Reaching for the Moon director Bruno Barreto: "Héctor’s greatest film 'Pixote'. Poetry and violence fill the screen in a ruthless way." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Héctor Babenco died on July 13, 2016. His adaptation of Manuel Puig's Kiss Of The Spider Woman, screenplay Leonard Schrader, starring Raúl Juliá, William Hurt and Sônia Braga, received four Oscar nominations - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay with Hurt winning Best Actor.
Tom Waits was in two of Babenco's films, William Kennedy's Ironweed, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (both Oscar nominated) and the adaptation of Peter Matthiessen's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, screenplay by Babenco, Jean-Claude Carrière and Vincent Patrick, starring Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Kathy Bates.
"One of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema - Fernando Ramos da Silva (Pixote) is nursed by Marília Pêra (the...
Héctor Babenco died on July 13, 2016. His adaptation of Manuel Puig's Kiss Of The Spider Woman, screenplay Leonard Schrader, starring Raúl Juliá, William Hurt and Sônia Braga, received four Oscar nominations - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay with Hurt winning Best Actor.
Tom Waits was in two of Babenco's films, William Kennedy's Ironweed, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (both Oscar nominated) and the adaptation of Peter Matthiessen's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, screenplay by Babenco, Jean-Claude Carrière and Vincent Patrick, starring Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Kathy Bates.
"One of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema - Fernando Ramos da Silva (Pixote) is nursed by Marília Pêra (the...
- 7/22/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Promotional body will host networking opportunities throughout the market.
Cinema do Brasil returns to Cannes with a screening of co-production El Ardor [pictured] and five sessions dedicated to promoting Brazilian productions to the market.
The promotional body represents 32 associate companies and will host networking opportunities for filmmakers throughout the Cannes market.
Cinema do Brasil is supporting El Ardor, a co-production involving associate Bananeira Filmes, via its Sales Agent Support scheme.
The five productions from associate companies receiving market support are: The Boy and the World by Alê Abreu (Elo Company); Desert World of Black Souls by Ruy Veridiano (Heavybunker); Gonzaga by Breno Silveira (Jangada Filmes); RioCorrente by Paulo Sacramento (One Eyed Films sales agent); and Memories of the Desert by Jorge Durán (Bogeydon Licensing sales agent).
Other Brazilian films on offer at the market include The Way He Looks via Films Boutique, Praia do Futuro through The Match Factory and Rio, I Love You...
Cinema do Brasil returns to Cannes with a screening of co-production El Ardor [pictured] and five sessions dedicated to promoting Brazilian productions to the market.
The promotional body represents 32 associate companies and will host networking opportunities for filmmakers throughout the Cannes market.
Cinema do Brasil is supporting El Ardor, a co-production involving associate Bananeira Filmes, via its Sales Agent Support scheme.
The five productions from associate companies receiving market support are: The Boy and the World by Alê Abreu (Elo Company); Desert World of Black Souls by Ruy Veridiano (Heavybunker); Gonzaga by Breno Silveira (Jangada Filmes); RioCorrente by Paulo Sacramento (One Eyed Films sales agent); and Memories of the Desert by Jorge Durán (Bogeydon Licensing sales agent).
Other Brazilian films on offer at the market include The Way He Looks via Films Boutique, Praia do Futuro through The Match Factory and Rio, I Love You...
- 5/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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