Got off to a dodgy start a couple of days ago with my tiny, three-student advanced English class. To my opening gambit of “What did you do today before you came to this lesson?”, the answers were: “I was sick all day and I didn’t get out of bed till half an hour ago.” “I […]
‘The Window’, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon
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 […]
‘Terminator 2’, Cinema Academia Almadense, Lisbon
Cinema Terminal is sold out for ‘Barton Fink’. So I take a quick look at SE7E’s film listings and see that in a quarter of an hour Fink is showing at São Jorge, ten minutes walk away up Avenida da Liberdade. There I scurry, only to find a queue so long that I would have […]