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The Secret Agent | Review

Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive Period Thriller Pregnant with dread and jam-packed with homage to the tone and time of sweaty,...

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor prizes at Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent brought together Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura...

The Ghost in the Machine: Kleber Mendonça Filho Plots 1930s Recife Dive from ‘Pictures of Ghosts’ DNA

Currently on an extended promotional tour since winning in Cannes with The Secret Agent (read review), Kleber Mendonça Filho will essentially easter egg or...

Interview: Nara Normande & Tião – Sem Coração (Heartless)

For their feature debut collaboration, Brazilian filmmakers Nara Normande and Tião returned to the heart of Guaxuma, the beachside setting in Alagoas, for their...

Scar Tissue: Maeve Jinkings Populates Nara Normande & Tião’s “Heartless”

A debut tandem feature that is among the Brazilian film items we are keeping our eye on for 2023, Nara Normande and Tião are...

2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau

Technically their second film to compete in Cannes when you consider Production Designer Juliano Dornelles as a creative collaborator on Aquarius (which placed 2nd in the top vote-getters for...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #21. Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau (Nighthawk)

Bacurau (Nighthawk) Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles Writer: Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles Brazilian film critic turned director Kleber Mendonca Filho has become a...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.