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  • Alina Rudnitskaya documents Russia in Blood
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 06-22-2018
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    Through the Glass Darkly: Alina Rudnitskaya Documents Russia
    Russian filmmaker Alina Rudnitskaya's Bitch Factory (2009) is one of the fiercest documentaries I’ve seen this year. I wouldn’t stop at calling it feminist. Given its straightforward observational approach, you wouldn’t think it’d land so strong. It starts out with a...
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  • María Luisa Bemberg's I, The Worst of All
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 06-21-2018
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    María Luisa Bemberg’s I, The Worst of All
    A radical costume drama is a rare thing, as the (mostly) warranted paeans for Lucrecia Martel’s Zama show. Even if the filmmaker chooses to disregard faithfulness to historical facts, or decides that the only way to be faithful is to...
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  • Ismael Caneppele's Music For When the Lights Go Out
    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 06-18-2018
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    LGBTQ Brazil Films – New York Summer
    Cinema Tropical, New York's top organization dedicated to promoting Latin American cinema, has announced Verão in New York summer program of Brazilian films, including LGBTQ Brazil, curated by Ela Bittencourt: "On July 28 and 29, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)...
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    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 06-1-2018
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    Animal Killers: Ecology, Feminism and Horror in Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor
    Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik’s Silver Bear winning feature, Spoor (2017)—an adaptation of the novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Polish novelist and Booker Prize winner, Olga Tokarczuk—doesn’t strictly follow a single genre. Part crime...
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    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 05-24-2018
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    Agnès Varda Manifesto: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
    For a manifesto film, and Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (L’une chante, l’autre pas, 1977), certainly is one, it is also strikingly nuanced. That it’s a manifesto was never a secret—Vincent Canby noted as much in The New...
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    • by :Ela Bittencourt
    • 04-26-2018
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    Mónica Savirón / Lis Rhodes
    The audience at this year's Courtisane Film Festival had the rare fortune of accompanying a special 16mm program of films, co-curated by Savirón and the LUX Moving Image deputy director and Courtisane programmer, María Palacios Cruz (who previously led the...
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Latin American Cinema

More Essays by Ela Bittencourt

  1. Still from Breakwater, an LGBTQ+ short by Cris Lyra
    27 Jul 2020
    Streaming: LGBTQ+ Cinema
  2. Still from Latin American director Paula Gaitán's Light in the Tropics
    14 Mar 2020
    Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded
  3. Still from Joanna Reposi Garibaldi’s documentary, Lemebel, featured in Latin American Cinema Showcase
    11 Feb 2020
    Neighboring Scenes: Latin American Showcase
  4. RED LIGHT BANDIT (1968) by Rogério Sganzerla
    19 Nov 2019
    Sganzerla’s Gangster Modernity
  5. Still from Luis Ospina's mockumentary A PAPER TIGER
    5 Nov 2019
    The Legacy of Luis Ospina
  6. The Sly Humor of Martín Rejtman: Magic Gloves
    21 Oct 2019
    Sly Humor of Martín Rejtman
  7. Still from Jeannette Muñoz's Puchuncavi in Jeannette Muñoz: Cinema as an Open Letter
    21 Jul 2019
    Jeannette Muñoz: Cinema as an...
  8. Macario by Robert Gavaldón
    25 Apr 2019
    Roberto Gavaldón’s Mortal Visions
  9. Alejandro Fadel’s horror, Murder Me, Monster from Neighboring Scenes Festival
    22 Feb 2019
    Neighboring Scenes 2019
  10. Still from Gabriel Martins and Maurílio Martin's In the Heart of the World premiered at Latin American Movies at International Film Festival Rotterdam
    10 Feb 2019
    Latin American Movies at IFFR
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