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	Hector Babenco -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Héctor Eduardo Babenco is a (A native or inhabitant of Brazil) Brazilian director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
		Babenco was born on February 7, 1946 in (Capital and largest city of Argentina; located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay; Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center) Buenos Aires, (A republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America) Argentina.
		Babenco was nominated for an (An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance) Academy Award as Best Director in 1986 for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hector_babenco.htm (156 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Hector Babenco's impressive Brazilian drama Carandiru (which opens Friday at Landmark's Century Centre) was shot on location in the Sao Paulo penitentiary of the same name, and culminates in a re-creation of the October 1992 riot in which police killed 111 prisoners.
		Babenco had his greatest international success with Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), another story about prison as both a reality and a state of mind, yet his personal investment in Carandiru runs deeper than that.
		Babenco uses the individual stories as tiles in a larger mosaic detailing the social structure and moral codes of the prison.
	www.chireader.com /movies/archives/2004/0504/052804_2.html (1237 words)

	Hector Babenco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Hector Babenco became Brazil's leading post-cinema nôvo director in the 1970s and an acclaimed Hollywood director in the 80s.
		Although Babenco used dream sequences and attached a disclaimer to the film in order to appease the censors, he was the target of death threats and his house in São Paulo was machine-gunned.
		Babenco suffered from cancer of the lymph glands, but he underwent a series of bone marrow transplants that seem to have cured his condition.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/babenco_h.htm (561 words)

	Hector on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Hector Cuper, l'entraîneur de l'Inter Milan Battu à l'aller (1-0) par le Feyenoord, l'Inter Milan, entraîné par Hector Cup.
		L'Espagnol Hector Barbera (Aprilia), dimanche à Estoril En 125 cc, l'Espagnol Hector Barbera (Aprilia) a maîtrisé le Finla.
		Yancey Arias as Miguel Cadena, Hector Montejano as Hector..
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hector.asp (517 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Hector Babenco : Biography
		Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco is an internationally acclaimed director noted for his socially conscientious films that center on the people who live on the fringe of established society.
		Babenco was born to Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
		Babenco first gained international acclaim for his 1981 film Pixote, a film which chronicled the daily misery faced by Brazil's burgeoning population of street children.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/70654/bio.jhtml (358 words)

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		Brazilian director Hector Babenco is not a person to have a quiet chat with over lunch.
		Babenco also seems to know half the people within hailing distance, including many who come from Argentina, Brazil and other parts of South America, a paradoxical continent that everyone always tells you they're leaving, but from which no one ever really seems to return, metaphorically speaking anyway.
		Two-and-a-half years ago, the debilitating illness from which Babenco had been suffering was diagnosed as cancer of the lymph glands, and he flew to Seattle for a series of bone-marrow transplants.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes98/interus8.htm (926 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Hector Babenco
		Hector: No. We were finishing the movie in New York and my daughter called me telling me they were announcing the demolishing - they would explode the Carandiru in a few weeks.
		Hector: I think in confinement, when you are pushed to the limits, this is when the real conflict happens.
		Hector: I would love to play the victim and say that I was kidnapped and then the Brazilian government forbid my movie and I had to escape in the middle of the night, but nothing like that happened.
	www.themoviechicks.com /mid2004/mctcarandiru.html (1577 words)

	Carandiru - Preview Online
		Brazilian director Hector Babenco and his crew were on hand to record the event, using eight cameras to capture as many aspects of its destruction as possible.
		The source for Babenco’s film is Estação Carandiru, a book written by a doctor, Dráuzio Varella, who spent 14 years working in the prison and found himself almost reinventing his medical knowledge, since the equipment was minimal.
		Like Babenco, Varella was fascinated by Carandiru, staying longer there than he might have been expected to, and winning the trust of the inmates because of the straightforward way in which he treated them.
	www.preview-online.com /w2003/feature_articles/carandiru (1066 words)

	AEGiS-SC: Prison abuses -- in real life and onscreen
		Babenco has lived in Brazil since 1969, when he moved there from his native Argentina.
		Babenco, who is 58, says he has been in full remission for five years.
		Babenco filmed half of "Carandiru" at the Sao Paulo facility (whose official name was the Sao Paulo House of Detention), in a pavilion that was empty at the time.
	www.aegis.com /news/sc/2004/SC040513.html (1184 words)

	Miami International Film Festival presented by MDC: CAREER ACHIEVEMENT TRIBUTE: HECTOR BABENCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		For 30 years Hector Babenco has been a consistent chronicler of the human struggle, constructing vivid cinematic portraits of resistance to the imprisonment of the body and the spirit.
		Babenco’s subsequent series of English-language literary adaptations (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ironweed, At Play in the Fields of the Lord) maintained the thematic integrity of his concerns, while winning an Oscar for William Hurt and nominations for Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
		It was during the latter part of this period that Babenco was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and became seriously ill for much of the `90s.
	www.miamifilmfestival.com /2004program/program_detail.asp?FilmID=692 (199 words)

