The invention of the Cinématographe was ready right away. The process of the invention was longer, and there were a lot of inventors before Lumière.
an Act of Killing-style re-enactment of the 1919 conquest of the Adriatic city of what is now Rijeka by a rag-tag army assembled by the proto-fascist dandy-poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. It was precisely the kind of quirky cinematic gem that the European film awards should be there to champion: a film ignored by the main festivals, about an overlooked but relevant episode in history.
If you are the type of Oscars obsessive who sets an early alarm on nominations morning (guilty!), you may have noticed something curious last month: before the announcement began on the Academy's Instagram Live, the comments were already filling up with Brazilian-flag emojis. And for good reason. "The Secret Agent," the acclaimed film by the director Kleber Mendonça Filho, walked away with four nominations—not just Best International Feature, for which it was Brazil's official submission, but also Best Picture, Best Actor (Wagner Moura), and a brand-new category, Best Casting.