FilmObituaryNelson Pereira dos Santos obituaryFilm director who was regarded as ‘the father of Brazilian cinema’Before the late 1950s Brazilian cinema had caused hardly a ripple worldwide. Then Nelson Pereira dos Santos, who has died aged 89, joined Ruy Guerra and Glauber Rocha to form the Cinema Novo co-operative, initiating exciting developments in Brazilian cinema that inspired political film-makers all over Latin America.
At the time Pereira, the oldest of the three film directors and always considered “the father of new Brazilian cinema”, was also the most experienced.
Australia newsAlleged gunman charged with murder over daylight shooting of Alen Moradian in SydneyPolice have charged an alleged gunman arrested in Fairfield Heights with the shooting of a convicted drug kingpin at a busy Sydney shopping precinct in June
An alleged gunman has been charged with murder over the daylight shooting of convicted drug lord Alen Moradian in Sydney.
Police have charged three additional men over the shooting in a Bondi Junction car park in 2023.
How we surviveUK newsBasic police checks would have shown Sam Hallam wasn’t at the scene of the crime, but these weren’t carried out until he had spent much of his youth inside. He explains why he is still fighting for justice, years after his release
The first Sam Hallam heard of the crime that would cost him seven years of his life was when two girls approached him in the street.
Rap This article is more than 10 years oldBrazilian rapper MC Daleste fatally shot on stageThis article is more than 10 years oldFunk MC shot in the abdomen as he performed free public gig in São Paulo city of CampinasA 20-year-old Brazilian rapper was fatally shot on 6 July, while performing at a free concert in São Paulo state. MC Daleste was midway through the show when he was shot in the abdomen and collapsed on stage.
Fascist march stopped after disorderly scenesThe Fascists marched in London yesterday - but away from the East End, not through it. Their proposed procession through the heart of the Jewish quarter - which had caused strong protests to be made to the Home Secretary and had created a tense situation in the East End - was stopped by the police when it was on the point of setting out and it went, instead, along the Embankment.
Palestinian territories This article is more than 1 month oldHow American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian landsThis article is more than 1 month oldThe Biden administration instituted a travel ban on extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians but there is a glaring loophole for US citizens Washington’s ban on travel to the US by extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians in the West Bank has one gaping loophole.
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Caryl ChurchillReviewRoyal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill's new play has 57 scenes, runs 110 minutes and employs 16 actors to play more than 100 characters. Too much information?
But one of the many points made by this exhilarating theatrical kaleidoscope is that we live in a world where information bombardment is in danger of leading to atrophy of memory, erosion of privacy and decay of feeling.
What is extraordinary about Churchill is her capacity as a dramatist to go on reinventing the wheel.
The ObserverNetherlands This article is more than 7 months oldNo sex on the beach, please: Dutch town tells nude sunbathers to put a lid on lustThis article is more than 7 months oldThe local authority in Veere has put up warning signs after a wave of complaints about frisky visitors to the nature reserve
A town in the south of the Netherlands has started a campaign to dissuade nudist beach visitors from sex on the beach and in the dunes.
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