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<title><![CDATA[Através da Sala Escura]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Essa é uma versão cheia de cortes do artigo Através da sala escura: uma aproximação entre a sal]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;">Essa é uma versão cheia de cortes do artigo <em>Através da sala escura: uma aproximação entre a sala de cinema e o lugar do VJing</em>, de Gabriel Menotti, escrito entre 2006/2007. Esse artigo, por sua vez, teve origem na tese de mestrado dele, disponível <a href="http://netart.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/Members/menotti/rants/salaescura/introducao#_ftn9">aqui</a>. É pra colocar mais questões sobre a projeção digital!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">São inúmeros os relatos que falam da autonomia da projeção nos primórdios do cinema. O fato de os filmes serem vendidos pelos produtores, ao invés de alugados,<a name="_ftnref1" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> mostra como o foco da indústria no início do século passado era bem diferente do de hoje em dia. O <em>moviegoing</em> se configurava mais como um <em>ir ao cinema</em> do que um <em>ir ver um filme</em> – mesmo porque o “filme” se realizava na hora, como pura experiência cinematográfica.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">O dono de um estabelecimento tinha completo controle editorial sobre o que exibir.<a name="_ftnref1" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> O operador podia usar recursos de iluminação e regular a velocidade do projetor para dar ou corrigir o sentido das imagens.<a name="_ftnref2" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn2"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> A música, executada em sincronia com o filme, não pertencia à obra em si, mas sim era aplicada sobre sua fruição.<a name="_ftnref3" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn3"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> Dessa maneira, por mais que um filme se repetisse, ele nunca seria visto da mesma forma.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Em 1963, Stan Brackage ainda falava na projeção como <em>performance</em>, isto é, prática criativa. Mas a marcha da indústria solapou essa capacidade, ao instituir uma dinâmica comodificada de consumo, conforme padronizações técnicas (e de linguagem) se tornavam cada vez mais necessárias para garantir a penetração de diferentes obras em diferentes espaços de exibição (e, hoje em dia, sua circulação por um amplo espectro midiático).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Essa situação está sendo posta em cheque pela inserção das novas tecnologias nos expedientes cinematográficos tradicionais. Estamos a um passo da metamorfose do cinema em um meio inteiramente digital. Tudo o que resta para completar esse processo é a transição dos mecanismos de distribuição e exibição. Mas a indústria se opõe, e escolheu justamente as salas de projeção como sua última trincheira.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Ao contrário do que é publicizado,<a name="_ftnref1" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> os motivos para essa relutância não são imediatamente estéticos. Já estão disponíveis no mercado tecnologias de projeção digital capazes de construir imagens tão definidas quanto um dispositivo 35 mm.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"></span> As razões de a indústria não adotar imediatamente essas tecnologias, que dispensariam a copiagem dos filmes em película, provocando ganhos de produtividade em todas as instâncias da cadeira cinematográfica, são <em>operacionais</em>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Produtores, distribuidores e exibidores se enrolam para definir quais os padrões mais adequados, vantajosos para todas as partes. Esse processo é encabeçado pelo <em>Digital Cinema Initiative</em> (DCI), consórcio formado pelos sete maiores estúdios de Hollywood. Por trás dele, está a resistência da indústria em ceder espaço no ponto em torno do qual gira toda a economia do cinema; de onde essa economia pode ser controlada: suas dinâmicas de consumo.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">O principal interesse dos agentes que dominam o mercado é manter sua posição privilegiada. A digitalização representa uma séria ameaça a esse desenho, uma vez que acarretaria o completo sucateamento do parque tecnológico vigente, substituindo-o por uma estrutura mais aberta, dinâmica e flexível.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Digitalizado, o filme é uma quantidade de <em>bytes</em>, matriz de altíssima qualidade, pronta para se desviar dos canais autorizados e escoar pelo mercado informal. Digitalizada, a sala de projeção é pouco diferente de um <em>home theater</em> conectado à Internet. Ela se torna tão acessível para o espectador quanto uma câmera de gravação MiniDV ou um <em>software</em> de edição de vídeo.