Announcing the Fourth Luso World Cinema blogathon

 

It’s just the most wonderful time of the year again! No, not Christmas - although I love Christmas - it’s time to announce this year’s Luso World Cinema blogathon! The event enters its fourth year with the usual and dedicated hostesses, Letícia (or Le - that’s me) from Crítica Retrô and Beth from Spellbound with Beth Ann.  

Just like last year, we scheduled the blogathon around May 5^th, that is World Portuguese Language Day, a date established by UNESCO to celebrate the first meeting of the Ministers of Culture of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries that happened on May 5^th, 2005.

Aniki Bóbó (1942)

Now, let’s talk more about the blogathon rules: 

The Luso World Cinema Blogathon once again accepts posts about films made in Lusophone countries, that is, countries that speak Portuguese – see the list below –, and film stars with Luso heritage, that means, film stars of Portuguese descent. This list includes natives like Carmen Miranda, Rodrigo Santoro, Sônia Braga, Raul Roulien, Maria de Medeiros and also Keanu Reeves, Mary Astor, Louise Fazenda, Tom Hanks, Joe DeRita, James Franco, Daniel Brühl, Auli'i Cravalho (the voice of Disney's Moana!), Nestor Paiva, Amy Poehler,  Dorothy DeBorba and many more you can find listed HERE. You can write an overview of those people's lives or careers or focus on a specific film or TV show they made. We also accept the quite rare portraits of Portuguese, Brazilian or other Luso people in film, like in 1937’s “Captain Courageous”, in which Spencer Tracy plays a Portuguese sailor, for instance.

Here are a few lists of movies from Lusophone countries:

List of films from Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Portuguese_films

List of films from Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Brazilian_films

List of films from Cape Verde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cape_Verdean_films

List of films from Mozambique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mozambican_films

List of films from Angola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Angolan_films

List of films from Guinea-Bissau:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bissau-Guinean_films

List of films from São Tomé and Príncipe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe

List of films from Equatorial Guinea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Equatoguinean_films

List of films from East Timor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:East_Timorese_films

 

The list of contributions so far:

Spellbound with Beth Ann: interview with filmmaker Alyssa Botelho

Crítica Retrô: A Canção de Lisboa / Song of Lisbon (1933)

Musings of a Classic Film Addict: Carmen Miranda’s recipe for feijoada

Realweegiemidget Reviews: That Thing You Do (1996)

Taking Up Room: The Disaster Artist (2017) 

Silver Screenings: Copacabana (1947)

The Wonderful World of Cinema: Lisbon (1956)

Moon in Gemini: Xica da Silva (1997 telenovela)

Whimsically Classic: favorite Mary Astor performances

Classic Film and TV Corner: Went the Day Well? (1942)

In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood: The Great Lie (1941)

Louise Brooks Society blog: Louise Brooks & Her Films as Seen in the Portuguese-American Press, Louise Brooks & Her Films as Seen in the Brazilian Magazines & Newspapers, Louise Brooks and Brazil – when Pandora’s Box was featured in a 1930 Chaplin Club newsletter

 

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Keanu Reeves

Central do Brasil / Central Station (1998)

São Paulo S.A. (1967)

Kuxa Kanema: the Birth of Cinema (2002)

A Canção de Lisboa / Song of Lisbon (1933)

The Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992)

Sambizanga (1972)

Captain Courageous (1937)

Joe DeRita