Tiburon Film Festival 2008
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 political stripes as they fight for the Spanish presidency. Calvo Buttini will attend the screening, which will be followed by a q&a session.
Among the 2008 TIFF tributes are those to John Wayne, with a screening of John Ford’s 1956 Western The Searchers (March 16 at 4:45pm), which some critics consider one of the greatest movies [...]
by Andre Soares | February 19, 2008
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Tags: Blake Edwards, Bob Rafelson, Glauber Rocha, Hal T. Hickel, John Wayne, Miguel Angel Calvo Buttini, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Samba Poet, Tiburon Film Festival, Twins for President
Jarbas Barbosa
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 by Carlos Diegues; and the sociopolitical drama Os Fuzis / The Guns (1964), directed by Ruy Guerra.
Also, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol / Black God, White Devil (1964, above), the tale of a rural bandit directed by Glauber Rocha; and the highly popular erotic comedy Xica da Silva (1976), also directed [...]
by Andre Soares | December 13, 2005
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Tags: Abelardo Barbosa, Black God White Devil, Brazilian Cinema, Chacrinha, Cinema Novo, Classic Movies, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol, Ganga Zumba, Glauber Rocha, Jarbas Barbosa