Julie & Julia: A história real de Julie Powell, nova-iorquina que, ao perder o emprego, decide cozinhar diariamente as receitas da renomada Julia Child e narrar suas experiências em um blog.

Direção: Nora Ephron. Elenco: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina.

Prestemos muita atenção neste longa. Possivelmente poderá estar concorrendo em alguma categoria do Oscar no ano que vem. Nora tem um estilo próprio e muito gostoso de filmas seus longas. Dá gosto de ver. Sobre Streep, é “A ATRIZ”.

Planeta 51: Os habitantes do Planeta 51 vivem aterrorizados pelo medo de um ataque alienígena. Sua paranóia se concretiza com a chegada de um astronauta da Terra.

Direção: Javier Abad e Marcos Martinez. Com vozes de: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel.

Pela sinopse, dá para perceber que é uma história diferente. Dessa vez, nós terráqueos somos os intrusos. Acho que vou assistir.

Do Começo ao Fim: Filhos de pais diferentes, os irmãos Francisco e Thomas têm uma relação muito forte desde a infância. Já adultos, passam a morar juntos e vivem uma intensa história de amor.

Direção: Aluízio Abranches. Elenco: Rafael Cardoso, João Gabriel Vasconcellos, Júlia Lemmertz.

Já estou vendo manchetes pela internet: “Filme polêmico”. Só sabem falar isso? O importante é que seja uma história bem contada. Não?

Cidadão Boilesen: Através da surpreendente vida de Henning Boilesen, o documentário revela a ligação política e econômica entre empresários e militares no combate à luta armada durante o regime militar brasileiro.

Direção: Chaim Litewski.

Vou dizer que parece interessante hein…Para quem gosta de História, é uma boa pedida. Documentários são sempre bons de assistir quando se quer  refletir um pouquinho.

A Trilha: Dois casais de amigos passando férias no Havaí descobrem que um grupo de psicopatas está perseguindo e matando turistas.

Direção: David Twohy. Elenco: Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant.

Cá entre nós, este longa é bem diferente dos thrillers de ação convencionais. Se você está procurando um pouco de adrenalina ao sentar na poltrona de cinema, este aqui vale a pena. Um bom entretenimento.

Entre a luz e a sombra (São Paulo e Belo Horizonte): A História de pessoas que dedicam sua vida para humanizar o sistema carcerário, como a atriz Sophia Bisilliat, a dupla de rap formada por Dexter e Afro-X dentro do Carandiru e um juiz que acredita em um meio de ressocialização mais digno para os encarcerados.

Direção: Luciana Burlamaqui.

Não vi. Porém, esse é o tipo de documentário que deveria nos representar. Estamos perdendo tempo demais mostrando problemas. Está na hora do cinema mostrar como resolvê-los. Não na mesma moeda em que coisas ruins acontecem. Humanização. Seja lá como for, precisamos disso.

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Theatrical Release:Aug 7, 2009

Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with… Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.

Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Colori femminili per Sound&Motion Pictures, l’appuntamento del giovedì con il cinema in lingua originale. Questa sera al Cinema Mexico due donne, due esperienze, due vite divise da 50 anni si incontrano nel film Julie&Julia.

La trama è molto semplice: Julie Powell, giovane trentenne, ha bisogno di qualcosa che spezzi la monotonia della sua esistenza. Decide così di cucinare nell’arco di un anno tutte le 524 ricette del libro Mastering the Art of French Cooking, scritto da Julia Child.

Curiosità: Il film è tratto da due storie vere.

Julia Child nel 1949 segue suo marito, addetto culturale dell’ambasciata americana, a Parigi. Per riempire il tempo si iscrive ad un corso professionale di cucina francese. Da questa sua esperienza nacerà il libro Mastering the Art of French Cooking che è ancora oggi la Bibbia per qualsiasi americano che voglia imparare a cucinare.

Julie Powell si trasferisce nel 2002 nel Queens. All’università era tra le più promettenti, ma verso i 30 anni la sua carriera di scrittrice soffre un momento di crisi. In questa intima confusione decide di completare le 524 ricette della sua eroina in 365 giorni. Apre un blog in cui racconta il proseguire di questa sua sfida. Blog che la porterà al successo…

Regia: Nora Ephron

Attori: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch, Stanley Tucci, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Vanessa Ferlito, Dave Annable, Chris Messina, Casey Rose Wilson, Marceline Hugot

Distribuzione: Sony Pictures Releasing Italia

Genere: Biografico, Drammatico

Durata: 123 minuti

Orari: 13.00 – 15.20-17.40-20.00-22.20

Cinema Mexico, 26 novembre 2009, Via Savona 57 – Milano

Okay, so, I was reading over some posts in the blog of a friend of mine, just waiting for the battery on my laptop to die so I can hook it up and not use it so that it can fully charge while I recharge my own batteries.  Well, one of her posts is that she doesn’t care who reads her blog.  She’s perfectly fine with just writing to nobody, to empty cyberspace.

