In this essay at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, writer and professor Samuel Autman reflects on tourism and privilege, especially in a time of xenophobia; traveling as a Black queer American; and the idea of not fully belonging wherever he goes. The sections in Autman’s piece are organized as terms and conditions in a legal agreement, reminding us that when we cross borders, we navigate different cultural and social scenarios, written and unwritten rules, and people who view us as foreign—no matter how at home we might feel.

I found myself asking harder questions about the young men around him, about the relationships, the patronage and the blurred line between generosity and dependency. Mark had paid for many of them to study law, medicine or business. He had even helped one man living in the United States without legal status by paying for him to attend a Spanish-language school.

None of it suggested scandal or anything obviously illegal. But parts of it no longer sat comfortably with me.

I found it easy to resist the early dispatches from “UFC Freedom 250,” the Ultimate Fighting Championship event held in June on the White House South Lawn. But Jon Ronson is the sort of writer I can’t help following into battle. Fresh off a new book about masculinity, Ronson brings a delightfully skewed perspective to the fights and the days that surrounded them. The result is a portrait of a planned media spectacle that can’t quite make sense of itself. The best battle here may be Ronson’s tussle with his own photographer, 79-year-old Bruce Gilden, who is a bit of a hugger.

“I’m pretty certain you hugged Stephen Miller first,” I say. “I don’t see Stephen Miller as initiating a hug.”

“You may be right,” he says. “I don’t remember. Look, I do things maybe other people aren’t comfortable doing, but I felt comfortable and I trust my instincts.”

He acknowledges that “nobody is immune to misreading a situation” and that because of him we were all forced back indoors, but he blames Miller’s entourage for not checking with their boss on whether he minded being hugged.

Un equipo de arqueólogos submarinos y geólogos de la Universidad Sapienza de Roma y del Centro de Estudios Marítimos ha localizado frente a la localidad de Santa Marinella, al norte de Roma, los restos de un antiguo muelle y dársena que, según los investigadores, constituyen la evidencia más temprana conocida de un punto de atraque […]

¿Fueron los emperadores romanos simples improvisadores que esperaban a ver qué pasaba tras su muerte? ¿O planificaron con cuidado el futuro de sus dinastías, pensando no solo en su sucesor inmediato sino en varias generaciones venideras? Un nuevo estudio publicado en el Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies responde: la mayoría de los emperadores […]

Cuando pensamos en la sociedad romana, la imagen que suele venir a la mente es la de un mundo dominado por hombres: senadores, magistrados, generales y emperadores. Las mujeres, según el relato tradicional, ocupaban un espacio secundario, confinadas al ámbito doméstico y excluidas de la vida pública. Sin embargo, un estudio reciente basado en el […]

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Stand By Me, Alec Joyner takes up Rob Reiner’s classic film and considers it from a few dozen angles. It’s a canny piece of critical writing on time, memory, masculinity, and tenderness, forces that often work against each other. (Joyner doesn’t raise the subject of Reiner’s violent death last year, though he pauses briefly on Chris, a character “freakishly knifed to death . . . trying to break up a fight.”) Stand By Me‘s two days of summer are a “vital pause” in the life of its characters, a “portal . . . into the expanse of time.” Here, Joyner illuminates that pause, and captures some of its elusive grace.

Stand by Me was slapped with an R rating, for the boys’ profanity, as well as the prominence of child abuse and death. This may have hampered ticket sales, but it also made it the first R-rated movie that many ’80s and ’90s kids saw. It made it a fitting rite of passage.

Still, there’s something lamentable in the verdict, the MPAA telling a faulty story much like the fictional adults of Castle Rock. How many blockbusters have promoted horrendous violence, only to make the PG-13 grade because they feel safely unreal? Stand by Me was received as dangerous because its horrors and its dirt live at home.

No próximo dia 10 de agosto, segunda-feira, a partir das 20h00, o icónico Convento do Espírito Santo, em Loulé, transforma-se numa sala de cinema ao ar livre para acolher a sessão de estreia do Tribeca Open Air, powered by Toyota.

Loulé e Sintra são as duas localidades por onde irá passar a estreia desta iniciativa do Tribeca Festival Lisboa, que irá transformar espaços emblemáticos em pontos de encontro para celebrar o cinema, a cultura e a partilha de histórias. 

Nesta espécie de warm-up para o Festival, que este ano acontece em dezembro, a exibição de um filme é antecedida por uma conversa ao vivo com personalidades do jornalismo, das artes e da criação, seguida de momentos musicais assegurados pela RFM. 

A primeira sessão, em Loulé, terá como tema “Como se conta uma história? Do jornalismo à ficção” e será moderada por Rúben Tiago Pereira, jornalista do Expresso, contando com a participação do também jornalista (SIC) André Pacheco, e das atrizes Isabela Valadeiro, Sónia Balacó e Margarida Vila-Nova.

O ponto alto da noite acontece às 22h00 com a projeção em ecrã gigante do filme “Eleanor the Great”, que marca a estreia de Scarlett Johansson na realização cinematográfica. Esta comédia dramática, apresentada em exclusivo na edição de 2025 do Tribeca Festival Lisboa, acompanha a jornada de superação e recomeço de Eleanor Morgenstein, uma carismática mulher de 94 anos que decide mudar-se para Nova Iorque após a perda da sua melhor amiga.

O evento, que cruza a sétima arte com conversas inspiradoras e momentos musicais, tem entrada gratuita mediante levantamento de bilhetes em tribecalisboa.pt.

Esta iniciativa resulta de uma parceria entre o Tribeca Festival Lisboa, a Toyota Portugal e o Município de Loulé. 

Programa

10 de agosto | Convento do Espírito Santo, Loulé 

20h00: Abertura de portas, food & drinks e DJ Set by RFM

21h00: Como se conta uma história? Do jornalismo à ficção, com moderação de Rúben Tiago Pereira (Expresso) e participação de André Pacheco (SIC), Isabela Valadeiro e Sónia Balacó

22h00: Projeção do filme Eleanor the Great