Blindness DVD and Book Giveaway

A mysterious epidemic sends a city reeling toward the edge of madness, while one woman tries to preserve a small pocket of humanity in the taut thriller Blindness, coming to DVD on February 10, 2009. Presented by Miramax Films and based on Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s masterful novel, this intense and gritty drama, called “powerful and provocative” by Stephen Schaefer of the Boston Herald, was nominated for the 2008 Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Award winning actress Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven, The End of the Affair, Boogie Nights) heads up an extraordinary cast that also includes Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac), Danny Glover (Lonesome Dove, Mandela), Alice Braga (I Am Legend) and Gael García Bernal (Babel) in a paranoia fueled psychological thriller that will have audiences on the edge of their seats.

When a sudden, inexplicable epidemic of blindness sweeps a major city, health authorities round up the victims and quarantine them in Blindness, an apocalyptic thriller from director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner, City of God). The wife (Julianne Moore) of an afflicted doctor (Mark Ruffalo) feigns blindness in order to accompany her husband into internment and finds that fear and brutality have infected the closed community. An all out war erupts between inmates as criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak over food and other necessities. As the sole sighted inmate, The Doctor’s Wife is the only one who can put a stop to the violence, but saving her loved ones may mean sinking to the level of the worst of her adversaries. Julianne Moore gives a performance of startling strength and vulnerability in a frightening portrait of a society thrust into a vicious struggle for survival.

You can read the movie review from Movie Room Reviews, our DVD reviews partner. Blindness is available today everywhere.

ONE PERSON WILL WIN BOTH THE DVD AND THE BOOK BLINDNESS. HOORAY!

TO ENTER: LEAVE A COMMENT WHY YOU WANT TO WIN

FOR SECOND ENTRY: POST THE BOOK GIVEAWAY CARNIVAL BUTTON (BELOW) ON YOUR WEBSITE AND LET ME KNOW YOU DID IN SEPARATE ENTRY

FOR THIRD ENTRY: LINK TO ME, STUMBLE, OR TWITTER THIS GIVEAWAY AND LEAVE THE LINK IN A SEPARATE ENTRY (JUST HIT THE STUMBLE AND TWITTER HEART BUTTONS BELOW)

THIS CONTEST WILL END FEBRUARY 20TH AND RANDOM.ORG WILL CHOOSE THE WINNER.  U.S. AND CANADA ONLY PLEASE.  MAKE SURE YOU RESPOND WITHIN 48 HOURS.  GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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Book Into Movies – Win A Copy of Blindness!

MGM has generously offered to send one person a copy of Blindness by Jose Saramango.  The movie opens this weekend!  Just leave me a comment here and I will draw a winner on Monday October 6th!  Good Luck!

Blindness by Jose’ Saramago came out in 1999 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.  So it will be pretty difficult to live up to those expectations for the movie.  But the trailer looks really good, the actors are great and the director is Fernando Meirelles, so those are good odds. 

Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of ‘white blindness.’ The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The developments within this oddly anonymous group — the first blind man, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears — are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing.

A parable of loss and disorientation, of man’s worst appetities and hopeless weaknesses, Blindness is one of the most challenging, thought-provoking, and ultimately exhilarating novels published in any language in recent years.