KMHD Presents a Night at the Movies with Black Orpheus

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

Presented by KMHD, Portland’s jazz without boundaries radio station, a collaboration between Mt. Hood Community College and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Doors open at 6:00 PM for a special DJ set from KMHD’s The Brazilian Beat host Allen Thayer, who will also give a brief introduction to the musical significance of the film in introducing Brazilian music and the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim to the world before the screening at 7:00 PM.