Cinemateca Portuguesa, located on Rua Barata Salgueiro in the centre of Lisbon, is a wonderful place for cinephiles. Great posters and marvellous black and white stills from the 1940s adorn the foyer walls: Bogart in All Through the Night, Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World!, Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca, Spencer Tracy […]
Cecil B. DeMille triple bill, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon
Ghostly mist is swirling through the streets of Cacilhas this February morning. I decide to check out some local haunts before crossing the river into town for another Saturday triple bill of Cecil B. DeMille films. I start my wander on Rua Cândido dos Reis, where I drop into an anonymous bar opposite the offices of […]