Embrace of the Serpent
Torres and Bolívar lead Embrace of the Serpent along its path of beautiful cinematography and thematic excellence with their dual performance as Karamakate in Ciro Guerra’s adaptation of two men’s travel diaries.
Waste Land
By providing personal connections and anecdotes and faces to put with its grand ideas, Waste Land manages to endear its audience to its characters and elicit buy-in in a way that few other documentaries on the issues of poverty have been able to do.
The Motorcycle Diaries
The film’s two strong leads help shape its story of friendship and growing up into something great, making The Motorcycle Diaries’s place among the Greatest Films of All Time make perfect sense.
Black Orpheus
Dance numbers with purpose, intentional cinematography, and innovative developments of a classic myth help make Black Orpheus a Great Film.