I think it's from 1973 or so?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orpheus is essential
Yeah, Black Orpheus seems like the quintessential boss movie. Carlos Diegues' Quilombo has a couple songs by Gilberto Gil on the soundtrack, and kinda feels pretty MPB. Glauber Rocha sings Divino, Maravilhoso in Godard's Le Vent d'Est, which is perhaps the most tropicalia scene ever. It's homaged in the Alumbramento group film Road to Ythaca, which is from 2010, but captures the sense of the sixties very, very well.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Yes.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
I do need to see Black Orpheus. I'm going to make it a priority.
There's a quality to a lot of MPB albums that I wish was committed to film:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEVtju-SbhYkT7ZmfgE7TMxQztgpkm0GieX7AUKsHV6kTP4syI9Ahttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRU7y4lgAEA8kO7T4Tu3EMowkAG3rySpZR4RJ7ZFhQNTm5g7YsFhttps://img.discogs.com/iHkMncyX6T8z3zNuFnk9MN_9UsU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7489864-1442536126-2551.jpeg.jpg
These albums all sound how they look, and the album covers all remind me of something I can't quite put my finger on--like an episode of Flipper, or sonething.
― 3×5, Sunday, 29 October 2017 11:10 (six years ago) link
Are there any good books in English on MPB?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
The Brazilian Sound by Chris McGowan is ok. I haven’t read Ruy Castro’s book on Bossa Nova.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
Yeah I skimmed the McGowan a little and it definitely struck me as just ok and maybe not worthy of the music.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link
Charles Perrone's Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song is pretty good on MPB, lots of translations, solid stuff on Gil, Buarque, etc. Nothing much on Tom Ze, though. Ruy Castro's book on bossa is one of the best books ever written on any musical form, definitive as far as I can tell.
― eddhurt, Saturday, 17 March 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Highly recommend the book Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil by Bryan McCann, for an in-depth look at some of the earlier, pre-Bossa styles of Brazilian music.
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
OK, so it doesn't look like Brazil, itself, had much of a film industry in the 20th century. However, I did find a German movie called Rio 70, shot in Rio, that's absolute Bossa perfection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhriKVQehA
If you sign in, you can watch The full movie on youtube.
― 3×5, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
I don't know about industry, but they certainly had a nouvelle vague and a grindhouse circuit of their own.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
They had a fairly big and fairly iconic film culture. Carmen Miranda anyone? Long periods with censorship made it tough for a long time, though.
― Frederik B, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
<3 baby consuelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlm_SIw2YnI
― budo jeru, Saturday, 28 March 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
Wow - thanks for posting that, it's amazing.
― Tim, Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
Cool video. I've never seen Un Homme Et Une Femme, but it seems that parts of it are an ode to Samba music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzW3ForpdMM
― Publicradio (3×5), Saturday, 2 January 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
I don't think this is quite what the OP had in mind but here are two Ruy Guerra films with peak-era Milton Nascimento soundtracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEJbK7rPE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-iQuloGEI4
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
(I think Wagner Tiso might actually be the composer on the first one but obviously Milton is featured)
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 3 January 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
Ooh, thanks for these
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 January 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link
Here's the incredible "Samba Saravah" by Baden Powell with Pierre Barouh (who is in the film) isolated from Un Homme Et Une Femme which isn't really an ode to Samba except for the song (although it's one of my favorite movies).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0V1GqBVl4
And here's Powell and Barouh singing the song in an amazing video I've never seen before:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li-hg5XsvJU
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 4 January 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-hjB_acsg
― budo jeru, Saturday, 12 March 2022 03:58 (two years ago) link
Wow
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 March 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link