Pictures of Ghosts

Name: Pictures of Ghosts
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 26, 2024
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Alexandre Moura, Ariano Suassuna, Janet Leigh, Joselice Jucá, Kleber Mendonça Filho

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: January 26, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandre Moura, Ariano Suassuna, Janet Leigh, Joselice Jucá, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Maeve Jinkings, Rubens Santos, Sônia Braga, Tony Curtis

Summary: Pictures of Ghosts is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco: a historical and human territory, examined through the great movie theaters that served as spaces of conviviality during the 20th century. Having hosted dreams andPictures of Ghosts is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco: a historical and human territory, examined through the great movie theaters that served as spaces of conviviality during the 20th century. Having hosted dreams and progress, these places have also embodied a major transformation on social practices. Combining archive documentary, mystery, film clips and personal memories, Pictures of Ghosts is a map of a city through the lens of cinema.… Expand

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Manohla Dargis

Jan 25, 2024

Love suffuses Pictures of Ghosts, a cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home. Read full review

IndieWire Guilherme Jacobs

Sep 12, 2023

This nostalgic and melancholy trip is also a celebration. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Jan 29, 2024

Pictures of Ghosts is so lovely and alive that, if anything, it only reassures you that movies aren’t going anywhere. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 16, 2024

Pictures of Ghosts isn’t a timeline but a winding journey through remembrances of things past, and it moves with entrancing gracefulness through a history that’s near and dear to Kleber Filho’s heart. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Jan 26, 2024

Filho is self-reflective, not self-obsessed, and his clear-eyed stance is crucial to the anti-vanity he brings to his examination of his childhood home and youthful obsession. Read full review

Brad Handford

Oct 9, 2023

As always with Kleber Mendonça Filho, to reflect reality isn’t enough, as cinema has to find its own truth, even if it takes some imagination to get there. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Nov 28, 2023

[A] somewhat bemused memoir-essay about place, cinema and time. Read full review

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