Eduardo Coutinho
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Biography: Eduardo de Oliveira Coutinho OMC (São Paulo, May 11, 1933 — Rio de Janeiro, February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian filmmaker and journalist. He is considered by many to be the greatest documentary filmmaker in the history of Brazilian cinema. His brand was to make films that privileged the stories of ordinary people. His masterpiece is Cabra Marcado para Morrer, which marked his career as Brazil's leading documentary filmmaker. Among other notable works of his career are the documentaries Santo Forte, Edifício Master, Peões, Jogo de Cena and As Canções.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: May 11, 1933
Deathday: February 02, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Babilônia 2000
Overview: Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-11-22
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Twenty Years Later
Overview: Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-12-03
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The Memory Thread
Overview: A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro
Overview: A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-12-05
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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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Câncer
Overview: This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Last Conversations
Overview: Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, film editor Jordana Berg, and the final cut is signed by João Moreira Salles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-04-10
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Madame Satã
Overview: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-03
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The Mighty Spirit
Overview: An overview of brazilian spirituality and religions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-08-09
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Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
Overview: A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Overview: Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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1964: 40 Years After
Overview: Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the military dictatorship in Brazil. Around 40 characters reveal behind the scenes and comment in detail on this important moment in Brazilian political history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Girl from Ipanema
Overview: Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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The Beggars
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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The Method
Overview: The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-10
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Movie Theaters of Rio
Overview: The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Dib
Overview: Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Sete Visitas
Overview: How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other side, someone asks questions – usually away from the camera eyes. But what would happen if also filmed the interviewers? And if the respondent also had the right to ask? And if the parties never met? What if instead of a glimpse into someone’s life, we had several? ‘Seven visits’ is a film about questions. And about the act of being interested in the other.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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Coutinho.doc - Apartamento 608
Overview: The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the research phase until the end of the filming of "Master, a Building in Copacabana".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Capturing Reality
Overview: From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Critic
Overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-22
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Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira
Overview: Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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A Treat of Coutinho
Overview: Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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Coutinho Reporter
Overview: In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo Repórter on TV Globo. During the military dictatorship, he produced documentaries with a strong social focus. This experience marked his transition into a documentary filmmaker. After his time at Globo Repórter, he completed his most important film: "Twenty Years Later."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Master, a Building in Copacabana
Overview: "Master" is the name of a 12-story apartment building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood for nightlife. Over the course of four weeks in 2001, Eduardo Coutinho's film crew rented one of the 276 apartments and used it as home base to make a film about the building's residents. We get to know the building manager, who succeeded in turning the troubled residence into a family complex within just a few years. Using interviews and a few stolen moments in the corridors of the building, Coutinho explores this world. Most of the building's residents come from the lower middle class and are just getting by, but that's just about the only thing they have in common - so many people, so many stories, sometimes told in a self-confident tone, sometimes with averted eyes. The fact that a film crew is interested in their stories puzzles some of them. Hope, fear, dreams, memories, love and loneliness all appear from behind the doors of this average apartment building.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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