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Eu já vinha postar essa noticia do Folha Online.

Ao menos eles sabem qual é a única forma de fazer o filme chegar lá: lobby.

Os demais que eu citei, se fazem notáveis pelo que são em si. Não estou dizendo que eles não careçam de lobby, mas têm "pedgree". Enfim...

E eu gosto da idéia de ver Diaz e Winslet juntas. Espero que Nancy caia na real e se reinvente nesse filme!!!

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Vai ser hilário se Casa de Areia entrar no Globo de Ouro e 2 Filhos não.  Acho  q só ai vão perceber a besteira q fizeram.  Mas gostei da idéia deles.  É preciso saudar tbm aquela q tvz hj seja a melhor e mais inteligente e bem sucedida produtora do Brasil' date=' Paula Lavigne.

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Realmente será inusitado e merecedor para estes comitês sujeitos ao lobby que valorizam....a deixa vai...sem paciência para começar...

 

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Private", filme sobre conflito palestino, é candidato italiano ao Oscar

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ROMA, 29 Set (AFP) - O filme "Private", do cineasta italiano Saverio Constanzo, sobre o conflito entre israelenses e palestinos, será o candidato italiano ao Oscar de melhor filme estrangeiro, prêmio da Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas de Hollywood, anunciou nesta quinta-feira, em Roma, o comitê de seleção.

Produzido por Offside, Instituto Luce e Cydonia, "Private" é o primeiro filme de Constanzo e foi escolhido por um júri integrado por vários cineastas e intelectuais, entre eles o diretor Bernardo Bertolucci e o escritor Vincenzo Cerami.

"Compartilho a alegria deste momento com os atores árabes e israelenses protagonistas do meu filme. A fita nasceu de suas necessidades, eu servi apenas de intermediário", declarou Costanzo, emocionado. "Sinto-me honrado, surpreso e encantado", acrescentou.

O filme fala da ocupação de uma casa isolada, situada no meio do caminho entre um povoado palestino e um assentamento judaico, que se torna ponto estratégico, razão pela qual os israelenses decidem confiscá-la.

O longa é um exemplo de cinema construtivo, a serviço de um ideal, disse o cineasta.

Costanzo traz à tona a humanidade sepultada após qualquer confronto bélico e aposta no diálogo.

As indicações para os 5 finalistas ao Oscar de melhor filme estrangeiro serão anunciadas no próximo 31 de janeiro, e a premiação, em 5 de março, em Los Angeles.

 

Bem, um concorrente do Zezé!

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Pode sim. E a concorrencia esta ficando interessante ...

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ROMA, 29 Set (AFP) - O filme "Private", do cineasta italiano Saverio Constanzo, sobre o conflito entre israelenses e palestinos, será o candidato italiano ao Oscar de melhor filme estrangeiro, prêmio da Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas de Hollywood, anunciou nesta quinta-feira, em Roma, o comitê de seleção.(...)

Bem, um concorrente do Zezé!

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Parece ser um bom concorrente , os sertanejos terão que caprichar no lobby ...

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O que vcs acham sobre as chances de Claire Danes ser indicada por Shopgirl? A moça vem crescendo nas apostas...

Por enquanto acho que ela tem mais chances no Globo de Ouro do que no Oscar .

A divulgação massiva em cima deste filme está me dando nojo a ponto de sequer cogitar passar na porta do cinema.smiley11.gif

Nem me fale ...está enchendo mesmo ...

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Para os mais curiosos, fica aqui registrado que, até agora, o melhor filme que vi no festival foi sem sombra de dúvidas CACHÉ, do Michael Haneke. O filme é soberbo, extremamente bem dirigido, com boas atuações e umas 2 ou 3 cenas que estão entre as melhores que vi no ano. Eu tenho quase certeza que será um filme subestimado (segundo o meu ponto de vista, claro). Já sobre se ele terá chances no Oscar, eu não estou seguro a afirmar. Não sei se o tipo de filme que agrada à academia.

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Já sobre se ele terá chances no Oscar' date=' eu não estou seguro a afirmar. Não sei se o tipo de filme que agrada à academia.[/quote']

 Tambem não sei se terá chances .Vários filmes "mais fortes"(expressão do tempo da minha mãe smiley36.gif) ficaram de fora por não agradarem ao gosto padrão dos vontantes dessa categoria (que são mais conservadores que o restante , pois são velhinhos com muito tempo livre para assistirem a todos os concorrentes, hehehe). Ficaram de fora filmes elogiados como Carne Tremula, Festa de Familia , A Professora de Piano ( do mesmo Michael Haneke) e Cidade de Deus , cuja ausencia em 2003  deixou surpreso ate mesmo o conservador critico Roger Ebert . A sorte foi que o tempo e o sucesso  favoreceram Cidade de Deus , possibilitando o filme brasileiro concorrer em outras categorias . 

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Continuando a falar dos filhos de francisco, olha o que eu achei no mcn.com:

Fighting for Scraps

 

The math is quite simple, even for a movie critic: Brazil has about 2,000 screens. When we have a huge release, it usually opens on 400 - 440 screens. The current price of admission tickets is 15 reais (about $6.40, US). The average negative cost of our bigger films is 3 millions reais ($1.3 million, US). We produce many, many movies that cost less than $450,000 US, but those projects usually face great distribution problems.

