Black Orpheus (1959)
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Carnival Dance- Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus 1959
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Black Orpheus [VHS]
$17.41 Marcel Camus's 1959 update of the Greek myth features an all-black cast and a story set in the frenetic energy of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, a trolley car conductor and superb samba dancer, is engaged to Mira but in love with Eurydice. For his change of heart, Orpheus and his new doomed lover are pursued by a vengeful Mira and a determined Death through the feverish Carnival night. Camus... |
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Black Orpheus (The Criterion Collection)
$29.95 Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 06/08/1999 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: N/r... |
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Fugitive Kind
$5.19 Emotional drama, based on Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," stars Marlon Brando as a guitar-toting wanderer who disrupts the staid life of a small Mississippi town, romancing both unhappily-married Italian emigre Anna Magnani and townnympho Joanne Woodward. With Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory; Sidney Lumet directs. 121 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: Eng... |
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Black Orpheus. A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No. 6. November 1959.
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Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro): The Original Sound Track From The Film
$15.52 This impressionistic score from Marcel Camus's 1958 cinematic retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus was most Americans' introduction to the Brazilian musical style called bossa nova. As it became a nationwide craze that featured both Brazilian samba and U.S. cool-jazz participants, the names of Black Orpheus composers Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa became familiar far beyond the hi-fi set. A... |