	FilmStew.com • Brazil Sends Its Blockbuster to Cannes
		While caring for Babenco, Varela would often tell him the stories he heard from prisoners in Carandiru and the director, like many others the doctor knew, was vastly interested in hearing them.
		According to Babenco, using the doctor as the central figure in the film was a tricky proposition, specifically because he does very little except listen to stories.
		Babenco did make one exception to his edict that no recognizable names or faces appear in his film when he cast hunky Brazilian soap star Rodrigo Santoro as a transsexual prisoner who goes by the name Lady Di.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=5904 (1300 words)

	The Observer \| Screen \| Alex Bellos talks to Brazilian director Hector Babenco
		The fact that first-hand experience of crime led me back to Babenco seemed particularly relevant since the Argentine-born director is one of the artistic figures who has most contributed towards an understanding of social problems in South America.
		Babenco's film is a sequence of vignettes about different prisoners linked together by the character of the prison doctor.
		Babenco's condition deteriorated in 1991, and Varella suggested he undergo a new bone-marrow transplant treatment.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /screen/story/0,6903,1075869,00.html (1599 words)

	FILMMAKING.COM: The Filmmaking Portal - All about filmmaking, moviemaking, digital filmmaking, instruction and more!
		Babenco's movie, which depicts life inside the massive House of Detention that once stood in Sao Paolo, plunges into the dark corridors of the overcrowded prison to reveal not just the inner workings of one of Brazil's more unusual prisons, but to reveal the stories of its inmates.
		Babenco, who came to international attention with the 1982 film "Pixote," was fascinated by the possibility of individuality in a complex that at its most crowded held more than 7,000 inmates.
		Babenco believes Brazil required a movie that delves into the interior not just of prisons but of the criminals that populate them.
	www.filmmaking.com /babenco.html (744 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Carandiru' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Babenco has captured one aspect of prison life that doesn't usually make it into films: the sense of orderliness, how when a prisoner is killed, it's an event.
		Babenco follows a romance between the doctor's assistant and a flirtatious prisoner called Lady Di (Rodrigo Santoro).
		Babenco uses that famous rumba at the end of Carandiru ironically, in the same way Terry Gilliam did in his vision of a worst-case society.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.19.04/carandiru-0421.html (628 words)

	NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: "G21 INTERVIEWS: Hector Babenco"
		Babenco spoke with the doctor to get a feel for what he went through.
		With Hector Babenco (left) is Rodrigo Santoro, the actor who plays one of the prisoners, "Lady Di" --a noted Brazilian actor who was in "Love Actually"
		Two personas exist in the same place -- one that pays the debt and dances according to the rules of international economy, so maybe 15% of the population live like they live on the upper east side of New York, and the other 85% live like in they were in the middle ages.
	www.g21.net /nystate15.htm (698 words)

	Hector Babenco’s Carandiru Adds Ironic Decree to a World Where There Isn’t Supposed to Be Any
		In essence, it could have reflected the inhumane conditions, the growing overcrowded population, the prisoners’ village politics that were created out of their independence from the “free world,” or it could also have been the escalation of a prison-yard brawl between two inmates over who would get to use the outdoor clothesline that day.
		Unlike Hector Babenco’s prison flick adaptation of Manuel Puig’s theater script-turned-novel, Kiss of the Spider Woman (a film that won William Hurt a best actor award at Cannes and the Academy Awards), Carandiru is much darker in style.
		Bright moments in Carandiru play out in scenes with a full fledge soccer match, an AIDS awareness concert with special guest Rita Cadillac and the prisoners’ leisure time spent in their cells, which resemble studio apartments, watching television shows, but it rarely circumvents the suffering that inmates may, or may not, know they are enduring.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/may21-04/prison.htm (663 words)

	Hector Babenco @ Filmbug UK
		The international prestige of Pixote was followed up by the director's next film-The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1984), starring William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga.
		Eight years later, Babenco - after overcoming lymphatic cancer thanks to a bone marrow transplant - made his first film in the country of his birth, Argentina (Foolish Heart).
		The inmates of the vast House of Detention can be seen as the logical outcome of the pixotes who fled from youth correctional facilities twenty years earlier to risk their lives in the multiplicity of crimes that occur on the streets of major Brazilian cities.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/35198 (458 words)

