CANNES PICKS 2025 — THE SECRET AGENT
CANNES PICKS 2025 — THE SECRET AGENT. Cole Smithey.
Brazilian Cinema
SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT — MEDUSA —Anita Rocha da Silveira
Articles Blog, Brazilian Cinema, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film Festivals
“Mariana, 21 years old, belongs to a world where she must do her utmost to keep up the appearance of…
FOCUS ON CANNES 2019: THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSMAO —Karim Aïnouz
America, Art House, Articles Blog, Brazilian Cinema, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, Filmmaking, Food and Drink, Independent, International Cinema, Media, News, Politics, Travel
Brazillian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz returns to Cannes; his 2002 debut film “Madame Sata” also screened in Un Certain Regard. Fortune…
BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Brazilian Cinema, Capsules Blog, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Political Satire, Video Essay
In 1964, when Brazil enjoyed a golden era of culture and musical influence (Bossa Nova), 25-year-old writer/director Glauber Rocha left…
CITY OF GOD — CLASSIC FILM PICK
“City of God” epitomizes the rich potential of cinema to tell richly textured tales, here of a vast, desperate, community…
ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN
“Elite Squad: The Enemy Within” is a vast improvement over the franchise’s first installment because it puts more emphasis on…
PIXOTE — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Brazilian Cinema, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, FIVE STARS, Foreign, Neo-Realism, Transgressive Cinema
Long before Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund made “City of God” in 2002, about Rio de Janeiro’s youth-centric atmosphere of…
CARANDIRU — CANNES 2003
Filmed on location in the actual prison before it was demolished, Hector Babenco’s “Carandiru” is a soulful movie that eschews…
CARANDIRU — CANNES 2003
When I asked director Hector Babenco what he thought of the potential influence of his latest film “Carandiru” to effect…
CITY OF GOD — CANNES 2002
To watch “City of God” is to become submersed in a hidden culture where life is cheap but the humanity…
ELITE SQUAD
Here is an agitprop movie that shows no empathy for its characters or for its audience. No. Cole Smithey.
CITY OF MEN
Intimately filmed and filled with true-to-life non-actors, “City of Men” is yet another example of the exciting neo-realistic filmmaking coming…
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