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Rocha treats these conflicts between elites and masses in two other films about primitive religion in the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Black God. White Devil (1964) and Antonio das Mortes (1969) where the people are actually killed off during the fighting between the elite revolutionary cangaceiros and the beatos, the hired killers of the landowning aristocracy. Rocha deals with Warrior Saints and Dragons of Evil, cut off from the masses by their self-consciousness as legend and their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood...
...leave, you try to apologize for playing devil's advocate. But Sutherland appears equally uncomfortable when confronted with your encouragement...
...open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
Societies no longer paste posters in the Square, and no giant moneymakers -like Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil shown by the Lowel Film Society last year-were screened during the past term. Because Harvey had not complained this year, news of the agreement surprised most people...
...best fictional studies of madness, descent and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Donald Newlove clearly set out to write a first novel about demoniac society. He has produced a combined morality play and grimoire, or devil's hornbook, in which every creature is experienced with hilarious or dreadful concreteness...