Luís Costa holds a PhD in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with the thesis "O documário no Cinema Novo: artifícios do real, grafias do Brasil (1959-1967)", defended in 2021. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University between 2019 and 2020, in the Film Studies/School of The Arts department. He is a journalist and contributor to vehicles such as Folha de S.Paulo, BBC Brasil and Nexo Jornal.
A redenção do Jeca: Mazzaropi, artista popular
Em junho de 1960, a revista Cinelândia trazia a notícia de uma invasão a uma sala de cinema de Taubaté, no interior do estado de São Paulo. O motivo: sem ingressos, uma multidão correu para assistir a uma fita que seria exibida em apenas duas sessões.
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In 1974, Sérgio Ricardo’s A Noite do Espantalho, shot entirely in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was shown at the New York Film Festival. It was not until forty five years later, when Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau came to the New York Film Festival in 2019, that Ricardo returned to New York City, this time through song.
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This past September, the staff of Limite had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the Workers of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Trabalhadores da Cinemateca Brasileira) , the collective representing the archivists and staff of Brazil’s largest film archive, who have been fighting for nearly an entire year for the survival of this vital institution.
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The following interview took place with archivist Hernani Heffner on July 4th, 2020. Heffner has been working at Rio de Janeiro’s historic Cinemateca do MAM since 1996 and is one of Brazil’s most important film archivists.
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