Regarding this work recently awarded at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, the jury considered it to be “a film that enters the heart of a strong community”, in which “sensuality, resistance and the flame of revolution burn between oil, music and bodies that are close together suggest other futures”. For the jury, “Mato Seco em Chamas” is “a hybrid game that dissipates borders and summons a dystopian aesthetic, from which the utopian is anticipated”. Fiction went to “Fogo fátuo” by João Pedro Rodrigues – which was also recently awarded at the Festival of having the jury considered that, “after…
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“Annie Ernaux – The Super 8 Years”, a film by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux and her son, David Ernaux-Briot, has its premiere scheduled for Saturday, at the Porto/Post/Doc festival, and its Portuguese commercial premiere in December. of editing family films, between 1972 and 1981, as underlined in the communiqué from the distributor Midas Filmes, released today, “Annie Ernaux – The Super 8 Years” starts from family images, crosses private stories with those of the world as it was and becomes a testimony of the writer’s work, told by her own voice. life and aspirations of a social class in…
Hollywood has left behind its old drug-related excesses, say Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, protagonists of the film “Babylon”, about the hedonism of the cinema mecca of the 1920s, a strong contender for the Oscars. Chazelle, who starred in “La La Land,” had its first critical screening Monday night at the Los Angeles Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the industry’s top awards. enter the film that narrates the transition from silent films to talkies from the point of view of Hollywood filmmakers and actors, mostly fictional, between parties full of cocaine and chaotic filming, all…
SAPO Mag is in Düsseldorf, Germany, to accompany the 2022 edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards. The award ceremony is scheduled for this Sunday, November 13th – at the gala, which will be broadcast by MTV Portugal, SAPO Mag will be the only Portuguese medium to be present. You can follow all the preparations, the red carpet and the ceremony here on SAPO Mag and on SAPO’s Instagram. This year, the ceremony will be led by Rita Ora and Taika Waititi. In exclusive interviews with SAPO Mag, the singer and the filmmaker promised a night of partying and many…
Steven Spielberg had harsh words for some decisions made in Hollywood during the worst phase of the pandemic, specifically that of not premiering films in theaters. From Universal to Disney, several studios have released films directly in streaming or, in some cases, simultaneously. with the theatrical debut, but Spielberg specifically highlights Warner Bros. to release all of its 2021 movies on HBO Max, namely “The Suicide Squad”, “Dune – Part 1” and “The Matrix Revolutions”. and also to run over some of my best filmmaking friends, as, without any ceremony, their films did not have their premieres in theaters”, he…
In conversation with SAPO Mag and various media around the world, Danai Gurira (Okoye), Florence Kasumba (Ayo) and Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross) confessed that mourning and returning to history was a difficult process for everyone. “It was a very intense process for us and it was a grieving journey. We have no idea the impact, what resonance it will have. We were taking this journey, and it is never a comfortable or even pleasant journey to take, but it must be taken. But there was also a lot of hope imbued in the film”, begins by underlines Danai Gurira,…
Netflix released this Monday a new trailer for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, which brings back Detective Benoit Blanc played by Daniel Craig. All Suspects” (2019) now takes Blanc on a journey to a luxurious private estate on a Greek island, but the details and reason for their presence are just the first of many puzzles waiting to be solved. of friends gathered for an annual meeting at the invitation of a multi-millionaire and, as in any good detective mystery, each person hides secrets, lies and hidden motivations, which means that when someone dies… everyone is a suspect. each…
SAPO Mag gathered 100 must-have films from 100 different directors. Although this results in the absence of unavoidable titles, these are just the first 100 for Seventh Art lovers to start partying…
Director James Cameron will dedicate “Avatar: The Way of Water” to the actor of five of his films and great friend Bill Paxton, who died in 2017. credits” of the film, which sources from The Hollywood Reporter magazine said was 190 minutes long. After the news of the death, Cameron revealed that he was going to count on the actor in the sequels of “Avatar” (2009). 15 December and the trailer was revealed on Wednesday.SUBTITLED TRAILER.Bill Paxton died on February 25, 2017, following a stroke 11 days after complications related to an operation to replace a heart valve and eliminate…
More than three decades after the fall of the wall, Berlin rediscovers the imprint of homosexual culture in the former East Germany and the involvement of the gay community in the dissidence of the communist regime. Since September, the German capital has hosted a retrospective dedicated to the painter Jürgen Wittdorf ( 1932-2018). The exhibition highlights the surprising journey of this artist, whose homoerotic works were bought by the regime and even decorated official buildings. The exhibition received around 20,000 visitors, an unexpected success for an artist who died four years ago and was forgotten after reunification. The public becomes…