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ONLY BE LISBOETA
Only-Be Lisboeta
Mysteries of Lisbon
One of the most exciting things to be happening at the moment in European cinema just might be Mysteries of Lisbon, the latest film from France-based Chilean director Raúl Ruiz, who carries the weight of being for many, the most important, influencial Chilean director of all time. The novelist, screenwriter, cinema director, and chess player, (amonst other things) Fernando Arrabal (Founder of the Panic Group, along with Alejandro Jodorowsky, and French painter and actor Roland Topor) once declared that the cinema of Ruiz could be labelled as “cinema for the blind.” He was taught to watch films as a blind person. They would go to the cinema each week during the period he spent living in Italy. It was this blind person who taught him that The Apartment by Billy Wilder was a better film than The Process by Orson Welles, because the former had demonstrated a better sense of architectural and spacial oppression, using the same technique of showing the ceilings in shot. The knowledge, sensitivity, and intuition of this blind person totally convinced Arrabal that the only cinema which was worth making, was that for blind people – and with that intention, he has made his extraordianary – all be it few – films. The name of this blind person who had been such a mentor for the filmmaker, was in fact, ??Jorge Luis Borges – in case you wondering. Perhaps it couldn´t be said for certain that the surreal style cinema of Raúl Ruiz is a kind of cinema for blind people – but at one point, the critics at the prestigious cinema magazine Cahiers du Cinéma have referred to it as one-eyed cinema,...Museum of Design and Fashion
The Museum of Design and Art is one of the most important in the world related to the latest tendencies in what fashion concerns.
São Carlos Theatre
São Carlos Theatre is the Opera of the city of Lisbon and it´s known around for the world for that same reason. You have to visit it if you´re in the
Museo de los Coches
The Museo de los Coches is one of the most important in the world and it possesses the vehicles of the most important families that existed in Europe.
Museo de Arte Antiguo
The Museo de Arte Antiguo presents European works from the 14th until the 20th century of all the great artists. Thousands of tourists walk through its beautiful galleries
Docas
Docas is an area of Lisbon that presents the best bars in the city, where you´ll be able to enjoy the best cocktails with your friends up until the early hours of
Luvaria Ulises
Luvaria Ulisses are small but elitist galleries in Lisbon and you have to visit them because they are an icon of the city.
Museo de Arte Decorativo
The Museo de Arte Decorativo, situated in the Palacio Azurara, presents a vision of how the aristrocrats lived in the 18th and 19th century.
Barrio Alto
Barrio Alto is a place in Lisbon that has all the most important bars, restaurants and clubs and millions of tourists visit it every year.
Archeology Museum
The Archeology Museum possesses relics collected through the centuries and there are artefacts that belong to the most important civilizations.