In our internal market, the smaller films don't attract the interest of exhibitors because most of those movies won't attract a crowd to the theaters, considering they don't even have enough budget to be properly advertised. However, when it comes to being seen in the rest of the world, all of our movies face the same problems: 1) Most of our distributors are subordinated to their American headquarters and don't have autonomy to make international distribution deals with Brazilian producers); and 2) Our language, Portuguese, is the official language of a relatively small number of countries, which is an obstacle when trying to enter other markets - even Spanish-speaking ones. And, on top of that, let's face it: most Americans hate subtitles - and that's another barrier when trying to conquer the rich North American film market.

400,000 tickets sold is an excellent result for a Brazilian movie, generating a box office gross of 6,000,000 reais (about $2.56 million US). However, most of this money goes to distribution and exhibition fees. We don't have America-style "studios" in Brazil, so our movies are all "independents" and, as such, each producer has to strike deals with the companies that will put them on the screens. So, the question is: if the producers only get back 1-2 millions reais ($425,000 - $850,000 US) of the 3 million invested - even when their movie is a hit! - how can we have a self-sufficient film industry in Brazil?

The answer: we can't.

Of course we have occasional exceptions. The fantastic 2 Filhos de Francisco just topped the charts for the fourth consecutive week and already has a total box office of 11 million reais ($4.7 million US) and 2.21 in attendance. (By the way, this film has just been chosen as our official entry on the Oscar race)

If you are trying to follow the math, you've run into another problem. In this case, the average admission ticket price is about 5 reais, just one-third of the 15 reais I mentioned before. Why? A lot of people don't have to pay for tickets in Brazil: police officers, army personnel, and so on. In addition (or, should I say, "in subtraction"), people over 65, and students from both high school and college only pay half price. Plus, tickets are also half-price from Monday to Wednesday - and the other discounts I mentioned still apply. So a student could pay about 3 reais for a movie. Great for the audience. Bad for the business.

As you can see, producing a Brazilian film is not a profitable investment - in theory. The only way a producer could actually make money by doing it would be…

… by not footing the bill.

And that's how it works here. In our last encounter, I explained we now have bills that allow companies and private citizens to donate part of their taxes to cultural events and productions. The main one is called Lei Rouanet (the Rouanet Bill). To take advantage of it for a film, a producer or director prepares a written project with all the data about his/her film: budget, screenplay, planned locations, shooting schedule and so on. Then a committee from our Ministry of Culture evaluates the paperwork, the filmmaker's résumé, and the planned budget. If everything is ok, permission is granted for them to raise the money.

Yes, I said, "to raise the money." The producers actually have to go after company owners, present their projects and ask them for the money. This money will never get back to those businessmen - at least, not in cash. The trick is that instead of paying their full taxes to the government, they can give 6% of those taxes to the filmmakers. The benefit is that instead of "giving the money away" to the government, they get to buy a form of advertising, since their brand name will be shown at the start of the movie, preceding the credits.

But getting businesses to participate is not easy. First of all, you have to have contacts. Good contacts. You have to know the people that make the decisions and then convince them they should "give" you the money. The problem is: you're asking businessmen to "evaluate" art. So, when they receive a proposal from a filmmaker, they reason with their pockets: is this film going to be a hit, hence exposing my brand name to a lot of people? Does it have big name actors in its cast? What is its story? Do I want my company to be associated with a movie that deals with such-and-such subjects?

Also, in order to "donate" 1,000,000 bucks, a company would have to owe $17,000,000 in taxes. Obviously, only huge (and I mean HUGE) businesses could do that, which usually means state-owned companies, such as Petrobras. So we're talking about a government organ "donating" government money instead of giving it to the government itself. Ethically speaking, it's a thorny issue

It's a perverse logic that stains Brazilian cinema. Established directors (even if they've never made a good movie) usually have the best contacts and consequently, more sources to raise the money. These "established directors" also have access to the "faces": TV actors and actress that, theoretically, attract the audience. And a lot of those filmmakers already take on projects that fit the expectations of those businessmen.

In other words: new talent and "difficult" themes face a hard task when trying to find financers. Most of them never reach production phase. The deadline for raising the money usually expires before they have enough funds to start actually working on the film. They all die while fighting for scraps.

Ah, but there's more: Brazil is an enormous country, but the major industries are concentrated in our Southeast region - especially in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Consequently, filmmakers based on other regions face even bigger difficulties when trying to get to those tax funds.

By the way, did I mention that we still have serious tax evasion problems?

As I said in my last column, our system is deeply flawed. But, hey, at least our Cinema is back in action after being left for dead in the beginning of the 90's. The important thing is that filmmakers and government officials are already aware of these problems and are starting to work on them. The most important thing is to correct the flaws without interrupting this great consistent phase of production we've been experiencing in the last years.

Until all these problems are solved, I'm asking you to remember every time you watch a Brazilian film, how hard the filmmakers had to work to make it happen. If the movie stinks, forget it. But if it's great, think about how many obstacles it had to overcome in order to achieve that quality.

I hope it will give you a new perspective of our Cinema.

Films released in Brazilian theaters since our last encounter: Wedding Crashers (US), Red Eye (US), Cinderella Man (US), De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arrété (France), 18-J (Argentine), Lila dit ça (France), Cachorro (Spain), Fever Pitch (US), Racing Stripes (US), Stealth (US), Gaijin - Ama-me Como Sou (Brazil), Coisa de Mulher (Brazil), Coisa Mais Linda (Brazil) The 40 Year Old Virgin (US), The Dukes of Hazzard (US), Sal de Prata (Brasil), Doutores da Alegria (Brasil).

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