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QUE VIVA MEXICO Movie Review

Da Zdravstvuyet Meksika In 1930, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein was getting ready to end his visit to California, having been told by Paramount Pictures that they weren't interested in his proposed adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. (Paramount and George Stevens would make that film 21 years later, as A Place in the Sun.) The studio hande…

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QUILOMBO Movie Review

The title refers to a legendary settlement of runaway slaves in 17th-century Brazil; this epic chronicles its fortunes as leadership passes from a wise and beloved ruler named Ganga Zumba (the subject of an earlier film by director Carlos Diegues) to a more sternly militant one named Zumbi, who fears that Ganga Zumba's old ways smack of appeasement and who insists on mounting …

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