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Low-Flying Aircraft (film)
''Low-Flying Aircraft'' (original title ''Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude'', literally "Flying machines at low altitude") is a 2002 Portuguese film from Swedish director Solveig Nordlund. Its main actors are Miguel Guilherme and Margarida Marinho Margarida is a Portuguese female given name, which is a variant of the name Margaret, and which also means " daisy flower" in Portuguese.''Behind the Name''"Given Name Margarida". Retrieved on 28 January 2016. The given name may refer to: * Marga .... The film was based on the 1975 short story " Low Flying Aircraft" by J. G. Ballard. Margarida Marinho's performance was nominated in 2003 for the Golden Globe, Portugal for Best Actress in a Motion Picture. References and external links *"Like Alice in Wonderland": Solveig Nordlund on J.G. BallarRick McGrath interviews Solveig Nordlund about her feature film, Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002). * Portuguese science fiction films Aviation films Films based on short fiction F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solveig Nordlund
Solveig Nordlund (born June 9, 1943) is a Swedish-Portuguese filmmaker. Biography Nordlund grew up in Stockholm and has a BA degree in Art History from the University of Stockholm. In 1962, she met Alberto Seixas Santos, whom she married, and her interest in cinema grew. In 1970, this interest transformed into a profession when she became an assistant on several films: ''Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço'' by João César Monteiro (1969–1970), ''O Recado'' by José Fonseca e Costa (1970–1971), ''Pedro Só'' by Alfredo Tropa (1970–1971), and ''Fragmentos de Um Filme-Esmola'' by João César Monteiro (1972). With '' Brandos Costumes'', by Alberto Seixas Santos (1973–1974), her name began to enter the credits as editor. She worked on editing the films of many directors, such as Manoel de Oliveira, João Botelho, Alberto Seixas Santos, and Thomas Harlan, as well as political documentaries. In 1973-1974 she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Zachrisson
Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller * Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group ** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group * Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Jo-Han Jo-Han was a manufacturer of plastic scale promotional model cars and kits originally based in Detroit. The company was founded in 1947 by tool and die maker John Hanley a year before West Gallogly's competing company AMT was formed and about th ..., a manufacturer of plastic scale model kits See also * John (name) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aviation Films
Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air balloons and airships. Aviation began in the 18th century with the development of the hot air balloon, an apparatus capable of atmospheric displacement through buoyancy. Some of the most significant advancements in aviation technology came with the controlled gliding flying of Otto Lilienthal in 1896; then a large step in significance came with the construction of the first powered airplane by the Wright brothers in the early 1900s. Since that time, aviation has been technologically revolutionized by the introduction of the jet which permitted a major form of transport throughout the world. Etymology The word ''aviation'' was coined by the French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863. He derived the term fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Science Fiction Films
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low-Flying Aircraft And Other Stories
''Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer J. G. Ballard published in 1976. Contents *"The Ultimate City" - A postmodernist retelling of ''The Tempest'', Following the exhaustion of the world's supply of fossil fuels, a dwindling population abandons cities and sets up 'the first scientifically advanced agrarian society' based on solar wind and tidal power. The novella tells of Halloway who frustrated by the inertia he sees around him, builds a glider and flies back to the seemingly empty city and determines to re-create its lost vitality as described to him by his grandfather. * "Low-Flying Aircraft" (first appeared in ''Bananas (literary magazine), Bananas'', Summer 1975) - Set in Empuriabrava in Spain in a world in which the population has fallen dramatically as more and more babies are born deformed. Forrester and his wife Judith await news of her latest pregnancy whilst watching a doctor making trips in a ligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acácio De Almeida
Acácio de Almeida (born 29 June 1938) is a Portuguese cinematographer best known for his work with João César Monteiro, Raúl Ruiz, Alain Tanner, Valeria Sarmiento and Rita Azevedo Gomes. Filmography * '' Past and Present'' (1972) * '' Brandos Costumes'' (1974) * '' Trás-os-Montes'' (1976) * '' Veredas'' (1978) * ''Silvestre'' (1981) * ''A Ilha dos Amores'' (1982) * '' Ana'' (1982) * '' City of Pirates'' (1983) * ''In the White City'' (1983) * '' Manoel's Destinies'' (1984) * ''Régime sans pain'' (1985) * ''Treasure Island'' (1985) * '' Mammame'' (1986) * '' A Portuguese Goodbye'' (1986) * ''A Flame in My Heart'' (1987) * '' The Mask'' (1988) * ''O Sangue'' (1989) * '' Etoile'' (1989) * ''Un Asunto Privado'' (1996) * ''The Mutants'' (1998) * ''Love Torn in a Dream'' (2000) * ''Rasganço'' (2001) * ''Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude'' (2002) * '' That Day'' (2003) * ''Second Life'' (2009) * ''Paixão Paixão may refer to: * ''Paixão'' (TV series), a 2017–2018 Portugue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Tucker
Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008 * Colin (river), a river in France * Colin (security robot), in ''Mostly Harmless'' of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series by Douglas Adams * Tropical Storm Colin (other) See also *Collin (other) *Kolin (other) Kolin may refer to: *Kolín, a town in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic **Kolín District * Starý Kolín, a municipality and village near Kolín, Czech Republic * Kolin, Louisiana, unincorporated place * Kolin, Montana * Kolin, West Pom ... * Colyn {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rui Morrison
Rui or RUI may refer to: Names * Rui (surname) (芮), a Chinese surname * Rui (given name), a given name Places * Rui (state) (芮), a Chinese state during the Zhou Dynasty * Rui (village), a census town in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, India. * Royal University of Ireland In fiction * Ruy Blas, a tragic drama by Victor Hugo * Hanazawa Rui, a character in the Japanese manga series ''Boys Over Flowers'' * Rui, a character played by actor Luiz Fernando Guimarães in the popular Brazilian sitcom '' Os Normais'' and its spin-off films * Rui (累), a character in the Japanese anime/manga series ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'' * Ninomiya Rui, a character in the Japanese anime '' Gatchaman Crowds'' Species * Rui fish, a more common name for Labeo rohita See also * Ruy (other) Ruy may refer to: Arts and Entertainment *Ruy, the Little Cid, Spanish animated television series *Ruy Blas, a character in the eponymous tragic drama by Victor Hugo People *anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarida Marinho
Margarida is a Portuguese female given name, which is a variant of the name Margaret, and which also means " daisy flower" in Portuguese.''Behind the Name''"Given Name Margarida". Retrieved on 28 January 2016. The given name may refer to: * Margarida Cabral de Melo (1570–1631), Portuguese noblewoman *Margarida Cordeiro (born 1939), Portuguese film director *Margarida Teresa da Silva e Orta (1711–1793), Brazilian author *Margarida de Abreu (1915–2006), Portuguese choreographer *Margarida Marante (1959–2012), Portuguese journalist *Margarida Moura (born 1993), Portuguese tennis player *Margarida Penha-Lopes (born 1964), Portuguese Historical Sciences professor *Margarida Vila-Nova (born 1983), Portuguese actress *Margarida Xirgu (1888–1969), Spanish actress *Margarida Zelle (1876–1917), Dutch dancer and spy known as Mata Hari *Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos (19 March 1954 - 21 January 1995) also known by his nickname, Margarida (mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
