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Os 23 melhores filmes de 2023 – A Casa de Vidro
Here’s my TOP 23 of 2023’s film production: / Aí vai meu TOP 23 da produção fílmica de 2023: * THE OIL MACHINE, by Emma Davie ORLANDO: MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY, by Paul Beatriz PreciadoWHITE PLASTIC SKY, by Sarolta Szabó, Tibor BánóczkiCOW, by Andrea ArnoldTHE BOY AND THE HERON, by Hayo...
Publicado em: 17/01/24
“20.000 Species of Bees”, a new masterpiece of Queer Cinema, invites us to see gender fluidity through the wise lens of cariño
<20.000 SPECIES OF BEES> (2023) is a masterpiece of Queer Cinema. This statement can be misunderstood as an affirmation of the value or merit of this compelling film only within a certain niche or genre. That’s not my aim: instead of locking it inside the box of queer films,...
Publicado em: 16/01/24
A PORTAS FECHADAS – Conversamos com o cineasta João Pedro Bim sobre documentário que revela o processo que conduziu ao AI-5
ASSISTA: Nesta entrevista realizada no <International Theather Amsterdam (ITA)> durante o <International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA)>, um dos mais importantes eventos mundiais dedicados ao cinema de não-ficção, A Casa de Vidro conversou com o cineasta paulista <João Pedro Bim>, formado em audiovisual na ECA/USP, sobre seu filme “A...
Publicado em: 24/11/23
IMAGINE: Fantastic Film Festival – A feast for the senses and lots of food for thought
<Suspend your disbelief>, fellow earthlings, and let’s… imagine! With Fantastic Alchemy as its central theme, Amsterdam’s <Imagine Fantastic Film Festival> has provided an awesome, mind-boggling feast for the senses between October 25th and November 4th at the <FilmHallen> and <LAB111>. The films screened were obviously focused on the phantasy...
Publicado em: 15/11/23
Cheating death with a techno-fix: Concerning Czech sci-fi “Restore Point” (2023) by Robert Hloz
In his <Pulitzer-winning treatise on The Denial of Death (1984), Ernest Becker> argued that the human psyche, regardless of place of birth or skin colour, operates with a deep rooted impulse to deny mortality. Each of us arrives at a world where institutionalized religions and hero-mythologies offer us ready-made...
Publicado em: 01/11/23
Os muros do apartheid e os sonhos desfeitos da Paz: “Inch’Allah” e o cinema das esperanças destruídas.
INCH’ALLAH (2012, Canadá, 82 min, de Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette ) é um filme tremendo – e assisti-lo novamente hoje, em outubro de 2023, enquanto a crise humanitária e os crimes de guerra disparam nos territórios da Palestina e de Israel, é um must. A gente sai da exibição como se tivesse acabado de sobreviver a...
Publicado em: 24/10/23
The walls of apartheid and the shattered dreams of Peace: “Inch’Allah” and the cinema of blasted hopes.
INCH’ALLAH (2012, Canada, 82 min, by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette) is a tremendous film – and to re-watch it nowadays, in October 2023, as the humanitarian crisis and war crimes skyrockets in Palestine and Israel territories, it’s a must. One leaves the screening as if he just survived an earthquake. To...
Publicado em: 23/10/23
“Anatomia de Uma Queda”: vencedor da Palm D’Or (Cannes-2023), de Justine Triet, descontrói o viés másculo em thriller de ambiguidades
Um filme deve ser julgado não apenas pela experiência estética e intelectual que proporciona durante a exibição, mas também pela sua ressonância posterior: desaparece rapidamente da memória ou permanece na mente, continuando a estimulá-la? Isto parece implicar que um crítico de cinema não deve apressar-se a publicar um texto...
Publicado em: 22/10/23
The male gaze falls from grace: concerning “Anatomy of a Fall” (Justine Triet), winner of the Cannes Palm D’Or
A film should be judged not only by the aesthetic and intellectual experience it provides during the screening, but also by its resonance afterwards: does it evanesce quickly from memory, or does it linger on the mind, continuing to stimulate it? This seems to entail that a film critic...
Publicado em: 19/10/23
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE(?) – More than 10.000 people come together in Amsterdam for a mass demonstration in solidarity with Palestine
This is one of those historical moments where tragedy unfolds in massive scale and bloodshed spills into our feeds, filling up our waking hours and intruding in our nightmares. When my friends and flatmates Saliem and Wael told me about a massive demonstration in Amsterdam in solidarity with Gaza’s...
Publicado em: 16/10/23
