o azul dorme numa cave com os cães

The High and the Mighty, William Wellman, 1954

via Dan Shoval

Respirar
o menos possível
nestas cidades
de uma tristeza
sem idade
abrindo o espaço
com os gestos lentos de um náufrago
a caminho
do fundo

A noite sobe-me
na voz
como um lugar
capaz de imaginar
sozinho
o seu cenário
onde o azul
dorme
numa cave
com os cães


Ernesto Sampaio

o azul dorme numa cave com os cães"

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''Sempre isto ou sempre outra coisa ou nem uma coisa nem outra.''
Fernando Pessoa (Tabacaria)

A revista brasileira Cineplot pediu-me um Top 15 (de todos os tempos!) e eu, que nem me meto nisso dos Tops, desta vez alinhavei um, num guardanapo. Saiu-me isto mas, fosse o café mais demorado, e ter-me-ia saído outra coisa qualquer.

Yellow Sky (1948) de William A. Wellman

1. The Searchers (John Ford)

2. The Wind (Victor Sjöström)

3. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)

4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)

5. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin)

6. À Beira do Mar Azul (Boris Barnet)

7. India Song (Marguerite Duras) 

8. L'Année Derniére à Marienbad (Alain Resnais)

9. Yellow Sky (William Wellman)

10. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)

11. Cicatrice Interièure (Philippe Garrel)

12. Vampyr (Dreyer) 

13. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)

14. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell)

15. World on a Wire (Fassbinder)

TOP 15 ou "

Gesamtkunstwerk

Remontons les Champs-Élysées, Sacha Guitry, 1938.

O que significa afinal essa pesadíssima expressão, experiência estética? É uma comoção de ir às lágrimas ? Um paralisia pelo pasmo? Uma articulação impossível de palavras?Uma saída dos eixos dos dias? Um chamamento d'além? Vou a Trahndorff buscar mais um palavrão desses pesados, Gesamtkunstwerk - obra de arte total, síntese de todas as artes, arte síntese. Criada em 1827 para se endereçar a Wagner, que já era, como toda a gente sabe, cineasta, chega até aqui via filme. Em Yellow Sky, as pequenas filas de figuras competem com a dura imensidão de montanhas e de planícies. A secura do som incessante dos trotes segue liberta de música. O caminho arranca-se com dificuldade ao chão, na exaustão de uma travessia frágil. Impressões de perfeição - inesquecíveis quadros que não se descrevem senão para somar: o sublime é isto.

Yellow Sky, William Wellman, 1948

Gesamtkunstwerk "

STEREODOX: A thousand kisses deep

Thunder Birds, William A.Wellman, 1942

1. You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat.
You´d have to live alone to know
How good that feels, how sweet.
My mirror twin, my next of kin,
I´d know you in my sleep.
And who but you would take me in
A thousand kisses deep?

2. I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat.
I´m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet,
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second-hand physique -
With all he is, and all he was
A thousand kisses deep.

3. All soaked in sex, and pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
We made it to the forward deck
I blessed our remnant fleet -
And then consented to be wrecked
A thousand kisses deep.

4. I know you had to lie to me,
I know you had to cheat.
But the Means no longer guarantee
The Virtue in Deceit.
That truth is bent, that beauty spent,
That style is obsolete -
Ever since the Holy Spirit went
A thousand kisses deep.

5. (So what about this Inner Light
That´s boundless and unique?
I´m slouching through another night
A thousand kisses deep.)

6. I´m turning tricks; I´m getting fixed,
I´m back on Boogie Street.
I tried to quit the business -
Hey, I´m lazy and I´m weak.
But sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go
A thousand kisses deep.

7. (And fragrant is the thought of you,
The file on you complete -
Except what we forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep.)

8. The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it´s done -
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it´s real
A thousand kisses deep.

9. (I jammed with Diz and Dante -
I did not have their sweep -
But once or twice, they let me play
A thousand kisses deep.)

10. And I´m still working with the wine,
Still dancing cheek to cheek.
The band is playing "Auld Lang Syne" -
The heart will not retreat.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep -
You ditch it all to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep.

11. And now you are the Angel Death
And now the Paraclete;
And now you are the Savior's Breath
And now the Belsen heap.
No turning from the threat of love,
No transcendental leap -
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep.


September 21, 1998

Leonard Cohen

STEREODOX: A thousand kisses deep"