'Black Orpheus' Director: Marcel Camus (1959) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Restored | Portuguese w/ English subtitles Marcel Camus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning. Special features include:- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn- Interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro- Looking for "Black Orpheus", a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack- Essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
