Category: Cinema

09/11/2012 art institute of chicago | current-events | deceased family member | Hunger Steve McQueen | ira volunteers | Michael Fassbender | politics | Queen and Country | Shame Steve McQueen | Static Steve McQueen Feitosa-Santana

My Birthday with Steve McQueen

It is not everybody that is keen of contemporary art but – for sure – everyone is capable of appreciating it. All we need is sensitivity and education.  The Black British artist Steve McQueen is only a little more than 40 years old but already acclaimed all over the world. So, today was my birthday […]

04/05/2012 Francisca Moreira Da Silva | Jangadeiros do Ceará | Jeronimo André De Souza | Manuel 'Jacaré' Olímpio Moura | Manuel 'Preto' Pereira Da Silva | Manuel Olímpio Moura | Nordeste do Brasil | Raimundo 'Tata' Correia Lima | Richard Wilson Feitosa-Santana

It’s all True, by Orson Welles [É tudo Verdade, de Orson Welles]

It is a master piece, and a huge lesson about Brazil’s culture. I am astonished with Orson’s sight, and how he fell in love with Brazilians. It is impressive! Besides the fact that it is *still* all true. Nothing really changed. Review by Vincent Canby (NY Times): It’s All True: Reconstructing the Tale Of a Wellesian […]

12/04/2012 Feitosa-Santana

Push to Add Drama

02/04/2012 charlotte gainsbourg | charlotte rampling | kiefer sutherland | Kirsten Dunst | Lars von Trier | Melancholia Feitosa-Santana

Melancholia, the movie directed by Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier is never pleasant but always relevant if not essential. Penelope Cruz wanted to make a movie with Lars, and she told him that the sisters’ maids who killed their mistress in the play directed by Jean Genet fascinated her. But Lars told Penelope “I don’t do anything that is not born by […]