Man, I wish I had her attitude about this.  I’ve only had this blog a little while, and already, I can tell that I’m hooked.  By the time I post this, you might think, “Oh, another post.  She wrote about this today.”  Not really.  I actually started this post only a little while after I finished the third.  But I want to get my thoughts down so I can remember.

I can rationalize and rationalize, but in the end, all it comes down to is that I’m hooked.  Why?  Why am I so eager to know what people — who I don’t even know, and that’s the kicker! — think about me?  Who are you out there, who has so fascinated me???

I don’t know.  I can’t answer that question.  All I know that is that I’m fascinated by the statistics option that shows you a chart of how many people have looked at you.  And pathetic me, my heart was warmed when I saw that three people had visited my page already.  I can’t help but be aggrieved with myself, and yet, here I sit, still writing.  In all honesty, I’ll probably save this and visit the statistics page again, just to see, even though I know that it’s silly to think that someone will be up in the middle of the night to read what I’ve written.  Silly.

I’ll manage not to.  I’ll check email, Facebook, distract myself with other things until the remaining fifteen minutes that my computer battery has pass and the laptop — his name is Gerry, by the way; it’s short for “Geriatric” — shuts down.  Then, I’ll let myself go to bed.  We’ll see what happens next.

Well, I’m back, and I’m going to be a little more general.  This blogging mania will wear off soon, and I’ll be posting only once or twice a week.  Probably after I get back into classes.  But whatever.

So, I’m sitting here blogging and watching Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.  My family loves food; we often insist that we should be Italian by food.  My parents are amazing cooks.  You should’ve tasted the ribs we had that my father smoked.  Delicious!  And my father always really liked Alton Brown, as did I.  The man’s thorough knowledge of food combined with a goofy sense of humor really caught me, and the themes that he had for some of his episodes — a spy episode stands out in my mind — really made it engaging to watch.

No Reservations is different.  A cameraman just seems to follow Mr. Bourdain around wherever he currently is, and he just has a lot of fun eating and immersing himself in the locals’ culture.  He is obviously very intelligent, and he’s so respectful of the cultures around him, especially since it’s not his own.  It’s refreshing to see that on television.  He doesn’t hesitate to let loose some colorful words, but he’s always very conscious of the company that he’s in.

I guess I’ve got food on my mind.  It’s noon, and I did go see Julie and Julia with my boyfriend last night.  And no, that is not the reason why I have a blog!  I’ve been tossing around the idea for a while, like I said, and it is serendipitous (Wow, did I really spell that right?  Score!) chance that the two coincided.  I suppose I should write a little review now.  Well, here goes.  It took me a couple minutes to realize that the flashes between Julia Child’s life and Julie Powell’s were not taking place at the same time, mostly because I’d missed the date that they flashed right in the very beginning.  But I got it!

I thought that there was a lot of focus on Julia Child, and not enough on Julie.  It seemed a little sporadic at points when they introduced Julie back into the story.  Did I hate it?  No.  In fact, I loved the movie.  Meryl Streep was absolutely fantastic, and I can’t help but adore Amy Adams since her appearance in Enchanted.  Amy Adams played her character so well, and I was intensely gratified that, at the part where Julie and her husband Eric have their large fight, Julie didn’t blog about it.  It showed real maturity on her part, I think.

Yes, I’m talking about characters in a movie, but seeing as how this is based off a true story (two true stories!), then I think I can applaud her.

Well, as I said, it’s noon, and I’m getting rather hungry.  TTFN!

Amy Adams e seu cabelo strawberry blonde

Pouca gente  conhece essa atriz americana que já disputou o Oscar duas vezes e tem uma carreira sólida do cinema. Amy está sempre aparecendo aqui e acolá mas nunca faz um sucesso estrondoso capaz de catapultar seu nome pra fama internacional. Já foi namoradinha do Leonardo di Caprio em “Prenda-me se for Capaz”, secretária do Tom Hanks em “Jogos do Poder” e até princesa encantada da Disney.  Logo logo estreia no Brasil seu último filme, novamente ao lado de Meryl Streep, o “Julie &  Julia”.

