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    Olive tries to drag poor Popeye onto the dance floor, while Bluto looks on in delight

    ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART FOUR: TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE (CONCLUSION)

    Everyone Does the “Broadway Samba” Near the conclusion of “Samba Lelê,” Senhorita Olive Oyl ...

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    Josmar F. Lopes
    Bluto and Popeye advance toward their “fun” destination: The cartoon Cafe in Rio

    ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART THREE: SAMBA YOUR CARES AWAY!

    A Clubbing We Will Go In the next sequence, Popeye and Bluto stride brazenly ...

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    Josmar F. Lopes
    Paramount Pictures title card for ‘W’ere on our Way to Rio’ (1944)

    ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART TWO: WON’T YOU BE MY GOOD NEIGHBOR?

    Let Us Entertain You Nothing succeeds like success. And to repeat a successful formula, ...

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    Josmar F. Lopes
    Popeye (right) escorts Miss Olivia Oyla to the Cafe La Conga in “Kickin’ the Conga Round” (1942)

    ANIMATED BRAZIL — PART ONE: KICKIN’ THE COUNTRY AROUND

    I’m Popeye the sailor man / I’m Popeye the sailor man I’m strong to ...

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    Movie director Aly Muritiba

    A Brazilian Award-Winning Movie and the Transformative Power of Love

    An Interview with Director Aly Muritiba “When I decided to make this film in ...

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    Mafe Simonsen
    Here Pelé is shown in 1971, in Paris. (AP Photo/Levy)

    Netflix Documentary on Pelé Passes Up a Chance to Deal with Brazil’s Class and Race

    A recent Netflix documentary about the legendary Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, ...

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    Luisa Farah Schwartzman
    Netflix's Christmas movie imagining a gay Jesus drew millions of complaints

    Video Claims Responsibility for Firebombing Brazil Producer of Netflix’s Gay Jesus Special

    A Christmas Eve fire-bomb attack on offices of a comedy troupe that produced a ...

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    Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Jake Spring
    Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil), from 1964, was directed by Gláuber Rocha and stars Othon Bastos

    Brazil Bringing to the Screens a Revisionist History of the Country

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is embarking on a project of cultural and historical ...

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    Danica Jorden

    Barren Lives, a Masterful Paradigm of Brazil’s Failure of Hope

    The 1963 classic film Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, ...

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    Joanne Laurier

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    PLAYS Rio As Malandragens de Scapino — Molière’s comic classic about a deceitful servant. ...

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