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…
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“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…
The film “A Flor do Buriti” was distinguished in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival, on Friday, with the prize for Best Team, thus distinguishing not only the directors, João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, but also the Krahô people, from Brazil, who star in the work.” It was a privilege for me to attend the world premiere of the film this week and witness the emotion it provoked in the entire room, through the careful look, from within, that the work builds on the Krahô indigenous community, in the state of Tocantins, in northern Brazil”,…
Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti plunged into melancholy this Wednesday with the film “Il sol dell’avvenire”, in contention for the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. at the French festival, where he won the Palme d’Or in 2001 with “The Son’s Room”, a film with a much darker tone. questions as an artist, as a father and as a husband, but he also shoots his darts at Italian politics, streaming platforms and even the cinema of others. of the 1950s, but his obsessions prevent him from finishing the shoot. Moretti brings to Cannes this year a “film within a…
This Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival is preparing to host the screening of “Asteroid City”, the new film by American director Wes Anderson, a filmmaker who manages to attract the main Hollywood stars to his productions.Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe: with a great cast, Anderson competes for the Palme d’Or for the third time. As in other films by the director, “Asteroid City” has a very careful art direction , full of details and colors, as important as the film’s story.”Asteroid City” is a fictional city in the desert, where parents…
The ceremony of the 21st edition of Sophia takes place tonight at Casino Estoril (Cascais) and in it “Alma Viva” leaves with 13 nominations, namely for Best Film, Direction, Original Script, Lead Actress, for Lua Michel, and Direction of Photography, for Rui Poças. The film is a microcosm about family ties, emigration, mysticism and Trás-os-Montes culture, and was entirely shot in Junqueira, in the municipality of Vimioso, where the director has maternal roots. Non-professional actors from the locality also participated in the filming. For Sophia for Best Film, “Wolf and Dog”, by Cláudia Varejão, “Restos do Vento”, by Tiago Guedes,…
With tears in his eyes, Harrison Ford said goodbye on Thursday to the character Indiana Jones, who helped build him a legendary film career, and the Cannes Film Festival presented him with an unannounced tribute: the honorary Palme d’Or at the world premiere of the fifth film in the saga. Jones and the Marker of Fate”. This was one of the highlights of the 76th edition of Cannes, which already awarded an honorary Palm to American actor Michael Douglas at the opening of the show. life flashes before our eyes, and I just saw that. Most of my life, but…