Tag: Rodrigo Teixeira
Kontinental ’25 | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Jude Skewers the Status Quo
Ownership is an unsaid key word in Kontinental ’25, the latest perambulating spasm from Romanian...
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) | Review
Still Missing: Salles Returns with Survivors of the Dictatorship
“The dictatorship’s mistakes was to torture but not kill,” former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proudly claimed...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Geremy Jasper’s O’Dessa
Sold for a whopping 10 million to Fox Searchlight at Sundance back in '17, Patti Cake$ became a major calling card for Geremy Jasper...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #32. Marco Dutra’s Enterre Seus Mortos
Enterre Seus Mortos
We've been big fans of the filmmaker since he broke out with Locarno preemed Hard Labor (2011) and Un Certain Regard selected...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #200. Aly Muritiba’s Barba ensopada de sangue
Barba ensopada de sangue
For his sixth feature film, Brazilian filmmaker Aly Muritiba tackled the book-to-film adaptation of Daniel Galera's Blood-Drenched Beard - a 2015...
Armageddon Time | Review
A Great White Hype: Gray Explores the Farce of the American Dream in Coming of Age Portrait
Where are we going? Where have we been?...
Port Authority [Video Review]
Category is The Realness: Lessovitz Isn’t Strictly Ballroom in Star Crossed Romance
To acknowledge the formidable, everlasting impact of Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris is...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #39. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island
Bergman Island
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Rodrigo Teixeira, Erik Hemmendorff, Lisa Widén.
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Anders...
Yes, God, Yes | Review
Obvious Teen: Maine Finds Nostalgia in a Hopeless Place
Of the many aspects particular to the late 1990s and early 2000s, where cell phones were...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #10. Bergman Island – Mia Hansen-Løve
Bergman Island
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Rodrigo Teixeira, Erik Hemmendorff, Lisa Widén.
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Anders...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #124. Born to Be Murdered – Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Born to Be Murdered
Italy’s Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (great nephew of Luchino Visconti) looks set for an international breakout with sophomore feature Born to Be...
The Lighthouse | Review
I Can Hear the Mermaids Singing: Eggers Unleashes a Hyper-Stylized Portrait of Nautical Madness
Virginia Woolf (who, having known something about the subject and its...
Ad Astra | Review
All Alone in the World: Gray Elegantly Propels Trademark Themes & Style into Outer Space
The curiosity of witnessing James Gray try his hand at...
Interview: Gabriela Amaral Almeida – The Father’s Shadow | 2019 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival
With barely a year between productions, Brazilian filmmaker Gabriela Amaral Almeida moves from survivalism in O Animal Cordial to enlarger genre parameters to delve...
Video Interview: Dominga Sotomayor – Too Late to Die Young
The hype machine officially began on Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor's third feature back in August when she won Best Director at Locarno. Since then,...
The Conversation: Producer Rodrigo Teixeira
Brazilian based producer Rodrigo Teixeira established Sao Paolo company RT Features in 2005 and has become an increasingly notable major player in a broad array...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #15. Robert Eggers’ The Light House
The Light House
Robert Eggers blasted onto the scene with what we can describe his own brand of unconventional horror. Production on his sophomore film,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #20. Wasp Network – Olivier Assayas
Wasp Network
French auteur Olivier Assayas (partner to Mia Hansen-Løve who we find on our list as well) shows no signs of slowing down (or for hopping...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #50. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (A Vida Invisível) – Karim Aïnouz
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (A Vida Invisível)
It’s been five years since the last narrative feature from Brazil’s Karim Aïnouz, but he’ll finally...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #47. Robert Eggers – The Light House
Robert Pattinson recently admitted that filming on The Light House was "the closest I’ve come to punching a director". Not exactly Kinski-Herzog in nature, but we...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Crystal Moselle’s Skate Girl
If invited to Park City, expect many of the cast for this film to hit the slopes between screenings. With a brief overview of...
Video: Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ – 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"Patti is my alter-ego". - Geremy Jasper
A project that was nurtured via the various Sundance labs, Patti Cake$ played like gangbusters during its world premiere...
Street Team: Crystal Moselle in Simpatico with The Skate Kitchen
No stranger to profiling NYC based artists and misfits running, subwaying (and in this case, skating) around Manhattan and its boroughs, Deadline confirms that...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #88. Gabriela Amaral Almeida’s The Friendly Animal
The Friendly Animal
Director: Gabriela Amaral Almeida
Writer: Gabriela Amaral Almeida
In a continuing surge of up-and-coming Brazilian filmmakers is writer Gabriela Amaral Almeida. After directing several...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Public School Project
Akin to Michel Gondry's low-budgeter We and I, the shot in 2013 campus comedy still doesn't have a name, doesn't have a release date,...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
And for the final Sundance Film Festival prediction on the 80-list, I'm selecting a film that might have premiered at both Venice and Toronto,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #21. Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
Night Moves
Director/Writer: Kelly Reichardt
Producer(s): Saemi Kim, Neil Kopp, Chris Maybach, Anish Savjani, Rodrigo Teixeira
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard
Unlike other...
