10.31.2014

BlinkyTM


Noche de Halloween, una historia de terror!

BlinkyTM es un corto de ciencia ficción/terror Irlandes/Norteamericano que se estreno el 20 de Marzo de 2001. Esta escrito, editado y dirigido por Ruarí Robinson.
Esta protagonizado por Max Records, Robinson, Jenni Fontana y James Nardini
El corto cuenta la historia de un chico que recibe como regalo de navidad un robot. Luego de un tiempo el chico comienza a tratar mal a este robot y las cosas se tornan oscuras.

Es un excelente corto (en mi opinión) que vi hace poco en I-Sat. En el especial de cortos de terror. Es un mix entre Isaac Asimov y Stephen King. Historia simple pero efectiva. El robot Blinky se ganó mi corazón amante del terror.


8.13.2014

Lauren... good-bye babe!



"Con gran pesar pero con una enorme gratitud por una vida maravillosa, confirmamos la muerte de Lauren Bacall", informaron este martes los familiares de la actriz en un mensaje publicado en las redes sociales.

A Bacall no sólo se la recordará por sus grandes dotes interpretativas y por su físico impresionante del que sobresalían su hipnotizante mirada y su sensual voz, sino también por haber formado junto al mítico Humphrey Bogart una de las parejas más recordadas de Hollywood, tanto dentro como fuera de la gran pantalla.

Ambos se conocieron en 1944 durante el rodaje de "Tener y no tener", de Howard Hawks, y contrajeron matrimonio un año después, formando una unión de la que nacerían dos hijos y que sólo se disolvería en 1957 con la muerte repentina por cáncer de Bogart, una pérdida de la que Bacall tardaría años en recuperarse.

Fuente: BBC Mundo


8.11.2014

R.I.P. Robin Williams



Una noticia muy triste para todos. Un gran actor nos dejó hoy.

El actor norteamericano Robin Williams (21 de julio del 1951, Chicago, Illinois) ha aparecido muerto este lunes en su domicilio de Tiburón, California, en lo que aparentemente podría haber sido un suicidio, según ha informado el Departamento del Sheriff de Marin County.

Lo vamos a recordar por sus grandes papeles, tanto los graciosos como los dramáticos.

Hoy se nos fue un grande.


7.15.2014

Charlie Chaplin recibiendo Oscar Honorario


Marlon Brando's Oscar® win for " The Godfather"




Un momento historico.

Acá les dejo el texto original, en ingles.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- For 200 years we have said to the Indian people who are fighting for their land, their life, their families and their right to be free: ''Lay down your arms, my friends, and then we will remain together. Only if you lay down your arms, my friends, can we then talk of peace and come to an agreement which will be good for you.''

When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that we called treaties which we never kept. We turned them into beggars on a continent that gave life for as long as life can remember. And by any interpretation of history, however twisted, we did not do right. We were not lawful nor were we just in what we did. For them, we do not have to restore these people, we do not have to live up to some agreements, because it is given to us by virtue of our power to attack the rights of others, to take their property, to take their lives when they are trying to defend their land and liberty, and to make their virtues a crime and our own vices virtues.

But there is one thing which is beyond the reach of this perversity and that is the tremendous verdict of history. And history will surely judge us. But do we care? What kind of moral schizophrenia is it that allows us to shout at the top of our national voice for all the world to hear that we live up to our commitment when every page of history and when all the thirsty, starving, humiliating days and nights of the last 100 years in the lives of the American Indian contradict that voice?

It would seem that the respect for principle and the love of one's neighbor have become dysfunctional in this country of ours, and that all we have done, all that we have succeeded in accomplishing with our power is simply annihilating the hopes of the newborn countries in this world, as well as friends and enemies alike, that we're not humane, and that we do not live up to our agreements.

Perhaps at this moment you are saying to yourself what the hell has all this got to do with the Academy Awards? Why is this woman standing up here, ruining our evening, invading our lives with things that don't concern us, and that we don't care about? Wasting our time and money and intruding in our homes.

