Razzie

Os vencedores dos Razzie já foram revelados, como sempre na noite antes dos Óscares e Breaking Dawn: Part II foi o grande vencedor, levando sete prémios, incluindo pior filme, realizador e actriz para Kristen Stewart por dois filmes (creio que isto quer dizer alguma coisa).

O pior actor foi Adam Sandler que levou "a pior" a Nicolas Cage. Rihanna foi a pior actriz secundária por Battleship, mas ela ao menos tem a desculpa de não ser actriz. O filme That's My Boy ainda tentou fazer frente a Breaking Dawn: Part II, mas este último foi o grande vencedor/perdedor. 

A Lista completa dos nomeados e vencedores/perdedores:

Worst Picture
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Battleship
The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure
That's My Boy
A Thousand Words

Worst Director
Bill Condon – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Sean Anders – That's My Boy
Peter Berg – Battleship
Tyler Perry – Good Deeds / Madea's Witness Protection
John Putch – Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Worst Actress
Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II / Snow White and the Huntsman
Katherine Heigl – One for the Money
Milla Jovovich – Resident Evil: Retribution
Tyler Perry – Madea's Witness Protection
Barbra Streisand – The Guilt Trip

Worst Actor
Adam Sandler – That's My Boy
Nicolas Cage – Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance / Seeking Justice
Eddie Murphy – A Thousand Words
Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry – Alex Cross / Good Deeds

Worst Supporting Actress

Rihanna – Battleship
Jessica Biel – Playing For Keeps / Total Recall
Brooklyn Decker – Battleship / What to Expect When You're Expecting
Ashley Greene – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Jennifer Lopez – What to Expect When You're Expecting

Worst Supporting Actor
Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
David Hasselhoff – Pirannha 3-DD
Liam Neeson – Battleship / Wrath of the Titans
Nick Swardson – That's My Boy
Vanilla Ice – That's My Boy

Worst Screen Ensemble
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Battleship
The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure
That's My Boy
Madea's Witness Protection

Worst Screenplay
That's My Boy
Atlas Shrugged Part II
Battleship
A Thousand Words
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II

Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance
Pirannha 3-DD
Red Dawn
Madea's Witness Protection

Worst Screen Couple
Mackenzie Foy and Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Any two cast members from Jersey Shore in The Three Stooges
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry and his drag in Madea's Witness Protection
Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, or Susan Sarandon in That's My Boy

Beautiful Creatures

Filme: Beautiful Creatures

Realizador: Richard LaGravenese

Estreia: 28 de Fevereiro

Elenco: Alden Ehrenreich (Ethan Lawson Wate), Alice Englert (Lena Duchannes), Jeremy Irons (Macon Ravenwood), Viola Davis (Amma), Emmy Rossum (Ridley Duchannes), Thomas Mann (Link), Emma Thompson (Mrs. Lincoln/Sarafine)

O filme Beautiful Creatures, uma fantasia romântica para jovens adultos (sim, mais uma), é baseado num romance com o mesmo nome de Kami Garcia e Margaret Stohl. Os direitos do primeiro romance de uma série de fantasia que conta com quatro livros, foram comprados pela Alcon Entertaimnment, e adaptados e realizados por Richard LaGravenese, que é argumentista e realizador de várias comédias românticas. 

O filme pode despertar algum interesse pelo elenco secundário que conseguiu reunir com Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis e Emmy Rossum, mas um elenco bom nem sempre significa um bom filme (Eragon tem um elenco muito bom e o filme é muito mau), mas serve para cativar jovens adultos para o mundo da fantasia.

Ethan Wate é um jovem rapaz que vive em Gatlin, na Carolina do Sul, que tem um sonho recorrente com uma rapariga que não conhece (isto também acontece - mais ou menos - em Eragon). Numa cidade onde nunca acontece nada, a vida de Ethan vai mudar completamente com a chegada de Lena Duchannes, cujo tio Macon Ravenwood é acusado de ser adorador do Diabo e a família, praticantes de bruxaria. 

A caminho de casa, Ethan quase atropela Lena (cenas de atropelamento são óbvias e recorrentes - Twilight). O romance começa a desenrolar-se e o tio de Lena e uma amiga da família de Ethan, Amma, conspiram para que o romance não tenha continuidade. No entanto, Lena confessa a Ethan que a sua família é capaz de invocar e lançar um série de feitiços mágicos. E no seu décimo sexto aniversário, a verdadeira natureza de Lena irá seguir um rumo entre as forças negras ou para a luz, as forças do bem. 

