Last year, Kino Lorber released the blu-ray boxset The Films of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. The collection features the restored versions of every film made by the great Brazilian director better-known for the classic Macunaíma (1969), as well as an essay by me. On Wednesday, one of his very best films, The Priest and the Girl (1965), will be screened at […]
Archives for January 2019
Rotterdam, Sundance, Berlinale
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Two feature films I’m involved with are having their world premieres this week. If you’re going to one of the three festivals, please consider watching them. While you’re at it, make sure to take a look at the other many Brazilian titles playing in each of them in this especially rich year. […]
Permanent contradiction: a conversation with Adirley Queirós
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética on August 2015. Interview by Fábio Andrade, Filipe Furtado, Raul Arthuso, Victor Guimarães, and Juliano Gomes. In 2014, we got together with Adirley Queirós during the Olhar de Cinema festival in Curitiba for a conversation that lasted two and a half hours. From a journalistic point of […]