Last weekend this ambitious festival brought together several generations and even more genres of Latinx music.
Tag: Argentina
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The Abuelas builds up to a few moments of poignancy but not much else
The companion to The Madres tries to jam too much drama into a slipshod theatrical framework.
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It’s a long way to act two of Teatro Vista’s The Madres
But there’s treasure when you get there.
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There’s an Argentine steak house plopped down on the stroller lanes of Lincoln Square
Mike Sula reviews the Lincoln Square Argentinian restaurant.
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Wild Tales? You bet they are!
Damian Szifron directed this surreal Argentinian feature, reminiscent of Luis Buñuel.
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Ruins among the ruins in Tercer Cuerpo
Argentina’s Timbre 4 looks at five messy lives in Tercer Cuerpo.
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The 16th European Union Film Festival
Gene Siskel Film Center kicks off a whopping 61-film lineup.
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Best of the Chicago Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival closes Wednesday with encore screenings of award winners, and the Chicago premiere of Jeff Deutchman’s crowdsourced election documentary “11/4/08.”
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New Voices From the Americas
Filmmakers from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay screening in the Chicago International Film Festival discuss their work in the free panel New Voices From the Americas Monday 10/12 at AMC River East.
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Eating Elsewhere: Argentina, Part 1
A few months ago I visited Argentina and Chile for about two weeks with my parents, where I ate approximately my own weight in food. I lived in Santiago for a little under two years starting in September 2004, and since I never got a work visa—it’s pretty easy to get paid under the table, […]
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Late summer in Mar del Plata
A postcard from the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina.
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Alejandron Escovedo
The track listing for Alejandro Escovedo’s new studio album, Bourbonitis Blues (Bloodshot), his first in three years, makes it doubly clear that the Austin singer-songwriter isn’t exactly in a prolific phase. Of the nine cuts, only four are originals, and one of those, “Guilty,” appeared in a different version on With These Hands (Rykodisc) in […]
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A Place in the World
This 1991 Argentine-Uruguayan production by Argentinean writer-director Adolfo Aristarain, nominated for an Academy Award before being disqualified on a technicality, is better than most foreign Oscar nominees. Aristarain compares the plot, which involves the recollected adolescence of a boy growing up in Argentina’s Bermejo Valley, to that of Shane, but this hardly does it justice. […]