Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
Also Known As: Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes, 'Papa'
Biography: Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes (São Paulo, December 17, 1916 — São Paulo, September 9, 1977) was a Brazilian historian, film critic, professor, essayist and political activist. He was a central figure in the founding of the Cinemateca Brasileira, in the creation of the Brasília Festival and of the Audiovisual courses at the University of Brasília and University of São Paulo, where he taught until the end of his life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: December 17, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 09, 1977
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Paulo Emílio encontra Giuseppe Ungaretti no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 1966

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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

Overview: In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Ao Sul do Meu Corpo

Overview: São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto (Paulo César Pereio) is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro (Nuno Leal Maia) he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena (Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva). Polidoro returns to Brazil in 1945, when there was a strong political agitation against the New State. Alberto invites Polidoro to spend a few days at his home in Campos do Jordão. After reaching the site he is told by Helena that Alberto was forced to travel urgently. She insists he should stay there until the return of her husband and, while waiting, she seduces him. Then, after several days of intense passion, she orders Polidoro to go away and never see her again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Tem Coca-Cola no Vatapá

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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Nitrato

Overview: Nitrato expresses the ambiguities and contradictions of the Cinemateca Brasileira. The film deals with the richness of its collection, the recognition of international entities, and explores what its relationship to the general public was like. Nitrato also portrays the neglect with which the institution is treated, as seen in how precarious its building infrastructure is, how politicians neglected to communicate with the institution’s staff, and the aftermath of another fire in the building.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Paulo Emilio

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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes

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Genres: Drama
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Release Date: 1963-06-22
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Festejo Muito Pessoal

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Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2017-07-10
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Cinema Novo

Overview: A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-16
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Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars

Overview: Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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