Beware of pearfall. It happens suddenly, we need to be prepared.
Archives: Filmes
In 1819, British forces charge on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, which results in the Peterloo Massacre. Mike Leigh tackles this historic episode with a contemporary point of view.
“In Fabric” is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Godard’s most famous film, “a sublime beauty” in the words of Louis Aragon, continues to enthuse the new generations who discover it. Pierrot and Marianne suddenly leave Paris and drive through the roads of France, “living dangerously to the end.” They love and kill (themselves), but mainly they reject civilization as the petty bourgeoisie conceives it, living the moment. Raoul Coutard’s color cinematography is a true compendium of the many aesthetic trends of the sixties. And it is here that Godard films Fuller affirming that “cinema is like a battlefield. Love. Hate. Action. Violence. Death. In a word: emotion.” (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
Marco is a 16 year-old boy who plays tennis daily as a way of escaping his father’s depression. He finds his routine is cracked by the presence of Rita.
A man (the director Gastón Solnicki) wanders the streets of Vienna, guided by the memory of a friend who has recently passed away (film critic and curator Hans Hurch). The vestiges of a once sumptuous empire become the setting for a cinematic elegy.
Norbert Pfaffenbichler returns to his series “Notes on Film”, centered around famous Hollywood actors. “Invest in Failure” proposes an original approach to James Mason’s cinematic persona with excerpts from the actor’s approximately 160 film titles.
Filmmaker Inês Oliveira takes the song from the 1998 Rollana Beat demo and transposes it, subverting it, to the London underground during the 1940-1941 Blitz.
Eloisa invites friends over, with the aim of introducing them to Alexander.
In a dystopian future, bloodthirsty youths form a matriarchal family led by Jessica, the only one who has ever given them love and understanding. A first feature that mirrors the duo’s work in the short format (which is this year’s Silvestre Focus).
A documentary on the untold story of John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’ and the depth of the creative collaboration between John and Yoko Ono, exploring how art, politics and music of the pair were intrinsically entwined.
For filmmaker Edgar Pera his trip to China, filmed in color Super8 film, “My Trip to China,” reflects the sound of ‘Just What the Doctor Ordered’.
Adapted from the novels The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, Justine is considered a minor George Cukor work, partly due to the incidents that surrounded the production. After the former director of the project (Joseph Strick) quit, Cukor was assigned the “save this film” mission, accepting Fox’s request five years after the glorious My Fair Lady. Recreating the romanesque and political plot in the Alexandria of the thirties, Justine has some remarkable moments like the Carnival sequence. Anouk Aimée is Justine. Anna Karina (Melissa), saw in the film the possibility of being directed by Cukor, one of the masters she admired. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the 1990’s.
Love is nice but sex is better.
An unsettling night portrait of Grbavica, a neighborhood in Sarajevo.
A group of forest animals secretly collects parts from abandoned bicycles, with the intention of making vehicles adapted to their size. They are preparing for a great race!
Tayra was the director’s best friend while growing up on a beach in the northeast of Brazil. The sea breeze brings back memories.