Roots of Third Cinema from Michael Chanan on Vimeo   (made available for teaching and private viewing only) As regular readers of this bl...

  Image from Xala ( Ousmane Sembène , 1975). Read Teshome H. Gabriel's classic essay on this film: 'Xala: A cinema of wax and gol...

Last updated June 24, 2010 Teshome Gabriel, 1939-2010 Peter Brunette, 1943-2010 Film Studies has lost two of its giants. On Monday, Professo...

Terra em Transe /Entranced Earth ( Glauber Rocha , 1967) Glauber said more: "We are going to make our films anyhow: with handhe...

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Image of Fausta/ Magaly Solier , in La teta asustada/The Milk of Sorrow ( Claudia Llosa , Spain/Peru, 2009) - see a review of this film her...

Subtitled introduction to the first part of Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino 's 1968 Third Cinema classic La hora de los hornos/Th...