Richard Peña on BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL
Black God, White Devil
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22m
In this 2024 interview, film scholar Richard Peña discusses the origins of Cinema Novo and how director Glauber Rocha’s BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL helped to establish the Brazilian film movement of the 1960s.
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