Platiqué brevemente con el director de cine Guillermo del Toro sobre Pinocchio, la cinta producida por Netflix que estará en salas selectas en Noviembre para luego tenerla en Netflix a partir del 9 de Diciembre. Del Toro vino a esta ciudad a recibir un premio de parte del Festival de Cine de San Francisco, SFFilm. … More Guillermo del Toro en San Francisco
Alfonso Cuarón and his team of actors and film production crews are taking one of the 2019 Oscars home for ROMA. The acclaimed film tells the story of Cleo a Mixteco woman from Oaxaca who raised him. She was a domestic worker in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood where he grew up in the 60’s. (LF)
Mujer Soltera Podcast #13 Curiosamente, la película Roma te habla también de las mujeres solas. Hazle clic aquí: ROMA y las mujeres además de Yalitzia Aparicio. Este episodio es parte del Podcast en Español “Mujer Soltera”, by Lupita Franco Peimbert.
(Film) – As expected, a French film depicting the 60’s must be dramatic, very much. Godard Mon Amour makes such drama and Jean-Luc Godard’s suffering somewhat funny, somewhat thoughtful. The moments of historical relevance such as the protests in Paris, and the beauty of the south of France -because of the Cannes Festival, definitely add … More Godard Mon Amour is French Love.
By Lupita Peimbert (Film) – She was a Hollywood actress of immense beauty; she was considered a bombshell because of the sexually she emanated. But for being pretty and sexy she paid the price that beautiful and sexy women have paid for centuries in societies led by unevolved, controlling young and old men: she was … More Why Every Pretty Woman Must See the Film About Hedy Lamarr.
By Lupita Peimbert (Film) – A film with the right amount of tension, raw emotions, and camera movement. A woman who up until then had a happy life and a happy family loses everything in an instant after a bomb explodes killing her husband Nuri and son Rocco. She wants the killers to be punished. … More A Woman’s Rage – In The Fade
(San Francisco Bay Area) – The struggles 3 Palestinian-Israeli women face in a world that is part old and part new show us that the traditions and values in the Arab World as contrasting as universal. Very. Women still face the punishment and stigma given by those who think women should behave in a certain way … More In Between – At The Jewish Film Festival.
(Film ) – Finding Oscar is an outstanding documentary about the 1982 horrific acts against the peaceful people in Dos Erres, a Guatemalan village. It is for audiences that care about world events, peace, and justice. A high quality piece of storytelling, Finding Oscar is a true story that touches you not only … More This Film Will Make You Cry.
By Lupita Peimbert (Film) – Mark was having the life of the usual teenager, the son of a functional immigrant family in Canada: parties, free time, a few responsibilities, and a nice room to hang out and call it his own. When Natasha arrived from Latvia, she brought with her a dysfunctional upbringing: anger and … More Natasha at the Jewish Film Festival.
Blue Blood is quite a story in the already full-of-stories life at a brazilian circus, and it happens when Circo Netuno returns to a volcanic archipelago two hundred miles off Brazil’s northeast coast. The film centers on the Cannon Man, an attractive young man who returns home to find the years have not diminished the taboo attraction … More Blue Blood: Brasil represented at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
By Lupita Peimbert. Fruitvale is a predominantly Mexican and immigrant neighborhood on the East side of Oakland, California. Many of the families there hold tight to the customs and traditions of the country they originally came from. Food, for instance, has been kept authentic. One can easily find tacos, birria, menudo, huaraches, tortas ahogadas, and … More Telling Immigrant Stories Accurately.
A la cinta Brasileña donde Regina Casé personifica a una niñera-trabajadora doméstica, le han llamado “The Second Mother,” desde su debut a principios de este año en el festival Sundance, y meses despues en Berlin, yo le llamaría Lucha de Clases o Todos Somos Iguales, Caray!. En portugués y doblada al Inglés, es una historia que … More ‘The Second Mother’, es más bien una lucha de clases en Brazil.
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