NYC Weekend Watch: Manoel de Oliveira
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMy ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restorations making their North American premiere. Roxy CinemaEraserhead and An American Tail screen, the latter for free. Anthology Film ArchivesThe Rules of the Game and The Flowers of St. Francis
Mirror of Life, a Ten-Film Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective, Comes to BAM on March 28
98% of interviews follow the same pleasantries-exchange / question-and-answer / pleasantries-exchange format, yet there are those rare times an incredible opportunity arrives. Which is to say that when I interviewed Paulo Branco at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival I couldn’t have anticipated he––maybe the greatest producer in film history––would
