Rafhael Barbosa's 'Utopia' boosts momentum for Brazil's state of Alagoas as it heads to Ventana Sur, adds Rejane Faria and ...

A sultry and sensuous brunette, Sonia Braga began her career in her native Brazil as a teenager and made her stage ... She and Barreto reunited in 1983 for a film version of one of her most famous TV ...

Directors of 'Apocalypse in the Tropics,' 'Alice,' and 'Amarela' join the LA Times to discuss how their films explore ...

Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction ...

With "Tron: Ares" opening in theaters this weekend, we take a look back at the 1982 original that revolutionized CGI and influenced nearly every science-fiction film to come — even though it wasn't ...

In the late 1970s, filmmaker Steven Lisberger began experimenting with backlit animation, a process in which colored light shines through clear sections of animation cels to create unique and ...

Brazil’s big moment in the international cultural sun is still ahead of us. Hipsters might resist this assertion; after all, they’ve been onto Brazil since at least 2002, when Fernando Meirelles ...

"I felt as if I had to put my skin back on after watching it," says the two-time Oscar winner about the film by Marianna Brennand. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor In the film, Brennand, who ...

Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” doesn’t so much begin as stumble awake, like you’ve walked in on someone else’s nightmare at the exact moment it realizes it’s dreaming. You don’t know where you are, or why ...

It isn’t the technology of Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi classic that holds up, but the film’s depiction of cruel bureaucracy. It isn’t the technology of Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi classic that holds up, but the ...

The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...