“Bus 174” is an intimate and shocking documentary about a real-life Brazilian crime, one of the most famous in that country’s recent history: the “Onibus 174” kidnap-hostage standoff in Rio De Janeiro ...

"This ain't no action movie, bro," says the young hostage-taker Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, waving a gun and giving a news conference at the same time. He was wrong, of course; he was in a terrific ...

Bus 174," the jolting new documentary by Brazilian director Jose Padilha, opens with a dizzying aerial shot that races high over Rio de Janeiro. It's a lovely take, but this is no postcard. In seconds ...

There was enough drama in a June 2000 bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro to make it a gripping real-time TV event. When the standoff ended in gunfire, most of the cameras went home. For the filmmakers ...

"BUS 174" goes from the seemingly sensational to the sublime at breathtaking speed. What starts off as a documentary about a hostage crisis in Rio de Janeiro deepens with every passing minute. By the ...

ThinkFilm has acquired North American theatrical rights to acclaimed Brazilian documentary “Bus 174,” in one of two deals closed — along with Shadow Distribution’s purchase of Hungarian festival ...

Bus 174 The political map of the taut, suspenseful Brazilian documentary Bus 174 is laid out in an aerial shot that floats over the wealthy side of Rio de Janeiro’s mountain topography and then down ...

Who is José Padilha: clear-eyed chronicler of society’s forgotten souls, or misanthropic peddler of pummeling law-and-order fantasies? It’s a question implicit in the critical reactions to Elite Squad ...

Early in the day on July 12, 2000, a dozen or so commuters in the Jardim Botanico district of Rio de Janeiro had the misfortune of boarding Bus #174. A perfectly nice bus in many respects, #174 was ...

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV ...

A chronicle exploring what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000--Valentine's Day in Brazil--when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen ...