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[No title] In this movie you hear the tale of the butcher married to the evangelist, a necrophiliac in love with the bad tempered but beautiful bar owner, a transvestite, a gay guy who is in love with the butcher. Carlota Joaquina: Princess of Brasil (Carlota Joaquina: Princesa do Brasil) Dos Santos was born a slave in the arid North East. members.lycos.co.uk /escoces1966/Brasilianmovies.htm   (5341 words)

Brazil - BRAZZIL - Central do Brasil Goes for the Oscar - Brazilian Cinema - November 1998 Central do Brasil (Central Station), the movie, is poised to go where no Brazilian film has gone before. In its campaign kicked off in late September with ads in the movie industry papers, Sony talked about the exquisite emotional experience Central do Brasil is and cited five other foreign movies that made it into the main category, among them Costa-Gavras' Z (1968), Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers (1972) and The Postman((1995). A Alma do Negócio by José Roberto Torero www.brazil-brasil.com /p12nov98.htm   (985 words)

A Brazilian Movie: Central do Brasil (Central Station) - TOPICS Online Magazine for ESL Central Station, a Brazilian movie released in the beginning of 1999, shows a poor and retired teacher who writes letters in the Rio de Janeiro train station. I could recognize some of the Brazilian problems: illiteracy, security, abandoned kids, traffic of children, dirty cities, undeveloped regions, violence, etc. But the saddest thing to think about is that a lot of people could have the same reaction that Dora had first. The movie is like a prize for Brazilians because the world is recognizing our art and our artists. www.topics-mag.com /globalization/link-central-station.htm   (332 words)

Central do Brasil (1998) (aka Central Station) Central Station is, in its predictable but very realistic fashion, an antidote to the vacuum. For Central Station, it's the journey, whether physical or emotional, that counts; at the end you've learnt a tiny bit more about who you are, irrespective of individual incidents. Speaking of faith, a part of Central Station that may resonate more strongly with the domestic Brazilian audience is its treatment of religion. www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Central_Station.html   (767 words)

KODAK: inCamera July 1999 Central do Brasil is a road movie about a boy in search of a father and a woman in search of a country. Fernanda Montenegro, considered Brazil's greatest living actress, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in the film as the character Dora. Dora is a retired schoolteacher who spends her time writing letters for the illiterate passers-by who cross through Rio de Janeiro's biggest and busiest train station, Central do Brasil. www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/july99/brasil.shtml   (1003 words)

Central do Brasil Dora, a woman without a family, and with a desire to reconcile her past troubled relationship with her own father, acts as a chaperone to Josué on this journey. A true road movie, the film showcases Brazil's colorful landscapes, picturesque views of the rural hinterlands, and its people's rich cultural traditions. Central Station, with its sweeping landscapes of an arid Brazil replete with religious scenes (a pilgrimage scene where over 800 real pilgrims performed a ritual ceremony), colorful restaurants, and vibrantly painted dwellings, focuses on people who are often ignored by mainstream film and television. www.filmreference.com /Films-Ca-Chr/Central-do-Brasil.html   (851 words)

BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Central Station (Central do Brasil) At a small stall in Rio's Central Station, weary 60-something Dora transcribes the outpourings of her illiterate customers into letters for them to send to their loved ones. Central Station crosses predictable terrain en route, but it's hard to fault the director's vision and assured sense of pace. Road movies frequently construct surrogate families but one of the highlights of this film is the way Dora and Josué juggle the traditional roles of parent and child. www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/central-station.shtml   (344 words)

Embassy of Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Secondly, Central Station at least partially transcends a number of the false dichotomies that have longer characterized film debate in Brazil. Although not at all didactic or paternalistic, Central Station is a complex, eloquent, and sensitive portrait of contemporary Brazil. Central Station has not been without its detractors, most of whom criticize what they see as its neo-liberal insertion within globalized standards dictated by Hollywood. www.brasilemb.org /profile_brazil/brasil_ejournal_randal.shtml   (3157 words)

Central Station (Central do Brasil): Cinephiles Movie Review Directed by Walter Salles and produced by Arthur Cohn ("The Garden of the Finzi-Continis"), Central Station ("Central do Brasil") is a film which introduces its story in the busy central station of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where it presents a picture of the lifestyle, the poverty and the restless spirit of its unique characters. As austere a life as hers may be, she bargains with the people's illiteracy in the daily hustle of the city's central station, bringing lines of clients who will pay a dollar in exchange for having their thoughts written down and mailed to their loved ones, their enemies or their long lost relatives. Central Station, which rises from a national cinema that finds its roots in neo-realism, is nevertheless an exceptional film which employs the theme of children as witnesses of misery. www.cinephiles.net /Central_Station/Film-Synopsis.html   (281 words)

Central Station (Central do Brasil) - Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira, Walter Salles - CIA Central Station (Central do Brasil) - Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira, Walter Salles - CIA Central Station (Central do Brasil) - Walter Salles, Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira The story, unsurprisingly, is not what you'd expect (yeah, yeah, tautology be damned): at several points during the movie I expected it to veer off into Hollywood cheese, but it never did, it just kept grinding through ever poorer and poorer parts of Brazil until it finally reached the end of the line. thecia.com.au /reviews/c/central-station.shtml   (453 words)

Movies Reviews by Edwin Jahiel (To anticipate comments, I do know that, as I write this in cold February, it is 90 degrees in Rio, and people are in shirt-sleeves, but shabbiness prevails at the station by any standards). It's more of a road movie than an odyssey since the "adventures" are on a small, intimate rather than a grand scale. The most upsetting sight for me, one that encapsulates the movie, is the the picture of a goat in a sertao village. www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/central_station.htm   (1191 words)

Berlin Film Festival 1998 "Central do Brasil is a film about a boy in search of a father and a woman in search of a country. It is also a film about the search for an identity and the possibilities of surrendering to affection," explains director Walter Salles of his Brazilian road movie which covers more than 5,000 km of the interior of Brazil and was made for the relatively modest sum of $2.9 million. Central do Brasil’s main protagonist, Dora (played by Fernanda Montenegro, considered Brazil’s greatest living actress), is a retired schoolteacher who spends her time writing letters for the illiterate passers-by who cross through Rio de Janeiro’s biggest and busiest train station, Central do Brasil. www.filmfestivals.com /berlin98/bfilm6.htm   (578 words)

Central do Brasil (1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Central do Brasil won't get the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - that will go to Benigni's clever but soppy La vita e bella. I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Central do Brasil (1998) www.imdb.com /title/tt0140888   (420 words)

Shoe-shine star | Close Up | Guardian Unlimited Film It is here that Central Station opens its cinematic odyssey, centred on the story of a cynical middle-aged letter-writer called Dora and an orphaned boy, Josue, as they traverse the vast landscapes of Brazil in search of Josue's long-lost father. 'I wanted to do a film with her for 10 years,' says Salles, 'but the plays she does are so successful that they can last for three to four years, so scheduling is a problem. You should be open to encounters, and it's only the film it is because we found so many co-authors, or co-auteurs, along the way.' From the chaos of Central Station to a hypnotic candle-lit religious pilgrimage in the far north-east territories, Salles and his crew drew on the landscape and locals. film.guardian.co.uk /The_Oscars_1999/Story/0,4135,30410,00.html   (906 words)

Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Central Station Central Station is the Brazilian entry for the Academy Awards so Cranky took a look. It may not be a happy pairing, but it is an interesting adventure as the mother instincts Dora never exercised begin to surface. Central Station is a good film and it is not a waste of your time should you shell out the hard cash. www.crankycritic.com /archive98/centralstation.html   (684 words)

Central Station (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Central Station (Portugese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 drama film set in Brazil about a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. The movie was adapted by Marcos Bernstein and João Emanuel Carneiro from a story by Walter Salles and directed by Salles. The Portugese title, Central do Brasil is the name of the central train station of Rio de Janeiro. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_do_Brasil_(film)   (556 words)

On the Road with Walter Salles, Director of "Central Station" The story centers around the road trip of an unlikely duo: a bitter old woman who writes (and rarely posts) letters for Rio's illiterate at the central train station and a young boy who loses his mother in a bus accident right outside the station. Now the need to do it is very visceral, very much there. So, 50% of not only the crew, but also the actors on "Foreign Land" [Salles' second film] and 50% or more on "Central Station" were young guys that had never worked in cinema before. www.indiewire.com /people/int_Salles_Walter_981118.html   (1300 words)

Central Station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Original Review: Central Station, or Central do Brasil, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film back in January, and is hotly tipped to do the same come Oscar night. Where the main theme re-occurs, such as in "Central" and the conclusive "A Carta de Dora", the score maintains its sense of tragedy and hope combined, but the general underscore is less well-defined. Movie Music U.K is designed and maintained by Jonathan Broxton (c) 1999. www.moviemusicuk.us /centracd.htm   (434 words)

Brasil - Uncyclopedia The Capital of Brazil, according to the movies, seems to be Buenos Aires. Brasil, Braziu, Butter or Buttocks, may have been, for many millenia, a hole of political corruption and bad administration. The dogs are trying to make Brasil a better place to live, but this is a difficult mission, because they don't have thumbs. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Brasil   (2951 words)

brazzil - <i>Central do Brasil</i> Is Brazil Searching for Its Innocence The movie’s illustration of this reverse exodus, shown as the search for individual identity as well as for one’s long-lost family connections, is a most perceptive and revealing one by the director, in view of these more current socio-economic findings. Similarly, as Dora boards the bus that will take her back to face her errant ways, the tears she sheds are not those of regret but for something more concrete and life-affirming: the rediscovery of her own lost purpose in life and of her renewed capacity for love. Central do Brasil, which began life as a small miracle, has grown to become an essential part of the audiovisual library of understanding that catalogs the complex nature of all Brazilians. www.brazzilfile.com /content/view/8891   (3321 words)

Central Station by Jacques Morelenbaum and Antonio Pinto (Cinemusic Online Soundtrack Review)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Central Station (Central do Brasil) is a Brazilian film that won a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film and earned Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Film and Best Actress. Heard best in "O Trem" (the train) and again in "Saida do trem" (train departure and "Porteira" (railroad crossing barrier), it is a heightened string movement filled with passion and urgency. Central Station is a beautiful, emotionally unpretentious work that offers a connection with universal experiences of sadness, strength, hardship, triumph, and love. www.cinemusic.net /reviews/1998/centralstation.html   (495 words)

Amazon.com: Central Station: Music From The Motion Picture: Music: Jacques Morelembaum,Antonio Pinto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Wide opened to emotions and heartbreakingness, the soundtrack features instruments both from central and northeast Brazil, especially the ones used during the trip of Dora and Josu into the country's state, Bahia. I hope the success of the score of "Central Station" leads Brazilian film composers to produce more and more soundtracks, and to explore the possibilities of our own talents. The music to Central Station has echoed in my mind since I saw the film four months ago. www.amazon.com /Central-Station-Music-Motion-Picture/dp/B00000FDJY   (925 words)

BoyActors : Movies by Title : C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) This site is non-commercial and is not an official or representative web presence for any of the actors or movies listed. Do not link directly to any of the images on this site - please upload them to your own webspace, on the understanding that yours is also a non-commercial site. While every effort will be made to ensure that no offensive or illegal material is posted on the forums or linked to from the links database, BoyActors administrators accept no responsibility for any content posted or linked to by its members. www.boyacts.com /cgi-bin/list.cgi?type=movies&ref=Title&section=C   (142 words)

Bossa Nova Bruno has prod me to take greater risks and has encouraged me to do things I wouldn't have the courage before, such as Carried Away, which I consider his best film to date. I feel really privileged to have played the roles he offers me. In the U.S., with very rare exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. Three years ago, we moved from Los Angeles to Nova York, and I thought that my movie career was finished.. www.sonypictures.com /classics/bossanova/irving-int2.html   (250 words)

http://xft001/classes/filmreviews/centralstation.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) At the level of the plot, Gleiberman is correct in arguing that Central Station continues the tradition of a film like Pixote. The cliched nature of the film’s plot is in fact what recommends it least: the story of a grumpy, aging character finding new life in helping a young child is a staple of the art cinema. By refusing this sort of sentimentality, Central Station produces a hollow study of characters who cannot signify anything beyond their relationship to one another. www.montana.edu /metz/website/filmreviews/centralstation.htm   (488 words)

Dancers trace rhythms of West Africa African dance is "an art of participation, not observation," she said. "Dance is a central and inherent part of the life experience. Search our events calendar for things to do, places to go and events to see. www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/ae/articles/1029asudance1029.html   (598 words)

Brazilian Film Library and Television Filmfest The series features some of the finest movies from one of the world's great national cinemas and offers audiences a way to discover Brazil from the inside out. Showing the diversity of Brazil and its film-making abilities: older and newer movies, the better known mixed with the unknown, urban settings with rural settings, literary adaptations and historical programming, immigrant stories and stories about indigenous peoples. A strand of programming and a festival that will entertain and educate the audience while conveying some sense of the variety and richness of Brazilian history, geography, and culture. mysite.verizon.net /vze3yzhv/index.html   (341 words)

Central Station - Moviefone Central do Brasil (1998) 'Central do Brasil' is basically a road movie about a boy Josué... She writes letters for illiterate people in the central station of Rio de Janeiro. Movies Central Station (1998): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo! movies.aol.com /movie/central-station/4571/main   (165 words)

Brasil Tour 1998 Visit Mercedes Benz Mercedes-Benz do Brasil manufactures various size trucks, urban and highway bus platforms and bus chassis. The company culture at Mercedes Brasil would be best described as patriarchal. Although this is unusual to people from the U.S., it seems to be an accepted part of the Brasilian culture and this approach seems to work well for Mercedes. www.seattleu.edu /asbe/studytour/brasil98/mercedes_benz.htm   (842 words)

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