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The movie “What Dreams May Come” is a beautiful novel that was based on the book before becoming film. It won the Oscar in 1999, and the cast is fantastic, making the film even more exciting than it already was. The actors who participated in the cast are Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Junior, Max von Sydow, Annabella Sciorra, Jessica Brooks Grant, Josh Paddock, Rosalind Chao, among others, but these are the principal actors that made this movie so special and better quality to the public, since the set of players heavily influences the choice of watching the film, so the director wanted to do everything according to the merit of the book that also became a hit among readers.

The story of a family, being a couple and two children (the oldest boy and girl). A perfect family according to the concepts we have about that word, they were very happy and had a very successful life and may have all the best. But in a typical day, the couple’s children suffer a car accident and died immediately, a tragedy that caused a terrible pain in the feelings of parents, the husband who was a little more focused with their own emotions did everything to keep life, but the children’s mother could not control the feeling I had inside her and it was becoming increasingly depressed. So with the love of her husband she will recover gradually, but on another day her husband also died in another accident. Now with all his family missing, the lone woman can not resist the sorrow and enter into a serious depression, changed the look, no longer worked, and that pain was increasing with each passing day. Meanwhile, her husband tries to get used to new life in spirit form and go his way, he discovers many different things of life on earth, knows many people and is accompanied by his friend that shows you several things that other life.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona – IMDB

Director: Woody Allen.
Cast: Scarlett Johannson, Rebecca Hall, Chris Messina, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz.

Among the highs and lows of a decade marked by the transformation that in his cinematic style, the hybridity between visual arts, photography and cultural divide between Europe and the United States is the body that will present us with Woody Allen Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a film of the expressions that, like the two that preceded it (Match Point and Scoop), raises even more insight to this author does not act in his films and, moreover, will help you accomplish your new language.

The work deals with themes that the director had visited almost all his conceptions, the sovereignty of a woman over a man, which may also possibly see that this is a personal stigma that this will take care of bringing up end of his days. Its philosophical premise, this film also permeates the artistic inspiration that drives vivacity, the overlap between one person and another, in addition to sophisticated hedonism ruled by good wines and beautiful scenery, possible only in the summer holidays of the extraordinary European cities.

The interface of the situations occurs when Allen also expresses a kind of obsession to address the psychological and temperamental fluctuation of Man (sapien), breaking in this case in particular, with its characteristic superficialize drama and comedy – action indirectly between a junk movie and one of his own. However, in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which has as protagonists the two friends, Vicky (Scarlett Johannson) and Cristina (Rebecca Hall), the narrative involves us in the dichotomy between the ideals of two young and beautiful characters in spite of love, behavior and values .

Vicky is the rich girl and well behaved, that the Catalan culture in depth research for his masters degree and is engaged to a rich man Doug (Chris Messina), a member of upscale New Yorkers. However, it is also hostage to absolute values that do not know the true essence of your feelings. Cristina, in turn, though he traveled provided frustration for his failure to devise a short film and ironically insignificant character consisted in the love that makes us libertarians, is more open to new experiences and reinvents itself in the journey to the beautiful Spanish town, dipping into his new passion: the photographic experiment.

To further spice size antagonism between the philosophy of life of two beautiful young American, one night, both known simultaneously in a vernissage, the Spanish painter Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), which is good host, a brash and bohemian gallant, even though it was still recovering from the recent and disastrous split with his wife Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz), wonderfully beautiful woman, talented, and even more seductive than her husband, about to violently put down a knife into his body and not to withdraw develop the same passion for it which aroused great curiosity to Christina to meet her in your total privacy.

Among seductions, achievements and disappointments unfolds a hilarious plot cleverly fitted with great refinement and great images (mostly photographs produced in the film), and engaging performances that evoke complex thoughts on leaving the cinema. With the example we question ourselves if we set the values as essential for a marriage is really important to achieve happiness, or if we were so minded to external interference, imposed in short by the “rules” of society in which we operate, the not seeing our point of predictability.

With over a large choice of this extraordinary director, happy in their provocations and partnership with a great cast, which is perfectly fine its fantastic restlessness, I give my Cinematheque more a work of art that will endure for generations to come and will constitute a great classic.

Slumdog Millionaire – IMDB

Director: Danny Boyle.
Cast: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Freida Pinto.

Until a few months ago, Indian cinema was summed up by the West in three keywords: Bollywood, M. Night Shyamalan and Mira Nair. That is until Danny Boyle get bored of their fuzzy little land and take your camera responsive to India, where he went on to shoot a film. Uncompromising director, embraced a trivial project: adapting to the screen the best-selling Indian “Q & A” by Vikas Swarup – baptized thereafter Slumdog Millionaire (and here Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). Detail: he had to do it with a modest budget – just over $ 15 million – and counting with a cast made up of local actors. That is, a co-production far from being ambitious …

Finished filming, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was for editing and silently arrived at U.S. movie theaters in late August. After six months of the official release, the question is inevitable: as a film made in India with Indian actors and directed by a filmmaker as unconventional Boyle earned about $ 80 million, laid out in major film festivals including winning the Oscar for Best Picture? But the success of “Millionaire pooch” is due for many reasons.