A história complica-se com a chegada de duas poderosas Invocadoras das forças negras, Ridley, a provocadora prima de Lena e a sua mãe, que para além  de possuir o corpo da Sra. Lincoln, prevê que Lena será uma Invocadora mais poderosa que ela. Lena e Ethan usam o medalhão para perceber os flashbacks, revelando os seus antepassados, a Invocadora Genevieve Duchannes e o soldado Confederado Ethan Carter que estavam apaixonados. Ele morreu numa batalha, Genevieve ressuscitou-o usando uma feitiço proibido que a levou para o lado negro e amaldiçoou as mulheres da família Duchannes. Ao consultarem uma vidente e protectora de uma biblioteca (debaixo da Biblioteca da cidade), Amma, onde descobrem o mais antigo dos livros, o Livro das Luas, que revela o segredo para desfazer o feitiço.  

O trailer de Beautiful Creatures:

Caster Chronicles

Caster Chronicles, é uma séria de quatro livros de fantasia romântica para jovens adultos escrita por Kami Garcia e Magaret Stohl, que foi recentemente adaptada ao cinema, e cujos títulos são:

Beautiful Creatures (2009)

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

Beautiful Darkness (2010)

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Beautiful Chaos (2011)

Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What — or who — will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?

For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself — forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.

Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.

Beautiful Redemption (2012)

Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight. And he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves.

Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return, vowing to do whatever it takes -- even if that means trusting old enemies or risking the lives of the family and friends Ethan left to protect.

Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate, in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series.

Fonte: Goodreads

Game of Thrones

Terceira Temporada

Já há um pequeno trailer da Terceira Temporada de Game of Thrones. Apesar de acreditar e saber que a série nunca estará à altura das minhas expectativas (principalmente por ser o meu livro preferido da série literária), as imagens parecem bastante interessantes e aliciantes.

BAFTA Awards

Os BAFTA foram entregues a 10 de Fevereiro pela British Academy of Film and Televisian Arts. Lincoln, que tinha onze nomeações foi o grande derrotado, conseguindo apenas o prémio na categoria de Melhor Actor para Daniel Day-Lewis. O grande vencedor foi Ben Affleck, que levou o prémio de Melhor filme e Realizador com Argo. 

O prémio de Melhor Actriz foi para Emmanuelle Riva pelo filme estrangeiro Amor, Anne Hathaway venceu o Bafta de Melhor Actriz Secundária por Os Miseráveis e Christoph Waltz o Bafta de Melhor Actor Secundário por Django Libertado.

Destaque ainda para 007 - Skyfall, que ganhou o Bafta de Melhor Filme Britânico do Ano, para Quentin Tarantino que ganhou o Bafta de Melhor Argumento Original por Django Libertado e para David O. Russell que venceu na categoria de Melhor Argumento Adaptado por Guia para um Final Feliz.

O realizador britânico Alan Parker recebeu o Fellowship Award, o prémio carreira escolhido pela academia britânica.

Melhor Filme

Vencedor: Argo
Os Miseráveis
A Vida de Pi
Lincoln 

00:30 A Hora Negra

Alexander Korda - Prémio de Melhor Filme Britânico do Ano
Vencedor: 007 - Skyfall
Anna Karenina
O Exótico Hotel Marigold 
Os Miseráveis
Sete Psicopatas

Melhor Actor
Vencedor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Ben Affleck, Argo

Bradley Cooper, Guia para um Final Feliz

Hugh Jackman, Os Miseráveis

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master - O Mentor

Melhor Actriz
Vencedor: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Jessica Chastain, 00:30 A Hora Negra
Maion Cotillard, Ferrugem e Osso
Jennifer Lawrence, Guia para um Casal Feliz
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock

Melhor Actor Secundário
Vencedor: Christoph Waltz, Django Libertado
Alan Arkin, Argo
Javier Bardem, 007 - Syfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master - O Mentor
Tommy Le Jones, Lincoln

Melhor Actriz Secundária
Vencedor: Anne Hathaway, Os Miseráveis
Amy Adams, The Master - O Mentor
Judi Dench, 007 - Skyfall
Sally Field, Lincoln
Helen Hunt, Seis Sessões

David Lean - Prémio de Realização
Vencedor: Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Begelow, 00:30 A Hora Negra
Michael Haneke, Amor
Ang Lee, A Vida de Pi
Quentin Taranatino, Django Libertado

