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photo of the people waiting at a crosswalk across the street from the sao luiz theater with its marquee promoting king kong

From the Archives: "The Secret Agent" Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho on Cinema and Memory

"Two historic cinemas in downtown Recife are very successful as places of congregation. Otherwise people go to the shopping malls, which is a completely artificial environment designed to make you spend money. And I'm not into practicing my citizenship as a person in a shopping mall."

Netflix is Becoming an Old Hollywood Studio — It Should Act Like One and Buy Some Theaters

man in red t-shirt carrying a baby on his shoulders through a field

An Undelivered Eulogy for My Father

person sitting backwards in a wooden chair reading a newspaper that's on fire

It's the Community, Stupid

Still from film Stations of the Elevated with subway car graffitied with the words Heaven Is Life

Transcripts: Manfred Kirchheimer (in memoriam)

Bluey, Bingo, Bandit, and Chili smile and pose in their backyard

"Bluey" Gives Us a Lesson on the Necessity of the Ending

man holding a sign that reads "I wish this were fake news" at a protest rally

The Civic Necessity of the Public Editor

Film

photo of the people waiting at a crosswalk across the street from the sao luiz theater with its marquee promoting king kong

From the Archives: "The Secret Agent" Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho on Cinema and Memory

"Two historic cinemas in downtown Recife are very successful as places of congregation. Otherwise people go to the shopping malls, which is a completely artificial environment designed to make you spend money. And I'm not into practicing my citizenship as a person in a shopping mall."

Netflix is Becoming an Old Hollywood Studio — It Should Act Like One and Buy Some Theaters

Transcripts

photo of the people waiting at a crosswalk across the street from the sao luiz theater with its marquee promoting king kong

From the Archives: "The Secret Agent" Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho on Cinema and Memory

"Two historic cinemas in downtown Recife are very successful as places of congregation. Otherwise people go to the shopping malls, which is a completely artificial environment designed to make you spend money. And I'm not into practicing my citizenship as a person in a shopping mall."