The announcement was made today, the last day of this year’s edition, by Portuguese director Regina Pessoa, in a video shown to the festival’s audience and meanwhile released on the event’s official YouTube account. in the year in which two animated feature films debuted in Portuguese cinemas, which were screened at the French event in 2022: “Nayola”, by José Miguel Ribeiro, and “Os demons of my grandfather”, by Nuno Beato. Portuguese animation has been recognized all over the world in recent years. This year, “Ice Merchants”, an animation by João Gonzalez that intertwines 2D drawing and music, was nominated for…
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Emblematic figure of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, 79 years old, assured France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday through his agent that he is “much better” and to thank the hundreds of people who responded to the appeal of those close to him, who were concerned about him, raising more than 20 thousand euros. cinema, to come to the aid of the actor, who according to him was in a very precarious psychological, physical and financial situation, mainly due to the death of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in September. donations, on the initiative of Armand Hennon, leader of…
The next “Avatar” films will arrive even later in theaters. The new postponement of the James Cameron saga is part of a major change announced on Tuesday of the opening dates of the next releases in cinemas by the studio The Walt Disney Co. Thus, “Avatar 3” moved from December 20, 2024 to December 19, 2025. , while “Avatar 5″ postponed from December 22, 2028 to December 19, 2031. If this plan is fulfilled, James Cameron will be 77 when the last film opens in theaters and the saga will be 22, since the first ” Avatar” was released on…
Starting June 11, 1993, the now-less-new “Jurassic Park” convinced viewers that dinosaurs had been resurrected. The images speak for themselves: without the revolutionary special effects of these 30 films, cinema would be very different.
Jeanne du Barry (2023)THE NEW FILM TO BE RELEASED__ “Jeanne du Barry”, in which Johnny Depp plays the French King Louis XV, who fell in love with a prostitute, received a standing ovation for seven minutes, on the first day of the Cannes Film Festival . It is his return to cinema after the controversies that have surrounded his personal and professional life in recent years. Lost role as villainous Grindelwald in “Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore” at the studio’s “request” after a British judge ruled that the charge of being an “violent husband” in an article by British tabloid…
THE STORY: In late 1930s Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck street detective, Philip Marlowe, is hired to track down the former lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance unearths a web of lies, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a dangerous and deadly investigation, where everyone involved has something to hide.”Marlowe: The Case of the Mysterious Blonde”: in theaters from June 8th.Review: Francisco QuintasIt is neither unusual nor serious when an artist shoots to the side, when a project does not give it the intensity of applause it once had. What is, yes, strange is…
“Is that what we want to find out, basically what is happening in the sector?”, said Batalha’s artistic director, Guilherme Blanc, in statements to the Lusa agency last week, regarding the “New Meetings of Portuguese Cinema ”.This initiative is promoted in partnership with the Clube Português de Cinematografia – Cineclube do Porto and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and takes place 56 years after a similar initiative carried out in Batalha, at the end of 1967.At the time, the “Semana do Novo Cinema Português” was intended to discuss the economic and technical problems with which cinema was struggling and ended up…
Jacques Rozier, to whom the IndieLisboa festival and Cinemateca dedicated a retrospective in 2018, made cinema and television, leaving short films and only six feature films, including “Adieu Philippine” (1962). Cinemateca Portuguesa remembered the “legendary reputation” of Jacques Rozier, “of productions with a difficult conclusion, spaced out in time, concomitantly subject to diffusion difficulties, obstacles imposed by the lack of distribution or by the late and often excessively discreet distribution of films ”.Jacques Rozier, who was born in Paris in 1926 and entered cinema influenced by Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, was one of the last names associated with the…
THE STORY: Brooklyn friendly neighborhood Miles Morales/Spider-Man sets out on an epic adventure across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People. Miles, Gwen and this team will face a villain far more powerful than any before encountered.”Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”: In theaters June 1 in original and dubbed versions.Review: Francisco QuintasThanks to the overwhelming popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, some cartoon characters, sometimes relegated to the background of the action, have achieved a more respectable status. The truth is that current icons like Iron Man or Captain America were not always powerful…
Disney’s live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” was #1 at the North American box office in its opening weekend, including the Memorial Day holiday in the US this Monday. 1989 about an underwater princess who gives up her voice in search of true love on land, starring pop singer Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy, grossed $95.5 million in its first three days and $117.5 million for four days, in addition to another 68 million on the international market and a worldwide total of 185.5 million, according to industry analyst Exhibitor Relations. of the aquatic adventure does not represent the biggest…