This is another e-mail from Film Movement that may be helpful when we get
started in the fall. There are a handful of Latin American films that they are
hoping to secure bookings for. There’s also one (“MIDAQ ALLEY”) that came out
in the mid-90’s. I’ve never seen it, but I know it was in video stores and may
have screened in some places back then. Something to check out and think about.
We can get screeners from Film Movement if any of these or the films in the
earlier e-mail I sent out are particularly interesting to people on the team.
By the way since no one has responded that they are not able or not interested
in continuing to participate in our group, it is my assumption that everyone is
planning to participate again. The other question was whether there was anyone
who appeared to be a good candidate to join the group? Since we never replaced
Bill Jefferson who moved from the area, we do have a smaller group than we had
before.
Joel
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Subject: Venezuela's LA FAMILIA, Cuba's UN TRADUCTOR, and more new Latin
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Film Movement is proud to present three brand new Latin American stories and
one Mexican classic starring Salma Hayek, in HD for the first time.
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ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970:
SEX FASHION & DISCO
directed by James Crump | USA | 2017 | English | 90 min.
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TEASER TRAILER
WORLD PREMIERE - BFI London Film Festival
US PREMIERE and WINNER, GRAND JURY PRIZE - DOC NYC
OFFICIAL SELECTION - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sarasota Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Seattle Int'l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
OPENING SEPTEMBER 14 IN NYC
AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING NOW
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is a time capsule of Paris and New York
between 1969 and 1973 as viewed through the eyes of Antonio Lopez (1943-1987),
the dominant fashion illustrator of the time. A native of Puerto Rico and
raised in The Bronx, Antonio was a seductive arbiter of style and glamour who,
beginning in the 1960s, brought elements of the urban street to a postwar
fashion world desperate for change and diversity. Counted among Antonio’s
discoveries—muses of the period—were iconic beauties such as Grace Jones,
Jessica Lange, and Jerry Hall, as well as Warhol Superstars Donna Jordan, Jane
Forth and Patti D’Arbanville. Antonio’s inner circle was also comprised of his
romantic and creative partner, Juan Ramos, makeup artist Corey Tippin,
photographer Bill Cunningham, and rival designers Karl Lagerfeld and Yves
Saint-Laurent. All these characters and more come together to create a vivid
portrait of Antonio Lopez and the revolutionary fashion world he helped create.
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• “James Crump vividly renders not only the biography of the groundbreaking
artist, photographer and videographer and his onetime lover and ever-present
collaborator Juan Ramos but also the look and feel of a a bittersweet and
all-too-brief era that would shape so much of the future of fashion.”
- The Hollywood Reporter
• “No question, Antonio Lopez embodied the energy, sensuality, and possibility
of the time. For those of us who weren’t there, filmmaker James Crump’s
dazzling new documentary, Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco, does a
spectacular job of returning us to the swirling scene of bohemian
sophisticates, to the frenetic late-night Manhattan studio where Lopez drew,
and to a social revolution that was bubbling up in the cultural capitals of
America and Europe. Crump’s film isn’t just fun to watch; it’s an essential
reminder of an artist and innovator who has been largely forgotten (Lopez died
at age 44 in 1987 of AIDS; Ramos died in 1995 of AIDS).”
- Interview Magazine
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LA FAMILIA
directed by Gustavo Rondón Córdova | Venezuela | 2017 | Spanish | 82 min.
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INTERNATIONAL TRAILER
WORLD PREMIERE - Cannes Film Festival
US PREMIERE - Chicago Int'l Film Festival
WINNER, Best Film - Lima Film Festival
WINNER, Best Film - Miami Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Jerusalem Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - San Sebastian Int'l Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Mar del Plata Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Stockholm Film Festival
OPENING AUGUST 3 IN MIAMI
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Twelve-year-old Pedro roams the streets with his friends, raised by the violent
urban atmosphere around him in a working class district of Caracas. After Pedro
gets unwittingly involved in a gangland assault, single father Andrés decides
they must flee to keep his son safe. Andrés will realize he is a father
incapable of controlling his own young son, but their situation will bring them
closer than they have ever been.
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• “An honest, urgent two-hander, tracking a struggling single father and his
wayward son on the run from more than one undefined enemy, Córdova’s film...
hits the Caracas sidewalks hard and purposefully... Thanks to its combination
of political currency and no-nonsense storytelling, La Familia has already
racked up considerable festival mileage since its Cannes Critics’ Week debut.”
