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Arsaib

22Apr12

Thanks for supporting the Cinema Novo list.

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Matheus

21Apr12

Você é brasileiro, certo?

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  Greg

  21Apr12

  nope. Just an American that loves South American films. Any reason?

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  Matheus

  21Apr12

  I thought that because you read that article about Glauber Rocha, in portuguese.

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  Greg

  21Apr12

  oh, I just translated it to English online. :) I am very interested in these films so anything I can get about the filmmakers, I'm happy with.

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  Greg

  21Apr12

  Thank you again for that article by the way.

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  Matheus

  21Apr12

  Sorry for anything, actually i saw Terra em Transe and liked it but, as you can see, i don't like Rocha as a person and i don't share his political viewings. Have you ever seen any Mojica films? The famous "Coffin Joe".

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  Greg

  21Apr12

  Yeah, I love the Jose Mojica Marins/Coffin Joe films. I have some of the dvds.

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  Matheus

  23Apr12

  That's great, here in Brazil people treats Mojica like a joke, unfortunately there are few people that respect him like the very brave filmmaker he was.

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  Greg

  23Apr12

  That is weird. In the U.S., "Coffin Joe" is pretty much the only thing anyone knows of Brazilian cinema (and even that is on the obscure side here in the U.S.! Only big time Horror film fans even know that name.). Sadly, people for the most part here don't know anything outside of the Hollywood system, and even when they do they don't acknowledge South American cinema at all. Over the internet is the only way I have found people that loves the films I do. Mojica is no joke to me. He is free with his filmmaking and the only joke is when you are not (Hollywood for the most part).

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  Matheus

  24Apr12

  Interesting, here is the same thing about Hollywood, people tends to completely dismiss european and asiatic cinema, there is almost a kind of prejudice, as if these countries can only produce "boring" art house films rather than the "exciting" over-produced Hollywood factory of remakes and reboots. But, to be fair with you, most of our modern mainstream films are pretty bad, there is one big company here (Globo Filmes) and they usually finance projects like dumb comedies (in the same vein of Adam Sandler ones) or class z action movies.

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  Greg

  24Apr12

  Yeah, I'm sure every country have the duds. It just makes you angry that people would rather watch that Country's duds than to watch another Country's best.

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  Matheus

  24Apr12

  Yeah, and it's not only with cinema, the same goes with music and most kinds of art and entertainment.

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  Greg

  24Apr12

  absolutely.

Jack Lehtonen

24Aug11

Props for your Halloween II rating! Not many are willing to defend that wonderful film.

Judicial Joe

20Apr11

Mr. Blanton. You need to add more favorites.

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