NY ESSENTIALS: FILM / JULY
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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El Festival Premiere Brasil vuelve al MoMA, lo último en el cine ecuatoriano se presenta en el Instituto Cervantes, el NewFest LGBT del Lincoln Center presenta varias películas y shorts latinos y el Queens Museum tiene el festival de verano que incluye una serie de cine. Pelotero se estrena el 13 de Julio y pueden encontrar Cristiada, To Rome with Love and Savages en cartelera.
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* Aves de Paso. Directed by Rachel Lears > Julio 10 > Cinema Tropical Music & Film Series > 92Y Tribeca > AVES.
Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. After many years of composing songs that reflect their origins, both decide to explore new horizons and each seeks to fulfill the dream of recording a first album. While Yisela struggles to reconcile the emerging possibilities of a career in Uruguay with her plans to move to Argentina, Ernesto confronts personal conflicts that threaten to sabotage his creative passion. The film fuses the arts of documentary film and music, interweaving the songs and stories of these two young composers. With vérité cinematography and an unforgettable soundtrack, Birds of Passage explores the challenges of being a young artist and the art of searching, inside and outside of oneself.
Mexico is one of the deadliest places in the world to be a journalist. Reporters who dare to cover the country's war on drugs are all too often kidnapped or assassinated for doing their jobs. In the feature documentary, "Reportero," a veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly in Tijuana defy the drug cartels and corrupt government officials to continue reporting the news.
* Premiere Brazil 2012 > Julio 12 - 24 > MoMA.
5 x Favela: Now By Ourselves. 2010. Brazil. Directed by Cacau Amaral, Rodrigo Felha, Luciano Vidigal, Cadu Barcellos, Luciana Bezerra, Manaíra Carneiro, Wagner Novais
To celebrate the 10th edition of Premiere Brazil!, we present exciting new works by filmmakers we have previously featured, including Eduardo Coutinho, the subject of a Premiere Brazil!retrospective in 2009; Beto Brant, in his third appearance; Selton Mello, who premiered his first film, Merry Christmas in the 2009 edition; Breno Silveira, whose Two Sons of Francisco screened in 2006; and Eryk Rocha, whose feature debut, Passerby, delivers on the promise of his short films from previous Premiere Brazil!festivals.
Talented newcomers to Premiere Brazil! include Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla, with the astonishing documentary Look at Me Again; and Vinicius Coimbra, whose Brazilian Western, Matraga, shows an impressive grasp of period filmmaking.
Special treats for the 10th anniversary include a restored print of Leon Hirszman's beloved 1972 drama São Bernardo, as well as two films by a group of young directors about their life in theirfavelas: 5 x Favela: Now By Ourselves, a collection of five fiction shorts about various aspects of favela-dwelling; and Peace in Rio, a documentary about the controversial social policing of the favelas.
* Pelotero (Ballplayer) > Directed by Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin and Jonathan Paley > Opens in NYC July 13 > Quad Cinema > PELOTERO.
This compelling documentary narrated by John Leguizamo is a gritty look inside the world of Major League Baseball (MLB) training camps in the Dominican Republic. Miguel Angel and Jean Carlos are two of the top prospects at an MLB training camp, and they are both about to turn 16, which means they can be signed to an MLB farm team and ultimately move up to the majors. Filmmakers Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin and Jonathan Paley take you inside this never-before-seen world for an up-close and personal look at the cost of the American dream.
Un año más, la Muestra de Cine Ecuatoriano presenta en Nueva York algunas de las producciones cinematográficas más vanguardistas realizadas en Ecuador en los últimos años.
Como en anteriores ocasiones, esta quinta edición del festival pretende promover la creación de jóvenes cineastas ecuatorianos, dando a conocer su trabajo al público estadounidense. Así, el cine es de nuevo una ventana abierta al mundo desde la cual no sólo nos reflejamos a nosotros mismos, sino que se convierte en el escaparate de un país, de sus paisajes y de sus gentes e historias.
Películas participantes:
>> Con mi corazón en Yambo.
>> Abuelos.
>> Pescador.
>> Moda ancestral.
>> Yakuaya.
>> Descartes.
>> A tus espaldas.
* 14TH NEWFEST > LGBT FILM FESTIVAL > Julio 27 - 31 > Lincoln Center > LGBT.
New York's premier LGBT Film Festival—one of the world's most comprehensive showcases of international LGBT film—returns for its 24th annual edition, and its first in partnership with Los Angeles’ Outfest and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. As always, the program includes a compelling collection of narratives, documentaries, shorts and panels.
Latino Films:
>> Four. by Joshua Sanchez.
>> Young & Wild. by Marialy Rivas.
>> Born Naked. by Andrea Esteban
>> Mosquita y Mari. by Aurora Guerrero
>> Salas S.A.L. Spanish Shorts
>> La Ducha ( The Shower) Shorts USA-Chile
* QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART’S 8th INTERNATIONAL OUTDOOR FILM, DANCE & MUSIC SERIES > Hasta Agosto 24 > QUEENS
The free weekly outdoor festivities feature live dance performances, a concert, and film screening from one of the many international locales that fuel Queens’ cultural and artistic vitality.
This year’s trip visits eight more delightful cultural geographic locations. The voyage has a particularly Caribbean flavor complementing our current exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World. Your ticket is booked!
Just In Case of Rain, program moves inside the museum.
July 6: Haiti | July 13: México | July 20: Cuba | July 27: Egypt | Aug 3: West Indies | Aug 10: Taiwan | Aug 17: Dominican Republic | Aug 24: Puerto Rico.
* FOR GREATER GLORY > CRISTIADA > Directed by Dean Wright > En Catelera > GLORY.
An impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War the daring people¹s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.
Academy Award® nominee Andy Garcia headlines an acclaimed cast as General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife (Golden Globe nominee Eva Longoria) watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. Yet the man who hesitates in joining the cause will soon become the resistance's most inspiring and self-sacrificing leader, as he begins to see the cost of religious persecution on his countrymen . . . and transforms a rag-tag band of rebels into a heroic force to be reckoned with. The General faces impossible odds against a powerful and ruthless government. Yet is those he meets on the journey youthful idealists, feisty renegades and, most of all, one remarkable teenager named Jose who reveal to him how courage and belief are forged even when justice seems lost.
* SAVAGES. Directed by Oliver Stone > With Benicio del Toro. En Cartelera.
* TO ROME WITH LOVE. Directed by Woody Allen. With Penélope Cruz. En Cartelera.
* FAMILY FILMS > June - July > Matinee series > Film Society of Lincoln Center > Special discount ticket price: $6 for everyone > FAMILY.
COMING IN AUGUST:
* El Topo > Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. México, 1970. > Agosto 24-25 > IFC Center > TOPO.
Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit essentially created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Incorporating influences from tarot to the Bible to surrealism into a mind-blowing western, Jodorowsky cast himself as the leather-clad gunman, El Topo (‘the mole’), who wanders through a desert strewn with mystical symbols on an unnamed quest, leaving blood and carnage in his wake. Declared a masterpiece by no less than John Lennon himself, EL TOPO tops even the most outrageous aesthetic experiments of its radical era and remains unmatched in its provocations and strange beauty. Long unavailable, EL TOPO is presented in a gorgeous new restoration personally overseen by Jodorowsky.
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