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‘Vitalina Varela’: Pedro Costa Delivers A Beautiful Meditation On Legacy, Loss, And Love [Review]

February 21, 2020 3:56 pm

Surrounded by all sides by corroded concrete, encased in stifling darkness, stone-faced men shuffle down an alleyway carved into the lifeless fabric of a Cape Verdean slum. Crucifixes, entrenched in the surfac...

‘Vitalina Varela’ Exclusive Clip: Pedro Costa Returns With Another Award-Winning Drama

Charles Barfield

February 20, 2020 11:50 am

News, Video

It would be a huge disservice to filmmaker Pedro Costa and his new project “Vitalina Varela” to just explain the plot of his new film in simple words. The filmmaker has never been one to make simple films. And...

‘Vitalina Varela’ Trailer: Pedro Costa Tackles Grief & Ghosts Of The Past

Edward Davis

January 23, 2020 10:32 am

News, Trailers

Like a moth to the light, Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa ("Colossal Youth") always finds himself returning to the Fontainhas neighborhood that he holds so near and dear— a shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon ...

Review: Pedro Costa’s Metaphysical ‘Horse Money’

Nikola Grozdanovic

July 24, 2015 6:25 pm

Reviews

Review: Pedro Costa's Metaphysical 'Horse Money'

Watch: U.S. Trailer For Pedro Costa’s ‘Horse Money’

Kevin Jagernauth

July 10, 2015 11:53 am

News

Watch: U.S. Trailer For Pedro Costa's 'Horse Money'

Criterion Releases Mega Clues For 2010 Line-Up

Rodrigo Perez

January 4, 2010 7:54 pm

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Over the holidays, our good friends at the Criterion Collection unleashed a New Year's Postcard, chock full of those squiggly cartoon clues that adorn their newsletters (the postcard is drawn by regular wacky c...

Criterion In March: Nicholas Ray’s ‘Bigger Than Life,’ Pedro Costa’s Boxset & Marco Ferreri’s ‘Dillinger Is Dead’

Kevin Jagernauth

December 15, 2009 9:04 pm

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Anyone complaining of Criterion pulling a "populist" shift of late will be quieted by their selection of titles for March, which mainline selections that have long been unavailable on DVD, some long-awaited fav...

FNC ’09 Roundup: ‘The White Ribbon,’ ‘Ne Change Rien’ & ‘Three Wise Men’

Kevin Jagernauth

October 20, 2009 7:38 pm

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Here is our second to last batch of reviews, with "Antichrist" and "Mother" on the way for tomorrow."The White Ribbon" - The contentious Palme d'Or winner at this year's Cannes, Michael Haneke's latest was a la...

Pedro Costa’s ‘Colossal’ Masterwork Finally Coming To DVD; Criterion To Release Entire Fontainhas Trilogy

samcmac

September 29, 2009 9:20 pm

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It's certainly not for all tastes – nor would it likely agree with everyone on our staff – but Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa's slow-burning, stark and almost mystical "Colossal Youth" strikes this writer as ...

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