Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Singapore’s Fran Borgia among the producers working with up-and-coming talent.
The Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic) has announced the five projects that will participate in its fourth edition, including projects produced by Cannes Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Singapore’s Fran Borgia (A Land Imagined).
The five projects, which come from Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and for the first time Malaysia, broach subject matter including sexual assault, illegal immigration and violent insurgency.
Among the selection is the first narrative film from Thailand’s Sompot Chidgasornpongse, whose documentary Railway Sleepers screened in Busan and...
The Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (Seafic) has announced the five projects that will participate in its fourth edition, including projects produced by Cannes Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Singapore’s Fran Borgia (A Land Imagined).
The five projects, which come from Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and for the first time Malaysia, broach subject matter including sexual assault, illegal immigration and violent insurgency.
Among the selection is the first narrative film from Thailand’s Sompot Chidgasornpongse, whose documentary Railway Sleepers screened in Busan and...
- 2/14/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Is Somebody Looking For His Stuffed Toy Octopus? Does Anybody Know A Man Missing A Plushy Darling?
We found this poor creature in the men's room of Rotterdam's Cinerama right after a screening of some serious Brazilian smut-fest, Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986). It was lying around there looking lost. There was nobody else at the pissoirs. The stalls proved empty. Someone was obviously so lost in his own sweet or sour self that he forgot his stuffed toy octopus! What could he have been thinking about for this to happen?
Could he have contemplated the programmers' collective nastiness which made them select a film in which, as we were told, a donkey gets slaughtered en detail and for an extended period of running time? And no, we won't mention the title here knowing only too well that this might encourage some sickos to search out this...this.
We found this poor creature in the men's room of Rotterdam's Cinerama right after a screening of some serious Brazilian smut-fest, Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986). It was lying around there looking lost. There was nobody else at the pissoirs. The stalls proved empty. Someone was obviously so lost in his own sweet or sour self that he forgot his stuffed toy octopus! What could he have been thinking about for this to happen?
Could he have contemplated the programmers' collective nastiness which made them select a film in which, as we were told, a donkey gets slaughtered en detail and for an extended period of running time? And no, we won't mention the title here knowing only too well that this might encourage some sickos to search out this...this.
- 8/27/2012
- MUBI
After becoming drawn to Sao Paulo’s burgeoning red light district in the mid-1950s, Hiroito (Daniel de Oliveira) grows up to snort, shoot, and shag his way through Boca Do Lixo (Sao Paolo’s nightclub, prostitution, and drugs district). As he increasingly indulges in his own product and butts up against competing organised criminals, Hiroito begins to simultaneously unravel and escalate in his violence and criminality.
*****
Boasting “based on a true story” credentials, covering a similar time-frame to Goodfellas and portraying one man’s descent into a way of life that entices him from his youth, this could have been Brazil’s answer to Scorsese’s crime epic. That it isn’t and not by some distance is a shame and the question then becomes one of where the blame should lie.
Hiroito is an enigmatic character, his father brutally murdered (Hiroito may have been responsible, we are never...
*****
Boasting “based on a true story” credentials, covering a similar time-frame to Goodfellas and portraying one man’s descent into a way of life that entices him from his youth, this could have been Brazil’s answer to Scorsese’s crime epic. That it isn’t and not by some distance is a shame and the question then becomes one of where the blame should lie.
Hiroito is an enigmatic character, his father brutally murdered (Hiroito may have been responsible, we are never...
- 4/2/2012
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Above: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias’ A margem (The Margin, 1967).
"I will never transmit sanitised ideas, eloquent discourses or plastic images before the garbage (…) Crushed and exploited, the colonized can only invent their own form of suffocation: the scream of protest comes from an abortive ‘mise en scene’ (…) I’ll continue to make an underdeveloped cinema by condition and vocation, barbarian and ours, anticulturalist (…)" —Rogério Sganzerla, The Aesthetics of Garbage
Not even garbage escapes retrospective respectability; what was once reviled by snobby film buffs has now become their new gospel. Subcultural capital (that which is “hip” and “illicit”) is usually outsourced from our business enemies (China, Iran, etc.) or from forgotten episodes of film history. One wonders what will the subject of a retrospective be in 30 or 40 years when the whole globe will have been converted to consumer fundamentalism. Now that our visual economy is funded on total exposure and immediate consumption,...
"I will never transmit sanitised ideas, eloquent discourses or plastic images before the garbage (…) Crushed and exploited, the colonized can only invent their own form of suffocation: the scream of protest comes from an abortive ‘mise en scene’ (…) I’ll continue to make an underdeveloped cinema by condition and vocation, barbarian and ours, anticulturalist (…)" —Rogério Sganzerla, The Aesthetics of Garbage
Not even garbage escapes retrospective respectability; what was once reviled by snobby film buffs has now become their new gospel. Subcultural capital (that which is “hip” and “illicit”) is usually outsourced from our business enemies (China, Iran, etc.) or from forgotten episodes of film history. One wonders what will the subject of a retrospective be in 30 or 40 years when the whole globe will have been converted to consumer fundamentalism. Now that our visual economy is funded on total exposure and immediate consumption,...
- 2/22/2012
- MUBI
To mark the release of Boca on DVD and Blu-ray now, we’ve been given three copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray. Boca stars Brazilian cinema legend, Daniel de Oliveira, and is directed by Flavio Frederic.
From the country that brought us intense and gritty cinema such as City of God and Elite Squad comes this thrilling film based on real-life events adapted from the autobiography of gangland boss Hiroito Joanides de Moraes. Hiroito, was infamous as The King of Boca do Lixo (an area downtown São Paulo in the 1950’s notorious for its nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars and drugs).
