Siblings Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael García Bernal) are plucked from their provincial life as banana-pickers in rural Jalisco to play professional soccer in…

Almodovar’s new film Abrazos Rotos closes the NYFF in September, but here’s a little something in the meantime…

Cary Fukanaga’s debut is a beautifully shot, but unromanticized look at immigration, gang violence, and poverty in Central America.

I just got back from my first trip to Sundance. A short film I acted in (Small Collection by Dir. Jeremiah Crowell – shameless plug)…

Ramin Bahrani is unlike most independent filmmakers working today. And that’s quite the compliment. After making the exceptional and quietly profound Man Push Cart—which followed…

Alfredo De Villa’s “Nothing Like The Holidays” is no exception to the standard American cinema template of an acceptable holiday film. But “Holidays” does offer…

Puerto Rico is a unique, beautiful island. It’s a halfway nation, err… o.k., make that a halfway U.S. colony. As such, it has characteristics of…

An untapped sense of aching emptiness permeates the central characters in writer-director Woody Allen’s 39th feature film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. As American tourists Vicky (Rebecca…

“I don’t like frontiers. I don’t like hymns. I don’t like the military. I don’t like parades. I don’t like immigration officers.”
The writer and…

What comes first: pain or pleasure? Happiness or sadness? Does it hurt to love and be loved, or because we’re already in pain we need…

Let’s just face it: it’s practically impossible to be an innovative storyteller in film. It’s an art that usually re-uses, re-orders, and pays tributes. The…

A lot of Latin American countries are considered “paradise:” gorgeous beaches, exquisite cuisines, kind people, cheap clothes, sporting events that become passionate social phenomena, historical…

Who hasn’t felt lonely at some point? Who hasn’t spent endless nights staring out a window? Who hasn’t felt that strange pain in your chest…

First conceived by her husband Sergio Bizzio as a short story titled Cinismo, Lucía Puenzo’s first feature film tells the dramatic story of Alex, a…

I was sitting at one of the posh couches at the Target-Filmmakers’ Lounge talking on the phone, and once I hung up, a young man…