Cinema Novo

Shooting at Street Level

At 33 minutes, Andrade's 1967 Cinema Novo depicts and celebrates Brazil's "New Cinema" movement, following a number of heroes of the scene with a handheld camera as they themselves shoot new work on-location and in the streets. A German TV program commissioned the documentary, and Andrade's credit reads variously as the cameraman and the director. Of late I've been diving more into Brazilian cinema, so many of Cinema Novo's revelations are lost on me at this point (with the exception of the footage of Glauber Rocha), but won't always be... •

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My Writings on the Complete Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

(This 3-disc Blu-ray set was issued by Kino in 2018.)

O poeta do Castelo [The Poet of Castelo, 1959]

O mestre de Apipucos [The Master of Apipucos, 1959]

Couro de gato – (La peau du chat) [Cat Skin, 1960]

Garrincha, alegria do povo [Garrincha: Joy of the People, 1963]

O padre e a moça [The Priest and the Girl, 1965]

Cinema Novo [1967]

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