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Dentro desse quadro, o que parece preocupar a indústria, além da proliferação descontrolada de cópias ilegais de filmes ainda não lançados, são os efeitos que a vulgarização dos espaços de exibição poderia causar no <em>moviegoing</em>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Por muito tempo, o <em>moviegoing</em> foi a única dinâmica de consumo audiovisual possível. Hoje, muito embora conviva com várias outras – filmes podem ser vistos em canais de TV, alugados em DVD, baixados da Internet –, ele mantém sua deferência.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">De forma semelhante, mesmo com a disseminação de procedimentos mais adequados às dinâmicas de comunicação digitais que predominam em nossa sociedade, a sala de projeção permanece preponderante no circuito cinematográfico. Ela ainda é “o primeiro e principal ponto de vendas” de filmes,<a name="_ftnref5" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn5"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> de tal modo que o circuito continua se organizando ao seu redor. Apenas de uma outra maneira.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Se antes a sala de projeção era o único local onde a indústria obtinha retorno financeiro, hoje a venda de <em>home vídeo</em> e os licenciamentos de imagem representam aos produtores um lucro ligeiramente superior do que os dividendos da bilheteria.<a name="_ftnref6" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn6"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> Da mesma forma, os próprios exibidores já ganham mais vendendo concessões (pipoca, refrigerante e demais comestíveis) do que ingressos.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Com isso, mais do que nunca, a experiência cinematográfica fica refém de uma economia de resultados. A projeção do filme acaba se tornando uma espécie de espetáculo de marketing para uma série de mercados acessórios, e a sala de cinema passa a ser nada mais do que uma vitrine,<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span> em torno da qual todas as outras mídias se colocam (...).<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Ironicamente, dentro da presente estrutura, as potências particulares de cada dinâmica de consumo são anuladas. Uma obra precisa ser portável o bastante para atravessar diversas mídias com o mínimo de adaptações, sem perder o seu apelo comercial. Para isso, ela não pode se valer de características específicas de qualquer meio – nem mesmo do <em>original</em>, a sala de projeção.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Com a comodificação do <em>moviegoing</em>, restringem-se todas as formas de espectação cinematográfica, inclusive o próprio. O controle das salas de projeção possibilita à indústria determinar econômica e esteticamente a recepção do filme – e, em última instância, aspectos relativos à sua produção e linguagem.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Se a digitalização assusta, é porque permite diluir esse controle, e flexibilizar as dinâmicas de consumo a tal ponto que seja impossível utilizá-las como cancela para a produção. Cada filme poderia buscar as formas de exibição que fossem mais adequadas à sua proposta específica, e nem por isso deixar de ser <em>cinema</em>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Mesmo dentro da indústria, timidamente, isso já está acontecendo. Tanto de maneira mais branda (como em <a href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/bbc/ult272u50901.shtml"><em>Road to Guantanamo</em></a>, último filme de Michael Winterbottom, lançado simultaneamente para salas de projeção, televisão e Internet),<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span> quanto em propostas mais radicais (como a série <em>Tulse Luper Suitcases</em>, que vem sendo desenvolvida por Peter Greenaway, de maneira articulada e complementar, em diversas mídias).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Nesse sentido, De Luca sugere que as salas de cinema digital adotarão uma arquitetura fluida, apta a exibir diferentes produtos, como jogos de futebol e shows de rock.<a name="_ftnref11" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn11"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> Mas isso não passa de perfumaria. É ingênuo pensar que a mudança provocada pela digitalização dos expedientes de consumo do cinema se limita a esse nível superficial.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Essas tecnologias têm a capacidade de alterar completamente o balanço de poder entre a grande mídia e as pessoas comuns.<a name="_ftnref12" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn12"></a>A distribuição de filmes em rede deteriora as janelas de lançamento, acabando com o apelo de exclusividade dos blockbusters. A projeção digital torna a exibição de filmes um negócio ordinário, ao alcance de qualquer um. Um realizador não mais precisa depender do cartel de multiplexes: ele pode programar sua própria estrutura de difusão, conveniente com a sua obra.