“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived?" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

terça-feira, 24 de setembro de 2013

terça-feira, 17 de setembro de 2013

Cat People (1942)

Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill. Oliver thinks that is absurd and childish, so he sends her to psychiatrist Dr. Judd to cure her. Easier said than done...



Hamlet (1948)

"William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England."



They Live by Night (1948)

"In the '30s, three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever."



sábado, 14 de setembro de 2013

quarta-feira, 4 de setembro de 2013

Diaboliquement Vôtre (1967)

"A person, supposedly George Campos (Alain Delon), had an a car accident and is hospitalized for a while. When he recovered his conscience he does not recognize his wife Christiane (Senta Berger), his friend Freddie (a psychiatrist) and all his properties. In that situation he acknowledged the beautifulness of his wife and decided to have sex with her, but she always unreasonably prevented it. He decided not to take anymore the recommended pills and discovered all truth."

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Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer


Wuthering Heights (1939)

"The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done." 



domingo, 1 de setembro de 2013

The Ronettes - Be My Baby


O Mito de Sísifo - A Liberdade e a Justiça

"A revolução do século XX separou arbitrariamente, para fins desmesurados de conquista, duas noções inseparáveis. A liberdade absoluta mete a justiça a ridículo. A justiça absoluta nega a liberdade. Para serem fecundas, as duas noções devem descobrir os seus limites uma dentro da outra. Nenhum homem considera livre a sua condição se ela não for ao mesmo tempo justa, nem justa se não for livre. Precisamente, não pode conceber-se a liberdade sem o poder de clarificar o justo e o injusto, de reivindicar todo o ser em nome de uma parcela de ser que se recusa a extinguir-se. Finalmente, tem de haver uma justiça, embora bem diferente, para se restaurar a liberdade, único valor imperecível da história. Os homens só morrem bem quando o fizeram pela liberdade: pois, nessa altura, não acreditavam que morressem por completo."

Albert Camus, in "O Mito de Sísifo"

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