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Ela Bittencourt

Rep Diary: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

By Ela Bittencourt
October 27, 2017
Figments of a nation: the Brazilian director’s delirious (and dangerous) allegories pulse with the enduring energies of Cinema Novo

Locarno Voices: Good Manners and Le Fort des Fous

By Ela Bittencourt
September 1, 2017
Colonial hangover: Brazilian directors Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra and Algerian director Narimane Mari probe their countries’ respective historical traumas

Review: L’Important c’est d’aimer

By Ela Bittencourt
July 3, 2017
(Andrzej Zulawski, France, Rialto Pictures, Opens July 14)

Art of the Real: Andrea Tonacci

By Ela Bittencourt
May 1, 2017
No boundaries: the late director helped define Brazil's underground film movement by breaking (and mocking) the fourth wall

Interview: Michal Marczak

By Ela Bittencourt
February 17, 2017
Party till the world ends: the director of All These Sleepless Nights talks about re-creating those all-night odysseys of youth

Interview: Andrzej Wajda

By Ela Bittencourt
February 8, 2017
Moments of truth: the Polish auteur speaks about his work's relationship to censorship and his final film, Afterimage

Interview: Eduardo Williams

By Ela Bittencourt
October 5, 2016
Expressway to your skull: the director of The Human Surge discusses his cinematic peregrinations and digital fascinations

Short Takes: Demon

By Ela Bittencourt
September 6, 2016
(Marcin Wrona, Poland/Israel, Opening September 9)

Interview: Piotr Szulkin

By Ela Bittencourt
June 29, 2015
Other worlds: an extensive, rare interview with Poland's master of allegorical science fiction during and after Communism