Loyzo Smolinsky, who has worked behind the scenes on Saturday Night Live and The Leftovers, is hoping to make his screenwriting debut with Marathon, a film about marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima.
Marathon: The Story Of Vanderlei de Lima
In 2004, Lima competed in the Athens Olympics and was leading the Marathon Men’s Final race when a protestor attacked him, dragged him to the side of the road and derailed his trajectory with four miles to go. Lima was able to recover, but failed to maintain his lead. Lima did, however, manage to earn a Bronze Medal – the first marathon medal ever won by a Brazilian. Lima’s tenacity and willingness to keep going despite the freak attack and his humility on the podium helped make him a Brazilian national hero. He was also awarded the special Pierre de Coubertin medal for his demonstration of Olympic spirit.
Now, Smolinsky,...
Marathon: The Story Of Vanderlei de Lima
In 2004, Lima competed in the Athens Olympics and was leading the Marathon Men’s Final race when a protestor attacked him, dragged him to the side of the road and derailed his trajectory with four miles to go. Lima was able to recover, but failed to maintain his lead. Lima did, however, manage to earn a Bronze Medal – the first marathon medal ever won by a Brazilian. Lima’s tenacity and willingness to keep going despite the freak attack and his humility on the podium helped make him a Brazilian national hero. He was also awarded the special Pierre de Coubertin medal for his demonstration of Olympic spirit.
Now, Smolinsky,...
- 11/7/2014
- Uinterview
First, ewwwwww!
That was my first thought when I saw the trailer last year for From Beginning to End, a new Brazilian film about a love affair between two biological brothers. Was such a film really necessary?
But I’ll admit: when the lights are out and the curtains are drawn, the storyline does hold sort of a perversely intriguing premise. If nothing else, it’s certainly something I’ve never seen before.
Sadly, the finished film, which is currently playing NewFest: The New York Lgbt Film Festival, is an almost completely wasted opportunity.
The first half of the film, which is by far the most successful, tells the story of two young brothers who are … unusually “intimate.” Everyone close to them senses how close they are.
Is this a bad thing? The father worries it might eventually turn sexual, but the mother (well-played Júlia Lemmertz and easily the most...
That was my first thought when I saw the trailer last year for From Beginning to End, a new Brazilian film about a love affair between two biological brothers. Was such a film really necessary?
But I’ll admit: when the lights are out and the curtains are drawn, the storyline does hold sort of a perversely intriguing premise. If nothing else, it’s certainly something I’ve never seen before.
Sadly, the finished film, which is currently playing NewFest: The New York Lgbt Film Festival, is an almost completely wasted opportunity.
The first half of the film, which is by far the most successful, tells the story of two young brothers who are … unusually “intimate.” Everyone close to them senses how close they are.
Is this a bad thing? The father worries it might eventually turn sexual, but the mother (well-played Júlia Lemmertz and easily the most...
- 6/15/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Maria Beatty’s Boy in a Bathtub (top); Enrique Buchichio’s Leo’s Room (middle); João Gabriel Vasconcellos, Rafael Cardoso in Aluisio Abranches‘ From Beginning to End (bottom) Maria Beatty will be honored with a screening of Boy in a Bathtub at the Torino Glbt Film Festival – Da Sodoma a Hollywood (Turin’s Glbt Film Festival – From Sodom to Hollywood) on Wednesday, April 21. Set in 1920s Paris, Boy in a Bathtub tells the story of a courtesan who seduces a very young man — only to turn him into an androgynous "love slave," with whom his/her mistress can do as she pleases. Also at Torino, the international premiere of Rosa von Praunheim’s New York Memories, in which the filmmaker, accompanied by his new partner, [...]...
- 4/21/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival said Tuesday it will spotlight Brazil as part of this year's national cinema showcase. Latin American film programmer Diana Sanchez will choose between eight and 10 Brazilian movies for the sidebar. No titles were released. Brazilian filmmakers that have seen their work unspool in Toronto include Fernando Meirelles, Karim Ainouz, Aluisio Abranches, Lais Bodanzky, Toni Venturi, Lucia Murat, Ruy Guerra, Andrucha Waddington and Walter Salles. In recent years, Toronto's national cinema sidebar has focused on South Korea, Spain, Japan, Vietnam, Iran and Poland. The 28th Toronto International Film Festival is set for Sept. 4-13.
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