Bad Education 2004  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lluis Homar, Javier Camara, Francisco Boira, Juan Fernandez, Petra Martinez, Nacho Perez, Raul Garcia Forneiro, Alberto Ferreiro, Roberto Hoyas, Francisco Maestre, Agustin Almodovar, Leonor Watling
Childhood friends Ignacio Rodriguez and Enrique Goded (Gael Garcia Bernal and Fele Martinez) meet after 16 years when Ignacio arrives at Enrique's office in Madrid. Enrique is now a successful filmmaker, and Ignacio is an aspiring actor who goes by the stage name Angel Androde. Ignacio has written a semi-autobiographical manuscript that he presents to Enrique hoping that Enrique will use it for a film and cast Ignacio in a starring role. Ignacio's story is about sexual abuse encountered when a pedophile priest, Father Manolo (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), at St. John's Catholic school intervened in the sexual love Enrique and Ignacio shared as boys. Enrique decides to make the film but has questions about starring Ignacio.
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Bandidos 1991  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Luis Estrada
Cast: Pedro Armendariz Jr., Ernesto Yanez, Gabriela Roel, Bruno Rey, Jorge Russek, Damian Alcazar, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Felipe Cazals, Julian Pastor, Alan Gutierrez
The 1910 Mexican Revolution resulted in bandits looting across the countryside. A group of young boys follow behind the adults, picking up what was missed. Before long, the youngsters are looting on their own, which doesn't set well with the adult bandits.
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Innocent Voices 2005 R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Gustavo Munoz, Xuna Primus, Jose Maria Yazpik, Ofelia Medina, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Jesus Ochoa, Ignacio Retes, Adrian Alonso
During El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, government troops rounded up young boys to fight the guerilla forces. Eleven-year-old Chava (Carlos Padilla) helps his siblings survive at home and worries that he will soon have to choose between joining the guerillas or being drafted by the army when he turns 12-years-old.
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Midaq Alley 1995 N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jorge Fons
Cast: Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Maria Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir, Delia Casanova, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Claudio Obregon, Juan Manuel Bernal, Margarita Sanz, Abel Woolrich
A 1947 novel by Nobel prizewinner Naguib Mahfouz is translated from 1940s' Cairo to modern Mexico City with excellent results. The story revolves around several people of a close-knit Mexico City neighborhood. Their stories are intertwined into excellent film fare: a middle-aged father and cantina owner is attracted to a young man, a beautiful woman has trouble waiting for her lover who has fled to the U.S., and a homely landlady falls in love.
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Nicotina 2003 R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Action / Drama
Director: Hugo Rodriguez
Cast: Diego Luna, Marta Belaustegui, Lucas Crespi, Jesus Ochoa, Rafael Inclan, Rosa Maria Bianchi, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Carmen Madrid, Enoc Leano, Norman Sotolongo, Martha Tenorio, Jose Maria Yazpik, Eugenio Montessoro, Alexis Sanchez, Jorge Zarate
Mexico City computer hacker Lolo (Diego Luna) and his cohorts–Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and Nene (Lucas Crespi)–make a deal to deliver a CD-ROM containing computer access to Swiss bank accounts in exchange for diamonds. The deal sours when Lolo delivers the wrong CD-ROM to Russian mobster Svoboda (Norman Sotolongo), and greed escalates into flying bullets leaving bodies in their wake.
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No One Writes to the Colonel 1999 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Cast: Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclan, Ernesto Yanez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Esteban Soberanes, Patricia Reyes Spinola, Odiseo Bichir, Julian Pastor
Based on a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is a powerful story of hope and despair in the face of poverty, sickness, and aging. Set in Mexico in the late 1940s, this is the story of the Colonel (Fernando Lujan), who fought in the war to overthrow the clerical rulers years before. Now he dresses up each week and goes to the pier awaiting the arrival of a letter that announces his pension–a letter that he knows will never arrive.
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Who the Hell Is Juliette? 1997 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Carlos Marcovich
Cast: Yuliet Ortega, Fabiola Quiroz, Oneida Ramirez, Victor Ortega, Jorge Quiroz, Michele Ortega, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Salma Hayek
This documentary follows a beautiful teenager, Yuliet Ortega, around her Havana barrio and then switches to her friend, Fabiola Quiroz, in her N.Y.C. world of high-fashion modeling–a life far removed form that of Yuliet.
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| 1. Bad Education (2004)
2. Bandidos (1991)
3. Cronos (1992)
4. Deep Crimson (1996)
5. Innocent Voices (2005)
6. Midaq Alley (1995)
7. Nicotina (2003)
8. No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
9. Who the Hell Is Juliette? (1997)
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