Amy Adams e Emily Blunt na labuta

Outro dia baixei o filme “Sunshine Cleaning” de 2008 onde ela interpreta uma mãe solteira que descobre um jeito de ganhar muito dinheiro: monta uma empresa de limpeza especializada em remover sangue e outros fluídos corporais de lugares onde uma morte aconteceu, seja por assassinato, doença ou até mesmo, suicídio. Como seu personagem repete no filme o tempo todo: “Os corpos não estão mais lá”. É só o que sobrou e que ninguém teve coragem de mexer. O novo negócio é uma tentativa desesperada de alguém que não aguenta mais ser uma looser. Mal sabe ela que apesar de lucrativa, a nova atividade vai remexer em sentimentos antigos que envolvem uma morte trágica e inexplicada na família.

Amy Adams e Emily Blunt em Sunshine Cleaning

Olha, eu choro em poucos filmes, mas neste chorei lágrimas gordas. A princípio tudo indicava uma comédia de humor negro mas momentos de cortar o coração foram me convencendo que o filme era mais. Mais real, mais palpável, mais certeiro. Amy Adams me emociona. Ela sabe transparecer toda tristeza do mundo sem dizer uma palavra. E Emily Blunt no papel da irmã maluca também dá show. Além de grandes atrizes, são muito carismáticas. Fazem drama sem bico, sem orgulho, sem auto-piedade. Drama de quem morre atirando e chora dando risada.

Julie & Julia is Nora Ephron’s latest movie starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina.

Plot:
Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is working in an office, but her real passion in life is cooking. So, one day, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child’s (Meryl Streep) French cookbook and blog about it, not anticipating the changes this will make to herself and her life.
Interwoven into Julie’s story, we see how Julia Child’s gets to write the book and how hard she had to work for it.

Julie & Julia is good, solid entertainment: Nothing too deep, nice sense of humour and good performances. Makes for a very enjoyable evening.

Julie & Julia did not knock me out of my socks or surprise me but it is one of those comforting movies where you know exactly what to expect – and you get it.

The story itself is sweet and most people leave the movie with the desire to get cooking (I, on the other hand, only got hungry). It unfurls in the way you expect it to, the only thing that might come a bit as a surprise is that [SPOILER] the two Js never get to meet after all and that Julia doesn’t seem to approve of what Julie’s doing. [/SPOILER] But I guess that’s because it’s based on a true story. Or on Two True Stories.

The performances were good. I like Amy Adams and it was nice to see her act at least sometimes (instead of just looking pretty and naive with her big blue eyes, which seems to be a summary of most of her roles). Meryl Streep was, of course, delightful (damn you, Meryl Streep, because of you I might actually watch It’s Complicated).

But I also have to point out that Julie as well as Julia seem to have found the only perfect guys in the world. Both their husbands – played by Chis Messina and Stanley Tucci, respectively – were absolutely wonderful.

I don’t know what else to tell you than that this could very well become one of my regular comfort movies and that if you want light, fun entertainment, you’re going to be perfectly alright here.

Martes 24 de noviembre del 2009.- La pelí más galardonada y reconocida del año. Basada en la obra teatral ganadora del Premio Pullitzer y del Premio Tony; La Duda es un fascinante drama lleno de suspenso, con cautivantes actuaciones de Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams y Viola Davis que te mantendrán pegado a la pantalla. La hermana Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), la estricta y temida directora de la escuela de la Iglesia de San Nicolás, desaprueba por completo las ideas modernas del Padre Flynn (Hoffman), un sacerdote de la parroquia.

Encontrando algo de qué sospechar en cada esquina, la hermana Aloysius está convencida de que el Padre Flynn es culpable del máximo pecado, debido al interés especial que demuestra por un niño atromentado. Pero sin ninguna evidencia, lo único que ella tiene por cierto es…La Duda.

Y para que no te quedes con La Duda…acá te tenemos 3 DVDs y así puedas descubrir el final de toda esta inseguridad. Sólo mándanos un mail con todos tus datos (nombre, teléfono y mail) a pinkmagazine@mail.com

Y tu, Gossip Girl? Man, it seems like every show this week is taking off for Thanksgiving. Gossip Girl, Mad Men, Sex & the City, M*A*S*H, all the faves!

Gossip Girl did have a show last night but it was a rerun and not the good kind of Rerun, like the one from What’s Happening? It was the one about the end of summer. PUH LEEZE Gossip Girl. We know none of those plots matter anymore. So, instead I watched a movie starring Jesse Eisenberg and Carter Baizen that was directed by Fred Durst. Just k’ing! I watched movie trailers.

