Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Ela Bittencourt

Cannes Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt
May 21, 2019
Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Interview: André Novais Oliveira & Grace Passô

By Ela Bittencourt
March 29, 2019
Edge of the city: the director and lead actor of Long Way Home on the difficulties facing black filmmakers in Brazil

Interview: Helena Třeštíková

By Ela Bittencourt
January 17, 2019
The stories we tell: the Czech documentary filmmaker on creating narratives out of daily life, her recent Doomed Beauty, and how her work is (or is not) feminist.

Review: Cold War

By Ela Bittencourt
December 19, 2018
(Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, Amazon Studios, Opening December 21)

Interview: Naomi Kawase

By Ela Bittencourt
December 17, 2018
Self-reflections: the award-winning Japanese filmmaker talks about her intimate autobiographical documentary work

Festivals: Doclisboa 2018

By Ela Bittencourt
November 15, 2018
The center holds: the annual documentary film festival in Portugal presented experimental works that engaged directly with our real world

Interview: Radu Jude

By Ela Bittencourt
July 27, 2018
Slow recovery: the Romanian director of Scarred Hearts and Aferim! talks about the lasting wounds of history

Short Take: Vazante

By Ela Bittencourt
January 3, 2018
(Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal, Music Box Films, January 12)

Rep Diary: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

By Ela Bittencourt
October 27, 2017
Figments of a nation: the Brazilian director’s delirious (and dangerous) allegories pulse with the enduring energies of Cinema Novo

Locarno Voices: Good Manners and Le Fort des Fous

By Ela Bittencourt
September 1, 2017
Colonial hangover: Brazilian directors Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra and Algerian director Narimane Mari probe their countries’ respective historical traumas

Review: L’Important c’est d’aimer

By Ela Bittencourt
July 3, 2017
(Andrzej Zulawski, France, Rialto Pictures, Opens July 14)

Art of the Real: Andrea Tonacci

By Ela Bittencourt
May 1, 2017
No boundaries: the late director helped define Brazil's underground film movement by breaking (and mocking) the fourth wall

Interview: Michal Marczak

By Ela Bittencourt
February 17, 2017
Party till the world ends: the director of All These Sleepless Nights talks about re-creating those all-night odysseys of youth

Interview: Andrzej Wajda

By Ela Bittencourt
February 8, 2017
Moments of truth: the Polish auteur speaks about his work's relationship to censorship and his final film, Afterimage

Interview: Eduardo Williams

By Ela Bittencourt
October 5, 2016
Expressway to your skull: the director of The Human Surge discusses his cinematic peregrinations and digital fascinations

Short Takes: Demon

By Ela Bittencourt
September 6, 2016
(Marcin Wrona, Poland/Israel, Opening September 9)

Interview: Piotr Szulkin

By Ela Bittencourt
June 29, 2015
Other worlds: an extensive, rare interview with Poland's master of allegorical science fiction during and after Communism