Everyone is talking about the new Cineteca which opened its doors in November, just before the change of government. The revamped Cineteca was constructed where the original one was, which no doubt will be missed.
Movies
Vincent Moon’s little planets
Guillaume | January 9th, 2013
Vincent Moon is the main director of La Blogothèque, a French collective blog. He is famous for his “Concerts à emporter” (‘Take-away concerts’) when he filmed Arcade Fire, R.E.M., and a lot of more DIY bands and he proves now with a series of breathtaking documentaries that he sure is always on the move.
From Wuxia to the Rza
Kuma | December 18th, 2012
RZA is a man who has never denied that his influences were a big thing. If you’ve listened to a Wu Tang Clan record, you’ll understand what makes the team and the RZA himself click. That’s why it makes perfect sense to see RZA’s first Hollywood foray as a tribute to his favorite kung-fu films.
Two films about Mexican youth
Jorge Pedro | October 31st, 2012
In the credits for both films one can read the name Emilio Azcárraga, owner of Televisa and the number one public enemy to lots of youth, especially those belonging to the Yo Soy 132 movement. Anyway, both Hecho en México (Duncan Bridgeman, 2012) and Después de Lucía (Michel Franco, 2012) portray the Mexican youth in a very serious way.
Colombian cartels: from narcotraffic to the big screen
Patricia | October 19th, 2012
“El Cartel de los Sapos”, a film based on the novel written by former drug dealer Andrés López López, one of the protagonists of the story behind “El Norte del Valle”, that took place within the mid 80’s and 90’s peak of Colombian cartels. Read More
Mexico in Da House
Patricia | October 19th, 2012
Visiones de Mexico opened up a space for authors and guests to present their books and provide talks and lectures to the general public for free, at the second version of the Garcia Marquez Cultural Festival in the Cultural Center’s remises at Bogota. Read More
Imagination 2012/13: a film party in 60 seconds
Patricia | October 17th, 2012
Imagination 2012/13 is a film marathon in which professionals and aficionados (minimum age is 12) with a camera (includes mobile phones) and creativity, can participate and submit a 60 second film. The minimun age to participate is 12 years old and everyone will be evaluated - from a housewife to a professional film director. Read More
Ivan’s Dream
Patricia | October 10th, 2012
El Sueño de Ivan, a Colombian/Spanish/Mexican production directed by Spanish Roberto Santiago (The Suicide Club, The World’s Largest Penalty) is based on his novel “Ivan en los mundiales”, which has sold around 40,000 copies. Children from South Korea, France, Brazil, Spain and Mexico share casting with Demian Bichir (“Fidel Castro in Che” and Oscar nominee for “A Better Life”) and Ana Claudia Talancon (“The Crime of Father Amaro”). Read More
Alien is a movie franchise with personality
Paul | September 26th, 2012
Talking about how terrible the last Batman film was, is kind of unnecessary by this point. The last half decent thing I saw at the cinema (apart from Moonrise Kingdom) was actually Prometheus. Read More
Network would be a TV series today
Paul | September 25th, 2012
I recently saw Network, the 1976 film about a TV stations war for ratings directed by Sidney Lumet. Read More
The Agony and The Ecstacy Of Miss Bala
Kuma | September 13th, 2012
Scheduling is a bitch. Meaning that I missed a large chunk of what I wanted to see at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Things I’m currently regretting missing include the Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and Takeshi Miike’s latest samurai missive, one especially galling as it was shot in 3D. If you know how gratuitous Miike can get then you know how worth the effort that likely would’ve been.
Vancouver’s New Sci-fi Kids On the Block
Kuma | August 16th, 2012
Vancouver has a long standing history of developing science fiction of the highest caliber. The city that gave us William Gibson and Stargate is now bringing us something new.
Holy Motors
Guillaume | July 24th, 2012
Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is a surrealist travel into a director’s mind and his concerns about the decline of cinema. Read More
The theatre Roma needed so much
Jorge Pedro | June 25th, 2012
Cine Tonalá will shortly open its doors to all those who were eager to have a theatre in Roma, other than the Cinemex on the impersonal and crowded Plaza Insurgentes.
Mobile Movie
Carol | June 23rd, 2012
Using two phones - a Nokia N95 and a Blackberry, director Guiliano Chiaradia has created a new film which has just been presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Read More