Cine Mexico

11/12/04 to 12/12/04

  • Aventurera |November 19

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  • Cabeza de Vaca

    • Sunday, December 12 4:30pm

    The true story of a 16th-century Spanish explorer turned wandering shaman encountering the peoples and traditions of the New World. "A resplendent re-creation of lost Mexico."-Village Voice

  • Return to Aztlan

    • Sunday, December 12 6:40pm

    With dialogue in the indigenous language of Nahuatl, music performed on pre-Columbian instruments, and a majestic backdrop of archaeological sites, this ambitious fusion of history and myth reconstructs the society and beliefs of the Aztecs before the arrival of Cortez.

  • Danzón

    • Saturday, December 11 8:50pm

    A Mexico City telephone operator travels to Veracruz in search of a dancing partner, and finds herself. "Pure joy....[María] Novaro's sad-funny film moves with the elegance of a Minnelli musical."-Village Voice

  • Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

    • Saturday, December 11 7:00pm

    From acclaimed new talent Maryse Sistach, this deeply moving coming-of-age story is a damning critique of the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City, and the silence surrounding it. "An emotional powerhouse."-Chicago Film Festival

  • The Beginning and the End

    • Friday, December 10 7:30pm

    Based on a novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz transposed to contemporary Mexico, Arturo Ripstein's compelling, iconoclastic melodrama reveals the family as the destroyer of dreams.

  • Streeters

    • Thursday, December 9 7:30pm

    Gerardo Tort's exciting debut brings to mind Los Olvidados and Amores Perros in its depiction of kids living on Mexico's mean streets. "Brutal in its honesty and execution."-S.F. Film Festival

  • Hell Has No Limits

    • Sunday, December 5 5:30pm

    Arturo Ripstein's dissection of machismo and homophobia, cowritten by Manuel Puig.

  • Angel of Fire

    • Sunday, December 5 7:40pm

    A circus fire-eater searches for redemption in Dana Rotberg's feminist fable.

  • Miroslava

    • Saturday, December 4 5:10pm

    Fictionalized portrait of the short, glamorous life of the 1950s actress.

  • Reed: Insurgent Mexico

    • Saturday, December 4 7:00pm

    Paul Leduc's account of writer John Reed's involvement in the Mexican Revolution brings home revolutionary realities.

  • Frida

    • Saturday, December 4 9:10pm

    Leduc paints an intense, imagistic portrait of Kahlo's turbulent life and times.

  • Bricklayers

    • Friday, December 3 6:30pm

    Jorge Fons's chilling exposé of labor exploitation won him Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. A worker is killed on a construction site, and the investigation discovers a web of economic and political corruption.

  • Midaq Alley

    • Friday, December 3 8:45pm

    Pre-Hollywood Salma Hayek stars in Fons's adaptation of a novel by Egyptian Nobel Prize–winner Naguib Mahfouz. "A vibrant portrait of millennial Mexico City…a latter-day Rashomon as it exploits an array of societal taboos."-Village Voice

  • Canoa (Free Screening!)

    • Thursday, December 2 5:30pm

    True story of college workers attacked by anti-communist mob during turbulent 1960s. "A landmark in Mexican cinema."-Chicago Reader

  • The Change

    • Thursday, December 2 7:45pm

    (Regular Admission.) Sixties radicalism meets environmental justice. Two radicals battle factory pollution in this bitter allegory of dropping out, and fighting back.

  • One Family Among Many

    • Sunday, November 21 5:30pm

    An old-fashioned patriarch battles a vacuum-cleaner-selling parvenu in this satire of Mexico's postwar clash between tradition and modernity.

  • Nazarín

    • Saturday, November 20 5:00pm

    Gabriel Figueroa's cinematography lends stark beauty to an unforgiving landscape in this Buñuel classic about a priest whose Christlike charity is his undoing. "Marks Buñuel's creative peak in his Mexican period."-Village Voice

  • Macario

    • Saturday, November 20 7:00pm

    This Day of the Dead fable blends traditional folktale with Buñuelian social satire as it follows a luckless woodcutter's struggles against God, Satan, Death, and that deadliest of all beasts, the State.

  • Aventurera

    • Friday, November 19 7:30pm

    Cuban-born rumba queen Ninón Sevilla stars in an irresistible fusion of pulsating musical and noirish melodrama. "Breathlessly paced and acted with nostrils in full flare, Aventurera is as entertaining as it is shamelessly excessive."-N.Y. Times

  • Victims of Sin

    • Friday, November 19 9:30pm

    Ninón Sevilla plays a dancer, mother, prostitute, and avenging angel in this social-problem saga turned camp musical. Featuring moody cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa and the intoxicating rhythms of Perez Prado and Rita Montaner.

  • Iron Fist

    • Sunday, November 14 5:30pm

    Jon Mirsalis on Piano. This 1927 silent adventure is "deliciously absurd...a demented drama on the evils of drug addiction-Reefer Madness on horseback."-Village Voice

  • Wildflower

    • Saturday, November 13 7:00pm

    Emilio Fernández translates the Mexican Revolution into melodrama: Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río live out the class struggle on the domestic front. Photographed by the great Gabriel Figueroa.

  • A Woman in Love

    • Saturday, November 13 8:50pm

    Another classic Fernández-Figueroa collaboration starring Armendáriz and María Félix marries the Revolution to The Taming of the Shrew.

  • That's the Point

    • Friday, November 12 7:00pm

    Puns propel this hilarious comedy of misunderstandings starring Cantinflas, the actor Charlie Chaplin called "the funniest man in the world."