- Filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias who died, at age 84, yesterday, February 8, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from respiratory insufficiency, was first of all a rebel. He was known as the father of the marginal cinema, a film movement created in opposition to Brazil's highly intellectual cinema novo (new cinema).Candeias was bo…
- A los libros y a las mujeres canto (To Books and Women I Sing) is titled after a cleverly rewritten quote from Virgil. This bold opening gesture already announces what lies at the heart of the film: the civilising role of women and literature.María Elorza's first feature is structured around four portraits of women and…