Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna is a film archive located in Brazil. Its collection comprises 80,000 film reels and a 10,000 volumes library. [1] It was founded in 1948. [2]
Central Station is a 1998 drama film directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. The screenplay, adapted by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein from a story by its director Walter Salles, tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. Montenegro's performance earned her international critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Antônio José da Silva Fagundes Filho is a Brazilian actor, playwright, voice actor, and producer. Renowned for his several performances in stage, film and television, where he frequently works in telenovelas.
Rodrigo Junqueira Reis Santoro is a Brazilian actor. He is most known for his portrayal of Persian King Xerxes in the movie 300 (2006) and its sequel 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). Other famous movies include Brainstorm (2001), Carandiru (2003), Love Actually (2003), Che (2008), I Love You Phillip Morris (2009), and Rio (2011). He also appeared on the television series Lost, portraying the character Paulo, and on HBO's Westworld (2016–2020) as Hector Escaton.
Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, writer, historian and journalist. His nickname and artistic name, Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure after the meeting of a candomblé community's lay board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member.
Regina Maria Loureiro Barreto CaséOMC is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter.
Killer Fish is an Italian-French-Brazilian horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti.
Dzi Croquettes is a 2009 Brazilian documentary film directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez about the dance and theater group of the same name.
The Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM) is a museum located in northeastern Flamengo Park, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is in the Centro district, west of Santos Dumont Airport, on Guanabara Bay.
The Cinemateca Brasileira is the institution responsible for preserving Brazilian audiovisual production. In July 2021, it experienced a major fire.
The Man in the Black Cape is a 1986 Brazilian drama film directed by Sérgio Rezende. Shot in Rio de Janeiro, it portrays the life of Tenório Cavalcanti, a Duque de Caxias politician who used to carry a machine gun dubbed "Lurdinha" with him.
The International Uranium Film Festival was founded in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, and has traveled to Germany, Portugal, India and the United States. This educational event merges art, ecology, environmentalism and environmental justice, to inform the public about uranium mining and milling, nuclear power issues, nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle from "cradle to grave" life-cycle assessment - and the effects of radioactivity on humans and other species. The festival founders and principal organizers are Norbert Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliveira. The legal organizer of the International Uranium Film Festival is the arts and education non-profit "Yellow Archives". The organizers and the festival participants seek to educate and activate the international public on these issues through the dynamic media of film and video.
Events in the year 1948 in Brazil.
Lua de Cristal is a 1990 Brazilian romantic comedy film directed by Tizuka Yamasaki, and starring Xuxa Meneghel.
Gaúcho Negro is a 1991 Brazilian romantic adventure film, directed by Jessel Buss.
Maria Gladys Mello da Silva, known as Maria Gladys, is a Brazilian actress.
Tereza Rachel was a Brazilian actress.
Maria Cláudia de Souza Santos is a Brazilian actress, television presenter, journalist, producer, dancer and model.
Lírio Mário da Costa, better known as Costinha, was a Brazilian comedian and actor.
Adelaide Chiozzo was a Brazilian actress, accordionist and singer who appeared on the radio and in many chanchada films. She was known for her cover version of songs like "Beijinho Doce" and "Sabiá na Gaiola".
Tainá: An Adventure in the Amazon is a Brazilian movie from 2000, of the infant-juvenile and adventure genre directed by Tânia Lamarca and Sérgio Bloch.