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Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 22, 2014

Bad Hair

An impressive, tough film by Mariana Rondón, Bad Hair tells the story of Junior, a little gay boy who is obsessed with straightening his…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jul 9, 2013

La Camioneta

A very poignant, surprising documentary by Mark Kendall, this film focuses on a unique journey. Who knew that many used American school buses, most of them in perfect shape, are auctioned relatively cheaply? Enterprising people from Guatemala and some countries in Africa buy them to provide privatized…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 15, 2012

NYFF 2012: The Ones That Got Away

Yesterday was my last day at the 50th New York Film Festival and I was invigorated and not at all…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jun 27, 2012

On DVD: Alamar

This is simply a beautiful movie. I’m not a huge fan of meditative cinematic tone poems, which I sometimes find boring and…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 2, 2011

NYFF 2011: Miss Bala

Although it is described as an action thriller, what Miss Bala does best is make palpable the feelings of fear, revulsion and violation that Mexicans have been grappling with since the dawning of era of the war on drugs.
Laura Guerrero, (Stephanie Sigman), lives in Tijuana with her father…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Mar 31, 2011

El Velador

El Velador by young Mexican filmmaker Natalia Almada, is a documentary only in the sense that it is not a fictional film. It narrows down its focus on the reality of drug violence in the northern state of Sinaloa, Mexico by following the daily routine of an impoverished caretaker at a grotesque and rapidly…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Mar 9, 2011

Presunto Culpable/Presumed Guilty

I just saw the harrowing Mexican documentary Presumed Guilty online.
You can watch it, and should…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Feb 13, 2011

Carancho

A very interesting but flawed Argentinian noir by Pablo Trapero, with my honey Ricardo Darín and Trapero’s wife Martina Gusman, Carancho is a gripping story about Héctor Sosa, an ambulance chaser who wants out (Darín) and who falls in love with Luján, an ambulance medic (Gusman). The story is phenomenal and…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 20, 2010

The Ten Best Latin American Films of the 2000s

Be sure to check out the first edition of the Cinema Tropical Awards this Friday.

I was very happy to have been asked to compile my list of the 10 best Latin American…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 9, 2010

NYFF: Old Cats

As Pedro Peirano and Sebastián Silva, the talented writer/directors of this charming but unsettling film explained yesterday after…