The idea of writing Our Man in Havana was conceived when
Alberto Cavalcanti, a Brazilian film director, asked Greene to write a film outline, way before the Cuban Revolution.
Examples include Las Hurdes (Land without Bread, Luis Bunuel, 1932), Coal Face (
Alberto Cavalcanti, 1935), Let There Be Light (John Huston, 1945), and Capturing the Freidmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003).
Cronicas cariocas (1909) de Joao do Rio, Pathe Baby (1926) de Antonio Alcantara Machado e Rien que les heures (1926) de
Alberto Cavalcanti. Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de Melo analisa as tensoes e diferencas da critica de Antonio Candido quando comparada a de Roberto Schwarz, autores que de outra maneira sao sempre pensados como em unissono.
Brazilian film–maker
Alberto Cavalcanti's impressionistic portrait of Paris in Rien Que Les Heures (Nothing But Time) is accompanied by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and John Grierson's vision of a herring drifter's journey Drifters, features a live vocal soundtrack from top beatboxer Jason Singh.
It really catches the atmosphere of a good Friday night out 'up the palais'!" ||Jonathan Coe, Birmingham novelist who is speaking at the Birmingham Literature Festival this week about his new novel, Expo 58, plumps for Dead of Night, from 1945 directed by
Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton and Basil Dearden.
Considered in conjunction with the film Coal Face (1935), a quasi documentary by the Brazilian director
Alberto Cavalcanti featuring a voice-over by W.
Conforme o autor, o cinema brasileiro dessa epoca nao estava interessado numa linguagem cinematografica moderna a exemplo de Paul Strand ou
Alberto Cavalcanti; seu formato era descritivo, assim nos mostra Xavier ao descrever minuciosamente planos do filme mencionado, pois o fundamental era mostrar "imagens que transmitiam ao espectador a clara nocao do espaco das operacoes" (Xavier, 2012, p.
World War Two drama, directed by
Alberto Cavalcanti and based on a story by Graham Greene, starring Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, Elizabeth Allen, Frank Lawton and Valerie Taylor.
World War II melodrama, directed by
Alberto Cavalcanti. Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, Elizabeth Allen, Frank Lawton and Valerie Taylor star.
And throughout the exhibition there are documentary films on video loops including Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton's Housing Problems (1935), an indictment of Britain's slums, and Coalface made by
Alberto Cavalcanti in the same year which, in a more direct way than Drifters, points to the human cost of producing the nation's staples '40 million tons of coal are sold every year for household use, 85 million for industry ...