300!

No, don't worry dear readers.
This is not a review of the movie 300 by Zack Snyder… especially because I can’t say I have watched it. To tell you the truth, I did, but in a very particular way. Meaning: I watched just the scenes played by Michael Fassbender, while all the rest of the movie was seen… well, fast forwarding... I know, I know, this is very bad!
I’m just using 300 movie poster because this is Zazie’s 300th post!
Yes, the little Blog de Zazie is growing up: 300 posts, almost 210.000 views, more than 600 ILIKE on the Facebook page, almost 600 followers on Twitter, almost 1.000 followers on Pinterest and all this in 6 years of activity.
For being the blog of an unknown cinema freak, this is a pretty good result, don’t you think?
To quote Jane Eyre: Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, that I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!
As a matter of fact, if there’s something we don’t lack here at the Blog de Zazie, is love.
For cinema and for you, dear readers!
So THANK YOU for being there, wherever you are... you're in my heart!
Zazie

Zazie in Tokyo!

Dear Readers,

After 4 years of life, more than 200 posts written and more than 100.000 of your lovely visits, it is time for Zazie to look back (but not in anger! ) to her activity as a cinema blogger.

The occasion is quite incredible and very prestigious too!

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo asked me to hold a small conference about the blog and so here I am, in my favourite country in the world, on the eve of this great opportunity.

If you happen to be in Tokyo tomorrow, Monday October 28, please come to see me talking. 
You'll be more than welcome! 
The lecture will be at 6 pm at the Italian Cultural Institute, in Chiyoda-ku.

And after this, who is going to stop Zazie??!

Three of Life

Dear Readers,
Today is Le Blog de Zazie's third anniversary! 
The creation of this blog has been one of the greatest ideas I have ever had in my life, I swear. 
As I use to say: I would have never imagined, when I started, the incredible things that this blog would have brought to me. It has been a big, big adventure since day one, and it still is.
I wrote about 150 posts, I had the chance to meet film-makers, actors, actresses, people working in cinema, I have been to many avant-premières, I have seen more than 200 movies, sometimes in different parts of the world, I wrote posts that I never published, I had to erase a post that I wrote because somebody got furious at me, and everything, every single thing, was more intense and more important because I could WRITE about it in my blog.
But, by far, the most beautiful thing has been your presence.
To know that you are out there, reading what I would like to share with you about the thing that I love most in life: cinema. If it wasn't for you, my blog would be just another useless thing among many others. But apparently you ARE there and, incredibly enough, you read what I write.
So thank you, dear readers!
I'd be lost, without you.
Zazie 

And since it is Zazie's third birthday, I leave you with the best danse à trois of the cinema history, the one of Bande à Part (1964) by Jean-Luc Godard. 


Bande à Part - Dance Scene from Maria Tavares on Vimeo.