Melhor Argumento  (Original)
Vencedor: Django Libertado, Quentin Tarantino
Amor, Michael Haneke
The Master - O Mentor, Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
00:30 A Hora Mais Negra, Mark Boal

Melhor Argumento (Adaptado)
Vencedor: Guia para um Final Feliz, David O. Russell
Argo, Chris Terrio
Bestas do Sul Selvagem, Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
A Vida de Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner

Melhor Fotografia
Vencedor: A Vida de Pi, Claudio Miranda
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Os Miseráveis, Danny Cohen
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
007 - Skyfall, Roger Deakins

Melhor Montagem
Vencedor: Argo, Billy Goldenberg
Django Libertado, Fred Raskin
A Vida de Pi, Tim Squyres
007 - Syfall, Stuart Baird
00:30 A Hora Negra, Dylan Tichenor, Billi Goldenberg

Melhor Design de Produção
Vencedor: Os Miseráveis, Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
Anna Karenina, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
A Vida de Pi, David Gropman, Anna Pinnock
Lincoln, Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
007 - Skyfall, Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

Melhor Guarda-Roupa
Vencedor: Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Grandes Esperanças, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Os Miseráveis, Paco Delgado
Licoln, Joanna Johnston
A Branca de Neve e o Caçador, Colleen Atwood

Anthony Asquith - Melhor Música
Vencedor: 007 - Skyfall, Thomas Newman
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
A Vida de Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincon, John Williams

Melhor Caracterização
Vencedor: Os Miseráveis
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada
Lincoln

Melhor Som
Vencedor: Os Miseráveis
Django Libertado
O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada
A Vida de Pi
007 - Skyfall

Melhores Efeitos Especiais
Vencedor: A Vida de Pi
Os Vingadores
O Cavaleiro das Trevas Renasce
O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada
Prometheus

Melhor Filme de Língua Estrangeira
Vencedor: Amor
Hodejegerne
The Hunt - A Caça
Ferrugem e Osso
Amigos Improváveis

Melhor Filme de Animação
Vencedor: Brave - Indomável
Fankenweenie
ParaNorman

Melhor Documentário
Vencedor: Seaching for Sugar Man
The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
A Oeste de Memphis

Prémio Estrela em Ascensão
Vencedor: Juno Temple
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Alicia Vikander

Melhor Estreia de um Argumentista, Realizador ou Produtor Britânico
Vencedor: The Imposter, Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
I Am Nasrine, Tina Ghavari
McCullin, David Manos Morris, Jacqui Morris
Os Marretas, James Bobin
Wild Bill, Dexter Fletcher, Danny King

Melhor Curta de Animação
Vencedor: The Making of Longbird, Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson
Here to Fall, Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath
I'm Fine Thanks, Eamonn O'Neill

Melhor Curta-Metragem
Vencedor: Swimmer, Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarrmid Scrimshaw
The Curse, Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries
Good Night, Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
Tumult, Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews
The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill, Baldwin LI

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (11)

Um jogo muito curioso chamado ultracricket brockiano (que consistia em bater nas pessoas sem razão aparente e depois fugir).

À Boleia Pela Galáxia, Douglas Adams

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
1939

First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in the way that Uncle Tom’s Cabin summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist criticism, Steinbeck insisted that “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the book - which takes its title from the first verse: “He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.” At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s fictional chronicle of the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
1938

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten... her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant—the sinister Mrs. Danvers—still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca... for the secrets of Manderley.

Atlantis

Séries Fantásticas

Depois do cancelamento da série televisiva Merlin (a Quinta Temporada é a última), a BBC anunciou que Atlantis será anova série de fantasia que passará no mesmo horário e que irá para o ar no Outono.

De acordo com a sinopse, a cidade de Atlantis é um local antigo e misterioso, onde é paraticada a taurocatapsia (saltos acrobáticos sobre touros), de deusas com cabelos transformados em sepentes e de palácios tão grandes que se dizia ter sido construídos por gigantes.

Criada por Howard Overman (Misfits), a série terá treze episódios e será uma extraordinária aventura sobre um lugar estranho, um reino envolvente, onde Jason chega e descobre um mundo que dá vida a um vasto conjunto de histórias e personagens da mitologia grega e lendas reimaginadas para uma nova geração.

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
1937 (Publicado em 1967)

The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First, he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.

Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master — as he calls himself — has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet — and fellow lunatic — Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"

Surely, no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around?

Unsurprisingly — in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror — Bulgakov's master work was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other.

