José Celso Martinez Corrêa

José Celso Martinez Corrêa

Born: March 30, 1937
Died: July 6, 2023
in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil

Movies for José Celso Martinez Corrêa...

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Title: Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.
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Fédro
Title: Fédro
Released: June 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Twenty years after his debut as an actor, Brazil's sweetheart Reynaldo Gianechini meets his mentor, legendary director José Celso Martinez Corrêa for a first reading of Plato's Phaedrus.
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Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Title: Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
Character: Self
Released: April 10, 2021
Type: Movie
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
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Nas Asas da Pan Am
Title: Nas Asas da Pan Am
Character: Himself
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism.
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Race Antenna
Title: Race Antenna
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of secular wounds.
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Salve o Prazer!
Title: Salve o Prazer!
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 2020
Type: Movie
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Horácio
Title: Horácio
Character: Horácio
Released: April 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Horacio, an old smuggler hiding from the law, lives in a surreal, baroque apartment with Petulia, his daughter, and Milton, his favorite thug. While he keeps his daughter locked up in her bedroom, Horácio flirts with his goon, for whom he has had repressed feelings for years. However, Milton's love for a mysterious woman, and Petula's attempts to free herself with the help of a former lover, clash with Horacio's tyrannical whims.
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How Do You See Me?
Title: How Do You See Me?
Released: November 24, 2017
Type: Movie
How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.
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Tropicália: 50 Anos
Title: Tropicália: 50 Anos
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 4, 2017
Type: Movie
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Saudade
Title: Saudade
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
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Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
Title: Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.
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Macumba Antropofaga
Title: Macumba Antropofaga
Released: September 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that participated and interacted more with the work at each presentation.
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Pitanga
Title: Pitanga
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2016
Type: Movie
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. "Pitanga" deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
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Ralé: The Lower Depths
Title: Ralé: The Lower Depths
Character: Ded
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.
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Zé Celso: Tupy or not Tupy
Title: Zé Celso: Tupy or not Tupy
Character: Himself
Released: January 3, 2015
Type: Movie
From the testimonies of Zé Celso himself, and excerpts from the play "Walmor Y Cacilda 64 - Robogolpe", which contains autobiographical elements, as well as from essays and scenes from older pieces by him, it is possible to know a little more about the life of the irreverent author. Playwright, director, actor and musician, Zé Celso began his career in amateur theater while still a student at the end of the 1950s. He "ate" the work of Oswald de Andrade and as an anthropophage, was one of Tropicália's founders.
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Satyrianas – 78 horas em 78 minutos
Title: Satyrianas – 78 horas em 78 minutos
Released: October 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mixes documentary and fiction to pay homage to the artists of the contemporary Brazilian theater, who come together in the city of São Paulo every year to celebrate the coming of the spring. The fictional storyline shows the shooting of the documentary which is directed by a foreigner director and his Brazilian second-rate crew. They join forces to make a successful film based on the event.
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Tropicália
Title: Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
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Pela Desordem Natural das Coisas
Title: Pela Desordem Natural das Coisas
Character: Self
Released: June 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explores her turbulent beginning in the theatrical world, highlighting her strength and courage during the Military dictatorship in Brazil, which culminated in the foundation of the Teatro do Ornitorrinco.
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Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage
Title: Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage
Character: Himself
Released: November 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its main verb in four trips to key points in the trajectory of Zé: Bahia badlands, Cururipe Beach in Alagoas (where Bishop Sardinha was devoured), Epidaurus and Athens in Greece and his apartment in São Paulo.
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Zé[s]
Title: Zé[s]
Released: October 14, 2010
Type: Movie
A cosmic-semantic coincidence. Ze, Theater, Workshop. Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa, director of Teat (r) o Oficina Uzyna Uzona, from São Paulo. Zé Perdiz, a mechanic from Brasília whose workshop is transformed into a theater. Parallel lives. Cinematic encounter.
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Travessia
Title: Travessia
Released: October 24, 2009
Type: Movie
The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of the March for the Family with God for Freedom in 1964. Based on stories of life under the military dictatorship, stories and reflections of people who had a significant participation in that period, whether for or against the coup.
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Palavra (En)Cantada
Title: Palavra (En)Cantada
Character: Self
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Palavra (En)Cantada makes a journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images.
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Diário De Aquário
Title: Diário De Aquário
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 2009
Type: Movie
The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The documentary chronicles the visit of the actress and her theatrical company to the country.
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Embodiment of Evil
Title: Embodiment of Evil
Character: Mistificador
Released: August 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
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Milagrez
Title: Milagrez
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Title: Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day.
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Dry Movie
Title: Dry Movie
Character: Meu Velho
Released: April 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Title: Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
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Os Sertões - A Terra
Title: Os Sertões - A Terra
Released: December 2, 2002
Type: Movie
From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002), O Homem I (2003), O Homem II (2003), A Luta I (2005), and A Luta II (2006). This first play is a carnival opera, the actors are the earth, the vegetation, the wind, the animals, the rivers, the drought. It reveals the most intimate secrets of nature, that also vibrate in the human and trans-human arteries. This work enriched by the experience that the subsequent works brought gains an updated insight into the human interference in the environment. Destructive power is proportional to financial power, and the discussion about the way space gets occupied was brought to the forefront, including the real-estate boom that surrounds today not only Teatro Oficina, but the whole world, now hotter and more arid.
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Lara
Title: Lara
Character: Vendedor
Released: August 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exchanged stardom for a quiet and religious life.
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Boca de Ouro
Title: Boca de Ouro
Character: Dentista
Released: December 19, 1999
Type: Movie
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Hunting Season
Title: Hunting Season
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others.
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Vianinha
Title: Vianinha
Released: September 14, 1987
Type: Movie
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Infinita Tropicália
Title: Infinita Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never die.
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A Caminho das Índias
Title: A Caminho das Índias
Released: March 18, 1982
Type: Movie
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Fênix
Title: Fênix
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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A$$untina of the Amerikas
Title: A$$untina of the Amerikas
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.
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The Awakening of the Beast
Title: The Awakening of the Beast
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
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América do Sexo
Title: América do Sexo
Character: (segment "Colagem")
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.