Portuguese Times

02/12/2025

Capa da edição 2841, 03 de dezembro de 2025

28/11/2025

Portugal campeão do mundo de futebol de sub-17 pela primeira vez

Portugal conquistou o título mundial de futebol de sub-17,
pela primeira vez, ao vencer a Áustria, por 1-0, em Doha, na final do Campeonato do Mundo.
Um golo de Anísio Cabral, ainda na primeira parte, aos 32 minutos, decidiu o encontro a favor da equipa das "quinas".

27/11/2025

A Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) vai homenagear o senador estadual luso-americano Michael Rodrigues com o prémio “MAPS Pessoa do Ano 2026” na gala de angariação de fundos que decorrerá dia 25 de abril de 2026 no Hyatt Regency Hotel, em Cambridge, MA. A brasileira-americ...

25/11/2025

Capa da edição 2840, 26 de novembro de 2025

21/11/2025

20/11/2025

Na edição de 19 de novembro!

Foi criado numa comunidade em Cape Cod, MA, fundada e construída por trabalhadores rurais e da construção civil migrantes açorianos e cabo-verdianos. Nos EUA viveu em Providence, Boston, Fall River, New York, Connecticut e Flórida. Começou a viver em Portugal, com algumas interrupções, em me...

18/11/2025

Capa da edição 2839, 19 de novembro de 2025

15/11/2025

CALEMA e DAMA, as grandes atrações dos IPMA 2026 no Providence Performing Arts Center a 25 de Abril! Mais pormenores na edição de 19 de Novembro!

13/11/2025

Excellent article from our Editor Assistant, Matthew Arruda!

JOÃO CÉSAR MONTEIRO
Filmmaker and Spiritual Anarchist

From October 16th through November 6th, the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York fea-tured a retrospective of the Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro (1939-2003).
The legendary Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015) aside, most view Monteiro as one of the most in-fluential Portuguese directors. While Oliveira is associated with neorealism and literary tradi-tions, Monteiro favored surrealism, anarchy, and “perverted mysteries”. Excluding political un-dertones, Monteiro was a master at getting under people’s skin. He famously enraged audiences and critics with the release in 2000 of his film Branca de Neve (Snow White), a movie presenting mainly a black screen and allegedly costing the Portuguese government hundreds of thousands of euros in production. In this MoMA’s retrospective, I am fortunate to watch Recordações da Casa Amarela (Recollections of the Yellow House), perhaps Monteiro’s most acclaimed film released in 1989.
Recollections of the Yellow House features a middle-aged drifter named João de Deus (named after the Portuguese patron saint of the poor and mentally ill). João lives in a rundown boarding house, wanders aimlessly the rundown historic neighborhoods, stubbornly ignores and refuses to treat an undiagnosed illness, and visits his aging, still-working mother only when he needs money. When João is not busy scraping money for rent, his “roving-eye” lusts after any woman who may innocently pay him attention. Even the landlady’s daughter is not safe from his overtures. After he foolishly makes a pass at her daughter, the landlady kicks him out of her house, throwing him to a life on the streets. Immediately thereafter, he suffers a mental breakdown, and starts a period of hallucination, imagining himself a high-ranking cavalry officer in the Portuguese Army. I won’t spoil the rest of the movie, but João embarks upon a compelling and tragic descent into madness.
This was my first introduction to Monteiro’s work, and to call it a unique experience is an under-statement. Recollections of the Yellow House is an unpredictable movie, keeping the audience guessing at every turn. While some parts were a bit confusing for a first-time watch, it is certainly not a boring film. With an anti-fascist and anti-clerical upbringing, Monteiro was an artist who was no stranger to controversies. He believed fascism persisted and flourished within the existing power structures resulting in an enhanced status quo. Monteiro’s films often used fetishes and violence as symbols of fascism’s legacy in post-revolution Portugal. To be shocking takes no tal-ent, but to be shocking with-a-purpose, takes true artistry. Monteiro was such an artist.

12/11/2025

Na edição de 12 de novembro!

Roberto Silva, mayor de East Providence, e Graça Melo, presidente da Câmara Municipal de Vila Franca do Campo, com Anna Sousa e Carlos Pimentel. pT/A.Pessoa

12/11/2025

Na edição de 12 de novembro!

Nascido e residente na vila de Castelo de Paiva, no distrito de Aveiro, e filho de uma madeirense, o neurocientista luso-brasileiro Fabiano de Abreu entrou para a história da ciência após conquistar um recorde no RankBrasil com o Genetic Intelligence Project, o primeiro relatório genético mundi...

11/11/2025

Capa da edição 2838, 12 de novembro de 2025