The main one: Danny Boyle. If before the British could be labeled as “the guy who directed Trainspotting and achieved commercial success with Extermination” Now the picture changes. One of its merits on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was to adapt a fairy tale city, combining the thrilling pyrotechnics of the previous work with the Bollywood aesthetic. In smaller words, he manages to tell a simple story in a surprising way.

The film begins with a question: “Jamal Malik is a question of winning 20 million rupees. How did he? “A new sign posts the alternatives. Is Jamal (Dev Patel) cheated the game of questions and answers? Is it luck? He is a genius? Or … hmmm .. is written? With a simple narrative feature, Boyle weapon that will trigger the bomb there at the end of the movie. But until then, the viewer will glaze.

In the next scene, we find that boy Jamal is a poor and uneducated, just 18 years. His good performance in the game sounds incoherent to the presenter of the program that asks the police for torturing him to confess to fraud. At the station, the officer hears the unusual trajectory of the boy who despite their youth endured poverty, prejudice and crime.

Of Muslim origin, Jamal grew aimlessly alongside his brother Salim, attracted organized crime, and Latika (Freida Pinto, pretty picture), the great love of his life. Went to meet her again that he signed up for “show the million Indian.” And the struggle to survive the knowledge that allowed him to settle the questions.

Between flashbacks and the current time that they shake the life of Jamal, Boyle’s camera records a story where the decadent and plagued capital Bombay gives rise to social development and prosperity of technology. In childhood, the protagonist is seen running through a slum alleys, shacks and animals. One scene in particular draws attention: the camera abandons Jamal and started to follow a chicken in motion. If Boyle refused to honor the opening Fernando Meirelles of City of God, he unconsciously emulated the scene. One of two things.

In adult life the boy see the revival of Bombay, which is now called Mumbai. Dotted with skyscrapers, the city that is enriched with computer captured with omnipotence by the director. And it is the top of a building under construction that finds Jamal Salim, then right arm of the most feared drug dealer in the region. It is with the help of the bastard brother that he can access their most valuable prize.

All these elements – love, corruption, violence and instinct – are harmonized in a melodramatic and predictable outcome. A melodrama with gaping air of fable, in the style of Bollywood. Alie, so this unpretentious with social criticism and the pace of electronic Boyle and have one of the most original movies of the year. In this scenario, the adapted screenplay by Simon Beaufoy acts as a catalyst in order to balance the excesses of the plot. The final dance rhythm is a tacit tribute to the director of Indian cinema.

In a career marked by good times – the great Traisnpotting and Shallow Grave – and others less so – the poor and middle Sunshine Beach – Danny Boyle outside the country, his master stroke. With Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? the director finally arrived at its height. How did he?

A: He cheated
B. He is lucky
C. He is GOOD
D: It is written

Easy answer!

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Up in the Air – IMDB

Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Danny McBride, Vera Farmiga, Melanie Lynskey, George Clooney.

This is another movie cliche about novels (possible and impossible), disagreements loving and somewhat self-help built into almost all the dialogues. It is the style that has been called “romantic comedy.”

The movie is not really so bad, but not excited. Clooney lives a guy who spends most of his time traveling on behalf of his work: firing people. His biggest hobby is to collect miles in search of a great magic number of miles that will give you ultra special benefits (and eternal) in the airline. Logical that because of this back-and-forth endless he has no fixed home, in every sense of the term but do not really care for it, since it also shows a person averse to relationships that can hold onto land.

Sure, this routine will be broken by a series of events, including an romance made of meetings in hotels. Of course this will also become one … Well, you better stop here lest tell the whole movie in a single paragraph and disrupt the enjoyment of those who think they have some fun in this type of movie.

From the director of Juno, the movie gets to have algums nice moments, like introductory sequence where the director uses to great resources to show the routine character in one of his many trips. But that’s it.

One thing that bothers a little is the issue of marketing for the airline. They lose no opportunity to make the company payola, his modus operandi, its relationship with customers who fly a lot and so on. At first it seems cool, because it is one of the goals of life of Clooney’s character get to the top of the world of mileage, but over time becomes unnecessary. Suggests that the film was bought, literally.

Because of the presence of George Clooney’s women will say it is worth seeing the movie anyway. Well, like not even being discussed.

How George Clooney manages to do it nearly every time I’ll never know. His track record for movies of late has been pretty excellent, and Up in the Air is probably one of his most sublime pictures to date. Directed by Jason Reitman (of Juno fame), Up in the Air is a bit of a surprising picture. Now, it’s not a perfect movie by any means, but I find the accolades thrust upon it are completely justified.

