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SÃO PAULO, SP (FOLHAPRESS) – School holidays, which began lively as the mini-retrospective Jean Garrett at Cinemateca, continue starting this Thursday (10), with the fourth SAC Show, organized by the Society Friends of Cinemateca. In the next two weeks, every Thursday to Sunday, old and rare films, new and frequent ones alternate in free programs.
For this series, it’s worth starting with some rarities, films that rarely reach us. Starting with foreign ones, we will have “It Happened on July 20th,” which G.W. Pabst filmed in 1955, a year before his last works. Pabst made some remarkable classics at the end of the silent film era, but he ended up somewhat marked by having been forced to film under the Nazis, although not propaganda films.
His filmography after the defeat of Nazi Germany is vast and rarely seen among us. Here, the date of the assassination attempt, in 1944, is evoked, which German military personnel and civilians planned against Hitler.
It is still worth paying attention to the “Nuclear Shelter,” made in 1981 by Roberto Pires, a significant filmmaker in the years immediately before the new cinema, when he directed “The Great Fair” and “Tocaia no Asfalto.”
Already “On the Path of Crime,” by Flaminio Bollini Cerri, is a police film from the period of the decline of Vera Cruz, which had good critical reception, even by Cerri, although with few resources, and was accompanied by the main technicians -the photographer Chick Fowle, the editor Hafenrichter, the composer Simonetti. Closing the list of rarities is also “The Beggars,” a comedy directed by Flávio Migliaccio in 1963, also at the time of the new cinema.
Among the foreign films is the Iranian “The Death of Yazgerd,” in which Bahran Benzaie presents three versions of the same event: the death of the last king of Iran before the country was invaded by Muslims. Already, the Egyptian “The Last Night,” by Khamal El Sheik, tells the story of a woman who, one day, upon waking up, discovers she is married to her brother-in-law. El Sheik is a director from the classical era, highly regarded among Egyptian filmmakers.
Then, the movies that were already available on DVD or still in streaming and pay TV. They are part of this list “Daughters of Fire”, by Walter Hugo Khouri, and the comedy “The Incredible Army of Brancaleone”, by Mario Monicelli, “The Black Cat”, by Kaneto Shindo, and the strange Humberto Mauro, “Clay”.
Finally, the most well-known films that are still easily accessible, but not in movie theaters – “Slaughter or Die”, a western by Fred Zinnemann, “Sunset Boulevard”, a drama by Billy Wilder, “The Seventh Seal”, by Ingmar Bergman, “The Dragon of Evil against the Holy Warrior”, by Glauber Rocha, “Metropolis”, by Fritz Lang, and “The Deceased”, by Leon Hirszman, and “Jules and Jim”, by François Truffaut.
In short, a very eclectic programming with films from various countries across different continents, which, to complete, also offers a program for young viewers on Saturday, July 19, with the classic short film “The Red Balloon” by Albert Lamorisse, and “Amazon Symphony” by Anélio Latini Filho.
Sacred Show
When from 10 to 20 of July
Where Brazilian Film Library – Largo Sen. Raul Cardoso, 207, São Paulo
Free Price
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