For years, Linda's ideal man has been one who respects her career and independence and considers everything equal in the relationship. Convenience over love has been her motto. The daughter of Cuban…
2000
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For years, Linda's ideal man has been one who respects her career and independence and considers everything equal in the relationship. Convenience over love has been her motto. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she has spent her life denying her Latin heritage. Refusing to salsa dance and date Latin men, she collects American folk art, eats frozen meals, and has just moved in with her gringo boyfriend, Steve. Linda has her life all planned out, that is, until the day a freak accident at work introduces a dashing young Cuban firefighter, Jose, into her life.
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Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember is the kind of inspirational film that composes a delicious poem of identity and memory, as a son journeys to reconstruct the life of his father. The result is a montage of hauntingly beautiful images and stories that are merged to form one of this year's most mesmerizing gems. Director Juan Carlos Rulfo is the son of renowned Mexican writer and poet, Juan Rulfo. Returning to the town of Jalisco, Mexico, Rulfo interviews all of the elders who remember his late father.
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Director Gregory Nava is one of the most prolific and fascinating Latino artists working in film today. His films, El Norte, Mi Familia, Selena, and Why Do Fools Fall In Love, have received critical acclaim from around the world and have entranced audiences with stories of warmth and spirit. Gregory Nava's The American Tapestry is an uplifting and challenging journey through the memoirs of five immigrant families, each one culturally diverse and on a quest for its own American Dream.
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The town of Carranco has always had its trouble, but when the naked body of a teenage girl, Adela, turns up in the town's oat fields, Carranco is turned upside-down. The "logical" conclusion is that Adela's lover, the gypsy known as El Gitano, is the suspect, especially since he has left town so quickly after a passionate night with Adela.
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Academy Award nominated director/producer, Lorena Parlee, offers a rich and insightful journey into the magnificence and power that is the country of Mexico--"a country ancient and new, eternally called upon by the past and the future, the traditional and the modern, but capable in exceptional moment of [its] history of facing both." Using texts from Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes, and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry and accompanied by an exhilarating musical score by Daniel Valdez, Mexico's culture and history are marvelously brought to life with visual testimonies of the past and current ce
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Before Dirk Diggler, John Holmes was "the star." It is no secret that P.T. Anderson (Boogie Nights) based Diggler's wide-eyed rise to porn superstardom and subsequent descent into drug addiction and crime on the life of Holmes. What is surprising is that Holmes' life is a far more wild and fascinating ride than any fiction could ever depict. As Johnny Wadd, P.I., Holmes became the first real star of a porn series.
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It cashed in on the power of the Internet as a marketing tool, as well as spawned a cottage industry in "location crashing"--where fans visit particular Vancouver locations that have been on the show and appear on sets just before daily filming begins. It is The X-Files, the Chris Carter phenomenon that has added new urgency to all conspiracy theories and given its stars a truly cult-like following.
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In 1997, Roger Nygard investigated the mania that turned a television show into an institution--Trekkies. As producer of Six Days in Roswell, Nygard examines another popular American subculture with the clever direction of Timothy B. Johnson. They go to Roswell, New Mexico. The outset of Six Days in Roswell is the 50th anniversary of a UFO crash that may or may not have happened outside Roswell in 1947. Our tour guide, Richard Kronfeld, lives in his mother's basement. He spends his time researching kook wisdom or building oddities from discarded electronics.
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Who would know that a country that is roughly the size of Kentucky with a population of 265,000 would have such a dynamic and diverse music scene? Sure, it spawned The Sugarcubes and Bjork, but, as Pop in Reykjavik proves, the Icelandic music scene is not to be ignored. With nearly half of the country's population residing in the capital city, Reykjavik is a magnet for bands and their fans to take advantage of the nightlife, even if the night lasts only a few hours.
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What happens when we die? Does consciousness survive, and, if so, can the dead contact the living? Scientific principles say no, but recent surveys report that over fifty million Americans have had some sort of after death communication or have witnessed apparitions. Top mediums receive over sixty calls a day from people who seek contact with their deceased loved ones. Is it religious desire, or mass madness, or a sign of our incremental evolution as a culture? As we begin the new millennium, science and faith are attempting to meet halfway.