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AugUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 |
CINEMA TROPICAL SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
OTHER FILM SERIES, FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
THEATRICAL RELEASES
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Thank you to all of those who attended the wrap up of our two successful summer series this summer: ‘Verano Tropical’ at Instituto Cervantes and ‘Music + Film: Janeiro in New York’ at 92YTribeca. Thanks to cinephiles like you, we had full houses both in midtown and dowtown Manhattan the a same night.
For this week, Cinema Tropical is presenting two screenings of Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman's acclaimed documentary Los que se quedan / Those Who Remain as part of our 'Indocumentales' series. The first one is an outdoor screening at the Queens Museum of Art as part of their "Target Passport Fridays" series. Music and dance start at 6:30pm followed by the film which will be introduced by co-director Carlos Hagerman.
The film will also be shown at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Auditorium at NYU this Monday, 8/30 at 7pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion with co-director Hagerman and special guests. |
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Date:
Friday, August 27 and Monday, August 30
Place:
Queens Museum of Art and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Auditorium at NYU
Price:
Free admission
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'Indocumentales/Undocumentaries: The US/Mexico Interdependent Film Series'
LOS QUE SE QUEDAN / THOSE WHO REMAIN
 (Juan Carlos Rulfo, México, 2008, 96 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
"Those Who Remain shines a light on the families left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work, while also illuminating the rich glow of the Mexican spirit. Examining the emotional cost of long-term estrangement, the directors find rich cinematic metaphors in the deserted, newly constructed homes on the highway, their empty rooms a powerful reminder of the absence of loved ones at otherwise joyous occasions like communions and graduations. Despite this void in their communities, many of those profiled emerge as colorful characters with boundless vitality and wonderful senses of humor." - LA Latino Film Festival.
Friday, August 27, 6:30pm - 10pm: Outdoor Screening, Queens Museum of Art
Presented as part of the Queens Museum of Art's "Target's Passport Fridays 2010" Film introduced by co-director Carlos Hagerman. Screening preceded by dance by Mexicanos Unidos de Queens Ballet Folklorico Groups Nueva Juventud and Ballet Infantil Tepochli, and Colombian and Mexican cumbias by Brooklyn-based band Cumbiagra.
Monday, August 30, 7pm: Public screening at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
Free admission (picture ID required at door).
Discussion following the screening with co-director Carlos Hagerman.
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Date:
Wednesday, September 1, 6pm
Place:
Instituto Cervantes at Amster Yard
Price:
Free Admission
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'First Peruvian Contemporary Film Showcase'
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EL FUEGO ETERNO / THE FIRE WITHIN
(Lorry Salcedo Mitrani, Perú, 2008, 57 min. In English with Spanish subtitles)
This film is about a unique, little known episode in the history of the Amazon and the Jewish history of the Diaspora. It tells the story of a Jewish community in Iquitos, an isolated Peruvian city in the Amazon jungles. Jewish men came during the late 19th century from Morocco during the rubber boom and married Amazonian women. The documentary makes us aware of a most surprising human legacy of this migration: those called “Judios Mestizos”, descendants of Jewish fathers and native mothers scattered throughout the Amazon who created their own syncretic Jewish tradition. The Fire Within shows us the process of conversion of a group of them, desirous of migrating to Israel to embrace the faith and the culture of their ancestors.
Wednesday, September 1, 6pm
 THE GREEN WALL / LA MURALLA VERDE
(Armando Robles Godoy, Perú, 1970, 110 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Based on the filmmaker Armando Robles Godoy’s own experience of home steadying in the Peruvian jungle. The Green Wall is “a bitter and beautiful movie” in which Godoy translates his experience into film poetry rather than flat reportage and uses the physical environment (exquisitely photographed by his cameraman brother, Mario) as a great natural mystery. Idyllic but cruel, rich but unyielding to the will of a handsome young settler (Mexican star Julio Alemán, in a vibrant performance) who is determined to survive there with his family. The hero’s relationship with his wife and child…are established in an eloquent opening sequence –when a torrential downpour tells the young parents that today they can do nothing better than lie abed and make love, at least until the boy wakes up…
Wednesday, September 1, 7pm
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Date:
Tuesday, August 31, 6pm
Place:
Millennium Film Workshop
Price:
N/A
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'Videoteca del Sur'
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BAJO EL MISMO SOL / UNDER THE SAME SUN
 (Shula Erenberg, Mexico/Spain, 2009, 70 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
This documentary focuses on the obstacles which victims and institutions face in trying to procure justice in cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, a result of the complex framework of political and economic interests.
THE TOADS' SILENCE
(Claudia Pinto, Venezuela, 2006, 14 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) The night and morning after in the life of three kids that go back home after their mother’s burial. Three kids deny losing what’s left of their mother: her memory.
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Date:
Sunday, August 29, 9pm
Place:
La Plaza Cultural Community Garden
Price:
Suggested donation $5
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'Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival'
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The ninth annual Loisada Cortos Latino Film Festival 2010 kicks off at the end of August at La Plaza Cultural, an outdoor commnunity garden in New York's historic Lower East Side. Located at 9th St. and Ave. (Loisaida Ave.) in the heart of the 'Alphabet City', it has been the home of LCLFF since its 2002 inception.
The main objective of the Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival (LCLFF) is to screen the best short (20-minute maximum) films submitted by both emerging and established New York City Latino filmmakers, along with those of filmmakers from Latino countries around the world, presenting to our audiences a vibrant and diversified selection of Latino-themed films, artistic sensibilities, and genres. LCLFF gives Latino filmmakers the valuable exposure needed to broaden their spectrum of industry opportunities while helping artists and audiences alike to cross cultural and national borders and find common ground through the variety of international films screened at the event.
