Durante años me preguntaron dónde se podía ver. Hoy vuelve, completa, mi primer documental sobre un escritor: Soriano, el retrato del Gordo que la academia desdeñó y los lectores amaron. Una película que el tiempo convirtió en el archivo de toda una generación.

Before Brazil painted itself, the world saw it through other people's hands. Debret's three folios, a sixteen-year-old Manet on a school ship, and the foreign eye on imperial Rio.

Haroldo Costa, who died in December at ninety-five, spent his life arguing that the samba school is the book of a country that reads little — and that the singer who carries its song is a griot, the keeper of a people's history. A tribute, built from his own voice on film.