Back from Mexico
Normally I don’t do selfies, but this is special. Back from at the Filmoteca In Mexico City
Category Archives: Latin America
Cuba in Nottingham
A short note on the Cuba Research Forum conference which has just taken place at Nottingham, which suggests that international research on Cuba is in good health. Under the as-ever cheerful helm of Tony Kapcia, we heard from speakers of various … Continue reading
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Chile: Divided Generations
This is drawn from from a longer project, ‘Interrupted Memory’, an inquiry into the character of political memory filmed in Chile and Argentina in 2013. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/102417704[/vimeo]
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Spirit of Coutinho
This video presents an overview of the work of the Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014), one of the most original documentarists of recent decades, whose films remain shamefully little known in the English-speaking world. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/99022268#[/vimeo] Read an accompanying discussion of … Continue reading
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Eduardo Coutinho
Here’s my obituary for Eduardo Coutinho, (from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies) Chanan on Countinho
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Latin America in Tübingen
In the world of film studies, Germany is a country not much associated with the investigation of Latin American cinema, but here we were, gathering in the small university town of Tübingen for a Spanish-speaking symposium on ‘Encuadrando La Dictadura … Continue reading
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Eduardo Coutinho In Memoriam
Poetic injustice. The terrible irony of it. On the same day, the news that the US actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has died from a heroine overdose, and the veteran Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, has been stabbed to death by his … Continue reading
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New? Latin American? Cinema?
The proper title of Havana’s annual film festival, founded in 1979, is the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema – Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The words mark the Festival’s identification with a movement that was born in the 1960s, in … Continue reading
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Interrupted Memory
News of upcoming screenings and other information can be found here. View it online here: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/76406932#[/vimeo]
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Havana 35
The Cuban dissenting blogger Yoani Sanchez has written a somewhat cynical blog about Havana’s Film Festival, or to give its full title, the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, whose 35th edition closed on Sunday, in which she comments … Continue reading
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