The Comet 1998  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jose Buil, Marisa Sistach
Cast: Diego Luna, Ana Claudia Talancon, Carmen Maura, Gabriel Retes, Patrick Le Mauff, Manuel Ojeda, Arcelia Ramirez, Fernando Rubio, Rodolfo Arias, Juan Carlos Colombo
Set in 1910 during the Mexican Revolution, this film follows Valentina (Ana Claudia Talancon) who has just witnessed her father's arrest for publishing material unfavorable to the dictator and for being a sympathizer of rebel leader Medero. Valentina takes cover in a traveling circus with the intent of delivering a bag of gold to Medero in San Antonio, Texas. Valentina not only falls in love with the son, Victor (Diego Luna), of the show's owner, but she becomes the star attraction as she continues to elude authorities and get to Medero.
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The Crime of Father Amaro 2002  R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Carlos Carrera
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Gracia, Ana Claudia Talancon, Angelica Aragon, Luisa Huertas, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Gaston Melo, Damian Alcazar, Andres Montiel, Gerardo Moscoso, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Veronica Langer
This film, based on an 1875 Portuguese novel, features Gael Garcia Bernal in the role of a newly ordained priest, Father Amaro, who is sent to a small, Mexican town to assist an elderly priest, Father Benito (Sancho Gracia), and to look into the activities of the town's other priests. It isn't long before Amaro falls in love with 16-year-old Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon). As if this were not enough, Padre Benito has major drug connections as well as a mistress of his own–Amelia's mother, Sanjuanera (Angelica Aragon).
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Fast Food Nation 2006 R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama, Patricia Arquette, Luis Guzman, Ashley Johnson, Bobby Cannavale, Ana Claudia Talancon, Bruce Willis, Kris Kristofferson, Ethan Hawke, Lou Taylor Pucci, Paul Dano, Avril Lavigne
Inspired by Eric Schlosser's best seller that exposed problems with America's fast food industry, this is a fictionalized account that involves characters and situations depicting the concerns expressed in Schlosser's muckraking book. The story begins with fast food ("Mickey's") executive Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear) journeying into Colorado to examine where his burgers really come from. On his trip, he touches the lives of those who have jobs in the meat packing plants–Raul (Wilmer Valderrama), Sylvia (Catalina Sandino Moreno), and Coco (Ana Claudia Talancon)–as well as restaurant workers–Amber (Ashley Johnson) and Mike (Bobby Cannavale)–and gains insights concerning health risks involved in the fast food industry.
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One Missed Call 2008  PG-13, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Eric Valette
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe, Margaret Cho, Meagan Good, Rhoda Griffis, Dawn Dininger, Ariel Winter
In this remake of Takashi Miike's 2003 film, two of Beth's (Shannyn Sossamon) friends have died by violent means after receiving calls on their cell phones from the future; their own voices were heard as they were being killed. Now Beth receives her call and has just three days to get to the bottom of what is going on. She teams up with detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose sister had died under similar circumstances.
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| 1. The Comet (1998)
2. The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
3. Fast Food Nation (2006)
4. One Missed Call (2008)
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