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Glauber Rocha - English

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  • Apocalypse Now

    Apocalypse Now

    Apocoppolacalypse - An Alienated and Alienating Discourse about the Vietnam War

    by Glauber Rocha


    The american film Apocalypse Now [Apocalipse, 1979] produced, co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who is considered to be Hollywood's contemporary genius, is being shown in Brazil.

    The co-screenwriter chosen to film the novel Heart of Darkness, by polish novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was John Millius, famous for the successive, fascist self-proclamations on everything he says, writes or films. The choice of Joseph Conrad and…

  • The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation

    "Griffith"

    by Glauber Rocha

    [in memory of my father Adamastor Bráulio Rocha]

    The German expressionism of the 1914 War is romantic idealism seen through the lens of Freudianism: the dream described by literature can be expressed in the theater, but above all in Cinema, invented by Edson & Lumière.

    Méliès, who developed the technique of filming fantasy, showed the expressionists the oneiric possibilities of cinema.

    These avant-gardes are intersected by the Soviet Revolution of 1917, which borrowed from them.

    The Soviet…

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