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Actor Ismail Xavier

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Age: 78 (1947-06-09)

From: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Biography:

Ismail Xavier (Curitiba, June 9, 1947) is a theorist in the field of cinematographic studies and a professor of Brazilian cinema, considered one of the most important researchers in his field.

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A Classic, Two Home Matches, No Away Game 1968 ( 6.4)

Love, sex and death get mixed in a love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha 2007 ( 5)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? 2010 ( 5)

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects from the beginning of Cinema (pre cinema, variety film) and a cinema that appropriates archive material (found footage, recycled films), through interviews, documents, visual metaphors and the articulation of a poetic essay.