On the last weekend of May, the Portuguese training tall ship, Sagres, docked in Lower Manhattan. The Sagres was originally a German-built ship built in 1937 that was seized by the United States during World War II. The ship was then sold to Brazil in 1948...
After watching four different movies from the famed Miguel Gomes, I knew it was about time to watch his most acclaimed work, Tabu. Like many of Gomes’s works, the film is divided into chapters. The first half, “Paradise Lost”, focuses on three women. Pilar, a...
Nevões extremos e ventos fortes atingiram o nordeste dos Estados Unidos durante a noite de domingo e ao longo de todo o dia de segunda-feira, provocando condições de nevão com mais de duas polegadas (60 centímetros) de neve a cobrir vários estados. A...
With the 98th Academy Awards soon approaching this March, I’ve been making sure to watch as many nominations as I possibly can. While perusing the nominations in the International Feature Film category, I also checked which countries entered films into the...
We have reached the climax of Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights trilogy with the final segment, The Enchanted One. Going into this film, I wondered how Gomes would wrap up such an absurdist and somber epic. Of course, he would smash any expectations I would...
