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With the World Cup in Rio now just around the corner and squads being announced ahead of the world’s premier international competition, we’re giving 3 WhatCulture readers the opportunity to win a copy of a newly released documentary DVD about one of the greatest footballing nations ever known.
Ginga – the mysterious, indefinable magical quality of rhythm and movement which sets the Brazilian game apart from all the others.
Produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and directed by Marcelo Machado (Tropicalia), Hank Levine and Tocha Alves. Ginga follows seven young footballers from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds, providing an insight into the passionate culture that produces some of the world s finest footballers.
One of those great players is Real Madrid s Ronaldo who said: “Ginga, is in our blood, it is a gift given by God especially to Brazilians who...
With the World Cup in Rio now just around the corner and squads being announced ahead of the world’s premier international competition, we’re giving 3 WhatCulture readers the opportunity to win a copy of a newly released documentary DVD about one of the greatest footballing nations ever known.
Ginga – the mysterious, indefinable magical quality of rhythm and movement which sets the Brazilian game apart from all the others.
Produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and directed by Marcelo Machado (Tropicalia), Hank Levine and Tocha Alves. Ginga follows seven young footballers from a diverse range of social and ethnic backgrounds, providing an insight into the passionate culture that produces some of the world s finest footballers.
One of those great players is Real Madrid s Ronaldo who said: “Ginga, is in our blood, it is a gift given by God especially to Brazilians who...
- 5/20/2014
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Brazilian producers’ growing interest in co-production was under the spotlight at this year’s RioMarket, held alongside the Rio International Film Festival.
Although a co-production treaty between Brazil and the Us is unlikely - the Americans don’t have a central regulatory agency for the audiovisual industry like in other countries - there are possibilities for collaboration between the two countries.
In one seminar at the RioMarket, New York-based media lawyer W. Wilder Knight II suggested that documentaries could be a field where producers could come together “if there is a subject of common interest”.
It was suggested that finance could be raised through crowd sourcing, although he admitted the culture of giving seems to have more of a tradition in the Us - where 80-90% of Americans give to charity at least once each year - compared to Brazil where culture has always been heavily subsidised. Direct investment in Brazil doesn’t have a long tradition...
Although a co-production treaty between Brazil and the Us is unlikely - the Americans don’t have a central regulatory agency for the audiovisual industry like in other countries - there are possibilities for collaboration between the two countries.
In one seminar at the RioMarket, New York-based media lawyer W. Wilder Knight II suggested that documentaries could be a field where producers could come together “if there is a subject of common interest”.
It was suggested that finance could be raised through crowd sourcing, although he admitted the culture of giving seems to have more of a tradition in the Us - where 80-90% of Americans give to charity at least once each year - compared to Brazil where culture has always been heavily subsidised. Direct investment in Brazil doesn’t have a long tradition...
- 10/7/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
French sales outfit Wide Management has added a slew of titles in recent months.
Tiff contemporary world cinema premiere Ningen, about a Japanese CEO under pressure to save his company, is the second feature from Noor directors Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti.
Portuguese drama Bobo, by Ines Oliveira, plays in the Tiff discovery programme. The feature follows two women who unite over their mutual desire to protect a child.
Vinko Bresan’s Karlovy Vary competition comedy The Priest’s Children has sold to a number of European territories while Jean-Louis Daniel’s Paris-set Shanghai Belle, also in-demand, tells the story of young models discovering a life of drugs, sex and prostitution.
Also on the slate are Snails in the Rain by Yariv Mozer, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Rene Feret’s The Film to Come, and Us comedy Only in New York, in which a stand-up has a novel take on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Wide has also...
Tiff contemporary world cinema premiere Ningen, about a Japanese CEO under pressure to save his company, is the second feature from Noor directors Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti.
Portuguese drama Bobo, by Ines Oliveira, plays in the Tiff discovery programme. The feature follows two women who unite over their mutual desire to protect a child.
Vinko Bresan’s Karlovy Vary competition comedy The Priest’s Children has sold to a number of European territories while Jean-Louis Daniel’s Paris-set Shanghai Belle, also in-demand, tells the story of young models discovering a life of drugs, sex and prostitution.
Also on the slate are Snails in the Rain by Yariv Mozer, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Rene Feret’s The Film to Come, and Us comedy Only in New York, in which a stand-up has a novel take on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Wide has also...
- 8/30/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A vivid, infectiously perky ode to Brazilian music from the late 60s and early 70s – calypso with a social conscience, even fervour.
Director Marcelo Machado mimics the lively fingering in the edit suite, and the tempo can exhaust. But for beginners keen for a crash course, this hits every button with precision.
