A Martin Scorsese Presentation (Terra em Transe/ Earth Entranced). A masterpiece of Brazil's cinema novo movement, and the most influential film abroad by Glauber Rocha (1938-1981), this is an intense, operatic spectacle that nevertheless conveys a true sense of the violence and irrationality that characterize electoral politics in a country scarred by underdevelopment. "Although the style is irregular, you will see...that the camera is always positioned as in a documentary," Rocha said. The protagonist is a poet-journalist who abandons his elite milieu for radical politics, only to become as disenchanted with his new comrades as he was with the cowardice of the intellectual class. "A wrenching meditation on politics, art, and especially political art...prophetic, at times delirious, but never less than brilliant" (New York Film Festival `91). Terra em Transe has been restored, re-translated and re-subtitled through the courtesy of Martin Scorsese. Fabiano Canosa is Program Director, Film at the Public, Joseph Papp Public Theater, N.Y.