Gérard Depardieu's family denounced, this Sunday (17), a “conspiracy” against the famous French actor, amid controversy after the revelation of some sexist comments”Of course, we are often surprised by Gérard's comments, but the our father/grandfather/uncle is being subjected to an unprecedented conspiracy”, wrote several members of his family, including his daughter, actress Julie Depardieu, in a column published in the Journal du Dimanche. In the text, the family denounced a “collective indignation” against the actor, guaranteeing that, “in private, with his children”, he is “extremely modest” and “delicate”. In December 2020, the court accused the actor of 74 years of…
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Inês de Medeiros will be honored for her career in the fourth edition of the Cinetendinha awards.”Sem Sombra de Pecado”, “Tempos Difíceis”, “O Bando das Quatro”, “O Sangue”, “Adeus Princesa”, “Aqui na Terra” , “Casa de Lava”, “Três Palmeiras”, “Pandora” and “Ossos” are part of her career as an actress, often at the orders of filmmakers such as Pedro Costa and João Botelho, as well as Jacques Rivette. The work extended back from the cameras, as director of “O Fato Completo Ou À Procura De Alberto” or the documentary “Letters to a Ditadura”. The tribute is part of the Portuguese…
Four years have passed since the United States government placed the Huawei, a Chinese manufacturer of mobile devices, electronics and infrastructure products, on the list of “untrustworthy entities”. In short, no North American company, or external companies that use US intellectual properties in their products and services, can do business with the company. The results were catastrophic: the restrictions caused the company to lose access to Android and Google services, as well as components from manufacturers such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and SK Hynix; they all left because they sold products that use US technologies. As a result, the once…
The Cannes Festival announced today that Greta Gerwing, director of the film “Barbie” and a leading figure in North American auteur cinema, will preside over the jury for the 77th edition. The 40-year-old director, also an actress and screenwriter, will succeed, between May 14th and 25th, the Swedish Ruben Östlund, whose jury this year awarded the Palme d'Or to “Anatomy of a Fall”. She is “the first North American filmmaker to assume” this role, highlighted the organization of the festival. And her presence will bring a breath of youth to the Croisette: Cannes has not had a president so young…
Last Tuesday (12), the Apple presented the line iPhone 15, which bring “new features” such as a USB-C connector (3.0 only for the Pro and Pro Max; the others, which will come with USB 2.0 in 2023), better cameras, a GPU that promises to run AAA games with PS5 quality and Xbox Series X… but that's not what we're going to talk about here. It is a known fact that apple and Samsung have been living “between slaps and kisses” since 2010, when the South Korean company launched the first Galaxy S, which triggered a long legal battle between the…
French actor Gérard Depardieu was the target of new accusations for sexist comments and attacks, another of the countless cases of this type in the Seventh Art that provoked a certain self-criticism in the national film industry. Depardieu, one of the best-known French interpreters in the world, had already been accused of rape in 2020 following a complaint from actress Charlotte Arnould. Since last week, the actor, who denies the accusations, has once again come under scrutiny after a report broadcast on French television showing the “Monster” [apelido de Depardieu] making misogynistic comments. Actress Hélène Darras also denounced him in…
The French “Anatomy of a Fall”, by Justine Triet, was the big winner at the European Film Academy awards, handed out at a ceremony this Saturday night in Berlin. In a devastating victory, it made the most of the nominations: European Film of 2023, Director, European Actress (Sandra Hüller) and Screenplay, to which is added Editing, which is part of the technical awards, where there were no nominations and the winners were announced previously and determined by a jury based on the titles in the race in the main categories. “Anatomy of a Fall”” data-title=””Anatomy of a Fall”: after the…
A China faces a series of economic sanctions from the United States, being prevented from purchasing high-tech components for the development of semiconductors, officially motivated by what it called “industrial espionage” carried out by companies such as Huawei and ZTE, both of which have strong ties with the government of Beijing. The movement is understood by market experts as an attempt to slow Chinese technological advancement, which threatens American dominance in the chip sector, but according to a former executive at TSMC, a Taiwanese company that prints chips for Apple and several other companies, Such a strategy is “doomed to…
Carminho surprised guests at the launch party for “Pobres Criaturas”, which took place on the night of Wednesday, December 6th, at the Director's Guild of America, in New York. The new film by director Yorgos Lanthimos stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe and features the special participation of the fado singer, who performs a new version of the song “The Room” live. At the event, the Portuguese singer and songwriter sang and played Portuguese guitar for the guests, including Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Taylor Swift. On social media, Carminho shared several photos and videos from the night.…
A European Union (HUH) continues to study whether to classify iMessage, the default messaging app for Apple devices, as a service falling within Apple's classification as a gatekeeper company, alongside Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and ByteDance/TikTok. As it originally did not reach the minimum threshold of active users (45 million individual/month and 10 thousand corporate/year), it was not obliged to implement interoperability with other apps, unlike Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, the only two included, which is not even enough to be a problem for Meta, owner of both. EU studies whether iMessage qualifies as a “gatekeeper” or not; Google and…