Let My Baby Ride

Roughly at the middle of Holy Motors we are struck by this wonderful sequence. Denis Lavant leads a group of musicians through a beautiful set playing some beautiful and powerful music. By Leos Carax.

Honest Titles for 2013's Oscar Nominated Movies

And now for an alternative, funnier, and maybe more honest version of some of the posters for the 2013 oscar nominated movies. Don't miss it! The link is here: Honest Titles for 2013's Oscar Nominated Movies

May The Force Be With Us

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The Sound of 2012 Movies

A very beautiful, hour-long, sound trip to the movies released in 2012 in the United States. If you hear it until the end, you will be overwhelmed by the magnificent end title music from Cloud Atlas, composed by one of the directors, Tom Tykwer.

Hear it at Soundcloud, here - Cinema Sound 2012

My TOP10 Movies of 2012

These are not the best movies from the past year. No one can decide what movies are the best for any year. But if anyone can, that person is certainly not me! These are just my personal favorites, my first 10 picks for the year 2012. And although this is just a personal choice, I think we have here a very nice set of movies! If you still didn't see them, I advise you to give it a try. Maybe these movies will help you "carry your luggage" during the new year, like Sam did for Suzy in Moonrise Kingdom, or help you avoid a state of loneliness similar to the one Brandon had in Shame.

To see the list, please click on the link below (click to play + put it on full screen):
My TOP10 Movies of 2012

The movies were chosen among the ones commercially released in Portugal during the year 2012.

Best Picture Of The Year

I used to love lists, especially movie lists because I'm so obsessed with the order of things, so it was important for me to arrange everything.

Now I don't really like this kind of list, because it is very variable through time and it is very reductive of the concept we're analyzing. The movies I choose and the order I choose always depend on the mood in the moment of the choice, just like what I feel about a movie and how it stays in my mind depends of the mood I was in when I watched it.

Anyway the idea is: each of the members of The Royal Films Club has to choose the top ten movies ordered of 2012. The movies we can consider are the ones which arrived to the Portuguese Theaters during this year.

So although this task is difficult for me, I don't have any doubt about the first title:

Shame was the movie of the year for me. And I know that this choice will remain in time, since Shame is one of those ageless movies, which portrays emotions that affect every single one of us. 

The three titles that follow are wonderful too. Then we have a solid number five. And afterwards we might have some variations. 

This was the final list I came up with:

1 - Shame (by Steve McQueen)
2 - Moonrise Kingdom (by Wes Anderson)
3 - L'Artist (by Michel Hazanavicius)
4 - Hugo (by Martin Scorcese)
5 - Argo (by Ben Affleck)
6 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (by Peter Jackson)
7 - Florbela (by Vicente Alves do Ó)
8 - Cloud Atlas (by Lana Wachowski, Andi Wachowski and Tom Tykwer)
9 - Brave (by Mark Andrews, Brend Chapman and Steve Purcell)
10 - Lawless (by John Hillcoat)

This exercise made me realize that we had some interesting pictures this year, but Shame is definitely the movie to remember. It was an outstanding picture which will prevail.

FANTASPORTO 2013

FANTASPORTO

This year's festival official poster.