Olá querides, venho avisar que desde ontem meu livrinho está disponível para download. É fruto de uma tese de doutorado realizada no IEL/UNICAMP orientada pela querida Profa Rosana do Carmo Novaes Pinto, indicada ao prêmio Capes na época 👇🏽
🚨 EXCLUSIVO: o Intercept Brasil obteve mensagens, documentos e áudios que revelam como Flávio Bolsonaro negociou diretamente com o banqueiro Daniel Vorcaro um pagamento milionário para financiar “Dark Horse”, filme sobre Jair Bolsonaro.
Vorcaro, dono do Banco Master, pagou pelo menos 10 milhões de dólares para a produção do longa, segundo documentos analisados pela reportagem. As conversas mostram cobranças por dinheiro, negociações de bastidores e a participação de outros intermediários, como Eduardo Bolsonaro e Mário Frias, ex-secretário da Cultura do governo Bolsonaro e roteirista de “Dark Horse”.
Neste vídeo, você ouve um áudio enviado por Flávio Bolsonaro cobrando pagamentos e alertando para o risco de paralisação da produção.
Leia a reportagem completa no site do Intercept Brasil: https://t.co/CUeVUIyXLZ
Milton Santos completaria hoje seu centenário de nascimento. Sua obra é referência para entendermos as desigualdades da globalização e os potenciais de transformação que vêm das periferias. Pouca gente conseguiu compreender o Brasil como este intelectual baiano que, não por acaso, é considerado um dos mais importantes geógrafos de nosso país – e de todo mundo. Em tempos como o que vivemos hoje, com grandes mudanças geopolíticas, a obra de Milton Santos continua extremamente atual – e necessária.
I found The Secret Agent (🌟🌟🌟🌟) to not only be one of 2025’s best films, but a slice of real, boots on the ground filmmaking that slightly restores my faith in cinema. What I mean by that is the fact that this film was made for only $5 million but still achieves something great. It’s shot on location in the streets of Brazil & once again proves that in order to make a memorable film, all you really need is a great story, a filmmaker with heart and….Wagner Moura.
The story here follows a man named Armando (Moura), a tech expert who’s fleeing political persecution from a corrupt, military regime in late’ 70s Brazil. We meet Armando, who’s now going by the name Marcelo, as he’s in pursuit of Recife, where he hopes to reunite with his son. It’s important to note throughout this film that we go back and forth through multiple timelines- multiple timelines in Armando’s life throughout the ‘70s and even through the present day, as recordings of Armando & his attempts to survive are unearthed. The story builds further as two hitmen are eventually hired by the aforementioned corrupt regime to hunt down Armando/Marcelo and kill him
The Secret Agent four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, but it surprises me most that this didn’t receive a Best Editing nomination. I always say & I’ll continue to reiterate that editing is how a story is told. I love flashbacks, I love cutaways & I never understand why directors don’t use them more. Here, we see constant cutaways to Armando’s previous life where he was a researcher living happily with his wife- before things went wrong, before he was forced to go on the run. I thought this film triggered something in me emotionally in the way they cut back to Armando’s past. It’s reflective of how this film not only takes place in the ‘70s, but feels like it was made in the ‘70s (that includes I think two distinct split diopter shots that nearly brought me out of my seat).
But what contributes further to the fact this film feels like it was made in the ‘70s is that there’s no use of any real technical effects in this film- almost all the effects are practical or everything else takes place on location with real people and real places. Speaking of people, one of those 4 Oscar nominations this film received is for Best Casting. It’s a nomination that makes absolute sense because the cast here is so unique & so profound- almost all of the actors in this cast pull you to a different time and place. Nothing about this feels Hollywood.
Yet at day’s end this film is about Wagner Moura. He is the heart, soul & center of this project. He’s worthy of the responsibility. I think the emotional core of the story is the fact that Armando is so torn between fighting for things he believes in- such as the people of Brazil at large or the research he’s done or the institution he’s worked for- weighed against what it’s cost him personally, which is his son & wife. It’s that emotional push & pull between fighting for a dream and learning how much it will cost.
Moura carries such a presence, such a weight while he’s on screen. The moment he enters the frame at the start of the film, you can see this is a man just pushing forward with life regardless of the pain and suffering he has to go through. There are no real flashy monologues, no real massive outbursts from Moura. Instead, this is a nuanced, mature performance that’s built on so much intensity. I’ll never forget the look in this man’s eyes halfway through the film when the tape recorder starts and he begins to reflect on the path in which he’s gone down…you see exactly why he earned that Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Filmmaking of the highest order.
Renee was one of my students years ago. I held her baby. She was kind and talented, a working class mom who put herself through school despite circumstances that would’ve crumpled the pathetic rich boy politicians who sadistically abetted her murder
God damn them all
A operação mais letal da história do Rio de Janeiro: 64 mortos.
As perguntas que eu me faço são: para que? para quem?
É lamentável que o governador Cláudio Castro, mais uma vez numa operação desastrosa e mal planejada, use a morte como palanque político.
"Na época da ditadura, onde eu tocava no mundo, o público vinha no camarim me cumprimentar e agradecer – aliás, eu não, a música! A ditadura não resiste à música. Nada resiste à música. Nada, nada, nada.”
Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025)
Hermeto Pascoal, multi-instrumentista, compositor e ícone da música brasileira, morreu neste sábado (13), aos 89 anos. Sua trajetória singular segue como referência, inspirando gerações através de cada nota musical. A Rádio MEC presta homenagem a este grande músico.