It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Thrill of Brazil (1946) read more
The Boys from Brazil (1978) – The Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Blogathon
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Posted by Summer Reeves in 1970s, Blogathon, Drama, Politics, Sci-Fi
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The Boys From Brazil is an odd movie in that it brings together a number of topics that seem to have been in the air at the time of its development. The film is a hybrid of science fiction, conspiracy, and spy movie, all brought together under an umbrella of neo-Nazism. It depicts the efforts of inf read more
Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) is in Paraguay, where he’s discovered a group of war criminals of the Third Reich holding secret meetings, led by the infamous Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck).
Barry contacts Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), a man coined “the Nazi hunter” by the press read more
When a young man learns of a secret meeting of Nazi war criminals in modern-day Paraguay, he contacts veteran Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier). Lieberman's response is less than enthusiastic: "It may be a blinding revelation to you that there are Nazis in Paraguay, but I assure you it's read more
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on May 4, 2012
Now, I cannot for a second claim that my viewing of all of Brazil’s significant films in the history of the nation’s cinema is complete. However, making a watch list for myself is just one motivation for writing this piece. The others are: one, there are likely many coming across this pi read more
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Mar 31, 2012
I was reminded of this one in an email from my grandfather. As many of you know Walt Disney was quite fond of South America, Brazil in particular. Some of the studio’s best, but not necessarily most celebrated works, were about South America like the short vignettes that comprised the feature read more
