VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Originally published at Cinética in May, 2013. Half-open window The Moving Creatures, Caetano Gotardo’s debut feature film, begins with Pedro (Wandré Gouveia) seated in bed, with his back turned to a half-open window – open enough to allow a poisonous breeze to come in and spread across the whole film. We’ll […]
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Veredas Deluxe
The experience at Veredas – A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers has been so rewarding that I would like to stretch it a little longer. Whether you’ve seen or not Gabriel Martins’ and Maurilio Martins’ terrific In the Heart of the World (2019), which was featured in the program at Film at Lincoln Center, Contagem (2010) […]
Veredas – A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers at Lincoln Center
A few months ago, my friends at Cinema Tropical – a non-profit dedicated to the promotion of Latin American cinema in the U.S. – reached out to me with the idea of programming a series of Brazilian films. Carlos Gutierrez and Mary Jane Marcasiano had the same impression I had: Brazilian cinema had been generating […]