Tavinho Teixeira, the director of Sol Alegria, which was screened as part of Veredas – A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers at Lincoln Center in December, has put his previous feature, the delightful Batguano (2014), for free streaming on Vimeo, with English subtitles. I’ve come to appreciate the film even more since I first saw it, in 2014, and […]
Archives for March 2020
Thomas Elsaesser tribute
Columbia University held a memorial for professor Thomas Elsaesser this past Saturday, March 7. He was a visiting professor at the university every Spring term, and was scheduled to teach another class there in 2020. Elsaesser passed away on December 4, 2019, in Beijing, where he was expected to give a lecture. Because of my […]
An interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Filmmaker Magazine invited me to do an interview with filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles to celebrate the U.S. release of Bacurau. Here’s the interview in the original Portuguese. * * * A Filmmaker Magazine me convidou para fazer uma entrevista com os cineastas Kleber Mendonça Filho e Juliano Dornelles para comemorar o lançamento de Bacurau nos […]