Movies
Brazil’s Hector Babenco rebounds from a dark hour with a signature gritty film.
May 10, 2004
Anyone who looks at a newspaper or strolls by a TV set knows how dangerous life can be for inner-city children.
Sept. 23, 1992
World & Nation
Hector Babenco’s brutal yet involving prison drama, “Carandiru,” immediately drops us from high in the sky above Sao Paulo directly down inside the dark, dank walls of the infamous Casa de Detencao -- the city’s House of Detention, a way station in Brazil’s penal system.
May 14, 2004
Cannes: He has survived unsuccessful films and a near-death experience, and is back with a small, closely felt film.
May 19, 1998
Producer Saul Zaentz was so captivated when he read Peter Matthiessen’s elusive, poetic novel “At Play in the Fields of the Lord,” he yearned and burned for more than 20 years to turn it into a film.
Dec. 6, 1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Saul Zaentz). Shooting in Brazil and the U.S.
June 17, 1990
Dennis and Randy Quaid are in negotiations for “At Play in the Fields of the Lord,” the film of Peter Matthiessen’s 1965 ecological novel set in the Amazon.
Feb. 25, 1990
Losing director berates winners in a moment of strife amid an upswing in Brazilian cinema.
Oct. 3, 2004
The Shanghai International Film Festival, a first of its kind for China, will be held Oct. 7-14.
March 20, 1993
Film critics honored “Kiss of the Spider Woman” as the best foreign film at the 1985 Norwegian Film Festival.
Aug. 23, 1985