I think the answer to those unspoken questions is that the motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil. It's hard enough for children to grow up in this world. When Indian children watch television, and they watch films, and when they see their race depicted as they are in films, their minds become injured in ways we can never know.

Recently there have been a few faltering steps to correct this situation, but too faltering and too few, so I, as a member in this profession, do not feel that I can as a citizen of the United States accept an award here tonight. I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

I would have been here tonight to speak to you directly, but I felt that perhaps I could be of better use if I went to Wounded Knee to help forestall in whatever way I can the establishment of a peace which would be dishonorable as long as the rivers shall run and the grass shall grow.

I would hope that those who are listening would not look upon this as a rude intrusion, but as an earnest effort to focus attention on an issue that might very well determine whether or not this country has the right to say from this point forward we believe in the inalienable rights of all people to remain free and independent on lands that have supported their life beyond living memory.

Thank you for your kindness and your courtesy to Miss Littlefeather. Thank you and good night.

5.15.2014

"My Dream Melody" 1929, Betty Compson on violin.



Jazzmania Quintette 1920's



Vitaphone Varities: Fred Rich And His Orchestra with Nan Wynn


Norman Thomas Quintette with Freddie Crump in "Harlem-Mania" 1929



Ethel Merman "The Devil Sea" Paramount 1930



Eddie Cantor 1929 "A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic"


Marion Harris "Afraid of You," Metro Movietone 1928



3.27.2014

Greta Pop by Najash Lee

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2.13.2014

Pickford by Najash Lee

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2.12.2014

Grace by Najash Lee

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Lauren B by Najash Lee

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2.03.2014

R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman


Un hombre, muchas caras... una gran pérdida.


La estrella de Hollywood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, de 46  años, ganador de un Oscar por su labor en la película Capote, fue hallado muerto en su departamento de West Village de Manhattan (Nueva York). La Policía y los especialistas forenses investigan las causas de su fallecimiento, que estaría vinculado a su adicción por las drogas.

Se graduó en 1989 en la Escuela de Arte dramático de Nueva York y al poco tiempo comenzó a dar sus primeros pasos como interprete. Su primer papel lo consiguió en televisión, en 1991, al hacer de un abogado defensor en la serie La ley y el orden. Y, al año siguiente, ya se encontraba trabajando en la pantalla grande en Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole.

En 1992 consiguió un destacado rol en My New Gun pero recién en 1997 daría su salto más importante en el film Juego de placer de la mano del reconocido director Paul Thomas Anderson. La joven estrella de Hollywood, con el tiempo, fue convirtiéndose en todo un referente del cine independiente con títulos como Happiness (1998), Flawless (1999), El talentoso Sr. Ripley (1999), Magnolia (1999), Casi famosos (2000) y Cuéntame tu historia (2000).

Entre sus memorables actuaciones caben mencionar Along Came Polly, como el villano Owen Davian en Misión Impossible 3, como el padre Brendan Flynn en Doubt (La Duda) junto a Meryl Streep, como Truman Capote en Capote, The Big Lebowski y Synecdoche, New York dirigido por Charlie Kaufman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman era padre de tres hijos, que tuvo junto a su mujer la diseñadora Mimi O'Donnel. Juntos se conocieron trabajando en In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, una obra que él dirigió en 1999. Tras contraer matrimonio, el actor y su pareja tuvieron a su primogénito Alexander, quien nació en marzo de 2003. Más tarde, en noviembre de 2006, llegaría la pequeña Tallulah y finalmente, en octubre de 2008, Willa.

Entre los premios que recibió se destacan haber recibido por su labor actoral un Oscar, que obtuvo por trabajo en Capote (imponiendose al fallecido Heath Ledger), un Globo de Oro por el film Charlie Wilson's War, el Premio del Sindicato de Actores, el Critics' Choice Movie Award y una distinción en los British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).


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