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...best thing about this place," says Café Berlín owner Eric Sanchez, "isn't what I program, it's what happens later." Blistering talents rise from the audience to join singer-guitarists like Cuban Kelvis Ochoa and Brazilian Leo Minax to make late nights at the Berlín into high-gloss carnavales. And every other Monday you can hear ex-New Yorker Bob Sands coax a clean, modern sound out of his 17-piece big band. Jacometrezo 4; metro Callao; www.cafeberlin.net
...Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Most Pretentious Foreign Violence: While the academy wisely gave Tarantino the night off this Sunday—Kill Bill didn’t even receive any technical nominations—its logic on the Brazilian City of God seemed to be, “If no Americans are involved in the violence, it must be good!” Even Tarantino stopped short of showing graphic violence against small children (though his film does think it funny to show a school-age girl watch as Uma Thurman kills her mother in the family kitchen). City of God has no such...
...Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
...this year, I counted no less than seven certified jaw-droppers in the big categories: Director and Screenplay nominations for City of God, an obscure Brazilian film released back in January 2003; a Screenplay nom for The Barbarian Invasions, a French-language movie from Canada; two Acting nominationss and a Screenplay nod for In America, a small film with no star wattage; and a freak Best Actress nomination for 13-year-old Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who became the youngest nominee in the category’s history...