Sadie Hawkins Dance! In my khaki pants! The girls ask the guys! It’s always a surprise!

It’s nice to see Kaitlin Olson from It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia taking on the new role of “Best Friend in a RomCom.” You need sass for it, and I think she has sufficient sass. Also, I know this is the magic of movies, but between the earrings gag (“Keep your ears warm”?) and the fact that he is Adam Scott (no offense to Adam Scott, it’s just he often plays assholes) I don’t think that things are going to work out for his character. But O Valencia! (instrumental) rocking, shennagans happening, superstition, happenstance, TRUELOVE! Also, I hope that the end of the movie is paced exactly like in this trailer. Adam Scott, just walking over, proposing, Ozymandias looking mopey.

Also

Amanda Seyfried only takes two roles. The first role she takes is high school students in uncommon high school stories and the second role she takes is anything shooting in magnificent locales with ABBA songs. Probably. I like how this movie flips everything OUT OF CONTROL. She has the handsome, dashing, foreign boyfriend but she wants the other handsome, stuffy, foreign guy! Take that preconceived notions!  However, I feel like its a cop out to use the Rock Remix of “Love Story” because someone spent a lot of time playing the banjos on the regular “Love Story.”

Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia [DVD]

Julie & Julia [Blu-ray]

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Director: Nora Ephron
Writer(s): Nora Ephron (screenplay)
Julie Powell (book)

Starring: Maryl Streep, Amy Adams

Julie & Julia stars actresses Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in two different stories that coincide with one another. Meryl Streep plays Julia Child a woman who’s cook book changed the way that Americans eat, and Amy Adams plays Julie Powell a woman who decides to spend an entire year cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s cookbook and then blogging about it each day.

I have to say that I was torn on whether or not this was going to be a good movie or not, the preview did not really leave much to the imagination for me. I then went to a late night showing of the movie with my very loving girlfriend who really wanted to see this movie. I really was not expecting to get much out of this movie but I was proven wrong. The movie turned out to be a well served dish.

The performance of Meryl Streep as Julia Child was brilliant to say the least and I would say is one of the first performances I could confidentially say in 2009 deserves consideration for an Oscar nomination. There is still plenty of time and plenty of movies to be arriving before nominations but Meryl Streep I would say will definitely be getting considered at the least.

The movie goes back and forth giving us an insight into the life of Julia Child herself, and then returning remarkably back to Julie Powell and her cooking adventure.

Julia & Julia is not by any means going to be the best movie of 2009, nor will it even come close but the heart of the movie is in the right place and the acting of Meryl Streep put this movie in the category of well worth watching. I would say even to the skeptics who view this as being a movie that will bore them to just reconsider and allow yourself to watch this surprise hit.

Julie & Julia will leave most viewers quite satisfied and some will even be calling for seconds on viewing the movie. I say if you have not yet seen this movie then take the time out to do so, you will not be let down.