Synopsis:
In Up in the Air, George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchet man who loves his life on the road but is forced to fight for his job when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend more time at home just as he is on the cusp of a goal he’s worked toward for years: reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. With multiple award nominations and critical acclaim across the board, discover why critics and viewers alike have been calling Up in the Air arguably the defining movie of our times.

Now, it’s impossible to imagine anyone else but Clooney in this role. It’s the perfect marriage of the role and the actor. Flawless casting. No one other than Clooney could make this character, one the audience should really, really hate, likeable. Clooney plays a guy who flies all over the country firing people. That’s his job. Remarkably, we don’t hate him for it. We really, really should. But we don’t. He’s also a motivational speaker, telling people to free their lives of baggage be it people or possessions. Again, we should hate the guy. We should hate Bingham. But with Clooney, we can’t. We get interested in his life, and get sucked in when he finds his way of life complicated by the introduction of two new women to his life, one a new co-worker and the other a love interest. Hilarity and problems ensue, as you can imagine.

Reitman’s Up in the Air is the perfect movie of our times. As we continue to weather the storm of our current economic climate, Up in the Air accurately portrays the uncertainty and worry that comes with the current job market, and the devastating sense of unemployment. Now, by no means is this a dark, depressing movie, far from it. But it feels real. As we see Bingham do his job, we feel for the characters, even for the briefest of moments we see them on screen. It just has that extra punch to it that really gives his movie the weight it needs to work.

What we have here is a great movie that seems to be perfectly handled in nearly every way. While there are a couple teeny problems, mainly the more than a couple painfully predictable and obvious twists that deflate this flick a little, everything else just falls so perfectly into place. The story, the characters, the actors, the directing, the skillful editing, it all just syncs up as it should. It seems like every moment is perfectly telegraphed to tell us something about Bingham and his supporting cast. Whether it’s them crashing a corporate party, Bingham attending his sister’s wedding, or him sitting at his desk, it tells us more than any worthless expository dialogue ever could. And that, to me, is the mark of a great film. We’re not force fed every little moral or every little character tick. We see it unfold naturally, and the film is better for that.

A timely movie, one that may hit closer to home than others, Up in the Air is a movie that is full of surprises. Yes, it has one of two obviously telegraphed moments, those are so miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Everything about this movie feels so effortless and smooth, which, to me, shows just how much work went into it making appear as such. Coming Highly Recommended to own, as it definitely warrants multiple views, is a smart, funny picture that perfectly captures life today. With nary a weak performance to be found, and an engaging and interesting protagonist, Up in the Air is worth getting lost in.

The Blu-ray:

Beyond the bland cover art for Up in the Air, you’ll find a rather well-rounded packaging, both in terms of presentation and bonus content. A respectable presentation by Paramount Home Entertainment, this Blu-ray release serves up a solid viewing experience.

Looking at the audio and video quality, both are crisp and clear. The video looks rich and deep, with even the muted palette of the film popping out. Black levels are deep and the detail is very noticeable, particularly during many of the overhead shots where we see cities from far above ground. Audio is appropriately center-heavy, considering how dialogue-heavy the film is, and crystal clear. Every single word comes out crystal clear, even in the odd scene with noticeably loud environmental cues. All the audio seems well balanced among each channel, bringing a perfect balance between the dialogue, score and environmental cues. Well done, Paramount.

For extras, we have a nice helping of extras. Not overwhelming, but a good balance I find. First up is an audio commentary by writer/director Jason Reitman, director of photography Eric Steeberg and first assistant director Jason Blumenfeld. It’s an informative track laced with some great details on the film’s shooting, but Reitman comes off a little too strong at times. Still, that doesn’t really deter from a worthwhile listen. The remaining extras are a mish-mash of bonus features, ranging from the standard featurettes to deleted scenes. We get a close look at the company responsible for the opening credits for all of Reitman’s pictures to date, a behind-the-scenes music video, a look at rehearsals, a brief prank video, a collection of theatrical trailers (thank you, Paramount!), and a wealth of deleted scenes. The deleted scenes, roughly 24 minutes in total, are all worth checking out and come available with optional commentary.

Paramount Home Entertainment has whipped up a very solid release for Up in the Air, striking a nice balance between the main feature and the bonus content. An excellent movie housed in an equally pleasing high-definition package, Up in the Air definitely comes Highly Recommended. It’s probably one of the quintessential movies of our time, despite the odd flaw here and there, providing a frank look at our current way of life. Despite the quick turnaround between its theatrical run and home video, this title doesn’t feel rushed or hastily plopped together. A surprisingly well-rounded package, Up in the Air would make a worthy addition to anyone’s collection.

Up in the Air is now available to own on Blu-ray and DVD.