Elephant Boy (1937) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch

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  Elephant Boy (1937) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch  British Film, Adventure Venice Film Festival, 1937- 2 wins including: Best Director National Board of Review, 1937- Winner: Top Foreign Films Long before CGI could conjure up entire jungles at the click of a button, cinema had to rely on the real deal. In 1937, Robert Flaherty and Zoltan Korda teamed up to deliver Elephant Boy , an adventure film that stands as a fascinating bridge between raw documentary realism and classic Hollywood storytelling. More on Wikipedia or Mubi The Raw Magic of Elephant Boy  The movie is adapted from "Toomai of the Elephants," a short story out of Rudyard Kipling’s iconic The Jungle Book . It follows a young, spirited Indian boy who dreams of becoming a great hunter, just like his father and grandfather before him. When a massive elephant hunt is organized, Toomai sets out to prove his worth, forming an unbreakable bond with a legendary, giant elephant named Kala Nag. W...
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 Tico-Tico no Fubá (1952)
Brazilian Film, Drama

Official Selection 

Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian drama film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

The film is a fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s. 

Fictionalized version of the life of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880-1935), who wrote the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

One of the first productions of Vera Cruz, about the life of the brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (who wrote the famous song "Tico-Tico no Fuba"). Despite his year, the film didn´t aged so much, but still remained the innocence of that time. In the cast, the future Palm D'Or Winner Anselmo Duarte, here as the leading man, and directing, the future Bond-Villain Adolfo Celi. Worth watch as registry of the Brazilian history.  More on Wikipedia or Mubi

Cannes Film Festival, 1952- Official Selection

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