José Celso Martinez Corrêa
Also Known As: Zé Celso, Jose Celso Martinez Correa, Zé Celso Martinez
Biography: José Celso Martinez Corrêa (Araraquara, March 30, 1937 – São Paulo, July 6, 2023), known as Zé Celso, was a Brazilian director, actor, playwright and director. Working − whether directing, adapting, or actually in collaboration − with names ranging from Augusto Boal, Henriette Morineau, Fernanda Montenegro, Sérgio Britto, Raul Cortez, Bete Coelho and Flávio Império to Chico Buarque, William Shakespeare, Nelson Rodrigues, Max Frisch, Bertolt Brecht and Máximo Gorki, Zé Celso built one of the most original journeys on Brazilian stages.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: March 30, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 06, 2023
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Fédro
Overview: Twenty years after his debut as an actor, Brazil's sweetheart Reynaldo Gianechini meets his mentor, legendary director José Celso Martinez Corrêa for a first reading of Plato's Phaedrus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-06-21
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Embodiment of Evil
Overview: Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Tropicália: 50 Anos
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-04
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The Awakening of the Beast
Overview: A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
Overview: A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Overview: The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Overview: 23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Vianinha
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Pela Desordem Natural das Coisas
Overview: A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explores her turbulent beginning in the theatrical world, highlighting her strength and courage during the Military dictatorship in Brazil, which culminated in the foundation of the Teatro do Ornitorrinco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-21
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Overview: Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Macumba Antropofaga
Overview: Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that participated and interacted more with the work at each presentation.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-24
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Travessia
Overview: The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of the March for the Family with God for Freedom in 1964. Based on stories of life under the military dictatorship, stories and reflections of people who had a significant participation in that period, whether for or against the coup.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-10-24
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Ralé: The Lower Depths
Overview: Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Diário De Aquário
Overview: The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The documentary chronicles the visit of the actress and her theatrical company to the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-12
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Dry Movie
Overview: Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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A$$untina of the Amerikas
Overview: A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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América do Sexo
Overview: Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Satyrianas – 78 horas em 78 minutos
Overview: A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mixes documentary and fiction to pay homage to the artists of the contemporary Brazilian theater, who come together in the city of São Paulo every year to celebrate the coming of the spring. The fictional storyline shows the shooting of the documentary which is directed by a foreigner director and his Brazilian second-rate crew. They join forces to make a successful film based on the event.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-21
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Milagrez
Overview: Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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A Caminho das Índias
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-03-18
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Lara
Overview: The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-20
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Zé Celso: Tupy or not Tupy
Overview: From the testimonies of Zé Celso himself, and excerpts from the play "Walmor Y Cacilda 64 - Robogolpe", which contains autobiographical elements, as well as from essays and scenes from older pieces by him, it is possible to know a little more about the life of the irreverent author. Playwright, director, actor and musician, Zé Celso began his career in amateur theater while still a student at the end of the 1950s. He "ate" the work of Oswald de Andrade and as an anthropophage, was one of Tropicália's founders.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-01-03
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Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage
Overview: A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its main verb in four trips to key points in the trajectory of Zé: Bahia badlands, Cururipe Beach in Alagoas (where Bishop Sardinha was devoured), Epidaurus and Athens in Greece and his apartment in São Paulo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Hunting Season
Overview: Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Palavra (En)Cantada
Overview: Palavra (En)Cantada makes a journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Tropicália
Overview: Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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How Do You See Me?
Overview: How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Pitanga
Overview: This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Horácio
Overview: Horacio, an old smuggler hiding from the law, lives in a surreal, baroque apartment with Petulia, his daughter, and Milton, his favorite thug. While he keeps his daughter locked up in her bedroom, Horácio flirts with his goon, for whom he has had repressed feelings for years. However, Milton's love for a mysterious woman, and Petula's attempts to free herself with the help of a former lover, clash with Horacio's tyrannical whims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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Fênix
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Nas Asas da Pan Am
Overview: Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Infinita Tropicália
Overview: Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never die.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Race Antenna
Overview: In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of secular wounds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Boca de Ouro
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Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-12-19
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Zé[s]
Overview: A cosmic-semantic coincidence. Ze, Theater, Workshop. Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa, director of Teat (r) o Oficina Uzyna Uzona, from São Paulo. Zé Perdiz, a mechanic from Brasília whose workshop is transformed into a theater. Parallel lives. Cinematic encounter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-14
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Os Sertões - A Terra
Overview: From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002), O Homem I (2003), O Homem II (2003), A Luta I (2005), and A Luta II (2006). This first play is a carnival opera, the actors are the earth, the vegetation, the wind, the animals, the rivers, the drought. It reveals the most intimate secrets of nature, that also vibrate in the human and trans-human arteries. This work enriched by the experience that the subsequent works brought gains an updated insight into the human interference in the environment. Destructive power is proportional to financial power, and the discussion about the way space gets occupied was brought to the forefront, including the real-estate boom that surrounds today not only Teatro Oficina, but the whole world, now hotter and more arid.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-12-02
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Overview: In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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Saudade
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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Salve o Prazer!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-06-24
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Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Semana de Arte Moderna
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Cafi
Overview: It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years has dedicated himself to recording a large part of the events of dance, theater and Brazilian popular music. Recordings, concerts, tours and rehearsals by important artists passed through Cafi's lens.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-14
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A Paz é Dourada
Overview: The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the 1980s and 1990s. Footage from the unfinished film is included alongside archive and documentary material.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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