metatag Cinema Archives - brazzil
I'm Still Here was chosen to represent Brazil at the Oscars 2025

Brazilian Movie I’m Still Here Moves the World and the Critics

The Brazilian movie ‘I’m Still Here’ (2024), directed by Walter Salles, has earned three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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