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18 May 2008 6:31 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Erica Abeel

The abiding humanism we've come to expect from Walter Salles is abundantly present in "Linha de Passe," his luminous competition entry in this year's Cannes. Co-directed with Daniela Thomas, the film explores the Brazilian underclass through the lives of four brothers who live with their mother on the outskirts of teeming São Paulo. But though the family leads a hardscrabble life in an unforgiving milieu, "Linha" is no "City of God." The brothers may skirt violence and crime, yet they struggle to reinvent themselves, continuing to search, however misguidedly, for a way to rise above their circumstances.

One son (Vinícius de Oliveira from Salles's "Central Station," sole actor in a cast of non-pros) hopes to use soccer as his ticket out. A second braves the mockery of friends and family to embrace religion and assist a local pastor. Touchingly, the youngest boy, fathered by a black bus-driver,

Erica Abeel

4 April 2008 7:38 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

In honor of the start of the 2008 baseball season, Ifc.com will be paying tribute to the national pastime's long relationship with the movies every day this week by giving you everything you'd ever want to know about the odd little quasi-autobiographical ditties in which baseball players have played themselves. Peanuts and crackerjacks not included.

Rawhide (1938)

Directed by Ray Taylor

As Himself: Lou Gehrig

Game Story: Celebrated ballplayer Lou Gehrig announces he's through with the game and is moving out west to live on his sister's farm and become a cowboy. "I'm gonna wallow in peace and quiet for the rest of my life!" Gehrig vows to the incredulous reporters who come to Grand Central Station to see him off. But when he arrives at the family homestead, he discovers some hoodlums have turned the local ranchers' association into a protection racket. Gehrig teams with a local

Matt Singer

2 articles from 2008