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It’s not today that Hollywood has a problem with first and last name on its hands: Ezra Miller. This Monday, the 17th, the actor pleaded not guilty in a trial in the US state of Vermont, in which he responds for breaking into and stealing bottles of liquor from a neighbor’s house. If convicted of the crimes, Miller could face up to 26 years in prison, giving even more headaches to movie industry bigwigs, as he integrates prominent franchises like The Flash and Fantastic Beasts. According to Variety, the case would have happened on May 1, when Miller broke into…

Belgian director Lukas Dhont, who won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, a “second place” in the accolades, with “Close”, told Lusa that the film can encourage conversations around the current “masculinity crisis”. It’s very important to show the challenges of masculinity, play with them and also oppose them”, said the director, who spoke on the sidelines of the film’s presentation in Los Angeles. “I think there is a crisis of masculinity. If we can have this conversation, that’s the most valuable thing that will come out of this movie”, he considered. “Close” is in the running for Oscar nominations…

Harvey Weinstein, the 70-year-old former American film producer, used to be a regular spectator of the New York Film Festival, which ends its 60th edition this Friday. In 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault by a New York court, and since Monday he has been sitting in the dock again in Los Angeles, where he responds to other charges. feminist Ashley Judd, one of the first to denounce that she was a victim of sexual harassment by Weinstein, was cheered by the audience in one of the rooms at Lincoln Center.In Maria…

The documentary “João Ayres, independent painter”, which is shown today at DocLisboa, is the contribution of director Diogo Varela Silva to “rescue the memory” of an artist whom Portugal “failed to recognize”. Varela Silva was “challenged” by the eldest grandson of the painter João Ayres (1921-2001), Diogo Camilo Alves, “to visit the house-studio that belonged to his grandfather and where all his work is located”, in Vale de Lobos, a Speaking to Lusa, the director said that “when confronted with the grandeur of the work” by João Ayres, “with the size and variety”, he was “fascinated” and began to look…

Pedro Adão e Silva wants to see “the distinction between high culture and the other culture more diluted”, the one that exists outside institutional spaces, defending that for this it will help “to integrate culture more into the school context”. fifth meeting to present projects of the 1st Biennial of Culture and Education (integrated in the Folio program – International Literary Festival of Óbidos), underlined that the connection between the arts and education does not involve a solution that “serves the entire territory of the same way”, implying a connection to local authorities and communities, aiming at “appreciating what the…

“The idea is that there is an opportunity for people who don’t know where their films are going to premiere or have already premiered and the film is lost. It’s really a pity. Fragoso to the Lusa agency. Operating for just over a week, on novocine.pt, the platform is presented as “an ‘online’ cinema that makes a new film available for free every twenty days”. For each new film to be shown, there will be a remuneration for the respective director. The first film made available is “A casa e os dogs” (2019), by Madalena Fragoso and Margarida Meneses.”There is…

Reichenbach enters the scene in the second half of the 1960s – along with other filmmakers who emerged from a questioning of the famous Cinema Novo that had marked authorial production at the beginning of the decade. Into the 1970s, the director toured the “exploitation” of the decade (popular cinema that would take the label of “pornochanchada” from serious critics), genre cinema and social realism – a work that circulated both among the general public and proposed deep questions about society in general. SAPO Mag spoke with DocLisboa programmer and curator of the retrospective, Joana de Sousa, about this enormous…

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Marklecriticized the way Hollywood portrays Asian women in its productions on his podcast on Tuesday, 4. Prince Harry’s wife discussed their representation in films such as Austin Powers and Kill Bill and also spoke about his own experience of Korean culture in the United States. “The Dragon Lady, the East Asian seductress whose mysterious foreign allure is scripted as tempting and deadly; it seeped into a lot of our entertainment. But this toxic stereotype of women of Asian descent doesn’t just end when the credits roll,” she said. + Back in the UK, Meghan Markle…

Kristen Stewart was the star of Chanel’s homage to the world of cinema on the last day of Paris Fashion Week this Tuesday. The show opened with a short film starring the American actress, in which she leaves a movie theater Paris after watching the classic “The Last Year in Marienbad”, from 1961. The founder of this French fashion house, Gabrielle Chanel – better known as Coco Chanel -, was responsible for designing the wardrobe of actress Delphine Syrig in this work by Alain Resnais.”From the people around me, [Stewart] is closest to Gabrielle Chanel,” wrote Chanel artistic director Virginie…

Bruna Marquezine – @brunamarquezine/Instagram Back in Brazil, after three months working in Los Angeles filming Besouro Azul, her first foray into international cinema, Bruna Marquezine, 27 years old, says that it took a while to overcome insecurity. At the end of the first day, still in the costume fitting phase, she arrived at the hotel and burst into tears. “It hit me and I thought: ‘Wow, I’m here, I’m really going to do it’, he recalls. In the script reading, face to face with the directors of Warner/DC, another attack of uncertainty: “I asked: ‘Did I do well? Is there…