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João Eça
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About Me

My 13 favourite films:

The Last Command, Josef von Sternberg
To Be Or Not To Be, Ernst Lubitsch
Ivan, the Terrible – Parts 1 and 2, Sergei Eisenstein
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang
White Heat, Raoul Walsh
The Apu Trilogy, Satyajit Ray
Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard
Falstaff, Orson Welles
The Damned, Luchino Visconti
Saló, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman
Ran, Akira Kurosawa
They Live, John Carpenter

Note about my ratings:

1 Star: Terrible to Bad
2 Stars: Weak to So-So
3 Stars: Interesting to Good
4 Stars: Very Good to Great
5 Stars: Excellent to Masterpiece

If you love cinema as well, I hope you enjoy my ratings, reviews and lists. If you do, don’t be shy, add me as a friend!

Dedicating myself to discover Japanese cinema in 2013. My targets will be Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Kon Ichikawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Shoei Imamura, Takeshi Kitano, Takeshi Miike, Koji Wakamatsu, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nagisa Oshima and Hideo Nakata.

Also, I will try to explore the work of the following directors: Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, R.W. Fassbinder, Nikita Mikhalkov, Léos Carax, Philippe Garrel, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Raoul Walsh, John Ford, Satyajit Ray, Robert Mulligan, Glauber Rocha, Marguerite Duras, Valerio Zurlini, King Vidor, Edward Dmytryk and Lindsay Anderson.

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The Green Ray

Rohmer destructs perversely the romantic ideal of love by constructing a character that pursues the material values of her bourgeois society but refuses its moral ones. Thereby the french master delivers a tragic but at the same time humorous picture that supports its philosophy on the logic of our most ancient fairy tales (adapted to a futile society). The green ray is in fact man's ability to dream in a pop world.

Style

  • Auteur-driven
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Nouvelle vague
  • Rebellion!
  • Canonical classics
  • Shh!—silent cinema
  • Neorealist

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Aguaespejo

6May13

Love Rite of Spring too! I can't think of any other attempt to film popular theater that is more successful...

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Trolley Freak

3May13

Thanks for the follow! :)

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Zachary W

22Apr13

Thanks for following. Love to see that you're a John Carpenter fan.

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    João Eça

    24Apr13

    Carpenter is the only really essential film-maker alive, with the exception of the dinosaur Godard. We have today some great film-makers, but somehow most of them ran out of things to say. Even The Ward (Carpenter's latest) was a big disapointment, though Ghosts of Mars is still recent enough so that I can forget him.

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Kenji

13Apr13

Mizoguchi is my favourite director, so i am pleased you have done a list. I hope you find mine on Mizoguchi and Portugal of interest!

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Reviews

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Snow White

Snow White

Não. O não-filme que é puro cinema: a rejeição de todas as formas cinematográficas devolve ao espectador todo o poder de imaginação associado conceptualmente à Imagem de cinema. O belíssimo texto de…  read review

Weekend

Weekend

Week-end é o Salò de Jean-Luc Godard. É um filme apocalíptico, que retoma o mundo virado ao avesso de Made in USA (um dos inter-títulos, neste filme utilizados ao extremo, refere-se às personagens…  read review

Gebo and the Shadow

Gebo and the Shadow

Uma família, uma casa, uma sala. Uma câmara que nunca se move e que raramente abandona o espaço. Uma profundidade de campo a que nada escapa e, quando escapa, nos devolve um contra-campo. A família…  read review

A Woman's Revenge

A Woman's Revenge

O último filme de Rita Azevedo Gomes, A Vingança de uma Mulher, baseado num conto de Aurevilly, é um objecto formalmente complexo e arrojado, mais perto de Perceval, le galois, de Eric Rohmer, do que…  read review

Ratings

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Five Days, Five Nights

Five Days, Five Nights

  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
The Egyptian

The Egyptian

  • Currently 1.0/5 Stars.
The Green Ray

The Green Ray

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano

  • Currently 2.0/5 Stars.