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Mais do que isso, a projeção digital modifica a essência do dispositivo cinematográfico. O filme passa a ser composto de maneira radicalmente distinta: não se trata mais da projeção de registros indiciais, mas da efetiva criação de som-imagem a partir de um código arbitrário, por meio de processamento algorítmico <em>em tempo real</em>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">Conforme a tela de cinema passa a ser interativa,<a name="_ftnref13" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn13"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a> a exibição do filme deixa de ser <em>playback</em> (reprodução) e se torna <em>rendering </em>(interpretação).<a name="_ftnref14" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&#38;view=js&#38;name=js&#38;ver=1j9q_3TXhIw&#38;am=R_EYpcy3Vz0A4w#_ftn14"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a>Somente pela atuação concomitante do dispositivo é que o código pode ser traduzido em mapa de bits, frame, história. Nesse processo, se torna suscetível a outras contaminações.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#34;">A projeção digital é, logo, uma interface opaca – o contrário de tudo que a sala de cinema foi programada para ser. Seu funcionamento aponta para o instante da própria exibição, esse tempo que a anti-arquitetura do multiplex busca suprimir. Por isso, também favorece a experiência do espaço real. Digitalizada, a sala de cinema ganha medidas, volume, distância. Quem sabe não assuma a disposição de outros espaços de novas mídias, e se torne <em>navegável</em>?<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vertigo at the Tennessee]]></title>
<link>http://powderburns.wordpress.com/?p=3</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>powderburns</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I was able to escape the heat, the humidity, celebrity news and commercials for &#8220;Wanted&#8221;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was able to escape the heat, the humidity, celebrity news and commercials for "Wanted" this weekend in the cool, beautifully restored Tennessee Theatre to take in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo". I've seen "Vertigo" who knows how many times, and I always see something new, something I've never noticed before. Its a film that I liked the first time I saw it, and have grown to love. As perfect a film about obssesion that could ever be, it'd be easy to become obssessed with in and of itself. Wanna nice obssession-themed double feature. Watch "Vertigo" back to back with "Raging Bull". Good times.</p>
<p>One of the great things about watching an old movie at the Tennessee is the crowd isn't the normal mix of film watchers and "hey, aren't I at home? Good, I'll talk on my phone and ask questions about the movie and make everyone around my miserable." that you would find at the ole' multiplex. At least it never was before. Usually you can bet on a mix of film geeks and their friends and older people, which is what appeared to be in line for "Vertigo". No such luck. People were conversing with one another, on phones, and laughing at points that no sane person would. Hitcock flicks are full of dark and sometimes even silly humor, but Jimmy Stewart begging Kim Novack to change her hair color because "It can't matter to you Judy!" isn't one of them.  Maybe people thought since it was an old movie it didn't matter, I dunno. Even with all the talking, laughing, and even a Kim Novack directed catcall, it was worth not watching on DVD again for two reasons. One: My living room is not nearly as nice or ornate as the Tennessee Theatre, and Two: My living room doesn't have a guy that rises out of the floor playing a Wurlitzer organ before the movie starts.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=155</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I just watched Sweeney Todd. Tim Burton - Johnny Depp, Oscar nominee, musical, thriller. Enough reas]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">I just watched Sweeney Todd. Tim Burton - Johnny Depp, Oscar nominee, musical, thriller. Enough reason. I bought the DVD. It's such a great movie. Well, great dengan "rasa" Tim Burton, seperti greatnya animasi <em>The Nightmare Before Christmas</em> di tengah arus <em>Disney's Classics</em>, greatnya <em>Edward Scissorhands</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.firstshowing.net/img/sweeney-todd-posterbig.jpg" alt="" width="322" height="477" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Benjamin Barker (Depp) memiliki hidup yang sempurna, meskipun sederhana. Ia menikah dengan wanita cantik bernama Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly), dan dikaruniai anak bernama Joanna (Jayne Wisener). Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), yang ingin menikahi Lucy, mengirim Benjamin ke penjara selama 15 tahun. Sekembalinya dari penjara, rumahnya di Fleet Street telah menjadi toko kue Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter). Lovett menceritakan bahwa Lucy telah meracuni dirinya sendiri, sementara Joanna diadopsi oleh Turpin. Benjamin pun tak segan-segan merencanakan balas dendam kepada Judge Turpin yang telah mengambil istrinya. He changed his name to be, as you know, "Sweeney Todd".</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://images.broadwayworld.com/upload/23004/tn-500_st-05596.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">There will be blood everywhere, since Todd kills everyone who comes to his barbershop using his barber knives. The film is dark, very dark, and beautiful at the same time. Musikal, sehingga kita dapat mendengar Helena Bonham Carter dan (terutama sekali) Johnny Depp menyanyikan lagu-lagu indah, seperti "Not While I'm Around", "By The Sea" dan "No Place Like London".</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Tidak hanya lagunya, gambar yang disuguhkan Burton pun sangat indah. Bagian Kota London ditampilkan secara surreal dan cenderung horor, but it's wonderful, really. The most disturbing thing is, <strong>blood, blood, blood</strong>. It's okay though. The film comes up with a predictable should-have-been-a-twist-ending. I've known the twist much sooner. 4 stars out of 5, I guess :)</p>
