As the 96th edition of the Academy Awards ceremony approaches this Sunday, 10 April 2024, I –always a perennial latecomer—saw a film at the only surviving cinema here in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro called Joia (Jewel), wh…
It is three hours since I have returned from viewing a film which has deeply touched me: Bradley Cooper´s “Maestro” about the life of the Mozart of our time, American composer, pianist and Maestro Leonard Bernstein (1918…
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O Rio de Janeiro não é a mesma Cidade Maravilhosa do samba, da bossa nova e da “Gal de Ipanema” que conheci quando cheguei a este suposto paraíso tropical nos anos 1970. Foi por isso que fiquei um pouco surpreendido quan…
Rio de Janeiro is not the same ‘Marvelous City’ of samba, Bossa nova and the “Gal from Ipanema “which I knew when I first arrived in this supposedly tropical paradise in the 1970s. I was therefore a bit surprised when I…
Besides international films which have won awards at Cannes and other festivals, Rio de Janeiro´s current International Film Festival has some fascinating seminars including one I attended on Tuesday about Dubbing Films…
Writing today his usual fascinating column for the Folha of Sao Paulo newspaper, Ruy Castro observes “Cinema is not real life.” He is referring to such films as’ Casablanca’ where Humphrey Bogart tells the police chief h…
Invited weeks ago, before last week’ s massacre in Israel ,to view this monologue with scintillating live and traditional Lebanese music, this theater lover could not help asking himself if perhaps he was on Friday, open…
‘Deep Fake’ via Artificial Intelligence is here ready to take over not only the media and journalism but TV, cinema and especially politics. This is my conclusion after viewing Thursday afternoon (5 October 2023) at the…
Enquanto o mundo do jornalismo e da literatura parece estar abandonando lenta mas seguramente o papel em favor dos formatos de tela on-line, eBook e Kindle, o mundo teatral parece estar caminhando para peças mais longas…