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“The Film is the Sweat”: An Interview with João Moreira Salles
Issue 89
Late in one of the greatest filmic encounters with what scholars have started to conceptualise as the “long 1968,” we listen to a voiceover (VO) calmly narrating the gradual disappearance of one of the film’s protagonists from the visual record. As we watch a short montage of images showing the director’s mother in home videos, his VO informs us that while his “mother appears in a number of home films [and] seems happy, basking in being alive” in footage from the 1960s, this shifts from the 1970s on: images of her “become scarcer, and from ’80 onward, there’s hardly anything at all.” This gradual disappearance of the narrator’s mother from the family’s private filmic record – her becoming-invisible – might register for the attentive viewer as a sign of her death – indeed: of her suicide – not least because this scene appears towards the end of a long sequence of scenes in which death dominates, including t
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Baracoa. 500 Years Later
Baracoa, the small town surrounded by mountains and rivers, is immersed in its own legend and in the work and dreams of its people. It prevails half a millennium from the day in which Christopher Columbus planted the “Parra” Cross on its shore. It was Cuba’s initial capital.
Pragda Films | 2010 | 61 minutes | Relevance score: 35.93
500 Francs
This early Melvin Van Peebles short is a small-scale tale of obsession, greed and violence.
Icarus Films | 1961 | 12 minutes | Relevance score: 30.73
The Day That Lasted 21 Years
A look at how and why the United States supported a conspiracy to overthrow the Brazilian elected President Joao Goulart in 1964, when Ambassador Lincoln Gordon planned South America's longest military dictatorship with the support of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Pragda Films | 2012 | 77 minutes | Relevance score: 11.16
My War Years
Portrait of one of the 20th century's most influe
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Talking Screens, January 5-11, 2024: Anthony Hopkins Sparks “Freud’s Last Session” | Andrew Haigh Mystifies with “All of Us Strangers” | Seeing John Malkovich
Talking Screens, A Week In Chicago rulle, January 5-11, 2024
Opening this week in theaters are “Freud’s gods Session,” “All Of Us Strangers,” and “Coup dem Torchon“; among revival and repertory attractions are Abel Gance’s seven-hour 1923 silent, “The Wheel“; more films by the great humanist Edward Yang; “Jawbreaker” in 35mm; “Charade“; “Con Air” in 35mm; “Run kvinnonamn Lola Run“; “Aguirre, The Wrath Of God“; “The Prestige” (35mm); “All That Jazz” (35mm); “Being John Malkovich” and “City of God.”
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