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<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=153</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=153</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Saya sangat tertarik untuk menulis review film yang satu ini. Film garapan Mouly Surya ini mencerita]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Saya sangat tertarik untuk menulis review film yang satu ini. Film garapan Mouly Surya ini menceritakan tentang Alisha (Ladya Cheryl), gadis kaya raya yang tidak bahagia karena selalu kesepian--orangtuanya sudah meninggal ketika Ia masih kanak-kanak. Suatu hari, Ia bertemu dengan Bari (Donny Alamsyah) dan (as we all have guessed) jatuh cinta padanya. Alisha pun penasaran (dan akhirnya menjadi obsessed) pada Bari, sampai-sampai Ia pindah ke rumah susun dan tinggal di sebelah kamar Bari, yang tinggal bersama Renta (Kinaryosih), kekasihnya.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Filmnya gloomy, tone yang dipersembahkan oleh Eros Eflin &#38; Vida Sylfia pun gelap, seperti <em>Cerita Jakarta</em> di film <em>Chants of Lotus</em>. Bahkan, lebih gelap dan monoton lagi, sesuai dengan mood yang ingin diciptakan oleh Mouly. Ladya berakting dengan sangat baik, Ia memerankan perempuan yang obsesif dan posesif kepada satu-satunya laki-laki yang pernah Ia cintai, dan lama-kelamaan justru terlihat seperti psikopat. Padahal, Ia hanya ingin membuat Bari bahagia--dengan cara yang salah. Dialog-dialognya hampir brilian. Bagaimana tidak? Skenario <em>Fiksi</em> ditulis oleh, the one and only, Joko Anwar. <em>Fiksi </em>sejenis dengan <em>Kala</em>, meskipun dalam penggarapan masih sangat jauh dengan pendahulunya.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I'm interested with this movie karena melihat cap <em>Official Selection Pusan International Film Festival</em> di posternya. Good movie, tapi surreal. Nggak heran bioskopnya sepi. Orang Indonesia kan jarang mau nonton beginian, kayak <em>Kala</em> aja, hihi. Banyak scene yang bikin berdebar dan membuat kita inginnya membunuh Alisha. Well, it means, Ladya selalu sukses membawakan karakter apapun yang disodorkan padanya. Alia <em>Ada Apa dengan Cinta</em>, Neyna <em>Biarkan Bintang Menari</em>, dan Alisha <em>Fiksi</em> sama-sama pendiam, kurang ekspresif, dan pemimpi. Tapi, Ladya bisa membawakannya dengan berbeda, memberi mood dan kesan berbeda pula. Donny Alamsyah seperti biasa bermain dengan ekspresif, sementara Kinaryosih did well too.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I just don't like this kind of movie, but it is a good one. Different with other summer movies, hahaha.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Love Me If You Dare (2003)]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=146</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t find the DVD of this movie, so I googled and found an exciting website, Watch Movie]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">I couldn't find the DVD of this movie, so I googled and found an exciting website, <a href="http://www.watch-movies.net">Watch Movies</a>. Just like <a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com">Crunchy Roll</a>, we can fully watch movies online, including newly released movies, such as <em>Iron Man, What Happens in Vegas</em>, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Love Me If You Dare</em> plots Julien's (Guillaume Canet) childhood, when he met a bullied schoolmate named Sophie (Marion Cotillard). They started a game of dares, using a candy tin from Julien's mom. After his mother's death, Sophie lives together with him and his daddy, she even slept in the same bed with Julien--for 10 years.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">They made fun of each other and kept continuing the game until they are going to finish highschool. They fell in love, but Sophie got confused because Julien kept assuming that it was only a dare from Sophie. Many things came between them: Julien's dad, exams, other things, other people, and even themselves.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">This movie is lovely, the romantic-comedy I like--which has the same "type-of-movie" with <em>Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind</em>. The dialogue and scenes are just romantic, I cried at some parts of the movie. Well, sometimes tears of joy, sometimes the real ones. Julien and Sophie went crazy for each other, with an insane way to express it.