In addition to that Oscar category, its in contention for Best Documentary Feature.
I remember very young going into the Art Palacio, for example, or the Veneza.
I remember this one time I went to seeThe Witches of Eastwickat the Veneza, he recalls.
Moviegoers line up outside the São Luiz cinema in Recife, Brazil.Courtesy of João Lacerda
And I was sitting on the sofa, and I could hear John Williamss music.
It was coming very loud down the stairs, and I thought, Wow, this is a cinema.
And it was a great feeling.
Director Kleber Mendonça FilhoCourtesy of Victor Jucá
The place was completely original, Filho says of the Art Palacio.
So, it was the same cinema from 1940, which is quite rare.
It did feel like you were in a hotel or on an old ship, you know?
Movies have always been escapist entertainment.
Even the movie marquees on those places marked time, in their own way.
I think I have the right to miss the marquees in the city landscape, he says.
I think there was something about the marquees that gave the city something special.
It really felt like they were talking to each other.
Gone from Recife and so many other places around the world are those marquees and the cinemas they adorned.
Does this sound honest?
Im presenting, I think, ideas about time and place and memory, Filho says.
And Im happy with that.
