Hector Babenco

Features

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away. [24 January 2008]

Reviews

Ironweed

Besting Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Jason Robards and Sam Shepard, Jack Nicholson gives one of his most complicated, consuming performances. [26 March 2009]

Kiss of the Spider Woman

The novel was ideal for independent filmmaking; the resulting film, even more than 20 years later, is still superb. [18 November 2008]

Carandiru (2003)

Carandiru is about how stories are told, what they mean to different listeners, how they create identities and communities. [23 September 2004]

Carandiru (2003)

The camera deposits you inside the notoriously overcrowded and treacherous São Paulo prison, where two inmates argue over one's right to slit the other's throat. [3 June 2004]

Blogs

Short Ends and Leader: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)