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Yann Samuell's way of storytelling is pretty impressive. The colours of the movie makes it better. On their childhood, the colours were very bright and exciting, and it fades as they grew older and older, while the plot became sadder and sadder. As the story goes, the dares became more violent, more dangerous, yet mesmerizing at the same time. Ah, too many things came along the way.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The unexpected ending was also one of the things that makes this movie loved (and hated). I don't really like the ending, which went just like <em>Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind</em>: tragic and romantic at the same time. You can have many interpretations in watching the ending. Many critics came to the movie, because of mischievous Julien and Sophie's madness. I still love the movie though it surely hasn't passed my love for <em>Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A refreshing movie if you'd like to see romantic movies, other than romantic comedies or even the <em>too-much-drama</em> ones.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Game?</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Speed Racer]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=145</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=145</guid>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Hell! I watched another movie today, after twice of Iron Man in a week! The short review, here goes:</p>
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<li>Told ya, Emile Hirsch's such a hottie too. I wanna see him in <em>Into The Wild.</em></li>
<li>Christina Ricci is very cute in this movie, she looks different.</li>
<li>Too much fantasy and colours; which is cute, but sometimes annoying.</li>
<li>I'm a fan of Disney-kind-of-endings, so I'm a bit disappointed when Rex did not.. (watch yourself)</li>
<li>Incomparable with "The Matrix" Trilogy, I had thought of something "bigger" and "wow-er".</li>
<li>We were taken to a Fantasyland, I could not understand :(</li>
<li>Good movie, but since I didn't watch Speed Racer animation, I did not fully enjoy it.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Across The Universe]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/across-the-universe/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/across-the-universe/</guid>
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One of my favourite movie.
Jim Sturgess is too hot to resist :p, so is Evan Rachel Wood.
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<li>One of my favourite movie.</li>
<li>Jim Sturgess is too hot to resist :p, so is Evan Rachel Wood.</li>
<li>Great visualizations on the songs.</li>
<li>The remake of the songs are even better.</li>
<li>I skipped the "Mr. Kite" scene because it's too freaky.</li>
<li>Bono's performance = (Y) until they entered the bus. The bus scene makes me dizzy.</li>
<li>Cliche love story.</li>
<li>Love the colours and blockings in the bowling alley.</li>
<li>Liverpool scenery on the "Hold Me Tight" scene is romantic</li>
<li>Too bad they didn't sing "I Will".</li>
<li>I think it's better if Jude and Lucy kiss at the end of the movie :(</li>
<li>Very artsy, and cute.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Juno]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/juno/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/juno/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll start a new thing: writing reviews in short sentences  Just to have fun with shorter thin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">I'll start a new thing: writing reviews in short sentences :D Just to have fun with shorter things (regarding my body is really short too hahaha).</p>
<p align="justify">We'll have <b>Juno</b> to be the first trial!</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.firstshowing.net/img/juno-poster2-big.jpg" height="435" width="278" /></div>
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<li><b>Ellen Page</b> isn't gorgeous, she's wonderful and stunning.</li>
<li>Page and Cera performed better than Garner and Bateman.</li>
<li>Love the "Tic-Tac" scene.</li>
<li>Diablo Cody is a genius.</li>
<li>Fun to be watched with mom and dad (they should react like Juno's parents if you were pregnant :p).</li>
<li>I think Juno-Bleeker should've seen their baby :(</li>
<li>Catchy hamburger phone.</li>
<li>I want to be as strong as Juno when she walked through the school corridor, pregnant, and her schoolmates starred at her.</li>
<li>Watch this movie, ASAP.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[The Fall]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=100</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/?p=100</guid>
<description><![CDATA[New layout! LOL I&#8217;m bored, but I got many things to do and decided to write on my blog because]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">New layout! LOL I'm bored, but I got many things to do and decided to write on my blog because I'm really, really bored and tired. Anyways, a few weeks ago I watched <b>The Fall</b> (finally!) with my bf in Blitz Megaplex.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yQt0QjWHUjY" target="_blank">Click here for the trailer.</a></p>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/1696044898_cce7ff17cf.jpg" height="450" width="320" /></div>
