMIGO EXTRAORDINÁRIO (JULES, USA, 2023) – O roteiro de Gavin Stickler consegue misturar comédia, drama e ficção científica, costurando temas universais como mortalidade, solidão, comunicação (ou a falta dela) e a necessidade permanente de empatia, uma tarefa sempre complexa. O filme é sobre Milton (Ben Kingsley), um morador de uma pequena cidade na Pennsylvania, cuja vida se transforma quando acha um ET no seu quintal, com quem desenvolve uma amizade improvável.  The movie follows Milton (Ben Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Blending comedy, drama, and sci-fi, Gavin Stickler’s script also weaves together universal themes like loneliness, mortality, communication (and the lack of it), and the permanent need of empathy, a real tall order. Netflix.  

4341 - O ASSASSINO EM MIM (2010)

 O ASSASSINO EM MIM (THE KILLER INSIDE ME, USA, 2010) – Com um roteiro recheado de sadismo e masoquismo, sob o verniz de vingança, esse noir ultraviolento precisava mesmo de um quase não ator como protagonista – assim, Casey Affleck está perfeito no papel de um xerife psicopata numa cidade petrolífera no Texas, na década de 50, onde uma série de assassinatos vão pontuando uma história cujas raízes levam a um perfil sociopata. Jessica Alba e Kate Hudson no elenco. With a script fraught with sadism and masochism beneath a venner of revenge, this extreme noir requires an actor like Casey Affleck as a psychopathic deputy sheriff in an oil town in Texas in the 50s, where many murders indicate a story whose roots lead to a sociopath profile. HBO Max.

4340 - A ESTRADA DA VIDA (1954)

 

O almirante Nelson olhando para a esposa de Fellini

A ESTRADA DA VIDA (LA STRADA, Itália, 1954) – Ganhador do primeiro Oscar para filme estrangeiro, La Strada fez de Fellini um nome mundialmente conhecido. É um clássico por todos os motivos: por Fellini, pelo elenco, fotografia, trilha sonora de Nino Rota e uma equipe capaz de transformar as vidas de personagens simples em um olhar sensível e solidário sobre a humanidade. O filme pode ser entendido como uma versão de a Bela e a Fera, com foco em um homem que ganha consciência por causa do amor. Com Giulietta Massina e Anthony Quinn, mas a surpresa no elenco é a presença de Richard Basehart, o almirante Nelson de Viagem ao Fundo do Mar. The movie won the first-ever Academy Awards for the best foreign language film and made Fellini internationally known. Many things made it a classic: because Fellini, his cast, and his crew all working together to turn the lives of some very ordinary human beings into a worthwhile and sympathetic look at humanity. The movie can be seen as a version of The Beauty and The Beast, focusing on a man who gains insight and awareness because of love. With Giulietta Massina and Anthony Quinn, but the great surprise of the cast is the presence of Richard Basehart, the admiral Nelson of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. YouTube.

4339 - I AM ALFRED HITCHCOCK (2021)

I AM ALFRED HITCHCOCK (Canadá, 2021) – Excelente documentário sobre a vida e obra de AH. No entanto, faltou um personagem marcante: Bernard Hermann, a alma musical de tantos sucessos, como PSICOSE. Born in 1899, Sir Alfred Hitchcock KBE directed over 50 feature films, becoming as well-known as his actors. His work received 46 Academy Awards, including five for best director. He won two Golden Globes and five-lifetime achievement awards. Oscar nominated five times for Best Director, he is among a few British directors with a plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is a study of Alfred Hitchcock’s work, illustrated with clips chosen with tremendous insight and connoisseurship – and supposedly narrated from beyond the grave by Hitchcock himself, pointing out techniques, resonances, images, meanings and occasionally breaking off to check something. With great elan, Hitchcock/Cousins breaks the movies down to six themes: escape desire, loneliness, time, fulfillment, and height. You see characters escaping from danger or unhappiness, desiring pleasure or sex (the escape impulse running the opposite way) in an infinitely deferred consummation, declaimed in ecstatic closeups, which is shrewdly called chaste-arousal.HBO Max.

4338 - BEAU TEM MEDO (2023)

 

BEAU TEM MEDO (BEAU IS AFRAID, USA, 2023) - This movie spends its entire time inside the mind of a man who clearly suffers from extreme anxiety, but it's hard to pin down what exactly it is that he's afraid of. And unlike movies like David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, we're offered no obvious reason why Beau is seeing some of the weird things he sees. Is he schizophrenic? Maybe. Ari Aster does not want to answer that question, he wants you to ponder on multiple possibilities. And like most art that leans on the abstract side of the spectrum, each viewer is likely to reflect differently on it, and come up with their own answers (if any at all). From what I could tell, there were many clues in the movie that seem to imply that his anxiety disorder is caused by something sexual. A sexual trauma, perhaps. From graphic graffiti at in the earlier sequences, scenes where he is attracted to a girl his age but believes he will die if he has sex with her, and a creature his mother calls "his father" locked in an attic that is basically a monster made out of male genitalia, the movie is riddled with disturbing sexual references. (Not unlike something Cronenberg would do.)

4337 - PARALISIA (2023)

PARALISIA (LOCKED IN, USA, 2023) - The premise of a woman who can't communicate after an accident but still finds a way to let her nurse know that someone tried to kill her starts off interesting. But what comes is a letdown, including bad acting and lost characters. The characters are annoying and make the dumbest decisions possible every single time. Famke Janssen is almost unrecognizable.