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Spike Lee on BLACK ORPHEUS
Black Orpheus
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Tessa Thompson on BLACK ORPHEUS
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Revisiting BLACK ORPHEUS
The French-Brazilian-Italian coproduction BLACK ORPHEUS is often considered less a Brazilian film than one with a decidedly European perspective. In this 2010 interview, Brazilian film scholar Robert Stam discusses this criticism and BLACK ORPHEUS’s importance in film history.
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BLACK ORPHEUS and That Bossa Nova Sound!
BLACK ORPHEUS introduced an international audience to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. In the following program, produced in 2010, jazz historian Gary Giddins and Brazilian author Ruy Castro recall the roots of the film’s score and the role it played in popularizing the bossa nova sound.