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The Theater of the Matters presents…
A RISKY LIFE: LETTERS FROM JEAN-CLAUDE ROUSSEAU

A 7-film retrospective of the romantically materialist films of JCR, incl. all of his Super-8mm work on 16mm prints. June 26-30 at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social.
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April 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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On the new episode of Emulsion, Nick Newman talks to Cinema Guild's @edwardmc.bsky.social about Shinji Somai, the new restoration of Love Hotel, and particulars of distribution. thefilmstage.com/emulsion-epi...
April 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Thank you for looking at Portuguese cinema yet again @screenslate.bsky.social & @nicopsetzer.bsky.social 💫 (apologies for saying Queer Lisboa was the oldest film fest in Portugal—they're not, but they've been around since the 20th century FWIW...)
Feedback Loop: The Portuguese Revival
Up until last year, my understanding of Portuguese cinema was rather limited. I’d encountered the work of contemporary directors such as João Pedro Rodrigues and Catarina Vasconcelos over the years, a...
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March 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The Theater of the Matters presents…

In the Midst of the End of the World—a reading

Join us at Unnameable Books to celebrate the new publication on Reis/Cordeiro. There will be reading and talking, and we will screen a film by Marguerite Duras. April 6!
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March 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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@cinemaguild.com takes N. American rights to restorations of Luc Moullet’s films and is planning a touring retrospective.

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Cinema Guild Acquires Restored Films Of French New Wave Master Luc Moullet
Cinema Guild will mount a touring theatrical retrospective of Moullet’s work starting at Film at Lincoln Center in New York in August.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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“The directorial debut of António Reis was something of a bolt from the blue ... Jaime was nonetheless an arresting spectacle, due to its own beauty as a work as well as the striking impression that it conveyed.” – José Manuel Costa
Jaime, José Manuel Costa, 1985
The directorial debut of António Reis was something of a bolt from the blue. While it was certainly not the first instance of a great first work in Portuguese cinema – a cinema whose most interesting ...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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YOU BURN ME: The Exhibition.

Now on view in the lobby of @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, displaying Matías Piñeiro’s editing scroll and other production materials from his new film. Opens tonight w/ a conversation moderated by Mariano Llinás!
March 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A look at the pristine check print we’ll be screening tomorrow. See you at BAM! We’ve been moved to the biggest theater, so bring your friends, families, loved ones, comrades.
March 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Marta Mateus' first feature FIRE OF WIND is a film of rare strength and beauty. An investigation of a land, a people, and their struggles expressed through the most essential cinematographic matter: bodies, faces, words, noises, light, shadow. See it in the cinema in 2025.
‘Fire Of Wind:’ Locarno & NYFF Title From Marta Mateus Lands North American Distribution Via Cinema Guild
'Fire Of Wind' debuted at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival
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February 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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In collaboration with
Punto de Vista, International Film Festival of Navarra, we are pleased to present two Frans van de Staak texts from 1966: ‘An Interview with Jean-Marie Straub’ + an essay ‘On NICHT VERSÖHNT and MACHORKA-MUFF.’

Links below.
February 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Thanks to David and Criterion Daily for highlighting our Reis/Cordeiro program, opening tomorrow in NYC and Chicago.
February 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Something very special this weekend at Metrograph thanks to @theaterofmatters.bsky.social: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro.
February 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Read Jonathan’s great article.
February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Humbling to write about the great António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro for @screenslate.bsky.social , in support of the retrospective by @theaterofmatters.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/ant...
António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
One of my biggest objections to many of the films that pass through the festival circuit today is the phony cosmopolitanism of many productions: films made from nowhere, but seemingly addressed to eve...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I spoke with Pedro Costa about António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro. Hope to see you in the cinema this weekend.
February 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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We are honored to publish two poems by António Reis from his legendary book 'Poemas Quotidianos' (1957-60), newly translated by Miguel Cardoso.
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February 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The story of João César Monteiro’s Marquis de Sade film, according to Pedro Costa:
February 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Come see Matías’ great film, the astonishing preface he’s just completed for it, and the selection of films accompanying it.

For instance, Jean-Daniel Pollet’s MÉDITERRANÉE, which inspired Rivette to make OUT 1:
February 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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João César Monteiro (Santos)’s favorite films from 1968.

O CHARLATÃO = THE BIG MOUTH by Jerry Lewis
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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READ:

1) The Big Mouth Strikes Again: A Dialogue by Chris Fujiwara & A.S. Hamrah
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2) “The Big Mouth” from Le Monde de Jerry Lewis by Noël Simsolo, translated by Nicholas Elliott
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January 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The Theater of the Matters presents…
Jerry Lewis’ THE BIG MOUTH

“If Jerry Lewis had been working in 1917, he would have made genuine Marxist movies.” - Jean-Luc Godard

March 4 at BAM.
Rare 35mm.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Big Mouth (Jerry Lewis, 1967) will be playing in 35mm at BAM on Mar 4, so the programmers asked Chris Fujiwara and me to discuss it, which you can read here: theaterofthematters.com/texts/the-bi...
The Big Mouth Strikes Again — The Theater of the Matters
A Dialogue on Mid-Period Jerry Lewis by Chris Fujiwara & A.S. Hamrah
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January 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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JAIME, THE UNEXPECTED IN PORTUGUESE CINEMA:

António Reis interviewed by João César Monteiro (1974)

This astonishing conversation appears here for the first time in English, incl. JCM’s introductory text.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM