A mysterious vertical piano player surprised viewers during the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremonies. The piano player emerged from the ground amidst the fog and ascended into the air as he played a ...

‘Chico & Rita’ helmers Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal reteam for another animated film, this time combining documentary material and invented sequences to tell the story of a beloved Brazilian ...

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Attention, fans of samba, bossa nova and ambitious nonfiction/fiction hybrids, animated division: Here is your clear choice for worthwhile moviegoing this week. “They Shot the Piano Player,” opening ...

A self-described melomaniac, veteran Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba (director of the Oscar winner “Belle Époque”) had long nurtured an affinity for Brazilian music, including the bossa nova style ...

“They Shot the Piano Player” uses a fictional character to narrate its tale about the mysterious disappearance of an actual person, Brazilian samba-jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Jr. On March 18, 1976 ...

They Shot the Piano Player is an animated docudrama that explores the real-world 1976 disappearance of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior. Tenório was a gifted young pianist (34 years old at ...

The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...