My Rating: 75%
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Sceneggiato e diretto da Nora Ephron, sulla base dell’ autobiografia di Julia Child My life in France e del romanzo di Julie Powell che dà il titolo al film, Julie & Julia si svolge su due piani paralleli, in un arco temporale differente, intrecciando i destini comuni di due donne diverse.
1949, Parigi: Julia Child ( Meryl Streep) è giunta in Francia dall’ America insieme al marito Paul ( Stanley Tucci), diplomatico, un uomo che la comprende ed asseconda ogni suo desiderio, spingendola, viste la sua voglia di dedicarsi a qualcosa che la possa realizzare e la sua passione per il cibo, ad iscriversi a una scuola di cucina. E così Julia frequenta un corso di Cordon Blue, diviene particolarmente brava, insegnante lei stessa insieme ad alcune amiche, arrivando a scrivere un libro di ricette francesi che viene pubblicato in America. Tornata in patria, approda in tv, divenendo sia con il libro che con il programma televisivo, l’icona di tutte quelle casalinghe (e casalinghi) che non si rassegnano agli autoctoni scempi culinari.
2002, Queens, New York : la giovane Julie Powell (Amy Adams), si è appena trasferita con il marito Eric (Chris Messina), in uno squallido appartamento sopra una pizzeria, lavora come telefonista in un call center, ma è insoddisfatta, sente che la sua vita, le sue aspirazioni (la mancata pubblicazione di un libro alle spalle) le stanno sfuggendo di mano, per cui, spinta dal marito, darà sfogo alla sua passione per la cucina, affrontando una sfida con sé stessa: entro il termine perentorio di un anno si cimenterà con le 254 ricette scritte da Julia Child nel suo famoso best-seller Mastering the art of French cooking, documentandone preparativi e risultati sul suo blog.
Tra ansia ed incomprensioni di coppia, lotte con pentole e cibo in uno sgangherato cucinino, anche per Julie arriverà il momento del successo, con la pubblicazione di un libro.
Se la sceneggiatura e la regia sono prive di slanci particolari, straordinaria è la performance della Streep, tanto che più che ad un’ integrazione tra le due storie, sembra di assistere a due film differenti:l’attrice dà la giusta caratterizzazione al personaggio senza eccedere nella caricatura, lascia da parte il suo fascino per apparire goffa, over-size, con una pettinatura demodè, indossando ridicoli cappellini, con una voce chioccia e gridolini di giubilo ben resi dal doppiaggio italiano. Oltre le spontanee risate, riesce anche a rappresentare la rivoluzione attuata da Julia, trasformare la cucina, vista all’epoca come uno dei “doveri” della donna, in qualcosa di creativo ed edonistico, spensierato e liberatorio (splendida la sequenza dello show in tv in cui deve rivoltare il contenuto di una tortiera e questo casca giù: lo rimette dentro, sghignazzando: “tanto siamo sole in cucina, non ci vede nessuno”).Quando invece la vicenda si incentra sulle vicende di Julie-Amy Adams, il confronto appare impietoso, per quanto la sua recitazione sia sicuramente valida (con qualche eccesso di mossette ed occhioni sgranati), così come paragonare le due figure maschili, l’intenso Stanley Tucci e lo scialbo Chris Messina. In termini culinari, una commedia sufficientemente gustosa, con i giusti ingredienti, ben allestita e presentata, alla quale Meryl Streep riesce a dare la giusta consistenza e sapidità.

Egy fázós novemberi estén, amikor az ember lánya csak arra vágyik, hogy valami meleg helyen üldögélve kiszabaduljon a nyirkos, ködös valóságból, megváltja a jegyet erre a filmre és elutazik egy kicsit a tavaszi Párizsba, Quinnsbe és a gasztronomia világába. A film után pedig betér az első éjjelnappaliba, hogy begyűjtse a hozzávalókat a tökéletes alamatortához, aminek a recepjét természetesen a netről hívja le, talán épp egy főzöcskézős blogról.

A Julie és Julia két nő életéről szól akiket körübelül félszáz év távlatából a főzés szeretete és az elismertség vágya köt össze. Julia volt az nő, aki szakácskönyvével megtanította Amerikát főzni és enni. Julie pedig korunk 30 év körüli meggyötört női hőse, aki dobozirodájából kimenekülve főzés közben arról álmodozik, hogy végre kiadják egy írását. A szerepek megformálásra két nagyszerű színésznőt választottak ki. Meryl Steepet ismét lehetetlen nem imádni a szokatlanul magas, ám rendkívűl bájos Julia szerepében. Julie kicsit frusztrált, de azért bájos karaktere pedig ideális szerep Amy Adamsnek.

A film mesél a két korszak női ideáljáról és  a nők önmegvalósításáról általában. Teszi ezt egyszerre nézve egy 50 évvel ezelötti és egy mai történetet.
Juliának a férje a mindene, és mellette végre talált valamit, amiben kiteljesítheti magát úgyis, mint feleség és háziasszony. Örül a sikernek, megdolgozik érte, vágyik rá, de ez soha nem szorítja háttérbe a párját. A család és a barátok helye szent és sérthetetlen. Ódivatú, idealisztikus boldogság, ami néha annyira hiányzik a ma nőinek.
Julie, mint a mai dolgozó nők legtöbbje, láthatólag mindennél jobban vágyik az elismerésre, amit hosszú ideig nem kap meg. Egy hirtelen ötlettől vezérelve blogot indít, ahol a kitűzött cél, hogy egy év alatt megfőzze Julia méltán híres könyvének minden receptjét. A blog sikeres lesz, Julie pedig mámoros a sikertől. Közben egyre inkább háttérbe szorul az életében a férje. Julie délelőttjeit a munka, délutánjait pedig egyre inkább a főzés és a blogolás teszi ki. A pasit csak akkor veszi észre, amikor az segít neki valamiben a konyha körül. Ebben a történetben tulajdonkébben minden a munka mögé szorul. Nem foglalkozik a férjével, frászt kap ha az anyja hívja, a barátainak a fele inkább mobiltelefont rángató versenytárs, mintsem barát. Őszinte kritika ez napjaink nőinek egy jelentős részéről.