Fonte: Goodreads

Séries Fantásticas

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Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
1872

A young woman living at her father's castle is the narrator of this novella. When a mysterious and beautiful stranger is stranded at the castle in odd circumstances and becomes a guest, the heroine quickly forms a close bond with her - but she subsequently discovers that her "friend" has a dark and lethal secret.

Carmilla, the title character, is the original prototype for a legion of female and lesbian vampires. Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story.

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu first published in 1872. It tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years. Although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally-considered master work of that genre, Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's short story.

Tresure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson
Tresure Island
1883

The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature’s most beloved “bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys...and girls...and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and the good-hearted but obtuse Squire Trelawney, who help Jim on his quest for the treasure; the frightening Blind Pew, double-dealing Israel Hands, and seemingly mad Ben Gunn, buccaneers of varying shades of menace; and, of course, garrulous, affable, ambiguous Long John Silver, who is one moment a friendly, laughing, one-legged sea-cook . . .and the next a dangerous pirate leader!

The unexpected and complex relationship that develops between Silver and Jim helps transform what seems at first to be a simple, rip-roaring adventure story into a deeply moving study of a boy’s growth into manhood, as he learns hard lessons about friendship, loyalty, courage and honor - and the uncertain meaning of good and evil.

The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew. The tale is told by an adventurous boy, Jim Hawkins, who gets hold of treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages.

Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Island has enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic.

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (10)

Diz que o efeito de beber um rebenta goelas galáctico é igual a esmagarem-nos os miolos com uma rodela de limão enrolada em volta de um enorme lingote de ouro.

À Boleia Pela Galáxia, Douglas Adams

1984

George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101... 

Ninteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451
1953

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as when it was first published more than 50 years ago.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

The Tempest

William Shakespeare
The Tempest
1610-11

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skilful manipulation. The eponymous tempest brings to the island Prospero's usurping brother Antonio and the complicit Alonso, King of Naples. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's low nature, the redemption of Alonso, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero - a magician on an enchanted island - punishes his enemies, brings happiness to his daughter, and comes to terms with human use of supernatural power. The Tempest embodies both seemingly timeless romance and the historically specific moment in which Europe begins to explore and conquer the New World. 

Its complexity of thought, its range of characters - from the spirit Ariel and the monster Caliban to the beautiful Miranda and her prince Ferdinand - its poetic beauty, and its exploration of difficult questions that still haunt us today make this play wonderfully compelling. 

Jo Walton

A autora nasceu em 1964 em Aberdare no País de Gales e tem dupla nacionalidade (galesa e canadiana), é escritora de fantasia e ficção cientifica e poeta. Escritora desde os treze anos, só publicou a sua primeira obras no ano 2000. Actualmente, vive no Canadá.

Os seus três primeiros romances, The king's Peace (2000), The King's Name (2001) e The Prize in the Game (2002), são de fantasia e passam-se todos no mesmo mundo. O seu romance seguinte foi Tooth and Claw (2003) sobre dragões. Farthing foi o seu primeiro romance de ficção científica, sendo também uma história alternativa à Segunda Guerra Mundial com algum mistério. O segundo livro, Ha'penny foi publicado em 2007 e o terceiro, Half a Crown em 2008, concluindo a trilogia. O seu romance mais recente é Among Others, publicado em 2011, que tem magia, livros de ficção científica e a adaptação de uma rapariga a uma nova realidade e, no qual a autora mistura elementos autobiográficos com a imaginação. 

Jo Walton venceu o John W. Campbell Award na categoria de Best New Writer em 2002, ganhou o World Fantasy Award em 2004 por Tooth and Claw e o Prometheus Award em 2008 por Ha'penny. Conquistou o Mythopoetic Award em 2012 por Lifelode e em 2012, com o seu romance Among Others, conseguiu o Nebula Award e o Hugo Award, ambos na categoria de Best Novel, estando também nomeada para o World Fantasy Award, os prémios mais conceituados de fantasia e ficção científica a nível mundial.

Romances:
The King's Peace, 2000
The King's Name, 2001
The Prize in the Game, 2002
Tooth and Claw, 2003
Farthing, 2003
Ha'penny, 2007
Half a Crown, 2008
Lifelode, 2009
Among Others, 2011

Among Others

Jo Walton

Among Others

2011

Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead.

Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England–a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put off...

Fonte: Goodreads - Among Others

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards - Vencedores

Os prémios que costumam ser o grande indicador de quem pode vencer os Óscares, foram entregues esta madrugada, premiando os melhores filmes e séries de 2012, numa cerimónia apresentada por Tina Fey e Amy Poehler. 

