Season 3, Episode 15: City of God (2002)
Revenge of the Film Nerds
English - July 05, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBFilm Reviews TV & Film movies film movie review film review cinema pop culture nerd culture movie podcast film podcast art Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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You need more than guts to be a good podcaster; you need ideas.
On today's episode, BK and Jack dive headlong into what is possibly the definitive work of Brazilian film and a masterpiece that shocked the world, and in the process, the learn the history of how the favelas came to be, how a special group of people pulled together to make the film happen, how the filmmakers maneuvered filming within Rio's favelas themselves, and so much more!
Get ready to see why, in the City of God, if you stay, they get you, and if you leave, they get you too.