	Carandiru - Dublin - Cinema
		Hector Babenco's Carandiru covers the lives of prisoners at Brazil's most notorious jail.
		This latest incident underlines to one failing of Babenco's film: with the exception of the opening scene, the prisoners are portrayed as genuinely decent people, who have just had a hard time.
		The message of Carandiru is and important one; it is a pity that Babenco undermines it by choosing to adopt a partisan voice.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/13/pt/0/spid/F89F2B8E-5053-4C39-B5975C5941F95891.htm (579 words)

	Hector Espino -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In Homer's epic poem the ‘Iliad', Hector is the son of the Trojan King Priam and the greatest of the Trojan heroes.
		When the Greeks besieged Troy, Hector's wife, Andromache, begged him not to fight, but Hector embraced their child and left to join the battle.
		Hector killed Patroclus, a friend of the Greek hero Achilles, and in revenge Achilles killed Hector.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342988 (619 words)

	2005 Philadelphia Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A violent and overcrowded Brazilian prison is the setting for director Hector Babenco’s sprawling saga of hope, survival, violence and vengeance.
		Hector Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman) makes a spectacular return to international filmmaking with this sprawling prison saga, based on an actual 1992 jail uprising that left 111 inmates dead.
		Babenco captures both the horrors of the deadly prison conditions, and the warmth and humanity of these criminals as they open up their hearts.
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/templates/film_details.cfm?id=2819 (280 words)

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		This is how Hector Babenco summarises Foolish Heart, the film which brings him back to competition in Cannes 13 years after The Kiss of the Spider Woman won William Hurt the best actor prize — a feat he repeated at the Academy awards the following March.
		In his first venture into autobiographical material, Babenco is proud he has "escaped entirely from wallowing in nostalgia".
		The presence of Babenco in competition is a further demonstration of the current vitality of Brazilian cinema.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes98/selofus33.htm (803 words)

	Stunning ‘Carandiru’ is great filmmaking By DENNIS MORTON SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT Hector Babenco had cancer. He was ...
		Babenco read the book as it was being written and knew before it was published that he would make a film of it.
		While Babenco’s film is their story, it’s also a portrait of The Doctor, a man so quiet we rarely hear him speak.
		Hector Babenco is a master of cinema and "Carandiru" is a great film.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2004/June/25/style/stories/02style.htm (657 words)

	Film Review: Carandiru
		Hailed as the triumphant return of Hector Babenco, you may be forgiven for asking, "Who he?" As the Brazilian director of Kiss Of The Spider Woman and Ironweed in the Eighties, he became the breath that freshened the air of Hollywood - briefly.
		Cliches are noticable by their absence, although the lags are surprisingly well equipped with human qualities and the degree of self-expression allowed by the prison staff reflects Christian decency on a scale hitherto unimaginable.
		Babenco conveys the big picture, including the vicious suppression of dissent, deemed worthy of riot status, extremely well.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/c/carandiru_2003.shtml (401 words)

	Carandiru
		The bulk of the problem comes from Babenco and Varella's desire as anthropologists to indulge in a kind of "noble savage syndrome" that elevates the inmates of the titular Brazilian prison into metaphors for existential everymen.
		Their transgressions then--even the vicious murder of one of their number--are reduced to a Robert Bly cliché of men being men in a place where their manhood is the only thing that matters; the doctor muses at one point that the prison is a place where a guy's word is his most valuable currency.
		Machismo rules the day, but Babenco has nothing to say about the cult of manhood and so introduces all manner of hurly-burly, the worst of it a creepy inmate wedding at which a particularly flamboyant gay man falsettos "Ave Maria" in what is either a heartfelt tribute or a mawkish parody to the ritual.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/carandiru.htm (691 words)

	One Guy's Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Review: Life inside a notorious Brazilian prison where a 1992 riot led to the deaths of over a hundred inmates is the subject of Hector Babenco’s epic-length film, only his second since 1990.
		At the other end of the spectrum is the connection between Zico (Wagner Moura), a long-time resident in jail for drug trafficking (and a user himself) and handsome newcomer Deusdete (Caio Blat), his younger childhood friend recently convicted of murder; their almost brotherly relationship takes a devastating turn.
		Babenco makes the claustrophobic feel of Carandiru almost palpable, which most viewers would probably find intolerable if it were maintained without break over the film’s two-and-a-half hour running-time.
	www.oneguysopinion.com /review.asp?ID=1276 (536 words)

	Pixote
		Hector Babenco's Pixote has as its antecedents such works as Jean Vigo's Zéro de Conduite (1933), Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine (1946), Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (1950), and François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959); the gun-toting youth of Barbet Schroeder's Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) would certainly have been influenced by Pixote.
		Babenco addresses the camera, and states that 50 percent of the population in Brazil is under 21, and this includes three million homeless children.
		Babenco's imagery is realistic, but his point of view is shockingly lyrical.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/25/pixote.html (831 words)

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