Two films I had the fortune of working on will be part of this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Eryk Rocha’s Burning Night (Breve Miragem de Sol) will have its world premiere at the festival. I had a terrific time working with the director on the screenplay of the film, setting up a dramatic foundation […]
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Nocturama (2016), Bertrand Bonello
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS In flames On Thursday I rewatched, for the third time, one of the most striking films of the past few years: Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama, which Film at Lincoln Center included in their 50th Mixtape: Free Double Feature program, alongside Lee Chang-dong’s Burning (2018). The contrast between the two was revelatory. Lee Chang-dong’s […]
Come Drink With Me (Da zui xia, 1966), King Hu
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Full stop Come Drink With Me is the perfect example of the modernity of King Hu’s cinema. A landmark wuxia that inaugurated a tradition of female protagonists in the genre, the film plots an intricate rhythmic pattern in which the tightly choreographed outbursts of action are interrupted by long pauses of near-stasis, […]
Carlos Adriano’s “cinepoemas”
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Since 2014, the filmmaker Carlos Adriano has released a singular series titled Apontamentos para uma Autocinebiografia (em Regresso) – Sketch Notes for a Self Biopic (in Regress). Originally released as standalone films at both local and international film festivals, the entire series is now presented alongside Festejo Muito Pessoal (A Very Personal […]
A tribute to Luiz Rosemberg Filho
My friends at Cinema Tropical asked me to write a short tribute to the great Luiz Rosemberg Filho, who passed away 10 days ago. Here’s a Portuguese translation of the piece. Uma vida inconformada: Luiz Rosemberg Filho (1943-2019) A trajetória do cineasta Luiz Rosemberg Filho é marcada pelo ritmo de um passo que atravessa o compasso. […]
“Ava Yvy Vera” at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities website
I’m thrilled to join Dana Khromov, Valeria Meiller, Sebastián Figueroa, and Ashley Brock in a series of articles called “Reframing Humans, Animals and Land in Contemporary Brazilian and Argentinan Cinema,” published at the website of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. My piece explores the use of landscape in the 2017 film Ava Yvy Vera […]
An evening with André Novais Oliveira at NYU
On Friday, the cycle on Latin American cinema at NYU will wrap with a screening of three short films by André Novais Oliveira, one of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers to start working in the past decade. His first short film, Fantasmas (Ghosts, 2009) is one of my very favorite films, and I’m happy more people will get […]
Long Way Home (Temporada, 2018), André Novais
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Microdrama There are many striking, remarkable moments in André Novais’ second feature, the beautiful Temporada (Long Way Home, 2018), which had its US premiere last night, at New Directors/New Films. In the film, such beauty may come from a variety of different places: the intricate musicality of Novais’ dialogues; the extreme attention […]
Two days with Paula Gaitán in NYC
We are thrilled to be holding Attraction-Reaction: Sound and Image in Paula Gaitán’s Cinema, a masterclass by the great Colombian-Brazilian filmmaker Paula Gaitán at NYU tomorrow. The event is being organized by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature, and the Department of Cinema Studies, and it is free and open to all […]
“The Endless Film” and “Parable of the Return” at NYU tonight
I’m excited to join Juana Suárez, Leandro Listorti, and Juan Soto in conversation tonight, after the screening of Listorti’s The Endless Film, and Soto’s Parable of the Return. Free and open to all.