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11/12/04 to 12/12/04
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Aventurera |November 19
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That's the Point
Friday, November 12 7:00pmPuns propel this hilarious comedy of misunderstandings starring Cantinflas, the actor Charlie Chaplin called "the funniest man in the world."View DetailsWildflower
Saturday, November 13 7:00pmEmilio 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.View DetailsA Woman in Love
Saturday, November 13 8:50pmAnother classic Fernández-Figueroa collaboration starring Armendáriz and María Félix marries the Revolution to The Taming of the Shrew.View DetailsIron Fist
Sunday, November 14 5:30pmJon Mirsalis on Piano. This 1927 silent adventure is "deliciously absurd...a demented drama on the evils of drug addiction-Reefer Madness on horseback."-Village VoiceView DetailsAventurera
Friday, November 19 7:30pmCuban-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. TimesView DetailsVictims of Sin
Friday, November 19 9:30pmNinón 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.View DetailsNazarín
Saturday, November 20 5:00pmGabriel 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 VoiceView DetailsMacario
Saturday, November 20 7:00pmThis 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.View DetailsOne Family Among Many
Sunday, November 21 5:30pmAn old-fashioned patriarch battles a vacuum-cleaner-selling parvenu in this satire of Mexico's postwar clash between tradition and modernity.View DetailsCanoa (Free Screening!)
Thursday, December 2 5:30pmTrue story of college workers attacked by anti-communist mob during turbulent 1960s. "A landmark in Mexican cinema."-Chicago ReaderView DetailsThe 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.View DetailsBricklayers
Friday, December 3 6:30pmJorge 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.View DetailsMidaq Alley
Friday, December 3 8:45pmPre-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 VoiceView DetailsMiroslava
Saturday, December 4 5:10pmFictionalized portrait of the short, glamorous life of the 1950s actress.View DetailsReed: Insurgent Mexico
Saturday, December 4 7:00pmPaul Leduc's account of writer John Reed's involvement in the Mexican Revolution brings home revolutionary realities.View DetailsFrida
Saturday, December 4 9:10pmLeduc paints an intense, imagistic portrait of Kahlo's turbulent life and times.View DetailsHell Has No Limits
Sunday, December 5 5:30pmArturo Ripstein's dissection of machismo and homophobia, cowritten by Manuel Puig.View DetailsAngel of Fire
Sunday, December 5 7:40pmA circus fire-eater searches for redemption in Dana Rotberg's feminist fable.View DetailsStreeters
Thursday, December 9 7:30pmGerardo 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 FestivalView DetailsThe Beginning and the End
Friday, December 10 7:30pmBased 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.View DetailsViolet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
Saturday, December 11 7:00pmFrom 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 FestivalView DetailsDanzón
Saturday, December 11 8:50pmA 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 VoiceView DetailsCabeza de Vaca
Sunday, December 12 4:30pmThe 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 VoiceView DetailsReturn to Aztlan
Sunday, December 12 6:40pmWith 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.View Details
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