Óscares 2008

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

 

Other Nominees:

Ellen Page for Juno (2007)

 

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

 

Other Nominees:

 

 

Best Achievement in Directing

 

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

 

 

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

 

Best Achievement in Makeup

 

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER

 

 

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER

Once (2006): Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová(“Falling Slowly” )

 

Other Nominees:

August Rush (2007): Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack, Tevin Thomas(”Raise It Up”)
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz(”Happy Working Song”)
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz(”So Close”)
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz(”That’s How You Know”)

 

 

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

WINNER

 

 

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER

Fälscher, Die (2007)(Austria)

 

Other Nominees:

Beaufort (2007)(Israel)
Mongol (2007)(Kazakhstan)
Katyn (2007)(Poland)
12 (2007)(Russia)

 

 

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

 

 

 

Óscares 2008

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Other Nominees:

Ellen Page for Juno (2007)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Other Nominees:

Best Achievement in Directing

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Best Achievement in Makeup

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER

Once (2006): Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová(“Falling Slowly” )

Other Nominees:

August Rush (2007): Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack, Tevin Thomas(“Raise It Up”)
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz(“Happy Working Song”)
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz(“So Close”)
Enchanted (2007): Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz(“That’s How You Know”)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

WINNER

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER

Fälscher, Die (2007)(Austria)

Other Nominees:

Beaufort (2007)(Israel)
Mongol (2007)(Kazakhstan)
Katyn (2007)(Poland)
12 (2007)(Russia)

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Depeche Mode – Route 66 (Beatmasters / Casualty Mix)

Depeche Mode – Route 66 (Beatmasters / Casualty Mix)
Personal Jesus (Holier Than Thou Approach) – 1989

Soft Cell – Tainted Love

Soft Cell – Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go [1981]

New Order – Dreams Never End

New Order – Dreams Never End | Movement [1981]

New Order – True Faith

Enlightenment

No final de Into The Wild, solta-se um UAU!
Sean Penn mostra brilhantemente o paradoxo do regresso do homem ao lado selvagem, em busca da sabedoria.
Agradeço à D a maravilhosa banda sonora e à Ana as palavras de Thoreau:

“I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau

Eddie Vedder – Guaranteed

On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that’s me
So I can breathe…

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they’ll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes…

Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you…

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I’m never what they thought
I’ve got my indignation, but I’m pure in all my thoughts
I’m alive…

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they’re singing with the dead
Overhead…

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed

Enlightenment

O olhar de Sean Penn sobre o paradoxo do regresso do homem ao lado selvagem, em busca da sabedoria, é determinante para que Into The Wild se torne num filme de culto. Wow!

“I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau

Eddie Vedder – Guaranteed

On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that’s me
So I can breathe…

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they’ll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes…

Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you…

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I’m never what they thought
I’ve got my indignation, but I’m pure in all my thoughts
I’m alive…

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they’re singing with the dead
Overhead…

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed

Van Gogh em Paris

O novo mundo que Van Gogh foi encontrar em Paris permitiu-lhe tomar contacto com artistas como François Millet e Delacroix; Conheceu Toulouse-Lautrec, que tinha um particular gosto em retratar a vida dos Cafés parisienses.

Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890), Paris, January-March 1887

Van Gogh – Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin, 1887

Agostina Segatori era a propietária do Café du Tamburin no Boulevard de Clichy, onde Van Gogh terá exposto pela primeira vez os seus trabalhos, em Paris.
Apesar de com ela ter tido um affaire, terá pago em quadros de motivos florais as refeições que fazia no Café.
Se podia pagar em espécie… não entendo os artistas! Mas adoro este tipo.
Terá sido na obra Poudre de Riz – 1887 de Lautrec que Van Gogh se terá inspirado para o retrato ali de cima, o qual prefiro.

O que o homem faz para conquistar uma mulher… faz bem!

Hoje à tarde no Restaurante Terreiro do Paço, é apresentado o novo livro de Luís Machado “Um Homem na Cozinha – Seduções e Volúpias”, com prefácio de Mário Cláudio e ilustrações de Francisco Simões. A edição é da Parceria A.M.Pereira.
A tertúlia decorre com música e poesia e termina com uma degustação de vinhos e petiscos.
Humm… este livro cheira-me…!

“este é um livro em que se incentiva os homens a cozinhar para mulheres”

Com “Um Homem na Cozinha – Seduções e Volúpias”, o autor diz que gostaria que “a gastronomia sugerida contribuísse para atrair ao fogão aqueles que ainda imaginam a culinária como um território complexo e inacessível”. Cada capítulo deste livro é antecedido por citações de escritores e poetas.
Por exemplo, as sopas surgem apresentadas com uma citação de Ruy Belo, os ovos são evocados num poema de Teresa Rita Lopes, as massa por uma das “Tisanas”, de Ana Hatherly. As receitas, elas próprias, vêm identificadas com palavras que remetem para o universo cultural do autor.
Há “Bife Amarcord” (numa referência ao filme homónimo de Federico Fellini), há “Jardineira do desassossego (numa homenagem a Fernando Pessoa), só para citar alguns exemplos.
E porque o autor se preocupa com os neófitos da arte de cozinhar, encerra o livro com um conjunto de sugestões sobre o uso de ervas e especiarias, sobre o essencial a ter numa despensa e no frigorífico , sobre a arte de bem pôr uma mesa.