- Variety
• “Córdova emphasizes an understated, realistic style and lets the silences
speak volumes — an apt metaphor for how a lack of connection can bring down
families and communities in equal measure.”
- Screen
• “A lean and mean debut.”
- The Hollywood Reporter
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UN TRADUCTOR
directed by Rodrigo & Sebastian Barriuso | Cuba | 2018 | 107 min.
CLIP
WORLD PREMIERE - Sundance Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - San Francisco Int'l Film Festival
OPENING FALL 2018
AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING NOW
1989. In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Malin (Rodrigo Santoro,
300, Love Actually, Westworld), a Russian literature professor at The
University of Havana, is sent to translate between Cuban doctors and children
sent from the USSR for medical treatment. Just as he adapts to his new job, the
Berlin Wall falls and Cuba enters the deepest economic crisis the island has
ever known. But Malin is now so entrenched in the lives of the Chernobyl
Children that he doesn’t notice his young family suffering.
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• “Un Traductor is a sensitive, eye-opening account that could travel widely.
Shot in Havana, with vivid contributions from production designers Zazu Myers
and Juan Carlos Sánchez Lezcano, the film captures the distinctive time-capsule
quality of an isolated country, where many aspects of the story's 1989–90
setting bear the mark of earlier decades. The Barriusos' film addresses a
specific set of events, but as it unfolds at the intersection of socialist
ideals, economic realities and personal ambitions, it's a timeless portrait of
what it means to be a cog in the wheel of a single-party regime.”
- The Hollywood Reporter
• “Taking a personal and poignant approach to real-life events, Un Traductor
translates the treatment of Chernobyl victims in Cuba into a tenderly told
drama... resonates with genuine emotion.”
- Screen
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MIDAQ ALLEY
(El Callejon de los Milagros)
directed by Jorge Fons | Mexico | 1995 | Spanish | 140 min.
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ORIGINAL TRAILER
SPECIAL MENTION - Berlin Film Festival
WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD - Chicago Int'l Film Festival
WINNER, SILVER SPIKE - Valladolid Int'l Film Festival
WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR - Havana Film Festival
WINNER, AUDIENCE AWARD - Guadalajara Film Festival
WINNER, ELEVEN AWARDS - 37th Ariel Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Toronto Int'l Film Festival
AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING NOW
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of
individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's
son, Chava (Juan Manuel Bernal), who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor
barber, Abel (Bruno Bichir), is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma (Salma
Hayek, in her breakthrough starring role), who eventually becomes a high-class
prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita (Margarita Sanz), the desperate spinster
who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband. Adapted from the
novel of the Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfuz.
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• “Vet Mexican director Jorge Fons does a superlative job of translation and
transformation in Midaq Alley, a riveting and well-acted drama based on the
novel by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. This is the stuff of soap opera, to be
sure. But Fons and his strong ensemble cast infuse Midaq Alley with a
passionate emotional honesty. Hayek, who’s poised on the brink of international
stardom with her upcoming role in Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi sequel, is
particularly compelling in her free fall from grace. Sanz and Cruz also are
standouts. First-rate production values include Carlos Marcovich’s vivid color
lensing and Lucia Alvarez’s evocative musical score.”
- Variety
• “The history of love and sex is full of true devotion, betrayal,
homosexuality, prostitution, violence, and death. Jorge Fons' 1995 film has all
of these, in a sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes unpredictable, but constantly
engaging package.”
- Austin Chronicle
• “Based on the 1947 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist Naguib
Mahfouz, this may sound like the stuff of soap opera, but rarely do suds come
this rich. Director Jorge Fons and screenwriter Vincente Lenero have shifted
the action from 1940s Cairo to modern-day Mexico City, and nothing is lost in
the translation: It's beautifully acted (with a particularly luminous turn by
Hayek), and Carlos Markovich's lush cinematography is evocatively soaked in
shades of indigo and blue. But the film's best feature is its screenplay:
Neatly divided into four chapters, each beginning at the same exact moment on a
Sunday afternoon, Lenero's deft adaptation is expansive enough to capture the
variety of Alley life while remaining marvelously concise. Fons's sensitive
direction, meanwhile, manages the trick of balancing all the drama with quiet
moments of self-reflection without ever allowing his momentum to flag.”
- TV Guide
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