José Celso Martinez Corrêa
Birthday: 1937-03-30
Place of Birth: Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
Biography: José Celso Martinez Corrêa (Araraquara, March 30, 1937 – São Paulo, July 6, 2023), known as Zé Celso, was a Brazilian director, actor, playwright and director. Working − whether directing, adapting, or actually in collaboration − with names ranging from Augusto Boal, Henriette Morineau, Fernanda Montenegro, Sérgio Britto, Raul Cortez, Bete Coelho and Flávio Império to Chico Buarque, William Shakespeare, Nelson Rodrigues, Max Frisch, Bertolt Brecht and Máximo Gorki, Zé Celso built one of the most original journeys on Brazilian stages.
Movies
Fédro
Twenty years after his debut as an actor, Brazil's sweetheart Reynaldo Gianechini meets his mentor, ...
View Movie
Embodiment of Evil
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic...
View Movie
The Awakening of the Beast
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing...
View Movie
Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos
A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of actin...
View Movie
Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which th...
View Movie
Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!
23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo C...
View Movie
Pela Desordem Natural das Coisas
A deep dive into the life and work of Brazilian actress Maria Alice Vergueiro. The documentary explo...
View Movie
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema N...
View Movie
Macumba Antropofaga
Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that par...
View Movie
Travessia
The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Doc...
View Movie
Ralé: The Lower Depths
Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. T...
View Movie
Diário De Aquário
The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the se...
View Movie
Dry Movie
Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, ...
View Movie
A$$untina of the Amerikas
A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights he...
View Movie
América do Sexo
Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de A...
View Movie
Satyrianas – 78 horas em 78 minutos
A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mi...
View Movie
Lara
The life of Brazilian actress Odete Lara, muse of the movement called Cinema Novo in Brazil, who exc...
View Movie
Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage
A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropica...
View Movie
Zé Celso: Tupy or not Tupy
From the testimonies of Zé Celso himself, and excerpts from the play "Walmor Y Cacilda 64 - Robogolp...
View Movie
Hunting Season
Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro i...
View Movie
Palavra (En)Cantada
A journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry an...
View Movie
Tropicália
Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary explor...
View Movie
How Do You See Me?
How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and begi...
View Movie
Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
View Movie
Horácio
Horacio, an old smuggler hiding from the law, lives in a surreal, baroque apartment with Petulia, hi...
View Movie
Nas Asas da Pan Am
Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian d...
View Movie
Infinita Tropicália
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald...
View Movie
Race Antenna
In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha direct...
View Movie
Boca de Ouro
Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where h...
View Movie
Zé[s]
A cosmic-semantic coincidence. Ze, Theater, Workshop. Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa, director of Teat (r)...
View Movie
Os Sertões - A Terra
From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic bo...
View Movie
Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: ...
View Movie
Cafi
It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years h...
View Movie
A Paz é Dourada
The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a ...
View Movie
The Milky Way
A modern love story set in Sao Paulo about Heitor, a writer and literature professor, and Julia, a t...
View Movie
The Clove and The Rose
Documentary on Rosamaria Murtinho and Mauro Mendonça’s 60-year long career in Brazilian theater, fil...
View Movie
The Peddler's Backpack
From Italian set designer to Brazilian stage director, Gianni Ratto, born in Italy in 1916 and based...
View Movie
Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of...
View Movie