<p align="justify">The Fall was directed by <b>Tarsem Singh</b>, the one who directed J.Lo's <b>The Cell </b>in the 2000s. This movie is his "comeback" after his absence for years since the release of his previous movie. It plots Roy (Lee Pace), a hopeless stuntman who was injured and had to stay in a hospital for weeks. He was very upset and broken-hearted and really wanted to commit a suicide. Then, he met Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), an innocent girl who loves to daydream and loves bedtime stories. Too bad, Roy told her stories and manipulated them so she will help him taking a bottle of morphine to kill himself.</p>
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<div align="justify">The story may be very usual, or boring. <u>But</u>, Tarsem visualized Alexandria's imagination! The movie was shot in more than 15 countries, including Italy, France, USA, India, Cambodia, China, and also<b> Indonesia</b>! You will eventually see the characters welcomed by Kecak Dance, and also the Bali atmosphere.</div>
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<h2 align="center"><b>You should see for yourself. Stunning.</b></h2>
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<div align="justify">Well, the best thing is, the movie hasn't been released in the United States. It will be released next month while it was produced in 2000 and had been screened in <b>Jakarta International Film Festival 2007</b> and <b>Screamfestindo</b>.</div>
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<title><![CDATA[Le mutande di Jessica Alba powered by Linux]]></title>
<link>http://venerablebidet.com/2008/01/14/le-mutande-di-jessica-alba-powered-by-linux/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>venerablebidet</dc:creator>
<guid>http://venerablebidet.com/2008/01/14/le-mutande-di-jessica-alba-powered-by-linux/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Mi chiedo come abbia preso la comunità linuxara internazionale e non il fatto che in Good Luck Chu]]></description>
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<p>Mi chiedo come abbia preso la comunità <strong>linuxara</strong> internazionale e non il fatto che in <a href="http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&#38;ct=res&#38;cd=3&#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaEg4GQK5k7w&#38;ei=FdyKR9rIJ4LGnAPY9u2WAw&#38;usg=AFQjCNGQpqHm2kzR2fPiVlvGDyrTQ5EjpQ&#38;sig2=DCUDgk-81zI8xrUU5OqGCw">Good Luck Chuck</a> Jessica Alba non solo faccia l'addetta ai <a href="http://www.linux.gr/logos/penguins_high-quality_pngs/tux.bigger.png">pinguini</a> allo zoo, ma venga scoperta ad indossare <strong>slip</strong> con davanti un pinguino molto simile al vostro eroe.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[JiFFest Movie Review #5: Chants of Lotus]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/chants-of-lotus/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/chants-of-lotus/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I watched 2 films yesterday: Chants of Lotus and I Am Legend. I&#8217;ll write a review about the fi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I watched 2 films yesterday: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chants of Lotus </span>and <span style="font-weight:bold;">I Am Legend. </span>I'll write a review about the first one because <a href="http://jemarimenari.blogspot.com/">Haqi </a>asked me to, sincerely. So yeah. For the second one, and an Indonesian movie which I had just watched (<span style="font-weight:bold;">KALA</span>), I'll write them later.. Stay cool, it's holiday :)</p>
<div style="text-align:justify;">It was an incredible opportunity for me to watch this movie much sooner than you guys will do (except for the ones who had watched it in JiFFest 2007, LoL). Well, well. It is an anthology, a four-pieced movie which contains <span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Pulau, Cerita J</span><span style="font-style:italic;">ogjakarta, Cerita Cibinong </span>and <span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Jakarta</span>. They were all about women's life, the harsh ones, and how did they encounter it.</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Pulau</span><br />
A midwife, Sumantri (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Rieke Dyah Pitaloka</span>), lived in Pulau Kelapa. She suffered from cancer, but she really wanted to sacrifice her life to save Wulan (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Rachel Maryam</span>), a girl who suffered from down-syndrome.</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Jogjakarta</span><br />