A Julie és Julia lelke,  forgatókönyvírója, rendezője Nora Ephron, akitől nem állnak távol női filmek. Korábban olyan filmekben működött közre, mint a Harry és Sally, A szerelem hullámhosszán és a Michael. Bájos, szerethető filmek mind, akár csak ez.
Könnyed, okos és bájos film. Pont olyan amilyenekre időnként szüksége van a legtöbb nőnemű egyednek. Szigorúan barátnőkkel érdemes nekivágni.

I was looking up Edward Cullen on Wikipedia and I saw that it said that Edward was a Byronic hero. Because of that, I clicked on the link that explained what a Byronic hero was. Anyway, as I was reading the characteristics, it did sounds like Edward As I continued down the website, it mentioned that Lestat from the Vampire Chronicles and the Phantom from the Phantom of the Opera were Byronic heros as well, but I digress with the Phantom. That made me think about how much Lestat and Edward were alike in the sense that they are both Byronic heros. I think that’s the reason why I don’t like either character. I mean, it’s not that I hate them, but it’s just that they’re not my favorites characters from their respective series. Anyway, I think that’s the reason why I don’t like Lestat and Edward is the fact that they’re Byronic heros.

In my search for any Lestat vs. Edward stuff, I found quite a few pictures that made fun of Edward and the Twilight series or making fun of the fact the Twilight series “outshines” the Vampire Chronicles. The one that I found to be the most funny was the one where it showed Edward and Bella together in the first box, and the following three boxes showing Louis, Lestat, and Armand telling their opinions on the series. I found that Lestat’s and Armand’s reactions to be the most funny. Their reactions were classic Lestat and Armand. Anyway, the next one that I thought was funny was the one where Lestat as picking on Edward. I just found those funny. By the way, you can find the originals at this site.

I was bored recently and was on my computer I don’t know why but I typed Lestat vs. Edward into Google to see what I would get. Anyway, a lot of stuff that popped up were drawings of people making fun of Edward through Lestat’s point of view, and videos and articles asking who would win in a no-holds bar fight. I immediately thought that Lestat would definitely win. I say that because, after looking up their powers as a refresher, while Edward has super strength, super speed, and can read minds, Lestat can do or has all of that, plus so much more. Lestat also has pyrokinesis, the ability to fly, and he’s telekinetic. Plus, he killed an entire wolf pack by himself, albeit with the help of his two mastiff dogs. Anyway, I really think that Lestat would definitely win the fight against Edward, and that’s assuming Lestat doesn’t fall in love with Edward first, which I doubt would actually happen, and that Lestat doesn’t hurt Bella.

Il dubbio è un film del 2008 un adattamento cinematografico all’opera teatrale di John Patrick Shanley. Scritto e diretto da Shanley e prodotto da Scott Rudin, il film è interpretato da Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, e Viola Davis, che sono stati tutti nominati per l’Oscar al 2009.

Leggi altre notizie su: | John Patrick Shanley | Meryl Streep | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Amy Adams

“La duda  [Doubt]” dirigida por John Patrick Shanley

 “John Patrick Shanley lleva a la pantalla su obra de teatro titulada DOUBT (LA DUDA). Se trata de una historia sobre la búsqueda de la verdad, las fuerzas del cambio, y las devastadoras consecuencias de una justicia ciega en una época definida por las férreas convicciones morales.”

Extraído de La Higuera.

Ver además:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918927

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Patrick_Shanley

http://www.muchocine.net/criticas/10380/La-duda

Los títulos recomendados están en la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional. Si te interesa leer ésta recomendación puedes consultar su disponibilidad en el catálogo la biblioteca del IIE. 

La duda  [Doubt]. [DVD] / dirigida por John Patrick Shanley. — [S.l.] : The Walt Disney Company Iberia, D.L. 2009. — 1 DVD (103 min.) : son., col.

Idiomas: español, inglés ; Subtít. : español, inglés…etc.

Basada en la obra teatral de John Patrick Shanley

Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

No recomendada para menores de 13 años

D.L. M 11293-2009

ZW .S528 D6818 2008

First of all, I love Meryl Streep (Julia); she’s an amazing actress, good or evil she’s still on top. Stanley Tucci plays her lovely husband and they are great together.And they speak perfect French, I was amazed!

