The first article, “Film of Paul Bowles Short Story Rediscovered,” is a pretty interesting article. It tells how director Sara Driver, got a call from a stranger about how her first film “You are Not I” was found. It was neat to see how the director, with a shoe-string budget of only $12,000 and no rights to produce Bowles’ story, went about and made it anymore. She shipped a copy of the film to Bowles’ himself and he liked it. He even wrote her a critique on it and granted her the rights to the story. Another interesting fact in the article is that she filmed it in Western New Jersey and only in six days. Overall, it was a good little piece on the movie and how it came back around after so many years of believing it was lost.
The second article, “Brazil’s Best, Restored and Ready for a 21st-Century Audience is about the film “Limite” It is a 1930 film by director Mario Peixoto. It is showing at the World Cinema Foundation Festival. The article describes the movie as visually poetic and abstract in a way. It is also a movie more talked about and seen and is an independent film. When the film came out, it was detested by the cultural right wing and distributors thought it was too difficult for the audience. This was Peixoto’s only film he made. Walter Salles, Director of Central Station, describes the moves as “ a film of transcendent poetry and boundless imagination.” The writer never goes into what the movie is about, perhaps trying to get the reader intrigued to what it is all about.
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