Brazil
TIFF 2023 | The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, Argentina/Portugal/Brazil/Netherlands/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Sri Lanka/Peru) — Wavelengths
By Blake Williams | 09/05/2023 | Cinema Scope Online, CS96, From Cinema Scope Magazine, TIFF 2023
Born on the extreme margins of an industry that is still only barely interested in product that isn’t either a sequel, remake, or reboot, Williams’ Surge saga is a franchise befitting the current climate of arthouse filmmaking, wherein conventions of continuity, plot mechanics, and psychological clarity are increasingly being challenged, if not outright dismissed. We have no idea where we’re going, but we seem to be getting there fast.
Read More → TIFF 2023 | Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) — Wavelengths
By Tom Charity | 09/05/2023 | Cinema Scope Online, CS96, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Interviews, TIFF 2023
“All the cinemas went extinct,” observes a street vendor who used to sell movie posters and lobby cards behind the film distribution centre in downtown Recife, Brazil, before the bottom dropped out of the market. The kicker: this interview was recorded 30 years ago.
Read More → Can the Centre Hold?: The Films of Adirley Queirós
By James Lattimer | 09/26/2022 | CS92, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
The periphery is always the centre in the films of Adirley Queirós, whether in terms of the people and places at the focus of his attention or the off-centre stylistic means he employs to explore their tribulations, and, by extension, those of Brazil.
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