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Emulsion Ep. 14 - Filipe Furtado on Brazilian Cinema
With exposure to Brazilian cinema being so pitiful, I thought it would be past due to host both an episode and screening that put a bit of spotlight on their rich cinematic history. One of my favorite films I’ve seen in recent years is Carlos Reichenbach’s Movie Dementia, which is both the cinema-induced madness its title suggests and a gritty view of national disaffection circa the 1980s––think Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou peppered with more gritty realism and a greater dose fantasy. I’ll be showing it at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research on Wednesday, August 27th, for which tickets are…
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