L de Lee, Léon e Lane

Filme: Léon. “Ah, monsieur, you can lead a Frenchman to the Big Apple, but you can't make him a New Yorker — and that's exactly what makes The Professional so fascinating. Reno (a longtime Besson collaborator with a compelling, Stallone-homely face and previous experience playing a hit man in Nikita) may be working with New York natives like Aiello and young Portman, but under Besson's tutelage, the French actor manages the cool trick of making Aiello act less New Yorkish than ever. And Portman — gravely beautiful with her dark hair shingled in the kind of Louise Brooks bob only a French girl not slave to YM magazine would in fact be self-confident enough to try — reacts to Besson's ministrations by making Mathilda into an extraordinary child. She's not Lolita, though you'll feel Nabokov's presence here in the delicate bird bones of her thin shoulder blades. She's not an exotic out of Diva, though you'll recognize the violent poetry of that Beineix masterpiece in the imagery. Mathilda is like no New York City girl-child I've ever seen riding the subway. And I couldn't take my eyes off her." [F] . Realizador: Spike Lee. "Lee became a director of promise with his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It, in 1986. The film was shot in two weeks on a budget of $160,000 and grossed over $700,000 in the U.S. No stranger to controversy for certain provocative elements in both his films and public statements, Lee often takes a critical look at race relations, political issues and urban crime and violence. His next film, 1989’s Do The Right Thing examined all of the above and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. Subsequent films, including Malcolm X, Mo' Better Blues, Summer of Sam and She Hate Me, continued to explore social and political issues. 4 Little Girls, a piece about the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1997. In 2006 he directed and produced a four-hour documentary for television, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, about life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina." [F] . Raparigona: Diane Lane. "Regarded as one of the most talented and versatile leading ladies in feature films and on television today, Diane Lane virtually grew up on the screen. She was raised an only child by drama coach Burt Lane after he split up with her mother, one-time Playboy playmate, Colleen Farrington, just after Diane was born. Her father's love for the arts rubbed off on Diane and by the time she was six, she was already on stage performing with the New York theater group La MaMa in such far off places as Amsterdam and Italy. Interestingly, neither of her parents accompanied her on her thespian adventure. She was taken care of by the other performers in the group who essentially became her home and family. Lane made an impressive feature film debut in George Roy Hill's movie A Little Romance, in which she starred with screen legend Sir Laurence Olivier. Filmmakers, critics and audiences were captivated by the young beauty and by the time she was fourteen she had landed on the cover of Time and into the hearts of America." [F] . Website: Lost Portugal - http://lostportugal.blogspot.com/ . Pensamento do Dia: “"Se não conseguir-se destacar pelo talento, vença pelo esforço." Dave Weinbaum . Curiosidade do Dia: Uma pesquisa conduzida numa universidade israelita concluíu que tirar uma sesta durante a tarde pode ajudar a fixar memórias no cérebro. . A Discutir nos Comentários: Qual o vosso filme favorito de Spike Lee?