A new documentary airs on PBS. And a Brazilian film by Hector Babenco comes to Criterion. By Mariel Wamsley BROKEN PLACES 10 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.) This documentary from the ...

The late Roger Ebert called the cinema “a machine that generates empathy,” and that’s as good a definition of the power of movies as you’re likely to hear. The director Hector Babenco, who died last ...

A new era is born.

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote (1980). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little ...

As the World Cup opens in Brazil, Spike Lee has released a short film celebrating that country’s passion for futebol. Titled Pixote’s Game, it’s a 5½-minute-long music video set to the song “The Game” ...

In a note to his Bandcamp subscribers last week, Fly Anakin, leader of the Richmond underground rap crew Mutant Academy, wrote that he’s moving his music away from streaming services and that he plans ...

He got his start acting in a play and was later selected from 1300 other boys to play the role of Pixote. For the role, he received world-wide attention and a small fortune. It was too much for Ramos ...

Pixote Hunt’s career in animation spans over 40 years. He has had the opportunity be a director and art director on both feature films and shorts, yet he retains the same enthusiasm for the ...