‘Chico & Rita’ helmers Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal reteam for another animated film, this time combining documentary material and invented sequences to tell the story of a beloved Brazilian ...

A self-described melomaniac, veteran Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba (director of the Oscar winner “Belle Époque”) had long nurtured an affinity for Brazilian music, including the bossa nova style ...

"His musical touch hasn't left my ear." Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled a full US trailer for a fascinating, jazzy Spanish documentary called They Shot the Piano Player, which first premiered at ...

“They Shot the Piano Player” is one of those movies that, to hear it described, shouldn’t work — but it really does. Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba’s film is a lot of things, almost all of them ...

Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, two of the directors of the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita (2010), are teaming up to direct They Shot the Piano Player, another animated musical feature. The film ...

For their next act, Oscar-nommed toon directors Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal focus on the disappearance of Brazilian jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior in Argentina in the ’70s. The movie ...

Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba talks about how the disappearance of a talented young pianist compelled him to make this colourful, music-filled movie that features the voice of Jeff Goldblum.

They were all so incredibly young. Caetano Veloso opened Salvador’s Vila Velha Theater, a milestone event for the city, at the age of 21. Pianist Francisco Tenório Jr., the subject of Fernando Trueba ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88. His ...

This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among ...