Entries Tagged 'Brazil' | Indie Eye

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"Metropolis," as it was meant to be seen! (For real, this time.)

By Vadim Rizov on 10/30/2009

Filed under: Festivals

Few movies are as incomplete yet overwhelmingly influential as Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis." Any movie you've seen with enormous, gigantic architecture set in an ominous future or a mythical past -- "Brazil," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Fifth Element," even this year's "The International" -- stole some of its moves from Lang's skyscrapers and underground dens. Brutally cut upon release and restored and re-released an impossible amount of times since, "Metropolis" is finally whole again. A complete 16mm copy was discovered at Argentina's Museo del Cine last year, and the complete restoration will premiere February 10 at next year's Berlin International... MORE »

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The Vice Guide to Coffin Joe.

By Alison Willmore on 06/11/2009

Filed under: Watchy

VBS.TV sits down for a long chat with Brazil's reigning cult filmmaker José Mojica Marins, aka Coffin Joe, who offers an origin story of sorts about how his first brush with cinema involved a film about STDs: "I screamed and screamed, and that image never left my head. I think this scarred my childhood. So in all my horror films, I try to recreate, through the hell and purgatory that I filmed, but I never managed to portray the biggest horror of my life, a vagina full of gonorrhea." Here's part one of the video and part two.... MORE »