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Black Orpheus - The Criterion Collection
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Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, MARCEL CAMUS' Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
- Looking for "Black Orpheus," a French documentary about Black Orpheus's cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
- Theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
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- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 107 mins approx.
- Marcel Camus
- 12
- Breno Mello
- Marpessa Dawn
- Marcel Camus
- Fausto Guerzoni
- Lourdes de Oliveira
- Léa Garcia
English
- 1959
- Portuguese
- 1
- 2
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Black Orpheus - The Criterion Collection
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Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, MARCEL CAMUS' Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
- Looking for "Black Orpheus," a French documentary about Black Orpheus's cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
- Theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
Click Images to Enlarge
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 107 mins approx.
- Marcel Camus
- 12
- Breno Mello
- Marpessa Dawn
- Marcel Camus
- Fausto Guerzoni
- Lourdes de Oliveira
- Léa Garcia
English
- 1959
- Portuguese
- 1
- 2
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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