With all cinema sessions with free admission, as well as debates and an exhibition, the festival runs for five days and features four sections dedicated to architecture and the city. and environmentally, that convey a reciprocal relationship between human action and nature”, says the organization. The 9th edition of the film festival takes place under the motto “Slow Down!” (“Slow down!”, in free translation from English) and “reflects on the idea of ’softening’, even if this implies demolishing, reducing, reusing or subtracting the architecture”, explains the organization, in a statement. , a city that had already functioned as a “satellite”…
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HEROICO – Sidney Poitier: documentary about the actor who conquered prejudice – APPLE TV+/. Sidney Poitier’s Legacy (available on Apple TV+) When Sidney Poitier left the Bahamas for the United States at age 15, he found a country divided by racial segregation. Years later, he would become the face of the black community in Hollywood as the first black man to be acclaimed with the Oscar for best actor, in 1964. Died last January, at 94, the actor has his life and career revisited in the documentary produced by Oprah Winfrey. With old Poitier narrations and testimonials from family, friends…
The Netflix platform debuts next Wednesday, September 28, one of its most ambitious film projects of the year: “Blonde”, the biography of Marilyn Monroe, played by Ana de Armas. Venice Film Festival in early September, but she was not awarded at the event. Based on a novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, the film has a duration of 165 minutes and portrays in a raw way the rise to stardom and especially the health problems. of the Hollywood star who died at age 36 under circumstances never fully understood. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik. ” data-title=”Marilyn Monroe…
Bad news for Idris Elba (50 years old), Tom Hardy (45) and probably Henry Cavill (39): the producers of the “James Bond” saga are looking for an actor for the next 10-12 years. Craig in “007: No Time to Die”, the decisions about the future will pass mainly by two people: Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael Wilson, who are in charge of Eon Productions, the production company of the films since 1962 and that maintains a “family” company, safe from any acquisition. In statements at the end of August only now revealed by Variety magazine, the producers said that…
Taking everyone by surprise, John Constantine will return to the big screen and again with Keanu Reeves. After many fan requests and rumors over the course of 17 years, the sequel to “Constantine” has been officially confirmed by Warner Bros. Discovery and will reunite the main star and the same director Francis Lawrence, with the production of Bad Robot by JJ Abrams.The DC Comics anti-hero created by Alan Moore will be “resurrected” by screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, Oscar “A Beautiful Mind” and linked to films like “I, Robot”, “I Am Legend”, “The Da Vinci Code” (but also the ‘cursed’ “Batman &…
The Lisbon Book Fair, which took place between August 25 and September 11, “was a huge success and the numbers speak for themselves”, said Pedro Sobral, president of the Portuguese Association of Publishers and Booksellers (APEL), in a statement. which makes a “very positive balance”, both in terms of the number of visitors and the level of sales, which had “a generalized increase”, compared to the last edition. This year’s edition also had the largest literary offer ever, with a total of 961 seals present. But what stands out the most about this year’s edition is the “strong presence of…
O Google lost yet another battle against the European Commission for Competition, the body that regulates the HUH. The General Court, the second highest court in the bloc, upheld a 2018 decision to fine the search giant for violating antitrust laws through android; recourse is still available. The Mountain View company was accused of using the dominance of its mobile system to impose unfair conditions on manufacturers and competitors, in order to privilege its solutions over those of third parties; on the other hand, the court applied a slight reduction in the amount of the fine, from €4.34 to €4.125…
The Universidade Lusófona do Porto will award the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Nan Goldin, an “unavoidable author of contemporary photography”, who “confused the intimate and political issue” with “unique wisdom”, a person responsible for the initiative told Lusa. “She is a great author of our time, she confused the intimate question with the political question, she knew how to wisely confuse what is of the intimate order and the political order and that the intimate is political and what the political is intimate”, said the author. director of the degree in Communication, Audiovisual and Multimedia at Universidade Lusófona…
The French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard, who died today, was an “operator of constant ruptures”, which made him a unique figure in the history of cinema, the director of Cinemateca Portuguesa, José Manuel Costa, told Lusa. someone who embodies, substantiates, huge leaps within cinema made in his own work. He represents various ages of cinema within his path. I think he is unique, in the way he did it”, underlined José Manuel Costa. Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pillars of the French ‘Nouvelle Vague’, a movement that revolutionized cinema from the 1950s onwards, died today at home in Rolle, Switzerland, at…
Margaret lives a successful, routine life, balancing the obligations of her busy career and the challenge of being a single mother to a fiercely independent daughter, Abbie. But that careful balance is shaken when she glimpses a man she recognizes immediately, an unwelcome shadow from her past. Shortly after, she meets him again, seeing David repeatedly, everywhere. And the truth is that these encounters are far from being unfortunate coincidences. Struggling with an increasingly present fear, Margaret is forced to confront the monster she managed to avoid for two decades, which has returned to complete unfinished business. , “Resurrection” premiered…