Héctor Babenco




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Héctor Babenco

Hector Babenco.jpg
Babenco in São Paulo, Brazil

Born
(1946-02-07)February 7, 1946

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died July 13, 2016(2016-07-13) (aged 70)

São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Occupation Film director and producer, screenwriter
Years active 1973–2015

Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946 – July 13, 2016)[1] was an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.[2] He worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States. His best known films are Pixote (1980), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Ironweed (1987), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1990) and Carandiru (2003).




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Filmography


    • 2.1 Actor




  • 3 Awards and nominations


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Life and career


Babenco was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Mar del Plata. His mother, Janka Haberberg, was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his father, Jaime Babenco, was an Argentine gaucho of Ukrainian Jewish origin.[3][4][5] Babenco lived in Europe from 1964 to 1968. In 1969, he decided to stay in São Paulo, Brazil, permanently. His first solo feature film as a director was King of the Night (1975).


Babenco had an international success with Pixote – A lei do mais fraco (1981).[6] It concerns Brazil's abandoned children. In the words of E. Ruby Rich while it concerns "a pair of boys who form a symbiotic sexual union", the film cannot "be held up as an example of how gay desire can be depicted, given its sensationalistic and sordid treatment of gay sex as accommodation, substitution, and punishment".[6] The film featured impressive work of young actor Fernando Ramos da Silva, 10 years old at the time, who was discovered in the suburbs of São Paulo. The film received numerous prizes.


For Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Babenco was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the first Latin American to be nominated in this category.


In 1994, Babenco fell ill and had to undergo a bone marrow transplant to treat a lymphatic cancer.[7]


He directed some of the most respected American actors of his time, including William Hurt, John Lithgow, Raul Julia, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Kathy Bates.


In 2012 Babenco was part of the jury in the 34th Moscow International Film Festival.[8]


His last film was My Hindu Friend (2016), which stars Willem Dafoe. It recounts the story of a film director close to death.[9]



Filmography










Key
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 double-dagger Indicates a short film







































































































List of films directed by Héctor Babenco
Year
 Original title
 English release title
 Language(s)
 Notes
1973
O Fabuloso Fittipaldi dagger
Portuguese
 Co-directed with Roberto Farias. Documentary on Emerson Fittipaldi.
1975
O Rei da Noite
King of the Night
 Portuguese
1977
Lúcio Flávio: O Passageiro da Agonia
Lucio Flavio / Lúcio Flávio
 Portuguese
1980
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
Pixote / Pixote: The Law of the Weakest
 Portuguese
1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
 -
 English, French, Portuguese, German
 Brazilian-american coproduction.
1987
Ironweed
 -
 English
1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
 -
 English
 Brazilian-american coproduction.
1998
Corazón Iluminado
Foolish Heart
 Spanish
 Brazilian-argentinian-french coproduction.
2003
Carandiru
 -
 Portuguese
 Brazilian-argentinian-italian coproduction.
2005
Carandiru: Outras Histórias
 -
 Portuguese
 TV series. Director of two episodes.
2007
El Pasado
The Past
 Spanish, French, English, Portuguese
 Brazilian-argentinian coproduction.
2014
El Hombre que Robó Un Pato double-dagger
The Man That Stole a Duck
 Spanish
 Mexican-american coproduction. Segment of Words with Gods (2014).
2015
Meu Amigo Hindu
My Hindu Friend
 Portuguese, English


Actor




  • The Venice Project (1999)


  • Before Night Falls (2000)



Awards and nominations


Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Héctor Babenco


References





  1. ^ Globo: "Hector Babenco morre aos 70 anos" July 14, 2016


  2. ^ Héctor Babenco at the Internet Movie Database.


  3. ^ Alex Bellos talks to Hector Babenco


  4. ^ Hector Babenco's Carandiru


  5. ^ The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films


  6. ^ ab Rich, E. Ruby (2013). "New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut". Durham, N.C & London: Duke University Press. p. 151..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  7. ^ Héctor Babenco Archived 2004-12-16 at the Wayback Machine official web site.


  8. ^ Darmaros, Marina (2012-06-25). "Moscow International Film Festival has a Latin focus". Russia Beyond The Headlines. Retrieved 2017-02-28.


  9. ^ ""Kiss of the Spider Woman" director Hector Babenco dead at 70". CBS News. Retrieved 14 July 2016.




External links








  • Héctor Babenco on IMDb


  • Héctor Babenco at Cinenacional.com (in Spanish).











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