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The 2008 Tiburon (Calif.) International Film Festival (TIFF), set for March 13–21, will be showcasing more than 225 films from 94 countries. The festival will open with the US premiere of Miguel Angel Calvo Buttini's political comedy Dos rivales casi iguales / Twins for President at 7 p.m. at the Playhouse Theater on March 13. Twins for President follows twin brothers (Andoni Gracia) of different [...]

Jarbas Barbosa, a pioneering producer of Brazil's Cinema Novo of the 1960s, died of respiratory problems on Dec. 10 in Recife, in the Brazilian Northeast. He was 76. Among the films Barbosa produced or co-produced are the film noir Boca de Ouro / Golden Mouth (1963), directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos; Ganga Zumba (1963), about the life and times of a runaway slave, directed [...]