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"Metropolis," as it was meant to be seen! (For real, this time.)
Fri, Oct 30 2009 6:42 AM

Few movies are as incomplete yet overwhelmingly influential as Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis." Any movie you've seen with enormous, gigantic architecture set in an ominous future or a mythical past -- "Brazil," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Fifth Element," even this year's "The International" -- stole... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Metropolis, Fritz Lang, Brazil, Giorgio Moroder, Argentina, Pat Benatar, Berlin 2010

The Vice Guide to Coffin Joe.
Thu, Jun 11 2009 3:34 PM

VBS.TV sits down for a long chat with Brazil's reigning cult filmmaker José Mojica Marins, aka Coffin Joe, who offers an origin story of sorts about how his first brush with cinema involved a film about STDs: "I screamed and screamed, and that image never left my head. I think this scarred my childhood. So in all my horror films, I try to recreate, through... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, Brazil, José Mojica Marins, Vice, Coffin Joe