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MARK RUFFALO and Julianne Moore are traipsing through a rubbish-strewn urban wasteland, scavenging for salvation. All around them, dozens of pitiful humans dressed in filthy, mismatched clothes grope their way past wrecked cars and graffiti-splattered highway ramps, like dancers in some grotesque ballet of the damned.
It is not a pretty sight, but it is impossible to avert your eyes - which is exactly the point. The director, Fernando Meirelles, and his camera crew are gearing up to shoot another take of Blindness, a feature film based on the harrowing 1995 parable about an unnamed city stricken with a plague of sightlessness, by the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago. Like nearly everyone in the film, Ruffalo’s character, an ophthalmologist known simply as “the doctor”, is afflicted with a terrifying malady in which the eyes appear normal but are coated with a milky whiteness that blocks out vision.
Speculation was mounting last night that Brazilian film-maker Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s bestselling mystery Blindness will open the Cannes international film festival on May 14.
Meirelles’s latest offering was among a handful of notable absentees when the bulk of the competition and out-of-competition lineup was unveiled earlier this week. Blindness and Agnes Varda’s autobiographical documentary Les Plages d’Agnes are both ready and had been widely expected to secure berths in the festival.
Now it seems that Meirelles’ tale of a bizarre blindness pandemic may figure more prominently than had originally been predicted. Sources in the industry believe the film will open proceedings on the Croisette and take its place alongside Steven Soderbergh’s Che double feature, Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling and Wim Wenders’ The Palermo Shooting.
Meirelles’ sprawling Rio crime drama City of God screened at Cannes in 2002 and he followed that up three years later with his first English-language film The Constant Gardener.
Blindness stars Julianne Moore as the only person who is not affected by a blindness pandemic that afflicts an entire town. Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover and Sandra Oh also star.
I just added 1900+ screencaptures from this amazing movie to the gallery. If you haven’t saw it, please do it! The movie is so powerfull, and Mark is simply amazing, touching!
The teaser of Blindness was out today. I can’t wait to see this movie, because I’m a big fan of Fernando Meirelles and the movie has been filmed here in São Paulo, where I live.
Well, I didn’t configured a video archive yet because my real life is always calling me, but I’ve uploaded the trailer inside our gallery, so you can download it. I’ve also uploaded the official poster, and screencaptures.
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I’ve added some HQ pictures to our gallery. 19 new Reservation Road stills, a couple of pictures with Mark and Leo DiCaprio in a Boston Celtics game latest February, and some candids of Mark leaving a medical center in Beverly Hills.
Protests in the parks, bloody battles in the streets and ideological warfare behind closed doors — history buffs consider the events surrounding 1968’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago a clutch moment in one of America’s most tumultuous decades. Grizzled hippies remember it as the Woodstock of politics.
But members of the under-30 set, if they know anything at all about the convention and the subsequent trial of Abbie Hoffman and his fellow protesters in the so-called Chicago Seven, probably write it all off as another grainy slice of boomer nostalgia. The hybrid animated documentary Chicago 10, which opens Friday in select cities, reheats the controversial subject to serve it up to a younger audience.
Writer-director Brett Morgen, the Oscar-nominated creator of On the Ropes and The Kid Stays in the Picture, translates the events in Chicago into a style he hopes today’s college students will grok.
Chicago 10 mashes together rotoscope animation, vivid and sometimes shocking archival footage, transcripts from the legendary trial of culture jammer Hoffman and his Youth International Party, or Yippie, pals, and music by the Beastie Boys and Eminem. Morgen calls his style “mythomentary,” and Chicago 10 is an inventive, entertaining and stirring portrait of the ’60s protest movement at its peak.
In a phone interview, Morgen disses documentarian Ken Burns, relays the challenges of reaching the YouTube generation and explains why the phrase “animated documentary” is no longer an oxymoron. Chicago 10 features voice work by Hank Azaria, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider (who passed away this month), Liev Schreiber and Jeffrey Wright.
Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley have signed on to join Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson in Martin Scorsese’s mystery drama Shutter Island for Paramount Pictures.
The film, adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Dennis Lehane’s 2004 novel, revolves around two U.S. marshals (DiCaprio and Ruffalo) who travel to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. Chaos ensues for the two as they encounter a web of deceit, a hurricane and a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island.
Sydow will portray one of the hospital’s physicians, Mortimer will play the role of Rachel, an escaped hospital patient and Haley will star as an inmate, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
Phoenix Pictures, Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods. and DiCaprio’s Appian Way are producing the pic with Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and Scorsese serving as producers.
Kalogridis, Lehane and Louis Phillips are executive producers of the film.
Paramount Vantage sold the project to several major European territories including Germany (TeleMunchen) and Italy (Medusa).
TeleMunchen picked up the films distribution rights for 12 million dollars while Medusa paid 10 million dollars.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore are traipsing through a trash-strewn urban wasteland, scavenging for salvation. All around them, dozens of pitiful human beings dressed in filthy, mismatched clothes grope their way past wrecked cars and graffiti-splattered highway ramps, like dancers in some grotesque ballet of the damned.
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It’s not a pretty sight, but it’s impossible to avert your eyes - which is exactly the point. Director Fernando Meirelles and his camera crew are gearing up to shoot another take of “Blindness,” a feature film based on the harrowing 1995 parable about an unnamed city stricken with a plague of sightlessness, by the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago.
Like nearly everyone in the film, Ruffalo’s character, an ophthalmologist known simply as “the Doctor,” is afflicted with a terrifying malady in which the eyes appear normal but are coated with a milky whiteness that blocks out vision.
The only person immune is Moore’s character, the doctor’s heroic, steadfast wife. As the story gathers speed, she must guide her husband and a small group of fellow sufferers (played by Danny Glover, Alice Braga and others) through a perilous obstacle course, in a society where order has collapsed, and humans are reduced to living like animals.
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Chicago10 (2007)
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