Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) enjoyed an extraordinary career in the Brazilian film industry, mainly as a documentarist. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a contemporary of many Cinema Novo filmmakers, friend and colleague of several of them, but he only became a director at the beginning of the 1980s, almost at the age of fifty, in a context entirely different from that of Brazil in the 1960s. He also studied law, theatre and journalism, in which he worked for many years. He is the author of articles on the Brazilian film industry published in newspapers and magazines. His first contact with the film world was at a seminar in 1954, but from then until 1957 he was the editor of Visão magazine and later decided to take up film studies at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC) in Paris. He worked on the script or in the production of major films directed by Leon Hirzsman (A Falecida, Garota de Ipanema), Eduardo Escorel (Lição de Amor), Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) and Zelito Viana (Os Condenados). In 1975, Coutinho joined the Globo Repórter team, where he remained for nine years, and, according to its director, it was an important learning curve that convinced him to move into documentary films. In spite of censorship, the team (made up of Paulo Gil Soares, João Batista de Andrade, Jorge Bodansky, and Oswaldo Caldeira, among others) managed to go in-depth into a number of topics. Coutinho’s documentaries from this period include Seis Dias em Ouricuri (on the drought and the hard labour in the outback), O Pistoleiro de Serra Talhada (on banditry in the north-east), O Imperador do Sertão (on Colonel Teodorico Bezerra) and O Menino de Brodósqui (on the painter, Cândido Portinari).
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as SelfSeventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...
Movie pageMadame Satã
as JuizA story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture,...
Movie pageTwenty Years Later
as HimselfEduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964,...
Movie pageCapturing Reality
as SelfFrom cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like...
Movie pageDib
as SelfDocumentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib...
Movie pageMemórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian...
Movie pageCâncer
as uncreditedThis film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among...
Movie pageSete Visitas
as SelfHow much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers....
Movie pageBabilônia 2000
as SelfDocumentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve...
Movie pageThe Girl from Ipanema
as uncreditedChronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood...
Movie pageCandango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self (archive footage)In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's...
Movie pageThe Mighty Spirit
as Self (Interviewer)An overview of brazilian spirituality and religions.
Movie pageLast Conversations
as uncreditedMade from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his...
Movie pageA Treat of Coutinho
as SelfWould have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter...
Movie pageThe Memory Thread
as Himself (Voice)A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate...
Movie page1964: 40 Years After
as uncreditedDocumentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart,...
Movie pageCoutinho.doc - Apartamento 608
as uncreditedThe audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary,...
Movie pageEduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro
as HimselfA conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.
Movie pageUma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira
as SelfShort documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.
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