Instituto 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 Torres); Competition (Ryan Alan Halsey); Music Box (Amy West); Almost Home-- Moby (Mr. Duck). Trailers: Heirloom (Dominique Mazire); Thicker Than Water (Scott "TerrorHawk" Hovlik); Enter […]
7:30 pm New Year's with the Opera is a fun variety show featuring a quartet of Opera Southwest's most beloved recent performers, including Alex Richardson (Hamlet, Amleto, 2015), with artistic director Anthony Barrese at the piano. With a variety of opera favorites and light classics, there is something for everyone to enjoy! Join us after […]
7 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 Mexican society during the Revolution. José Luis, the son of a rich landowner, is disowned by his family when he marries Esperanza, a peasant woman, […]
6 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 Carlo’s worldly possessions. But unexpected people & events threaten to unravel Sharlyn’s carefully laid plans. $5 w/ $1 off for students and seniors
2 pm David Felberg, conductor and violin Schubert, Rondo in A Major Piazzolla, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings Astor Piazzolla's seminal and extraordinary The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires combines jazz and the tango of his native Argentina with classical forms and twentieth-century harmonic ideas. Exciting rhythms dance with luscious […]
8 pm Dave Rawlings is an award-winning guitar player, singer, songwriter, and producer best known for his work with Gillian Welch, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Ryan Adams. His Machine's debut album A Friend of a Friend was released in 2009 on Acony Records. Rawlings was voted 2012 Americana Instrumentalist of the Year. Featuring band […]
7 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 been called the Mexican version of William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights. Amalia, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy miner, arouses the passions of all the men […]
8 pm Duke City Comedy and Player 2 present Kyle Kinane - Kyle's new special "I Liked His Old Stuff Better" debuted on Comedy Central in January, 2015. He’s appeared on @Midnight, Conan, Workaholics, Those Who Can't and Comedy Bang! Bang! He can be heard as the voice of Comedy Central and in various animated […]
7 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 troubles are exacerbated by entanglement with La Banda del Automóvil Gris (the Gray Automobile Gang), the members of which dressed in military uniform and used […]
7 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 finds a valuable pearl and begins to fantasize about untold wealth for himself and his family. His wife, at first uncertain as to whether the […]
