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LA NOCHE DE LOS INOCENTES (2007)

Jon W. — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:29:22 +0000

A young man, the victim of a severe beating, has been hospitalized in Havana. The perpetrator appears to have been a transvestite. Mercedes, a nurse, convinces Frank, an ex-cop, to investigate the case. Taking place entirely over the course of one night (December 28th; the “Day of the Innocents”), the man’s hospital room becomes crowded with family and some unexpected visitors, gradually revealing family secrets, hidden desires, and the finally uncovering what exactly happened to the young man.

Director: Arturo Sotto Díaz. AKA Night of the Innocents
Writer: Arturo Sotto Díaz.
Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Silvia Águila, Yasmani Guerrero, Veronica Milagros, Aramís Delgado, Susana Pérez, Rachel Falcón, David Riondino, Edenis Sánchez.
Cinematographer: Ernesto Granado.
Composer: Ernan Lopez Nussa.

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NOW (1965)

Jon W. — Sun, 15 May 2022 23:27:44 +0000

Lena Horne’s famous song “Now!”, which was banned in the U.S. in the 1960s, was an angry call for struggle against racism. This film uses Horne’s song as the vehicle for a montage of film and photographic images from the U.S. civil rights movement. These images of racial struggle and oppression in the United States convey the heroism and pathos of the black protagonists of the Civil Rights movement, and the brutality of white police and Klansmen and the system they represent. Santiago Alvarez responds to the song’s escalating rhythm by moving between images to evoke the violence with which American society was being torn apart by white supremacy, and the intensity of the African-American struggle to right these injustices.

Director: Santiago Álvarez.
Stars: Lena Horne.

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POR PRIMERA VEZ (1967)

Jon W. — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:51:16 +0000

Cinema arrives “for the first time” in the mountains… This Cuban documentary short film gathers the experience of a rural community in the mountains of the east of the island, where the cinema arrives for the first time, thanks to the mobile cinemas created for this purpose by the Revolution. The spectator receives the different emotions that an audience of men, women and children from the countryside provokes when they see the first film of their lives: “Modern Times”, by Charles Chaplin.

Director: Octavio Cortázar. AKA For the First Time
Cinematographer: José López.
Composer: Raúl Gómez.

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LISTA DE ESPERA (2000)

Jon W. — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:17:16 +0000

A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the line stop by, it soon becomes obvious that the bus everyone was waiting for has left them high and dry. While one of the would-be passengers, Emilio, uses his downtime to win the affections of the beautiful Jacqueline, most of the rest decide that if they’re stuck without anywhere to go, they might as well make the station a better place to wait, and they begin forming a plan to turn the decrepit bus terminal into a showplace that people would look forward to visiting.

Director: Juan Carlos Tabío. AKA Waiting List.
Writers: Arturo Arango (screenplay & story), Senel Paz, Juan Carlos Tabío.
Stars: Vladimir Cruz, Tahimi Alvariño, Jorge Perugorría, Noel García, Alina Rodríguez, Saturnino García, Antonio Valero, Jorge Ali, Hiran Vega, Mijail Mulkay, Leandro Sen, Saskia Guanche, Amelia Pita, Serafín García, Assenech Rodriguez.
Cinematographer: Hans Burmann.
Composer: José María Vitier.

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CARTAS DEL PARQUE (1988)

Jon W. — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:57:43 +0000

Don Pedro, a widowed poet, makes his living penning love letters for those who are too hesitant or tongue-tied to express their heart’s devotion. However, trouble arises when he is hired to scribe sweet nothings to the beautiful Maria, the lady love of a besotted but blundering hot air balloonist named Juan. Before long, the writer falls for the deceived Maria, which results in a troubling love triangle.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. AKA Letters from the Park.
Stars: Víctor Laplace, Ivonne López, Miguel Paneque, Mirta Ibarra, Adolfo Llauradó, Elio Mesa.

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MADAGASCAR (1995)

Jon W. — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:38:12 +0000

The 50-minute “Madagascar” has the resonance and eloquence of the best poetry, as it deftly turns an adolescent’s search for identity into a metaphor for post-revolutionary Cuba. Laura is a professor at a shabby, stultifying college. Her daughter, Laurita, stops going to school, wishes to move to Madagascar and quickly races through several phases.

Director: Fernando Pérez.
Stars: Zaida Castellanos, Laura de la Uz, Elena Bolaños, Jorge Molina, Roberto Delgado, Ramón Brito.

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ALSINO Y EL CÓNDOR (1982)

Jon Whitehead — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 07:54:13 +0000

The film is related from the point of view of Alsino, an impoverished Nicaraguan lad. While his country and its rotting buildings crumble all around him, the idealistic Alsino imagines himself to be a condor, flying far above his deprivations. It is during one of his hallucinations that Alsino jumps from a tree; the fall cripples him, turning him into a hunchback. He will only straighten out to his full proud height upon joining a guerilla band, fighting the corrupt government armies. Significantly, Alsino & the Condor was the first production to be filmed in Nicaragua after the Sandinista revolution and the overthrow of Somoza.

Director: Miguel Littin. AKA Alsino and the Condor
Stars: Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi, Dean Stockwell, Delia Casanova, Marta Lorena Pérez, Reynaldo Miravalles, Marcelo Gaete, Jan Kees De Rooy, Rogelio Blain, Raúl Eguren, Carlos Aguirre Calero, Luz Amparo Gutiérrez, Ivan Turcios.

1983 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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GUANTANAMERA (1995)

Jon W. — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:12:02 +0000

Satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a lot of differences depending on the point of view.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío.
Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Carlos Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Raúl Eguren, Pedro Fernández, Luis Alberto García, Conchita Brando, Suset Pérez Malberti, Assenech Rodriguez, Luisa Pérez-Nieto, Idalmis Del Risco, Ikay Romay, Mercedes Arnáez.

1995 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.