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Date:
Thursday, September 2, 7:30pm
Place:
Cinema Arts Centre
Price:
Public $13, Members $9
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SOUTH OF THE BORDER
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(Oliver Stone, USA, 2010, 78 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
Legendary director and three-time Academy Award winner Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Platoon) journeys across South America to investigate the region’s most notorious and controversial social and political movements. With astonishing one-on-one access to seven of the continent’s elected presidents including such figureheads as Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro, Rafael Correa, Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, and Lula da Silva, Stone debunks many of the mainstream media’s dangerous misconceptions about South America and instead sheds light on the exciting transformations currently underway. Guest speaker: LI Author and Journalist Bart Jones will be signing copies of his book Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story: From Mud Hut to Perpetual Freedom.
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Date:
Friday, August 27 - Sunday, August 29
Place:
The Riverside Theater
Price:
Adults $9, Seniors and Students $8
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'The African Diaspora Summer Film Series'
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 AVA & GABRIEL: A LOVE STORY
(Feliz de Rooy, Curacao/Netherlands, 1990, 100 min. In Papiamento with English subtitles) Commissioned to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in St. Anna's Church in Curacao in the 1940s, painter Gabriel Goedbloed falls victim to controversies, hypocrisies and intrigues as the colonial Antillean society proves less than tolerant towards the black painter, especially after he chooses as his model a beautiful young black teacher, Ava, who is engaged to a white police officer.
Friday, August 27, 8pm
W.A.R. STORIES: WALTER ANTHONY RODNEY
(Clairmont Chung, USA/Guyana, 2009, 90min. In English) This film covers the life of world renowned, historian, author, and activist Dr. Walter Rodney who was assassinated in 1980, at age 38, in his native Guyana. Focusing on the last years of Dr. Rodney’s life, this enthralling documentary tells the story of a man who dedicated and ultimately gave his life to the struggle for equal rights and justice.
Saturday, August 28, 4pm
LA COLOMBIANA: PASSING THE TORCH
(Jake Holmes, Colombia/United Kingdom, 2009, 58 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles) This story of the legendary Afro-Colombian singer, Totó La Momposina, exemplifies the living tradition of Afro-Colombian music. An intimate portrait, the film follows the singer as she struggles to keep her culture alive through her children and grandchildren who travel with her to Colombia's Caribbean coast. Screening will be followed by the musical performance of Amanda Homi (film host and co-producer).
Sunday, August 29, 4:30pm
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Date:
Opens today, Friday, August 27
Place:
Cinema Village
Price:
Adults $11, Students $8 and Seniors $6
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'Theatrical Release'
LA TETA ASUSTADA / THE MILK OF SORROW
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(Claudia Llosa, Perú/Spain, 2009, 95 min. In Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles)
Stricken with a pathological fear she contracted from her mother's breast milk -- the "milk of sorrow," a condition suffered by women who were raped during Peru's civil wars -- Fausta (Magaly Solier) goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. But when her anguished mother finally dies, Fausta finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey that could lead her to freedom and wholeness. Claudia Llosa directs this Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film and Golden Bear winner at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Date:
Opens today, Friday, August 27
Place:
Quad Cinema
Price:
Adults $11, Children and Seniors $8
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'Theatrical Release'
DANIEL & ANA
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(Michel Franco, México/Spain, 2009, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) Starring Darío Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega, José María Torre.
Daniel and Ana, brother and sister, best friends. Both are at pivotal, defining moments in their contented lives. Ana is about to be married, Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet their harmony is instantly shattered when they are kidnapped and something shocking happens which forces them to confront their desires and fears. Suddenly their old lives are a distant memory. Now, nothing they have known will ever be the same again.
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Date:
Opens today, Friday, August 27
Place:
Quad Cinema
Price:
Adults $11, Children and Seniors $8
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'Theatrical Release'
BAGHDAD, TEXAS
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(David H. Hickey, USA, 2009, 93 min. In English)
While a Middle Eastern dictator is fleeing his besieged country his plane crashes on the Mexican Border. He is inadvertently carried into Texas by illegal immigrants. Struck by a truck occupied by three cowboys he is taken back to their exotic game ranch where their housekeeper nurses him back to health as they slowly discover his true identity. Or do they?
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Date:
Now Playing
Place:
Select theaters
Price:
N/A
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'Theatrical Release'
LA SOGA
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(Josh Cook, Dominican Republic, 2009, 110 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
A disgraced Dominican Republic cop fights to clear his name and avenge his father's death in this gritty revenge thriller from director Joshua Crook (Salvage, Rockaway). Luisito's father was an honest butcher who valued hard work. He was a positive role model for a kid from the slums, and Luisito's life was forever changed when notorious drug dealer Rafa (Paul Calderon) shot him down in cold blood. Flash forward two decades, and Luisito is doing his part to keep the Dominican Republic safe from the criminal element. He's been carefully molded into the perfect crime fighter thanks to the charismatic General Colon (Juan Fernandez), who exploited Luisito's childhood trauma before inducting him into the secret police. As a young boy, Luisito feel deeply in love with Jenny. But when Jenny's family moved to New York shortly after Luisito's father was killed, they lost touch. Now, Jenny (Denise Quiñones), is back in the Dominican Republic, and her feelings for Luisito are stronger than ever. If only Luisito could find a way to tell her about his work, perhaps they could find a way to make love work. Unfortunately for Luisito and Jenny, an investigation into General Colon's recent activities reveals an epic betrayal, and sets the stage for a tragic confrontation.
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