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embrace of the serpent - anyone see this?

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.


- linda 3-11-2016 2:36 pm [link] [2 refs] [3 comments]

Tom Cruise playing Barry Seal? Bourne director at the helm? Strange days. Make of it what you will, but it's something...


- jim 2-29-2016 9:13 pm [link] [2 refs] [4 comments]

Idiocracy (now more than ever)
 


- bill 2-27-2016 6:56 am [link] [2 refs] [1 comment]

Gianfranco Sanguinetti s’insurge !
 


- bill 2-03-2016 3:53 pm [link] [add a comment]

 The Day The Clown Cried stills surface.


- steve 1-24-2016 11:13 pm [link] [3 refs] [add a comment]