Tag: Cinema Novo

Brazil Says Farewell to Barretão, Cinema Novo’s Icon

Brazilian cinema lost one of its greatest figures. Filmmaker, photographer, journalist, and producer Luiz ...

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Anna Karina de Carvalho
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil), from 1964, was directed by Gláuber Rocha and stars Othon Bastos

Brazil Bringing to the Screens a Revisionist History of the Country

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is embarking on a project of cultural and historical ...

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Danica Jorden
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Brecht’s Legacy Lives on Brazilian Stage, Movies and Beyond

The significance of Bertolt Brecht’s groundbreaking theories from the twenties and thirties on the ...

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Joe Lopes

Barren Lives, a Masterful Paradigm of Brazil’s Failure of Hope

The 1963 classic film Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, ...

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Joanne Laurier