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Categoria: English
A selection of Miscelana articles in English, exploring film, television, music and cultural history for international readers.
Versões em inglês dos artigos do Miscelana, trazendo para o público internacional críticas, análises e histórias de cultura, cinema, séries e muito mais.
The Rose (1979): the Janis Joplin portrait that could not be made
When biography was still impossible, fiction revealed more than any official portrait ever could
Michael: The film avoids controversy and turns Jackson’s life into a spectacle
The film impresses in recreating the artist, but chooses to remain in the most comfortable territory of his story
Coconut: from Harry Nilsson’s absurd song to the ritual of Practical Magic
From a one-chord experiment in 1971 to the iconic midnight margaritas scene, how Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” was reshaped by film, television, and pop culture into a shared emotional ritual across generations.
Queen Elizabeth II at 100: a legacy between myth and revision
How history is repositioning Britain’s longest-reigning monarch between stability, empire, and contradiction
Michael: a grand spectacle, a carefully controlled narrative
The biopic moves as a celebration of the artist, but it avoids confronting what truly defines his story
Notorious at 80: why Hitchcock’s film remains one of the most modern in cinema
Between love, censorship, and moral ambiguity, the 1946 film reveals why it still speaks directly to the present
Top Gun at 40: how the film redefined the blockbuster, and why it still works
Tom Cruise announces the return of Top Gun and Maverick to theaters in a historic celebration
Practical Magic 2: the return of the Owens sisters and the attempt to rewrite a destiny
With Sally now a widow, her daughters grown, and the curse still active, the sequel leans into the family’s emotional inheritance while revisiting its most iconic scene to the sound of “Coconut”
Is anxiety modern? Freud answered that 100 years ago
By transforming anxiety into a signal of internal danger, Freud reorganized psychoanalysis in 1926; a century later, the theory remains valid, but must be reinterpreted in light of a subject shaped by the digital age
