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When the Marquee's Lights Go Out

When the Marquee's Lights Go Out (Portuguese: Quando as Luzes das Marquises se Apagam) is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film by Renato Brandão.[2] The film tells the story of the traditional movie theaters in an area called Cinelândia Paulistana[note 1], in the Downtown São Paulo.[3]

When the Marquee's Lights Go Out
Film poster
Original titleQuando as Luzes das Marquises se Apagam
Directed byRenato Brandão[1]
Written byRenato Brandão
Produced byAmanda Ferreira
Renato Brandão
CinematographyPedro Watanabe
Raoni Maddalena
Simon Vialas
Edited byBruna Carvalho Almeida
Renato Brandão
Release date
  • April 17, 2018 (2018-04-17) (It's All True)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

The film premiered at the 2018 It's All True – International Documentary Film Festival.[1][4][5]

Plot

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Based on testimonials from former regular cinema goers (including the writer Ignácio de Loyola Brandão) and extensive archival footage, the documentary presents the story of the movie theaters located between the São João and Ipiranga avenues, in downtown São Paulo.

Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area held the largest concentration of cinemas in the city, including the Art-Palácio, the Metro, the Ipiranga, the Marabá, the Comodoro Cinerama, and reached its peak heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.

The urban decay of the city center in the 1970s and the emergence of the multiple-screen theaters often located in shopping malls and the home viewing on VHS in the 1980s reduced much of the allure of Cinelandia Paulistana, which saw the closing of its several famous cinemas, while its fewer remaining theaters specializes in showing adult pornographic movies.

Release

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The film was included in the Official Selection at the 23rd It's All True – International Documentary Film Festival[6][7] and had its premiere on April 17, 2018.[8][9]

In 2020, it was screened again at the It's All True Film Festival for a special event.[10][11][12]

Also that year, it was screened online at the Arquivo Em Cartaz - International archive film festival.[13][14]

Notes

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  1. ↑ The name Cinelandia, literally "Cinema land", was inspired by a homonymous area in Rio de Janeiro.

References

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  1. 1 2 "It's All True 2018 - Catalog" (PDF). É Tudo Verdade / It's All True. March 30, 2018. p. 95. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Quando as Luzes das Marquises se Apagam" [When The Marquee's Lights Go Out] (in Portuguese). Canal Brasil Imprensa. 30 March 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
  3. ↑ Andre de Oliveira (12 April 2018). "'Adoniran' e mais quatro filmes para não perder no É Tudo Verdade" ['Adoniran' and four more films not to be missed in It's All True] (in Portuguese). El Pais Brasil. Archived from the original on May 30, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  4. ↑ "As apostas do Bonequinho para os filmes do É Tudo Verdade" [Bonequinho's bets for 'It's All True' films] (in Portuguese). O Globo. 13 April 2018. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  5. ↑ "É Tudo Verdade / It's All True - Edições Anteriores - 23ª EDIÇÃO - 2018" (in Portuguese). É Tudo Verdade / It's All True. Archived from the original on January 24, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Selected Films 2018". É Tudo Verdade / It's All True. 30 March 2018. Archived from the original on January 24, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ "'Quando as Luzes das Marquises se Apagam' conta história da Cinelândia em SP" ['When The Marquee's Lights Go Out' tells the story of Cinelândia in SP] (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. April 20, 2018. Archived from the original on July 28, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ "É Tudo Verdade chega à 23ª edição e exibe documentários de mais de 20 países" [It's All True arrives at the 23rd edition and shows documentaries from more than 20 countries] (in Portuguese). O Estado de S.Paulo. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on July 1, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  9. ↑ "A arte de ser espectador" [The art of being a spectator] (in Portuguese). Nervos. April 17, 2018. Archived from the original on January 24, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  10. ↑ "É Tudo Verdade abre Festival On-line" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). É Tudo Verdade - Site oficial. 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 4, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Confira filmes do É Tudo Verdade que estarão disponíveis online" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Guia da Folha. 2020-03-20. Archived from the original on January 4, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Com mostras online, Festival "É Tudo Verdade" traz diversos filmes de ecanos" (in Brazilian Portuguese). ECA-USP. 2020-03-26. Archived from the original on January 18, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  13. ↑ Luiz Salgado Neto (2020-10-27). "Arquivo em Cartaz 2020 – Filmes selecionados para a Mostra Competitiva" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Arquivo Nacional. Archived from the original on January 4, 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Arquivo em Cartaz 2020 – Programação de Filmes" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Arquivo Nacional. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
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