The BAP studio, the films of Abi Feijó and Regina Pessoa and a new generation of directors will be present in June at the Annecy animation film festival (France), the year in which Portugal is a guest country. June 9th to 15th, today presented the official program, such as the feature film competition, special sessions, previews of the main international studios and a tribute to Portuguese animation. In a press release, the festival announces seven programs dedicated to Portugal, namely one about the cinema of producer and director Abi Feijó and director Regina Pessoa, entitled “A Happy Story”. Regina Pessoa,…
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Among Oscar nominations for “Half Nelson”, “La La Land” and Barbie”, many Ryan Gosling fans highlight “Good Guys” (“The Nice Guys” in the original) as one of his best and most 'ignored' works .The 2016 black comedy set in 1977 Los Angeles paired Gosling and Russell Crowe as private detectives with very different personalities hired to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl ” data-title=”Ryan Gosling blames “Angry Birds” for failing. make another film with Russell Crowe – SAPO Mag”> Despite the good reviews and the obvious chemistry between the actors, a sequel never materialized. According to Gosling, it was…
“Clandestina”, a documentary by Maria Mire that recalls the work of resisting the dictatorship of the artist Margarida Tengarrinha, won the A Voz das Mulheres and best Portuguese film awards at the Porto Femme festival – International Film Festival. The short film “Pelo Sim For No”, by Laura Andrade, which portrays the female experience based on the conversations of a group of friends, received the Festival Prize, which began its seventh edition on the 16th, mobilizing around three thousand people, in five spaces of Porto, and closed on Sunday night.”Clandestina”, by Maria Mire, has as its starting point the work…
Scheduled for release in Brazil on April 25th, a historic day for Portuguese democracy, this feature film by Varela, inspired by a real case, has social objectives, the director told Lusa. “I believe in the unique power of cinema, capable of trigger debates and reflections that only the dark and silence of a room provoke in us. May this film be that place where courage is gained, where especially women, with the necessary and mandatory support, can identify and denounce their aggressors, whoever they may be”, he stated. “Smoky Glass” is part of the fictionalization of a heinous crime against…
Brian Cox's usual frankness once again created viral quotes, as happened with Logan Roy, his character in the acclaimed series “Succession”. The Scottish actor was one of the guests at HistFest in London on Sunday and spoke about various topics, from politics to theater reviews and even Ridley Scott's film “Napoleon.” Really appalling. I don't know what he was thinking. I think it's completely his fault and I don't think Ridley Scott helps him. I would have done much better than Joaquin Phoenix, I can guarantee that.” “You can say it's a good dramatic story. No – they're lies”, he…
Monday's screening of the film “I, Captain” at the Italian Cinema Festival, about the journey of two young people from Dakar to reach Europe in search of a better life, was attended by a group of around 50 people migrated, the organization reported. The awareness-raising action organized together with different activist collectives around Matteo Garrone's film aimed to launch an appeal for solidarity and support for this group of people, who arrived in Portugal in search of of a new life, going through a serious and urgent situation of threat of eviction, in Largo da Igreja dos Anjos, in Lisbon.…
Inspired by facts and set in Lisbon in the 1940s, the film is directed by Jorge Paixão da Costa, produced by Ukbar Filmes and starring actor Tomás Alves. In October, when the film was shot, Jorge Paixão da Costa explained, in a note from press, which intended to make known “the other side of the man who gave its name to the super cup of the most popular sport in Portugal”, football. The intention was also to show “the intricacies of propaganda at the time and the ideological battle for the soul and heart of the Portuguese who marked the…
The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” saga is back to stay and is a strong bet for Hollywood for the coming years. After the success of the animation “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mayhem” last year, from Seth Rogen's production company, Paramount Pictures intends to maintain its vitality of the saga with the return to the real image.But the new chapter will go where no film has gone before: the adult audience.The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin” is in development and will deliberately have the rating ” R” in the USA, aimed at those over 16.…
The new initiative, announced today, is called FeLiCidade – Festival of Language and Freedom in the City and is scheduled for the 4th and 5th of May, in various CCB spaces and with free entry. “Dozens of speakers and listeners from all geographies help us reflect on a relationship spanning hundreds of years, to discuss the plurality of roots and identities, without erasing the complexity, violence and exclusion of History”, reads the press release.According to the program, this festival will feature concerts, staged readings, cinema, autograph sessions with authors, among other initiatives. Conversations are also planned “exclusively by the quadrangulation…
Netflix's ratings hit “The 3-Body Problem,” an adaptation of the Chinese sci-fi gem, has sparked intense debate and divided opinions among the country's fans. The streaming service is not officially operational in China, but that hasn't stopped that the most devoted fans would have access to the series, probably through VPN services or illegal streaming sites. Among the tens of thousands of comments left on a review platform, reactions ranged from disappointment with the plot and character changes, to nationalist outrage and optimism that the series' profile would increase representation of Chinese literature and cinema.TRAILER.The series is based on the…