Afro Brasil: Art and Identities
Brazil* hosted soccer's World Cup in the summer of 2014, and soon will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. While many are familiar with these events and Brazil's other achievements, they […]
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Rental – Indie Short Film Screening
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30Instituto Cervantes presents a program of independent cinema projects. Short films/directors: Shadows of Waste (Holly Adams); Conscious (Ariana Eve Spencer); Funnybone (Royd McCargish); Monday (Alejandro Montoya Marin). Music videos: Flames (Phillip […]
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Film: Flor silvestre (Ciclo—Emilio Fernández y Gabriel Figueroa)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Flor silvestre, the first film in a long collaboration among director Emilio Fernández, cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, and actors Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz, is a microcosm of […]
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Rental – We’ll Miss You, Carlo
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-306 pm A New Mexico Short Film. Sharlyn Cline is the long-time mistress of an aging ex-mafia leader, Carlo Pinelli. She and her daughter, Jessica, are lined up to receive […]
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Film: Bugambilia (Ciclo—Emilio Fernández y Gabriel Figueroa)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm The plot of Bugambilia, set in Guanajuato in the 1800s, was inspired by Rodolfo Usigli’s poem “The Bugambilia,” dedicated by Usigli to Dolores del Río; the melodrama has […]
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Film: Las abandonadas (Ciclo—Emilio Fernández y Gabriel Figueroa)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Margarita, a young woman abandoned by her faithless fiancé, struggles to raise her small son in Mexico City during the difficult early years of the Mexican Revolution. Her […]
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Film: La perla (Ciclo—Emilio Fernández y Gabriel Figueroa)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Based on the novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie, La perla is the tragic fable of a Mexican fisherman who […]
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Film: Pueblerina (Ciclo—Emilio Fernández y Gabriel Figueroa)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Released from prison after being framed for murder, Aurelio returns to his hometown to try to start a new life working his land, but finds that he is […]
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Film: Hecho en México
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm Duncan Bridgeman’s 2012 film has been described as “a musical reflection on the current state of Mexican identity,” “an inspiring road trip through modern-day ‘Mexicanity,’” and “a beautiful […]
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Film: In an Ancient Village
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm John Bourne, then an anthropology student from California, filmed this narrative of daily life in Tepetlaoxtoc, a rural village in the Valley of Mexico, in 1956. Edited and […]
