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It’s taken close to nine years for a new film by Lisandro Alons>o, Argentina’s leading exponent of slow cinema, to reach our screens. The release of Eureka may not be […]
For those of us who have been following the career of René Pérez Joglar, aka Residente, since he and stepbrother Eduardo Cabra exploded into Puerto Rico’s and Latin America’s urban […]
The forces behind the gentrification of Miami’s Little Haiti community in Monica Sorelle’s feature debut Mountains are invisible and unstoppable. They go beyond the For Sale signs with the headshot […]
Much like Terence Malick’s return to feature filmmaking after a 28-year hiatus with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, the return of celebrated Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice to our big screens […]
Can I adopt June Squibb as my grandmother? I suspect that will be the question crossing the minds of anyone without a living grandparent after coming out of Thelma, Josh […]
Poor Frida Kahlo. Much like that other Latin American revolutionary icon, Ernesto Che Guevara, she never imagined that—to a paraphrase Puerto Rico rock group Fiel a La vega’s song “Canciones en la […]
We all have different mechanisms for coping with death or its imminent arrival. In the case of seven-year-old Sol’s family in Tótem, Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés’ delicate second feature, that […]
The city of Santurce used to be, when I was growing up in the 1970s and early ’80s, the moviegoing mecca for those who called the San Juan Metropolitan Area […]
While American cinema has now begun to slowly (although not necessarily surely) reckon with the legacy of colonialism and white supremacy, Latin American cinema has long decried its brutal legacy. […]
After adapting Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in Peter von Kant (2002), and tackling medically assisted suicides in Everything Went Fine (2021), a youthful gay […]
This article was written by Alejandro A. Riera Chicago’s robust fall film festival season begins this weekend with Reeling 2023: The 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival. Coinciding with the […]