Archives for October 2020
Luz nos Trópicos, A Morte Branca do Feiticeiro Negro, Pajeú, and Todos os Mortos
I will be hosting a conversation with the directors of four recent Brazilian films tomorrow: Paula Gaitán, of Luz nos Trópicos (Berlinale); Rodrigo Ribeiro, of The White Death of the Black Wizard (DocLisboa); Pedro Diógenes, of Pajeú (FIDMarseille); and Caetano Gotardo, of All the Dead Ones (Berlinale), co-directed with Marco Dutra. The conversation will be in Portuguese, […]
Pajeú (2020), Pedro Diógenes
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * The film is featured at Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil. The dammed In a landmark essay originally published in 1976, Canadian critic Robin Wood suggested that horror cinema was the arena where American society exercised what Freud called “the return of the repressed.” For […]
Los Conductos (2020), Camilo Restrepo
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * The film is featured at Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil. Closed circuit Right around the thirty-minute mark of the feature film debut of France-based Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo, Los Conductos, there is a scene at a department store where the film’s protagonist, Pinky (Luis […]