Pedro Costa carte blanche selections...

...from this past September 29th, at the Cinemateca Portuguesa on the occasion of their 50th anniversary, (thank you andré):


SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946, Joseph H. Lewis)
THE EXILES (1961, Kent MacKenzie)
BILLIE HOLIDAY SINGS FINE AND MELLOW ('Sound of Jazz' - CBS television broadcast, New York, December 8, 1957)

*****

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

-did you die?
-that i don't know.