Hi guys, before one more reader / visitor / friend send me a message here it is my fast answer: I’m here and I’m fine now. Thanks for all the kind words, the messages and links. You are awesome! And I’m serious about that.
The problem is not you, it’s me. Yeah, I know you heard that story before, but it’s true. I didn’t have any problems with readers, visitors and all kind people that give me links. However, I had – have – some problems. Nothing serious and I’m trying to fix them.

I keep reading blogs, saving links for me to post here and putting up a lot of stuff on social sites like FriendFeed, FFFFOUND!, Delicious, Mento, Twitter and many others. You can probably find me everywhere. Here is one more site with tons of links to places where you can find me: MeAdiciona.

I’m also covering the 32th São Paulo International Film Festival (32ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema) aka Mostra, at Cinematógrafo. It isn’t the kind of coverage I wanted, but I don’t have a notebook to write stuff on the road and I also need to sleep sometimes. To keep it fresh, I’m posting my last impressions of films and the news I get on the festival at Cinematógrafo’s Twitter. The blog postings and tweets are in Portuguese, but I can always give you my impressions of films in English, if you ask me. And the translator helps in most cases – just don’t depend on the film title translations.
I’m saying this because I’ve not been posting as much in those social sites, since I’ve been busy watching tons of films. I’m not dead and I didn’t give up of blogging; if I came back to blogging at Cinematografo after being away for so long, there is hope for Bibi’s box. I’m not going to promise anything. Just keep in touch, keep your RSS subscription (you can always read the cool stuff I save in my delicious bookmarks), and take care. See you!

Almost a year ago I blogged about two galleries of posters at The hot spot: Hand Painted Horror Movie Posters of India & Pakistan and Bollywood Vintage Posters – Pre 1960’s. Now it’s time to explore the other galleries of Bollywood Vintage Posters: three galleries with posters from The 1960’s, eleven from The 1970’s, six with posters from the The 1980’s and one more from The 90’s and up.
Related posts:
Daler Mehndi
World Movie Art
Create your own Bollywood subtitles
Bollywood album cover gallery

The 31ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema (31st São Paulo International Film Festival) started yesterday, and as it has been happening in the last eight years, I will spend the next two week watching films everyday as if there was no tomorrow. However, before it started, I was already busy writing about it and watching films all the days of the week, since the beginning of October on Cinematógrafo, my Portuguese language blog about cinema.
In other words: I won’t blog here until the beginning of November, because in between the 5 or 6 films per day I sleep. Yes, it stupid way to spend time, sleeping, but I do that sometimes. And impressively, I will stay away from my (and any other) computer. That’s the effect of this time of year on me: I discover there is life beyond the Internet. Until then explore the archives, visit the links, go read a book or go to the cinema.
I hope that all of you have a great time with Halloween or any other parties, events and, of course, films. If you want to find me, go to Cinematógrafo and maybe try the translator on the top, if you don’t speak Portuguese.
See you in November!

The list of Batman films I watched doesn’t include the 1966 Batman. The film directed by Leslie H. Martinson was filmed at the end of the first season of 1960’s Batman TV series. The LiveJournal page film_stills: Batman: The Movie has several high resolution images from the film, that apparently had the same “quality” of the TV series. Even if you was a fan you have to agree with me that the costumes aren’t the high point of the series. Julie Newmar was, but she wasn’t in the film. (via Bedazzled)
Related posts:
Detective Comics
Comic Book Bondage Cover
The History of the Batmobile

Film Noir Illustrations has a nice selection of film noir pictures of scenes and sets with pictures of fims of classic noir films and neo-noir. There in the page are divided by film noir characteristics: lightning, cinematography, camera angles, characters and settings. There is also a Film Noir Timeline, in PDF. (via Cinematógrafo)
Related posts:
Billy Wilder
Film Noir links
The Dark Room
Dressed to kill (1946)
The Thrilling Detective
The Incredible World of Bowling Noir
Mexican, German, French and Noir Movie Posters
Les affiches françaises du film noir américain

Things to Come: A celebration of the 1936 film written by H.G. Wells, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and produced by Alexander Korda.Nice site with a great number of publicity materials of the film and pictures. (via IWR Art)
Things to Come is based on H. G. Wells’ novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933. A “web edition” of the book is available at The University of Adelaide Library, the film, in the public domain, is available to download at Internet Archive, and you can watch the film at Videos with Bibi.

Once more it’s time to celebrate the International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And I will do it on my way, sharing links, since I don’t have any pirate costume.
Catster and Dogster users are also participating of this special day, submitting the pictures of their furry fellows dressed as pirates, with the tag “pirate”, on Dogster and Catster.
Getting to Know … International Talk Like A Pirate Day: an interview with Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summer and John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur, the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Many Books has a nice collection of Pirate Stories of digitalized books in the public domain to read on-line or download, available in many formats.
Photos from International Talk Like A Pirate Day on Flickr. Explore all the previous images or go directly to the 2007 photoset.
Pinup Pirate illustration created by the deviantART artist agrivaine (ChrissieA).

Pirate Pinup: the picture above is a self portrait by the Flickr user Danielle.
Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 and 2 in 30 seconds and re-enacted by bunnies, presented by Starz Bunny Club Exclusive, created by Angry Alien Productions.
Polite Dissent made a great list of comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) to celebrate the day. (via Pen-Elayne on the Web)
Post Like a Pirate is a pirate translator which also posts directly on Twitter, Myspace or send by email the translated text.
Réunion de piratesses: a collection of illustrations created by several artists to a contest created by the French illustrator Delfine, on her blog, which theme was “fille de pirate” (daughter of pirate). Take a look at the illustrations and on the Hors concours illustration of the contest if you speak French.
The Pirate Pin Up Arrr Mates, the Sexiest Pirate Pinups ‘n the Seven Seas. Sexy picturs of pin-up dressed as pirates, or something like that. The picture on the top is from one of those girls, Molly Roger.

