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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD007081
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Martin Scorcese’s World Cinema Project No. 3. Vol 2
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Babenco, Héctor; Oro, Juan Bustillo
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Criterion Collection, 2020
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials include: introductions to the films by Martin Scorsese; excerpts from an interview with PIXOTE director Héctor Babenco, recorded in 2016 for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Visual History Program Collection; U.S.-release prologue for PIXOTE, created by Babenco; interview with film sholar Charles Ramírez Berg on DOS MONJES; a booklet including essays on the films, cast and credits, and other information, available at checkout.
Titles
+ Pixote
- Director:
- Babenco, Héctor
- Production Co:
- Embrafilme
- Running Time:
- Feature. 126 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Brazil
- Year:
- 1980
- Language:
- Portuguese language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama
- Notes:
- 4K digital transfer. With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Babenco’s international breakout PIXOTE offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society, and a stinging indictment of the country’s military dictatorship and police. In a heartbreaking performance Fernando Ramos da Silva plays a young boy who escapes a nightmarish reformatory only to resort to a life of violent crime, even as he forms a makeshift family with some fellow outcasts.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Dos Monjes
- Director:
- Oro, Juan Bustillo
- Production Co:
- Proa Films
- Running Time:
- Feature. 79 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Mexico
- Year:
- 1934
- Language:
- Spanish language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Melodrama
- Notes:
- 4K digital transfer. This intense early Mexican sound melodrama by Juan Bustillo Oro hinges on an audacious flashback structure. When an ailing monk recognizes another brother at his cloister, he becomes deranged and attacks him. DOS MONJES recounts the men’s tragic shared past once from the point of view of each, heightening the contrasts between the two accounts with visual flourishes drawn from German expressionism.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |