In trying times, political films are nothing new. One of cinema’s most essential functions is to inform its audience — to ...
Directed by The Motorcycle Diaries and Central Station 's Walter Salles, Brazil's entry in the Best International Feature Film race — as well as a welcome but unexpected nominee for Best Picture — I'm ...
The film is based on a memoir written by Paiva's son, Marcelo, but you don't need to know that to know that it is first and ...
Tourists take photos in front of the residence, located at the corner of Rua Roquete Pinto and Avenida João Luiz Alves, in Urca, Rio’s South Zone ...
Torres is only the second Brazilian actress to receive an Oscar nomination. The first was her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, ...
But the director avoids framing I’m Still Here as an “inspirational true story” focused on Eunice’s legal career; plenty of ...
It’s easy to fall in love with the Paiva family. Filmmaker Walter Salles makes sure of that in “I’m Still Here.” He drops the ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Actress Fernanda Torres knew her friend, the director Walter Salles, intended to make a film based on a real-life Rio de Janeiro woman who fought for justice for her family ...