Film of the day: RETRATOS FANTASMAS (PORTRAITS OF GHOSTS, dir Kleber Mendonça Filho 2023) A cinephile's education: touching emotional autobiography of a film director who grew up loving the big screen, creating context and time to explain the memories that make you who you are. #BrazilianCinema #autobiography #cinephile #cinema #cinemas #memory

Film of the day: A RAINHA DIABA (THE DEVIL QUEEN, dir Antônio Carlos Fontoura, 1973) Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned: trashploitation crime drama the Brazilian way, all outrageously heightened genre cliches whose very excess only makes it more revelatory, making it a queer classic in advance of its time. #drama #crime #camp #genre #trashploitation #lowbudget #queercinema #BrazilianCinema #seventies #restoration #Berlinale73 #IndieLisboa2023

As I said many times before, I firmly believe future of Cinema is in Latin America. I wrote this piece when Bolsonaro was still in charge and Lula was jailed in Brazil in the Spring of 2020 after watching a couple of searing new Brazilian films.
#braziliancinema #KleberMendonçaFilho #JulianoDornelles #GabrielMascaro #thirdcinema #glauberrocha
http://www.dustinchang.com/2020/05/political-cultural-resistance-spirit-of.html?m=1

Christiano's hurt at the job in the factory & falls into a coma. At his aunt's request, Andre goes to Christiano’s living quarters to fetch his belongings. There he finds a journal and starts reading it. And the real story begins... The film lyrically presents an everyman's story as Christiano travels around Brazil, trying to eke out the living. #Araby follows the tradition of social realism. His small existential angst is appropriately heartbreaking at the end. #braziliancinema #jamesjoyce

It's 2027 Brazil. The country has gone full Christian fundamentalist. Gabriel Mascaro's version of it is all neon and electronic music. Our protags belong to #Divino Amor, a Christian religious group exclusively for couples. It's a government mandated support group for couples who’s been having marriage troubles. It definitely has cultish air. Mascaro takes on sci-fi genre to satirize the current political climate of Brazil. #gabrielmascaro #braziliancinema #bolsonaro #fascism #scifi

In solidarity with the people of Brazil, I’m reposting this:

#KleberMendonçaFilho #JulianoDonelles #brazil #braziliancinema #action #scifi #SoniaBraga #UdoKeir
http://www.dustinchang.com/2019/10/justified-mayhem.html?m=1

Antonio das Mortes (1969) - Rocha
#braziliancinema #thirdcinema #glauberrocha #cinemanovo #western #brazil