The movie wasn’t really about Julia, the courageous woman passionate about life and food; but more about the self-centered and helpless Julie. Now Julie has a problem. Beside pronouncing boeuf as « boof » which shows her narrow mind ; her job is crap and she has the most amazing husband you can possibly imagine. She likes to talk about her crappy job a lot, complain to everyone, play the victim and they all console her. Her husband is so nice he wants to help with a great idea: why not having a blog on cooking because she’s good at it? So she decided to set “herself” some goals and blog about how she will make the 524 recipes of Julia in 365 days… At this moment, it sounded a good idea.

She didn’t do it for herself; she complained all the way that nobody reads her blog and how unhappy that makes her but she still has to keep going “for her people”. She even envies her colleague who blogs like Belle de Jour…… Husband still comprehensive and wonderful. Eventually people start reading; well they made it a movie now! At the end she feels she achieved something after days trying to hook up people on how it’s hard to debone a duck.

This goes against so many of my principles that I had to share.

When did people start to think “why not making a blog, I’m gonna be famous!”? Who thought that once you write something on the web, billions of others are going to worship it? Seriously? I mean, it’s still the same folks you talk to in the street, but on a larger scale! And this is the next generation according to Hollywood? A bunch of lost lazy kids that just put their next impulse on the web (yeah, Julie nearly get fired, she said she called in sick but the time under the post doesn’t lie…).
Some do it, don’t get me wrong; it’s exactly like in real life except they think it doesn’t count coz it’s online. Some others see it as an opportunity of mass collaboration, a platform where you can get what you need from people who’ve been there. This is what it should be, by the people for the people; not fame and glitter (which you can achieve without talent or blog by the way, it’s called reality tv…)

So I thought I’d help out and I am now a proud editor of WikiHow. I categorize, write, add videos or images to posts I know a bit about. It’s simple, doesn’t take me a lot of time and makes me less stupid every day. I get that it may not going to change climate change tomorrow…but Rome wasn’t built in a day

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Life Sometimes Isn't Easy

sunshine cleaning, sebuah film dengan embel embel “from the produser  of little miss sunshine”. otomatis ketika melihatnya sayapun langsung menontonnya, dengan jajaran cast yang lumayan, amy adams, emily blunt plus alan arkin, alhasil cerita drama yang tidak biasa pun terlahir, dengan cerita yang agak nyeleneh tapi lumayan menyentuh.

menceritakan rose (adams) yang berprofesi sehari hari sebagai pelayan maupun pembantu rumahan, bekerja seharian demi menghidupi keluarganya, sedangkan rose mempunyai adik yaitu norah (blunt) seorang wanita pengangguran yang masih tinggal bersama ayahnya (arkin). rose sadar bekerja banting tulang tidak bisa mencukupi kehidupannya plus untuk membiayai anaknya sekolah, akhirnya dia mendapat ide karena sering “tidur” dengan temannya seorang polisi yang selalu cerita biaya membersihkan TKP bekas pembunuhan lumayan mahal karena sedikit orang yang mengerjakannya.

tiba tiba saja rose berpikir bahwa ini saat yang tepat untuk ganti profesi sebagai tukang pembersih TKP, dia pun mengajak adiknya untuk bekerja sama, maka petualangan pun terjadi, seperti cerita yang sederhana, tapi didalamnya tersimpan bermacam macam kisah menyentuh, bagaimana perjuangan rose untuk bisa membiayai anaknya, serta rasa trauma norah atas kehilangan ibunya yang sebenarnya rose juga rasakan, plus ketika norah “mengacaukan” tugas pembersihan TKP terakhirnya semakin membuat rose tertekan, but its always a way out right?

drama keluarga yang serba kesulitan sana sini disajikan dengan unik dan kadang lucu sebagai agen pembersih TKP wanita, hingga sang ayah pun akhirnya mengerti bagaimana kesulitan rose dan selalu menanggapinya dengan tenang, intinya cerita film ini adalah bagaimana sebuah keluarga bisa menghadapi cobaan secara bersama sama dengan cara unik mereka, toh worth to watch sebagai hiburan serta “charger” semangat anda. enjoy.

