[PT-BR/EN] Cinema de Rua: Uma saudade sem fim

Particularmente falando, eu tive poucas experiências com os cinemas de rua (porque já estava havendo a transição de cinemas em pontos isolados para os cinemas dentro de outras grandes construções), mas eu posso dizer que cada uma delas foi muito especial. A primeira delas foi na cidade de Recife, e apesar das poucas lembranças da época, eu lembro claramente da movimentação de pessoas (que realmente falavam sobre filmes), das propagandas devidamente bem-feitas (focando no cinema e nas programações que estava sendo exibidas no momento) e da “atmosfera” bem genuína.

Uma saudade de algo que eu sei que nunca mais irá voltar. Felizmente, alguns pequenos espaços ainda existem (ainda que simples, mas modernos), e isso faz com que os cinemas de rua sejam considerados como locais de resistência para além do tempo. Quem realmente gosta de cinema, consegue entender a importância do que eu estou falando através deste texto, porque não algo puramente físico, é sobre a alma que por muito tempo ajudou a construir uma sociedade.

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Before movie theaters became what they are today (large boxes of multimedia replications, fed by a capitalist system that aims solely at money, leaving aside the true essence of this art, which was previously so much better valued), they were spaces really extremely interesting, mainly due to the atmosphere they carried in each of them. Instead of shopping malls, street cinemas were a true “redemocratization” of access to the content offered by Seventh Art. Unfortunately (or fortunately), things change, and what do we have today?

A little about the history of cinema here in Brazil (to contextualize this post), it says that the first official street cinema was the Salão de Novidades Paris, on Ouvidor Street, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In 1897, Rio society began to experience this new era, and this location was strategically chosen because it was considered one of the streets with the greatest access to people due to its accumulation of various commercial and cultural points, which were expanding.

Particularly speaking, I had few experiences with street cinemas (because there was already a transition from cinemas in isolated spots to cinemas inside other large buildings), but I can say that each one of them was very special. The first of them was in the city of Recife, and despite having few memories of the time, I clearly remember the movement of people (who really talked about movies), the well-done advertisements (focusing on the cinema and the programs that were being shown at the moment) and the very genuine “atmosphere”.

A longing for something that I know will never return. Fortunately, some small spaces still exist (although simple, but modern), and this means that street cinemas are considered places of resistance beyond time. Anyone who really likes cinema can understand the importance of what I'm talking about through this text, because it's not something purely physical, it's about the soul that for a long time helped to build a society.