Les cauchemars naissent la nuit (Nightmares Come at Night, 1970) dir. Jesús Franco

''The film follows Anna, a nightclub performer plagued by vivid dreams in which she commits violent crimes. As the boundary between dream and reality becomes increasingly unstable, she finds herself drawn into a web of manipulation, desire, hypnosis, and psychological uncertainty.

Rather than functioning as a conventional thriller, the film unfolds like a fever dream. Narrative logic constantly slips away, replaced by fragmented memories, recurring images, strange encounters, and an atmosphere of permanent disorientation.

At the center, Soledad Miranda delivers one of the most memorable performances of her brief career. Her presence gives the film an emotional and visual magnetism that remains compelling even when the story drifts into abstraction.

The film's greatest strength is its dreamlike atmosphere. Mirrors, empty rooms, nocturnal spaces, and surreal transitions create the feeling of being trapped inside someone else's subconscious. Like many of Franco's most interesting works, it is less concerned with explanation than with mood and sensation.

Beneath the mystery lies a portrait of a woman losing her grip on reality, caught between fantasy, fear, and forces she barely understands. The result is one of the most hypnotic and unusual films in Franco's early 1970s period.''

 

La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher, 2001) dir. Michael Haneke

''Erika Kohut is a respected piano professor at the Vienna Conservatory, living a life defined by discipline, routine, and emotional restraint. Beneath that controlled surface, however, lies a world of loneliness, frustration, and desires she can neither fully express nor escape. When one of her students, Walter Klemmer, becomes attracted to her, the relationship pushes both characters into increasingly uncomfortable territory.

Based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek, the film is less interested in scandal than in examining the emotional damage caused by repression, control, and the inability to connect with others.

Isabelle Huppert gives one of the greatest performances of her career. Every gesture, glance, and silence reveals a character constantly at war with herself. Alongside her, Benoît Magimel brings confidence and vulnerability to a role that gradually becomes far more complex than it first appears.

Haneke's direction is precise and unsentimental. There are no easy explanations or comforting conclusions, only a relentless attention to human behaviour and the ways people hurt themselves and others in pursuit of intimacy.

What makes the film so powerful is its refusal to simplify Erika. She is neither victim nor villain, but a deeply contradictory person whose longing for affection collides with years of emotional isolation.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, where both Huppert and Magimel received acting prizes, The Piano Teacher remains one of the most challenging and unforgettable films of modern European cinema.''

Hanna Schygulla - Passion

                                 

ONATA DE OUTONO (1978)

 ONATA DE OUTONO (1978), um dueto entre duas grandes atrizes, Ingrid Bergman e Liv Ullmann, inesquecível na cena da noite em que se enfrentam filmadas por Ingmar Bergman, “porque os rostos nunca foram tão alma, nunca se escavou tão dentro das pessoas” (João Bénard da Costa)

Bad Girls Go to Hell

                                       

                                     Bad Girls Go to Hell: Directed by Doris Wishman (1965)

O cine-olho de vários cineastas

 Vertov e Godard, Fellini e Visconti, Glauber e Guzman, Fassbinder e Pasolini, Ozu e Cassavetes, Orson Wells e Eisenstein, G.Reggio e Carmelo Bene, Rouch e Ivens, Wiseman e Farocki

The Lover (1992) dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud

 

 The Godfather (1972)

 

In the Mood for Love - Yumeji’s Theme

 Faa Yeung Nin Wa

Anos como Flores

Filme, Wong Kar-Wai

Amália Rodrigues " Ilhas Encantadas " 1965

As Ilhas Encantadas (1965)

Les Iles Enchantées

Produção Rodagem: Abr/Jun 1964

M/14

89 min

Drama  

Realização:  ·  Carlos Vilardebó

Argumento:  ·  Carlos Vilardebó  ·  José Cardoso Pires  ·  Raymond Bellour

No passado século XIX, em ilha deserta do Atlântico, dá-se o encontro entre Pierre Duchemin, jovem marinheiro dum barco francês, e Hunila, solitária desde a morte do marido, Filipe, e do irmão, que exploravam os parcos recursos da pesca à tartaruga.
Esta relação paradisíaca terá, porém, um fim e, recolhida por um veleiro português, em 1830, Hunila conta a sua história...
[Fonte: José de Matos-Cruz, O Cais do Olhar, 1999, p.129]

Abandoned Cinemas of the World - Simon Edelstein

Registo fotográfico de "cinemas esquecidos, roídos pelo tempo''

''O fotolivro Abandoned Cinemas of the World, de Simon Edelstein, levanta o véu sobre o triste destino de muitos, emblemáticos e grandiosos, edifícios da sétima arte que perderam protagonismo ao longo das últimas décadas."Os cinemas são efémeros. E são cada vez mais raros na paisagem urbana."

"Por apatia ou por força dos mercados, as autoridades de cada país recusam, geralmente, transformar os velhos cinemas em edifícios classificados. Não oferecem qualquer suporte para a manutenção de espaços que se tornam problemáticos e dispendiosos. Assim, os cinemas são esquecidos, enquanto o público se torna indiferente à sua lenta desaparição." Simon Edelstein

Publicação no suplemento P3 do Público, num artigo de Ana Marques Maia.

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“onde ascendem os populismos e os totalitarismos”

"O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis": filme de João Botelho

"Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço"(1970), de João César Monteiro

                                                       Filme: Os Verdes Anos

''A Estação do Diabo''

Lav Diaz