héctor babenco

Scorsese’s ‘World Cinema Project  No. 3’ Has a Filtered Gaze
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Scorsese’s ‘World Cinema Project  No. 3’ Has a Filtered Gaze

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 / 9 November 2020

Scorsese's selections for World Cinema Project No. 3 recall an attitude typical of a bygone age of film studies when professors would rationalize overlooking the reactionary politics of a film because aspects of the filmmaking itself trumped such "trivial" concerns.

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Ironweed

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 / 26 March 2009
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Can’t Get Out of the Closet
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‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Can’t Get Out of the Closet

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 / 17 November 2008

As ideologically intriguing as it may be, Hector Babenco’s Kiss of the Spider Woman remains stuck at the threshold of the cinematic closet

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Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

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 / 26 October 2008
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Carandiru (2003)

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 / 23 September 2004
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Carandiru (2003)

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 / 3 June 2004