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A short and superficial overview on the HISTORY OF FILM in Brazil. As you know I made a critical remark to the Golden Bear for Tropa de Elite. I just would like to suggest some other favela-films which are worth to be watched.

Next monday you get a cast on TV Roc, the broadcasting from Rocinha.

Auf könnt Ihr das Thema Film hier nachlesen.

From the ’Famine Aesthetic’ to the 'Favela-Pop' [ 8:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (848)

Topics of the Brazilian film history and films I am refering to:
I tried to find the youtube links – only the newer ones are in English. When I linked the English title than it should be in English.
Cinema Novo
= italian Neo-realism (for example: Roma Città Aperta from Bertolucci)

• ‘Rio 40 Graus‘ /Rio at 40 degrees, 1955/ and ‘Rio Zona Norte’ /Rio Northern Zone, 1957/ from Nelson Pereira dos Santos,
  You may watch the whole film in Portuguese. This here is just the first sequence. The rest you can find on youtube.
• Cinco vezes Favela /five times favela 1962/, a collective film

Gláuber Rocha calls it in 1965 the “aesthetic of famine”.

Cinema Marginal

• ‘Terra em Transe‘ /Gláuber Rocha, Land in Trance 1967/,
  DVD out just in portuguese.
• ‘Macunaíma‘ /1969 by Joaquim Pedro/,
  in Portuguese and French
  The scene with the swimming pool is from the Parque Lage.
• ‘O homem que Virou Suco‘ /The squeezed Man, 1979 by Jaoa Batista de Andrade/

Paulista
(more for TV than for cinema)

• ‘Olhar Electrônico’ /electronic view/ with ‘Garotos do Subúrbio’ /The boys from the suburbs, 1982/
• ‘Solo, the Law of Favela’ (1994),
• ‘Zezé’ – The boy, the pod-lid and the favela’ (1995),
• ‘Geraldo voador’ /Flying Gerald/(1996).

Favela-Pop

• Noticias de Uma guerra Particular /News from a private war, 1998
• Cidade de Deus /City of God 2002 by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund/
• Cidade dos homens /City of Men/ = Telenovela
• Uma Ondo no Ar /FavelaRadio 2003/,
• Favela Rising 2005

“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan
The effects of music on our society are immense. Here in Rio everyone is singing. They know the words by heart and the private life of each artist. I am really impressed about their capacity of lyrics, etc.
The society is based on an oral exchange.
To read the podcast you can visit this site.

Auf könnt Ihr Musik hier nachlesen.

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Soccer, samba, social communication?

The Brazilian culture is a mixture. The mixture is the Brazilian culture. Each race is taking care of its roots so it is not to be understood as a melting pot like in USA.
“We don’t have to be afraid of the mixture, it is something natural”
– Marisa Monte, TAZ 06/10/06

Wednesday, 07/03/07 at night
I heard shots and screams … really loud. So I went on my balcony … I couldn’t see anything special … bom, tcheeee … fireworks ??? … What is going on here?

In the Maracana Soccer Stadium, the biggest in Rio, Botafogo was playing. 4 million cariocas are supporting Botafogo and were celebrating when Botafogo goaled and finally became champion of Taca Rio.

Die Brasilianische Gesellschaft kann auch hier nachgelesen werden.

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