"Cinema Novo is the creative synthesis of Brazilian international popular cinema."
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"Cinema Novo stood with the Brazilian utopia. Whether it is ugly, irregular, dirty, confusing and chaotic, it is, on the other hand, beautiful, shining and revolutionary."
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Rocha is regarded as one of the best Brazilian directors of all time and leader of the Cinema Novo movement, as well as a full-time polemicist.
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Eisenstein, Tanner, Jorge Sanjines, Littín, Glauber Rocha, Vigo, Gilles Carle, Karmitz, among others, became more familiar to the Portuguese audience through that distributor.
He is part of the generation of directors of Cinema Marginal (produced films with few financial resources during the military dictatorship), which also includes Carlos Reichenbach, Rogerio Sganzerla, Ozualdo Candeias, Glauber Rocha, Julio Bressane, Neville D'Almeida, Walter Lima Jr., Maurice Capovilla, Sylvio Back and others.
Some names linked to the mimeograph generation and the marginal poetry were Torquato Neto, Ana Cristina Cesar, Waly Salomão, Glauber Rocha, Paulo Leminski, Caetano Veloso, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.