March 11, 1970

Limite (1931) ****

A poetic and very experimental silent feature directed by 20-year-old Mario Peixoto (who never made another film again). It's certainly an impressive achievement, although it's no longer possible to claim (as Cinemateca Brasileira did in 1988) that it's the greatest Brazilian movie ever made - considering such post-1988 Brazilian masterworks as 2002's "City Of God" or 2008's "Still Orangutans".