BURN! (aka Queimada. Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969)
BURN! is the first Gillo Pontecorvo film I had seen. It hit my radar after reading about it in Danny Peary's Cult Movies (I honestly cannot remember if it was reviewed in Part 1, 2 or 3 of his series). I had not gotten around to Pontecorvo's masterpiece THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS until much later. So I had no knowledge of who this Pontecorvo dude was. His name didn't register. All I remember - from Peary's review - that there exists this interesting film starring Marlon Brando. And Brando considered it one of his best performances. So I stumbled across a VHS copy of BURN! in the mid 1990s. Bought it. Brought it home and popped it into the player. I fell in love with it immediately and its still one of my favorite movies of all time.
