The father of Ana Clara Benevides Machado, the Taylor Swift fan who tragically died at the singer’s concert in Brazil, is speaking out.
02.11.2023 - 15:39 / deadline.com
The recent passing of Terence Davies and the tributes that followed — tales of a steel will, impassioned budgetary battles and a host of dream projects that never materialized — give this highly personal tribute to Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas an extra and very poignant relevance as a similar story, now depressingly familiar to the British film industry, of an uncompromising talent who left us with a tantalizing promise of what might have been. Now largely unknown to the wider world, but very dear to the heart of Scotland (despite the fact that he left his homeland at the earliest opportunity), Douglas is the closest thing to a Rosetta Stone in recent British independent and social-realist cinema. From his early home movies through to his last three-hour masterwork Comrades (1986), the director left an indelible imprint that still seems shockingly modern today, leaving traces in everything from Derek Jarman’s early Super-8 works to Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher and beyond.
Jack Archer’s film begins a little scrappily, introducing Peter Jewell as Douglas’s longtime best friend since childhood. This friendship will prove to be both intense and enigmatic (Jewell insists it was platonic), since the film doesn’t really dive into Douglas’s ensuing reputation as a pioneer of gay cinema. It does, however, paint a beguiling portrait of a difficult man born into difficult circumstances: Douglas’s rough childhood was the bedrock of his landmark trilogy — My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973) and My Way Home (1978) — but Archer refers us to its depiction in those films rather than rake over the coals of that traumatic time (perhaps because eye-witnesses are now rather thin on the ground, and the slums of the Edinburgh environs
The father of Ana Clara Benevides Machado, the Taylor Swift fan who tragically died at the singer’s concert in Brazil, is speaking out.
Taylor Swift concert in Brazil this week (November 18) has paid tribute to his daughter.Swift released a statement yesterday saying she was “devastated” after hearing a fan had died before her concert show in Brazil.Ana Clara Benevides, 23, reportedly fainted at the show and suffered a cardiac arrest. The cause of death is yet unknown.Temperatures in Brazil reached over 100 degrees (38 Celsius) and videos later circulated online of Swift pausing her show to make sure fans received water.Benevides father, Weiny Machado, 53, has spoken to Folha de São Paulo newspaper praising his “happy and intelligent” daughter.He said: “I lost my only daughter, a happy and intelligent girl.
Valerie Wu Intern Taylor Swift posted a letter on Instagram Stories honoring a fan who died at the singer-songwriter’s Eras Tour concert Friday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “I can’t believe I’m writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show. I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this.
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