In the latest from visionary director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), cinema and nostalgia are front and center. In Pictures of Ghosts, he journeys to his Brazilian hometown of Recife. There, reflects on his personal cinematic life and explores Brazil’s movie […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Private Desert,, in select theaters now via Kino Lorber. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Complex characters, plagued by doubts and insecurities and nearly consumed by faults and misdeeds, make for […]

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(Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s is making the rounds in theaters via Kino Lorber. You can watch now at this link!) With all the recent hoopla over The Hunt, a film where wealthy liberals apparently chase and kill poorer […]

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