Terra Em Transe (35mm)

(Glauber Rocha, Brazil 1967, 108 min., 35mm, Portuguese and Spanish with English subtitles)

A self-professed statement about the quest for “justice and beauty,” wherein a famous poet named Paolo Martins is ruptured between his intellectual and political life. Set in a fictional country named Eldorado — with obvious allegories to Brazil’s climate of widespread angst in the wake of military invasion — Martins is about to side with a populist leader who’s on the verge of assuming a national dictatorship. Shot in a thrilling verité style, director Glauber Rocha never made another film that came so close to defining his own tumultuous politics.