DocumentaryWorld musicWorld cinemaBrazilCatherine Shoard
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Director Marcelo Machado mimics the lively fingering in the edit suite, and the tempo can exhaust. But for beginners keen for a crash course, this hits every button with precision.
DocumentaryWorld musicWorld cinemaBrazilCatherine Shoard
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- 7/6/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Marcelo Machado's affectionate documentary about a Brazilian protest movement features Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes
The explicitly politicised, late-1960s countercultural Brazilian protest movement gets an airing through this affectionate, if somewhat genuflecting documentary.
It's fascinating to watch Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes transform from clean-cut teenybop idols to full-on hippies in a few short months; director Marcelo Machado deploys copious TV footage to impressive effect. His film, however, is short on context and information, not to mention the aftermath: this might have helped it be a bit clearer.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryOs MutantesAndrew Pulver
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The explicitly politicised, late-1960s countercultural Brazilian protest movement gets an airing through this affectionate, if somewhat genuflecting documentary.
It's fascinating to watch Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes transform from clean-cut teenybop idols to full-on hippies in a few short months; director Marcelo Machado deploys copious TV footage to impressive effect. His film, however, is short on context and information, not to mention the aftermath: this might have helped it be a bit clearer.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryOs MutantesAndrew Pulver
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- 7/5/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Championed by the likes of Talking Head David Byrne, Beck and eccentric Welsh songsmith Gruff Rhys, the popularity of this influential wave of Brazilian music has been gaining momentum for a number of years. Interest has now been deemed sufficient enough to warrant the UK theatrical release of Marcelo Machado's insightful and engaging documentary, Tropicália (2012) (City of God director Fernando Meirelles is credited as one of its executive producers). A counterculture movement during the late 1960s, Tropicália was fuelled by the authoritarian regime imposed in Brazil at that time.
The movement produced a talented array of musicians who fused elements of the older established sounds of bossa nova and samba with Us West Coast psychedelic music and the jangly pop sounds of The Beatles. Using a similar approach to the recent Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane (2012), Tropicália is a patchwork of archive footage, stills and lo-fi collages, stitched together...
The movement produced a talented array of musicians who fused elements of the older established sounds of bossa nova and samba with Us West Coast psychedelic music and the jangly pop sounds of The Beatles. Using a similar approach to the recent Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane (2012), Tropicália is a patchwork of archive footage, stills and lo-fi collages, stitched together...
- 7/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
George Clooney, Pierre Étaix and Tilda Swinton
to receive Silver Medallion Awards Over twenty-five new features plus revival programs
and unique programming from Guest Director Caetano Veloso will be presented as part of the 2011 exhibition
Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) . Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, Tff once again sets the stage for some of the year.s most highly anticipated films.
Tff opens its 38th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes, Guest Director programs selected by Caetano Veloso, Backlot programs, classics and restorations, shorts, student films, seminars and conversations, each introduced or proceeded with a Q&A by its filmmaker, actors, writer or producer. Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 2 and runs through Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
The .Show.
38th Telluride Film Festival is proud...
to receive Silver Medallion Awards Over twenty-five new features plus revival programs
and unique programming from Guest Director Caetano Veloso will be presented as part of the 2011 exhibition
Telluride, Co (September 1, 2011) . Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by the National Film Preserve, announces its program for the 38th Telluride Film Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, Tff once again sets the stage for some of the year.s most highly anticipated films.
Tff opens its 38th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes, Guest Director programs selected by Caetano Veloso, Backlot programs, classics and restorations, shorts, student films, seminars and conversations, each introduced or proceeded with a Q&A by its filmmaker, actors, writer or producer. Telluride Film Festival opens Friday, September 2 and runs through Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
The .Show.
38th Telluride Film Festival is proud...
- 9/1/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Take a close look at the lineup the Telluride Film Festival," advises Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE. "These are films you’ll be hearing a lot about over the next few weeks during a fall festival swing that begins in Venice, travels to Telluride and continues through to big-city fests in Toronto and then New York. For many movies on the roster, the journey even dates back to Cannes in May."
The festival opens tomorrow and runs through Labor Day; meantime, here's the Show:
Viviana García Besné's Perdida, a look at the Calderon family, a cinema dynasty in Mexico.
Dr. Biju's The Way Home. See the description from the London Indian Film Festival.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote. See the Cannes roundup.
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Trailer (scroll down about halfway).
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Premieres tomorrow (Friday) in Venice.
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike.
The festival opens tomorrow and runs through Labor Day; meantime, here's the Show:
Viviana García Besné's Perdida, a look at the Calderon family, a cinema dynasty in Mexico.
Dr. Biju's The Way Home. See the description from the London Indian Film Festival.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote. See the Cannes roundup.
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Trailer (scroll down about halfway).
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Premieres tomorrow (Friday) in Venice.
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike.
- 9/1/2011
- MUBI
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