Rita Lee, the legendary Brazilian musician at the forefront of the Tropicália movement as the co-founder and lead singer for Os Mutantes, died Monday, May 8. She was 75.
Lee’s family confirmed her death in a statement shared on Instagram. In 2021, she was diagnosed with lung cancer, jokingly nicknaming her tumor “Jair” after Brazil’s former, and much loathed president, Jair Bolsonaro.
In their statement, Lee’s family said the musician died at her home in São Paulo surrounded by family. As per Lee’s wishes, she will be cremated. A...
Lee’s family confirmed her death in a statement shared on Instagram. In 2021, she was diagnosed with lung cancer, jokingly nicknaming her tumor “Jair” after Brazil’s former, and much loathed president, Jair Bolsonaro.
In their statement, Lee’s family said the musician died at her home in São Paulo surrounded by family. As per Lee’s wishes, she will be cremated. A...
- 5/9/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Cinema Of Brazil: Music And Rhythm; Sound In Cinema – Music In Film: UK Portuguese Film Festival, London
One of the themes of this year's City Of London festival is the music of the Portuguese-speaking world, which is good news for cinemagoers, as these parallel festivals deliver more genres than you can shake a hip at. On the Brazilian side, there's the birth of bossa nova in the 1960s-set Os Desafinados, Crouching Tiger-style capoeira action in Besouro, or streetwise girl groups in São Paolo drama Antônia, plus documentaries on Tropicalia figureheads Arnaldo Baptista (of Os Mutantes) and Caetano Veloso, Wilson Simonal and Vinícius de Moraes. Representing Portugal, there's fado legend Amália Rodrigues in 1943's Fado, Story Of A Singer and Manuel de Oliveira's Buñuelesque Os Canibais.
Barbican Screen, EC2, Ritzy Picturehouse, SW2, Fri to 8 Jul, visit barbican.org.uk, picturehouses.co.uk
Steve Rose
Check The Gate: Hungarian Film Showcase,...
One of the themes of this year's City Of London festival is the music of the Portuguese-speaking world, which is good news for cinemagoers, as these parallel festivals deliver more genres than you can shake a hip at. On the Brazilian side, there's the birth of bossa nova in the 1960s-set Os Desafinados, Crouching Tiger-style capoeira action in Besouro, or streetwise girl groups in São Paolo drama Antônia, plus documentaries on Tropicalia figureheads Arnaldo Baptista (of Os Mutantes) and Caetano Veloso, Wilson Simonal and Vinícius de Moraes. Representing Portugal, there's fado legend Amália Rodrigues in 1943's Fado, Story Of A Singer and Manuel de Oliveira's Buñuelesque Os Canibais.
Barbican Screen, EC2, Ritzy Picturehouse, SW2, Fri to 8 Jul, visit barbican.org.uk, picturehouses.co.uk
Steve Rose
Check The Gate: Hungarian Film Showcase,...
- 6/18/2010
- by Steve Rose, Kathy Sweeney
- The Guardian - Film News
Repertory theaters on the coasts are truly offering a window onto the world this spring, with Jia Zhangke and Bong Joon-ho retrospectives, as well as New French Cinema in New York, "Freebie and the Bean," "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and Jason Reitman's favorite films invade Los Angeles, and the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is offering a fond farewell to the video cassette. But consider this a hello to seeing classics, oddities and rarities on the big screen over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
- 2/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Os Mutantes, the legendary Tropicalismo ensemble that infused traditional Brazilian musical forms with psychedelic rock, sampling and a massive dose of weirdness, has mutated yet again. Formed in 1966 by three Sao Paolo teens—brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgia Dias, and Rita Lee, who would marry Arnaldo—the band dissolved in the 70s and was all but forgotten until the 1990s, when a new generation of fans, including Kurt Cobain, Beck and David Byrne, blew the dust off its old LPs. Os Mutantes reformed in 2006 with a new lineup for a series of sold-out gigs, and this month releases Haih or Amortecedor (Anti-), its first album in 35 years. Two founding members are absent: Lee, who departed amid considerable acrimony in 1972, and Baptista, who has struggled with mental health issues. But under the direction of Sérgio Dias, the band's sound remains as beguiling and deliriously nutty as ever. Credit for that goes...
- 9/25/2009
- Vanity Fair
Of all the unexpected returns to music after years of obscurity or self-imposed exile, the re-emergence of Os Mutantes in 2006 had to score high on the unlikely scale. Having faded into a state of suspended animation in 1978, the band founded by brothers Sergio Dias and Arnaldo Baptista in Sao Paolo in 1966 never found much commercial fortune during their active years, but has since become a common touchstone in the American and European underground for their kaleidoscopic psych-pop, with echoes of their quirks turning up in the musical DNA of everyone from David Byrne and Beck to Of Montreal and Devendra Banhart.
- 9/10/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Ten years ago, Anglophone rock fans discovered the late-’60s recordings of Os Mutantes en masse when the band’s early catalog got a U.S. release. Brothers Sérgio and Arnaldo Baptista and U.S.-born vocalist Rita Lee fashioned a sound that slotted right in with the era’s psychedelic American and British faves: catchy tunes, rocking beats (with more variation, Brazil being Brazil), and keenly applied studio pastiche. Os Mutantes’ early records sounded like a still-thrilling frontier, and nothing is harder to carry into middle age than the buzz of discovery. Especially when the group isn’t ...
- 9/8/2009
- avclub.com
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