Watch the classic silent film The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks at Videos with Bibi, and the special “Talk like a Pirate Day” films Dancing Pirate and Captain Kidd.
WordPress users can Piratify Your Blogs using the Text Filter Suite Plugin. It turns yer blog into pirate-speak on Talk Like a Pirate Day! (via The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire)
The YouTube profile Offcial Wench hosts 23 videos of Cap’n Slappy and Ol’ Chumbucket. The last video added, Pirates of the Burning Sea, introduces the video game, “Pirates of the Burning Sea” for the release party in Seattle, Washington on September 19th. You can watch their video Pirates And Ninjas bellow.
Pictures of The Pirate zombie pin-up model. As a good pirate she has a parrot.
And the original Talk Like A Pirate Day site. It has some cool stuff, games and many other links.

Previous posts with pirates:
Devout Dolls
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Courts métrages Annecy
Piratical and Privateering Books in English

If you love animations, you should be a reader of Videos with Bibi. I have been posting there since February and the video blog (vlog) contains, until now, hundreds of videos. There is a bit of everything: documentaries, silent melodramas, horror films, musicals, avant garde films, action, film-noir, ephemeral videos and much more. But I’m here to sell my fish to those who want to watch cartoons and animations. And I think the best way to convince you is showing a list of good reasons. Here it is my list:
- Alexandre Alexeieff pinscreen animations and Animated Commercials. The commercials aren’t so wonderful as his pinscreen animations, but still being too beautiful to be just commercials.
- Betty Boop Cartoons: 1932, 1933, 1934 – 1935, 1936 – 1937 and 1938 – 1939.
- Cheburashka and Krokodil Gena: a classic! Cheburashka is probably the most adorable Russian character of all time. It’s impossible not look at him and think “aww so cute”.

- Dave and Max Fleischer animations: short animations I, short animations II, short animations III, short animations IV, The Cobweb Hotel and Gulliver’s Travels.
- Felix The Cat Cartoons: Felix The Cat Cartoons I, II, III and IV.
- Ivo Caprino Short Stop Motion Animations I and II. The great Norwegian puppet animatior is most know for his adaptations of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen’s tales.
- Jan Svankmajer Short Films I, II, III, IV and V. Watch them fast, before all them disappear.
- Jirí Barta Animations: the Czech animator plays with stop-motion, classic animation and experimental animation. Bellow, one of his animations, Riddles for a Candy (8min).
- Ji?í Trnka short stop-motion films – I, short stop-motion films – II and The Emperor’s Nightingale. The Czech Trnka was a master of stop-motion animation. Must-see.
- Leonid Nosyrev Short Animations and the film Laughter and Grief by the White Sea, also by Leonid. The cartoons are all in Russian, but the dialogues aren’t so necessary. The last cartoon, a tale about a tiger and a sunflower, is superb.

- L’Idée: directed by Berthold Bartosch, it’s an adaptation for Frans Masereel’s Die Idee. Very poetic.
- Norman McLaren short animations I, II, III. McLaren dismiss any presentations, right?
- Superman cartoons: all the superman cartoons already blogged here can be watched directly on four posts.
- The Cat Who Walked by Herself: beautiful Russian film based on Rudyard Kipling’s short story “The Cat that Walked by Himself”.
- The Tell-Tale Heart: a marvellous Edgar Allan Poe’s based cartoon from 1953.
- Warner’s Private Snafu Cartoons I and Private Snafu Cartoons II were created as educational films for the soldiers during the WWII.
- Winsor McCay animations: Animations I, Animations II and Dream of a Rarebit Fiend.
- Wladyslaw Starewicz: : short stop-motion films. Those animations are from the first two decades of the 20th century.
- Yuri Norstein’s animations: a master of Russian animation. His wonderful animations are like poetry.

The Flickr user Gerry D. is a film enthusiast and it seems he has special interest in the Italian cinema. What makes me think about are his Flickr sets. On his set Italian movies he shares 556 vintage images posters, publicity and ads for Italian films (until now). Even more impressive is his set Cinemas, theatres, auditoriums, concert halls with 716 images. He also has a set with 97 stills of Italian films and film people, among others. (via Hugo Strikes Back)
The poster above from one of the greatest Italian fims, Paisà, directed by the master Roberto Rossellini. Enjoy to watch Italian film on Videos with Bibi.

Bergman yesterday and now Michelangelo Antonioni. What the hell is going on? If I believe in god, heaven and all those things I would say that God created a cinema studio in the sky and is hiring the best directors to do it. And off course they are European. Sigh. At least they had a good run. Aged 94, the director died The director died peacefully at home on Monday night, his wife, actress Enrica Fico, told La Repubblica newspaper.

My first Antonioni film was Blowup and I hated it. Wait, don’t be made at me, I was ten. I watched again many years after and recognize his genius. But it isn’t an easy film. I loved the way he played with the camera all over the film. I watched very few of his films after Blow Up and Story of a Love Affair is my favourite Antonioni, until now. Probably because I have a hidden passion for Italian neo-realistic films.
I know more about him and his films through books and films excerpts than for the films themselves. What shame! The best I can do in his homage is trying to find Red Desert to watch. For now, take a look at this collection of Antonioni’s films posters and watch the L’avventura’s trailer.