Jay Anwar (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Fauzi Baadila</span>) who was a Jakarta's citizen, went to Jogjakarta and met the youngsters in there. Safina (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Kirana Larasati</span>), fell for him and showed him around, especially about the sexual life of Jogjakarta's teenagers which was beyond normal.<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6aKhxGBdLqU/R257ff6HSQI/AAAAAAAAAFI/AvTy4dDVfGI/s1600-h/Photo+by+Dianti+Andajani-Esi1.jpg"><img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6aKhxGBdLqU/R257ff6HSQI/AAAAAAAAAFI/AvTy4dDVfGI/s320/Photo+by+Dianti+Andajani-Esi1.jpg" style="display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;" border="0" /></a><br />
<span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Cibinong</span><br />
Esi (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Shanty</span>) had just found out that his boyfriend, Narto, conducted sexual harassment to her only daughter, Maesaroh (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Ken Nala Amrytha</span>). Cicih (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Sarah Sechan</span>), her bestfriend who was a popular singer from Merem Melek Club, helped Maesaroh and her. But, both of them were trapped into a case of human-trafficking.</p>
<p><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6aKhxGBdLqU/R257hP6HSRI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/SGxLkshBu4s/s1600-h/Photo+by+Syamsul+Hadi++DSCF7463.JPG"><img src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6aKhxGBdLqU/R257hP6HSRI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/SGxLkshBu4s/s320/Photo+by+Syamsul+Hadi++DSCF7463.JPG" style="display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;" border="0" /></a><br />
<span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Jakarta</span><br />
Laksmi (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Susan Bachtiar</span>) had just lost his husband, Reno (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Winky Wiryawan</span>). Reno suffered from HIV/AIDS because he was a drug-user. He also left unpaid debt and caused Laksmi to suffer from the same illness too. Just after his husband passed away, Laksmi had to face many difficult things, including to protect her only daughter Belinda (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Ranti Maria</span>) who was going to be taken by Reno's parents.</p>
<p>Please don't try to find out <span style="font-style:italic;">which piece, which director's</span>, because it is the best part when you watch the anthology. I tried to guess after watching the anthology and I was right. You know, when you watch movies a lot, you'll know the directors' specialties and so on :)</p>
<p>From an artistic point of view, the general theme was dark. It gave no surprise when I saw the gloomy look of the scenes, and the surreal tone (unlike<span style="font-weight:bold;"> Arisan!, Janji Joni, Berbagi Suami </span>or <span style="font-weight:bold;">Quickie Express</span> which were very colourful and warm). The general plot was about sexual harassment and abuse, you'll find about it in every movie. In <span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Pulau, </span>Wulan was raped by three boys brutally and you will hear the brutal dialogs too. In <span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Jogjakarta, </span>it was all about sex life of teenagers. If you watch carefully, you will find out whose movie it was, because she showed the same storytelling characteristic in her previous movies. <span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Cibinong </span>also brought up about sexual harassment along with women and children trafficking. It's very surprising how you witness the innocent Maesaroh being harassed. <span style="font-style:italic;">Cerita Jakarta </span>didn't bring it up a lot, but you'll find a thing or two about it at the beginning.</p>
<p>Don't ask about the actors/actresses, of course you know their quality, right? Shanty proved herself in <span style="font-weight:bold;">KALA </span>and <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Photograph</span>. Sarah Sechan was also nice and Susan Bachtiar made me cry when I watched the movie. And you must have known Rachel Maryam's performance from her previous movies (and I think <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chants of Lotus </span>is her best performance so far! Go Rachel!), Rieke Dyah Pitaloka was also great (too bad the make up artists put her some mascara on when she was being shot close up on a boat. I don't think a simple midwife like her would put on some when she was only thinking about a girl who suffered from down-syndrome and her cancer which was already on 3rd stadium!). Don't expect much from Winky because actually he was only a cameo. I prefer Fauzi Baadila's acting on <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mengejar Matahari </span>to this one. A few thumbs up from the newcomer Kirana Larasati...</p>
<p>As a production of Kalyana Shira Films, I don't think it is the best one because I still fave <span style="font-weight:bold;">Janji Joni </span>and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Arisa</span><span style="font-weight:bold;">n!</span> It's possibly caused by the gloomy theme of the movie, which I don't really like. I prefer the cheerful ones :D But still, of course it's good, despite of the movie poster which I think was not catchy at all (<span style="font-style:italic;">oops!</span>). I think the producers should add and socialize that this movie is not suitable for underage children/teenagers. The storytelling was too vulgar, way more than <span style="font-weight:bold;">3 Hari Untuk Selamanya </span>or even <span style="font-weight:bold;">Quickie Express!</span> So don't watch if you're 15 or below, LoL. Or if you want to watch it, don't watch with your mom, or your dad.. Hahaha.</p>
