@theaterofmatters.bsky.social
A film troupe. “Come as you are, don't expect any transfiguration from the cinema, there will be no aura." - Serge Daney theaterofthematters.com
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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03.04.2025 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Fiction means putting oneself in the middle of the world to tell a story. Documentary means going to the end of the world not to have to tell. ... Ana-end of the world? Ana-midst of the world?” – Serge Daney
02.04.2025 10:44 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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...)
31.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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“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
26.03.2025 12:46 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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.
04.03.2025 00:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“Straub didn't force his actors to portray or play a certain character: he created a situation that, in front of the camera, became real, and he allowed the people in front of the camera to discover themselves (with the help of the texts).”
FvdS on Straub:
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“A… filmmaker who was learning with John Ford once placed, as to heighten the ‘art’ of the film, a bottle in front of the lens. He asked Ford if he was okay with that, and Ford was, except for one detail: he took the bottle away.”
Straub to Van de Staak:
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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.
Thanks to David and Criterion Daily for highlighting our Reis/Cordeiro program, opening tomorrow in NYC and Chicago.
21.02.2025 20:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Something very special this weekend at Metrograph thanks to @theaterofmatters.bsky.social: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro.
20.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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...
20.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Our interview with Pedro Costa on his teacher António Reis, a man who “lived every second of his life in love,” and on the films he made with his partner Margarida Cordeiro.
Read it now in Metrograph Journal and join us in the cinema this weekend.
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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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António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro @ Unnameable Books, Brooklyn.
09.02.2025 22:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0João César Monteiro (Santos)’s favorite films from 1968.
O CHARLATÃO = THE BIG MOUTH by Jerry Lewis
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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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...
28.01.2025 15:17 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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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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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The Theater of the Matters presents…
PEASANTS OF THE CINEMA:
ANTÓNIO REIS & MARGARIDA CORDEIRO
A full retrospective of the legendary Portuguese duo, who made films of deep commitment rooted in reality and poetry, the earth and the cosmos. Opens Feb 21 at Metrograph and Doc Films.
A taste of coming attractions.
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No finis to the film unless
The ending is your own.
Turn off the lights, remind
The operator of his union card:
Sit forward, let the screen reveal
Your heritage, the logic of your destiny.
- Weldon Kees, ‘Subtitle’ (1936)