Following the violent murder of his father, in which he was stabbed over forty times with a razor, Hiroito was arrested and accused of the crime, but ultimately not charged. However two months later, and aged just twenty-one, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo,...
From the country that brought us intense and gritty cinema such as City of God and Elite Squad comes this thrilling film based on real-life events adapted from the autobiography of gangland boss Hiroito Joanides de Moraes. Hiroito, was infamous as The King of Boca do Lixo (an area downtown São Paulo in the 1950’s notorious for its nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars and drugs).
Following the violent murder of his father, in which he was stabbed over forty times with a razor, Hiroito was arrested and accused of the crime, but ultimately not charged. However two months later, and aged just twenty-one, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo,...
- 2/14/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To celebrate the release of the award-winning Brazilian gangster flick Boca, which is out this Monday 14th February on Blu-ray and DVD, we take a look at the Top 10 gangster movies based on real events.
GoodFellas
This film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese, follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980. The Lucchese crime family was at the height of its reign in 1978 after the famous Lufthansa heist. The character of Jimmy Conway was based on real-life mobster Jimmy Burke who was still alive when the film was released in 1990. He would have been eligible for parole in 2004, but he died of lung cancer in 1996, while still in prison. Casino
Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
GoodFellas
This film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese, follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980. The Lucchese crime family was at the height of its reign in 1978 after the famous Lufthansa heist. The character of Jimmy Conway was based on real-life mobster Jimmy Burke who was still alive when the film was released in 1990. He would have been eligible for parole in 2004, but he died of lung cancer in 1996, while still in prison. Casino
Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
- 2/11/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Director: Flavio Frederico. Review: Adam Wing. Time for a little history lesson - Boca do Lixo is the popular name given to the Santa Efigênia area between Rua do Triunfo and Rua Vitória, in Luz neighbourhood, downtown Sao Paulo. It’s not the kind of place you would want to raise a family, characterised by seedy nightclubs, drugs, bars and prostitution on every corner. These days - with constant police attention - the crime rate has dropped dramatically, but back in the day Boca do Lixo told a very different story. Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito (Daniel de Oliveira), the king of Boca do Lixo. At the age of 21 Hiroito was accused of murdering his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was never charged, however two months after his father’s death, he bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo,...
- 2/9/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
We have a report or two from the International Film Festival Rotterdam on the way, so this'll be something of a supplementary roundup, collecting reviews, impressions and so on from the festival that runs through Sunday. The first main event would have to be the world premiere of the film Takashi Miike is now calling Ace Attorney. The Iffr has posted a video record of Gawie Keyser's "Big Talk" with Miike that took place on Saturday. The introduction's in Dutch, and it's followed by a trailer with English subtitles (much longer, too, than the first trailer) and the conversation itself is a mingling of questions in English and answers in Japanese with Dutch subtitles. Miike obsessives, though, will be able to sort out what's being said.
"The Iffr and Miike have been friendly towards each other ever since Audition had a few legendary screenings over here back in 2000, and it...
"The Iffr and Miike have been friendly towards each other ever since Audition had a few legendary screenings over here back in 2000, and it...
- 2/1/2012
- MUBI
Brazil’s not known for pulling the punches with its thrillers so when the country that brought us intense and gritty cinema such as ‘City of God’ and ‘Elite Squad’ drops a new movie like Boca, in our laps, we’ll def take a look. Based on real-life events, adapted from the autobiography of gangland boss Hiroito Joanides de Moraes. Hiroito, was infamous as The King of Boca do Lixo (an area of downtown São Paulo in the 1950’s notorious for its nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars and drugs) and it lands on UK shores on DVD and blu-ray feb 13. Synopsis: Following the violent murder of his father, in which he was stabbed over forty times with a razor, Hiroito was arrested and accused of the crime, but ultimately not charged. However two months later, and aged just twenty-one, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo, fast...
- 1/16/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
Hot off the virtual presses: "In the Signals section's theme program The Mouth of Garbage: Sub Culture and Sex in São Paulo, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) will present a vast panorama of features and shorts from São Paulo's so-called 'Boca do Lixo' (Mouth of Garbage), the nickname for the working class neighborhood in the center of the Brazilian metropolis. These quick and dirty productions frequently highlighted the sleazy underbelly of Brazilian society using established genres such as noir, horror, the western, and pornography."
So far, the lineup ranges from Ozualdo Candeias's The Margin (1967) through Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk Brazilian Style (1986) and includes work from the years in between by João Callegaro, João S Trevisan, Jairo Ferreira, Carlos Reichenbach, Ody Fraga and Cláudio Cunha, whose Oh! Rebuceteio (1984) Fernando F Croce reviewed some time back: "A sort of mix of Bob Fosse and Wilhelm Reich, Cunha...
So far, the lineup ranges from Ozualdo Candeias's The Margin (1967) through Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk Brazilian Style (1986) and includes work from the years in between by João Callegaro, João S Trevisan, Jairo Ferreira, Carlos Reichenbach, Ody Fraga and Cláudio Cunha, whose Oh! Rebuceteio (1984) Fernando F Croce reviewed some time back: "A sort of mix of Bob Fosse and Wilhelm Reich, Cunha...
- 12/9/2011
- MUBI
Universal Home Entertainment have sent us the first trailer for their new release, Boca which won the Best Cinematography and Best Editing awards at the Festival do Rio 2010. It stars Daniel de Oliveira, Hermila Guedes, Jefferson Brasil and is Directed by Flavio Frederico and is released in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray February 13th. The film is set in Sao Paulo in the 50’s and 60’s and based on the autobiography of Hiroito Joanides de Moraes. The trailer looks fabulous so scroll down to check it out or click here to pre-order your copy.
Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs could be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused of the murder of his father,...
Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs could be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused of the murder of his father,...
- 12/9/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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