<p>PS: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chants of Lotus </span>was the Closing Film for Jakarta International Film Festival 2007.</div>
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<title><![CDATA[JiFFest Movie Review #4: Dead-Time: KALA]]></title>
<link>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/jiffest-movie-review-4-dead-time-kala/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alanda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alandakariza.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/jiffest-movie-review-4-dead-time-kala/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[KALA is like a coffee: dark, perfectly formulated, and most of all, addictive. Sinema Indonesia wrot]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">KALA is like a coffee: dark, perfectly formulated, and most of all, <u>addictive</u>. <a href="http://www.sinema-indonesia.com" target="_blank">Sinema Indonesia</a> wrote that KALA is a mindfuck, I don't use that phrase though. But I agree that KALA had increased the benchmark for Indonesian films. Joko Anwar compiled many things, including both Indonesian and Western culture, all in a movie. He said, KALA is a neo-noir movie. Arrogant? Not really, because he had proved that the movie suits the genre.</p>
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<p align="justify">You'll meet Janus (Fachry Albar), a narcoleptic journalist; and Eros (Ario Bayu), an ambitious and brilliant policeman. Both of them lives in a city who was not be named in the movie, which is, a city of crime, and a city of hope at the same time. The people who were not criminals were waiting for Ratu Adil (due to Jayabaya's prediction). While he was doing his journalism job, Janus heard a secret, and when he told someone else about the secret, that person had always been killed tragically, because there was only one person who may live with the secret.</p>
<p align="justify">So, that was the synopsis. You should know too few about the story, because you will see twists at the end, the beautiful ones.</p>
<p align="justify">Joko Anwar included the Javanese history and culture, about Jayabaya and so on. He also put some things about the general history of Indonesia, using Western outfits. Many antique vehicles in the movie, gloomy look and theme, sepia tones, Zeke's dark songs.</p>
<p align="justify">You just have to watch the movie. I beg you.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://jokoanwar.com/kala/" target="_blank"><i>KALA's official website</i></a><br />
<i>Other reviews on KALA</i></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anteprima di un'intervista al grande regista Vittorio De Seta, che sarà disponibile nel DVD allegato al prossimo numero della rivista di antropologia visiva "Ethnopolis".</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Podcast amici]]></title>
<link>http://venerablebidet.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/podcast-amici/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Non vi ho ancora segnalato un recente podcast - tratto da un&#8217;intervista rilasciata ad una rad]]></description>
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<p>Non vi ho ancora segnalato un recente <a href="http://darkersideradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=147&#38;Itemid=30">podcast</a> - tratto da un'intervista rilasciata ad una radio online <a href="http://darkersideradio.com">molto dark</a> - della mia recente amica Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, attrice dalla risata darioargentina e il <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coralina">curriculum</a> pure.</p>
<p>foto &#124; <a href="http://www.coralina.net" target="_blank">coralina.net</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Le fabuleux destin de le Sang Réal]]></title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JOC7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" height="289" width="199" />L&#39;unica vera bellezza del film dal <i>Codice da Vinci</i> &#232; la scena finale in cui Robert smette i panni dello studioso filologico, guarda al di dentro della piramide invertita del Louvre, e fa la sua prima non-scoperta da quasi-cristiano: non vede affatto una tomba, ma spera ardentemente che ci sia. E speriamo che sia femmina. Perch&#233; il fatto che una donna giovane e bella - disinteressata quanto lui alla fede - possa subire un film iniziatico nel cui finale se ne rivela la discendenza da Ges&#249;, non &#232; altro che una lunga metaforizzazione del fatto che, figli di Cristo, lo si pu&#242; essere semplicemente tutti; cosa che poi succede da sempre fra ogni <i>audience </i>e la sua star.</p>
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