Homeland foi a melhor série de drama e venceu também a categoria de melhor actriz (Claire Danes) e melhor actor (Damian Lewis). Girls levou o globo de melhor série de comédia e melhor actriz (Lena Dunham). Surpreendentemente, Brave conseguiu o globo de melhor filme de animação e Amour arrecadou o globo de melhor filme estrangeiro.

Chritoph Waltz ganhou na categoria de melhor actor secundário por Django Unchained e Anne Hathaway na categoria de melhor actriz secundária por Les Miserables, enquanto Daniel Day-Lewis levou o globo de melhor actor por Lincoln e Jessica Chastain o de melhor actriz por Zero Dark Thirty.

Hugh Jackman conseguiu o globo na categoria de melhor actor de comédia ou musical por Les Miserables e Jennifer Lawrence o de melhor actriz por Silver Linings Playbook e Les Miserables arrecadou o globo de melhor filme em comédia ou musical.

O globo de ouro para melhor argumento foi para Quentin Tarantino por Django Unchained e Ben Affleck venceu na categoria de melhor realizador por Argo, filme que vendeu também o prémio mais importante noite, de melhor filme de drama.

De destacar ainda a homenagem feita a Jodie Foster que recebeu o prémio Cecil B. DeMille pelo seu excelente trabalho ao longo de 44 anos como actriz, produtora e realizadora, que pelo seu discurso brilhante, cativou e emocionou a audiência e que deixa uma marcante carreira provando que as grandes mulheres não se medem aos aos palmos. 

Ficam aqui os vencedores:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Winner: Argo
Argo

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Lincon

Zero Dark Thirty

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Winner: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone

Helen Mirren, Hitchcock

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincon
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincon

Richard Gere, Arbitrage

John Hawkes, The Sessions

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Denzel Washington, Flight

BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner: Les Miserables
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Les Miserables

Moonrise Kingdom

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Silver Linings Playbook

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner: Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Jack Black, Bernie
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Ewan McGergor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Winner: Brave 
Brave

Frankenweenie

Hotel Transylvania

Rise of the Guardians

Wreck-it Ralph

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: Amour (Austria)
Amour (Austria)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
The Intouchables (France)
Kon-Tiki (Norway/UK/Denmark)
Rust and Bone (Fance)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Winner: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Winner: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo Dicaprio, Django Unchained
Philp Seymor Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Winner: Ben Affleck, Argo
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
And Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
Winner: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Chris Terrio, Argo

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
Winner: Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Alexande Desplat, Argo
Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Cloud Atlas
John Williams, Lincoln

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
Winner: "Skyfall", Skyfall, Music by: Adele, Paul Epworth, Lyrics by: Adele, Paul Epworth 
"For You", Act of Valor, Music by: Monty Powell, Keith Urban, Lyrics by: Monty Powell, Keith Urban
"Not Running Anymore", Stand Up Guys, Music by: Jon Bon Jovi, Lyrics by: Jon Bon Jovi
"Safe & Sound", The Hunger Games, Music by: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T Bone Burnett, Lyrics by: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T Bone Burnett
"Skyfall", Skyfall , Music by: Adele, Paul Epworth, Lyrics by: Adele, Paul Epworth
"Suddenly", Les Miserables, Music by: Claude-Michel Schonberg, Lyrics by: Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Winner: Homeland
Breaking Bad

Boradwalk Empire

Downton Abbey

Homeland

The Newsroom

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Winner: Claire Danes, Homeland
Connie Britton, Nashville
Glenn Close,  Damages
Claire Danes, Homeland

Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Winner: Damian Lewis, Homeland
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniel, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Damian Lewis, Homeland

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner: Girls
The Big Bang Theory

Episodes

Girls

Modern Family

Smash

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner: Lena Dunham, Girls
Zooey Deshanel, New Girl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Lena Dunham, Girls
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner: Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Louis C. K., Louie
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner: Game Change
Game Change

The Girl

Hatfields & McCoys

The Hour

Political Animals

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner: Julianne Moore, Game Change
Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn
Jessica Lange, American Horro Story: Asylum
Sienna Miller, The Girl
Julianne Moore, Game Change
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock (Masterpiece)
Woody Herrelson, Game Change
Toby Jones, The Girl
Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gellhorn 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Sarah Poulson, Game Change
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner: Ed Harris, Game Change
Max Greenfield, New Girl
Ed Harris, Game Change
Danny Huston, Magic City
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family