Meryl Streep interpreta jocosamente a Julia Child en "Julie & Julia", de Nora Ephron

La norteamericana Nora Ephron ha construido su carrera como guionista y directora sobre la base de la afectividad femenina, expresada tanto en las relaciones de pareja —su trabajo en Heartburn (de Mike Nichols, 1986), Harry y Sally (de Rob Reiner, 1989) y Tienes un e-mail (dirigida por ella misma, 1998) es elocuente— como en las luchas llevadas adelante por mujeres —la obrera de Silkwood (de Mike Nichols, 1983) es una buena prueba— hasta los límites de la sensatez. Aunque falló de forma notable en su anterior film, Hechizada (2005), Ephron regresa con Julie & Julia, una comedia que aborda la autovaloración de la mujer a través de la sensualidad culinaria. Julia Child y Julie Powell fueron mujeres de épocas distintas, de medios sociales diferentes, que incluso no se conocieron, pero que establecieron un lazo vital gracias a la gran cocina francesa de siempre.

Se trata de una historia real pero no suficientemente conocida. A finales de los años cuarenta del siglo pasado Paul Child trabajaba en la embajada estadounidense en París y su esposa se aburría a mares. Julia era una mujer sensible y de un humor imbatible que le encantaba comer. Su encuentro con la vielle cuisine française la impactó sobremanera y trabajó con denuedo hasta completar el libro Dominado el arte de la cocina francesa, escrito con la colaboración de Simone Beck y Louisette Bertholle, que la convirtió en la mayor propulsora de esa culinaria en el mercado norteamericano. A su regresó a su país, publicó más de una docena de títulos sobre cocina y mantuvo durante años varios programas de televisión sobre esta materia. Murió en 2004.

Un par de años antes, Julie Powell, una tejana de 30 años casada asentada en Nueva Cork, se aburría en una oficina burocrática del Bajo Manhattan y decidió crear The Julie & Julia Project, un blog que se planteó el reto de recrear en apenas 365 días las 524 recetas del libro de Child. El sitio digital de Powell se convirtió en un verdadero éxito de lectores en todo el mundo y se convirtió en el libro Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, que fue publicado en 2005. Dos mujeres exitosas unidas por la sensualidad de los sabores de la alta cocina. Nunca se conocieron.

En realidad, Julie & Julia encierra dos películas diferentes pero unidas por sus personajes. Por un lado Nora Ephron narra la historia de Julia Child, una mujer muy alta y muy tenaz que había trabajado durante la segunda guerra mundial en la OSS, oficina de seguridad estratégica antecesora de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia, CIA. Su proeza personal consistió en enseñar a sus conciudadanos a apreciar el arte culinario de Francia. La directora y guionista enfatiza el inmenso placer de vivir de Julia y Paul —deliciosamente interpretados por Meryl Streep, siempre genial, y el gran Stanley Tucci— en un París que intenta cicatrizar las heridas de la guerra. Hay mucho humor y mucha sensualidad en sus acciones. Es la historia de una triunfadora en muy buena lid que devino en inspiración de muchos amante de la gastronomía.

Por otro lado, Ephron cuenta la hazaña de Powell (la convincente Amy Adams), una chica graduada en escritura creativa y teatro, que bajo la inspiración de Child encuentra su verdadera vocación: la cocina. En medio de las dificultades, de las premuras económicas y de los horarios burocráticos encuentra la manera de perfilar sus ambiciones. Con el apoyo de su esposo Eric (Chris Messina), de Internet y de sus lectores doblega su propia inseguridad. Su trabajo en la cocina de su pequeño apartamento y en la edición de su blog la convirtió en una triunfadora, como su idolatrada Child.

La principal virtud del film de Ephron se halla en su capacidad de relacionar dos historias de éxito que —si bien la segunda está vinculada con la primera y no al revés— mantienen su independencia, en tiempos y ambientes distintos. Esta vez sus personajes femeninos no padecen los conflictos de las relaciones afectivas ni los desmanes de corporaciones inescrupulosas sino los retos de la superación personal. Julia ama tanto a Paul como Julie a Eric. Gozan del sexo tanto como de una boeuf bourguignone bien hecha. Es una película que se disfruta sin rubor y con complicidad. Vidas femeninas que celebran la sensualidad, la inteligencia y la honestidad. Sabores son amores.

JULIE & JULIA (“Julie & Julia”), Estados Unidos, 2009. Dirección y guión: Nora Ephron, basado en los libros “My Life in France”, de Julia Child, y “Julie & Julia”, de Julie Powell. Fotografía: Stephen Goldblatt. Música: Alexandre Desplat. Edición: Richard Marks. Diseño de producción: Mark Ricker. Elenco: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Jane Lynch, Linda Emond, Erin Dilly y Frances Sternhagen. Distribuidora: Cinematográfica Blancica.