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Thursday, May 13 "Extreme times call for extreme measures" seems to be motto of the magician of the Aztlan Circus. |
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Friday, May 14
Mariana wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite Victor, a complete stranger. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery or perfect situations. |
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Saturday, May 15, 2010 To call this film a documentary is not accurate. It is more than that; it's a story of the multiple and hidden meanings that everyday places encapsulate. The visual narrative also shows us a common place in literature: Telling the story of another person is talking about oneself. |
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“Cosecha Latina” series, in association with the UCI Film and Video Center:
Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in American society is the story of the millions of Mexico’s men and women who experienced the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program intended to undermine farmworker unionization. Harvest shows how several million men, in one of the largest state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap, controlled and disposable workers. The documentary features the men speaking of their experiences and addresses what to expect from a new temporary contract worker program. |
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Elias has committed a great sin against God and is convinced that his children will bear the burden of a premature death because of these sins. Wanting to put a halt to the terrible punishment he is sure to receive, he dedicates his life to the construction of a church hoping to gain the pardon from God that he seeks. The story is narrated through Aureliano, the youngest and most vulnerable son, who will depict the family saga in religious ‘retablos.’ |
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Friday, May 28, 2010 SPECIAL MATINEE SCREENING In 1941, Orson Welles and his Mercury Productions embarked on a 4-part film project, titled IT'S ALL TRUE, that was to have depicted the labor of cultural expression and spaces for sociocultural interaction in the Americas, while engaging in collaborations with local artists and film talent. Three of the planned episodes for the film went into production - "My Friend Bonito," shot under the direction of Norman Foster, followed the friendship between a young boy and a bull in central rural Mexico; "Carnaval" blended the documentation and reenactment of 1942 Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro; "Jangadeiros" (aka "Four Men on a Raft") reenacted the voyage undertaken by four fishermen from the state of Ceará to Rio de Janeiro to petition President Getúlio Vargas for inclusion in his social security legislation. Owing to wartime difficulties and studio censorship,Welles was never able to complete and release IT’S ALL TRUE, yet the footage survived in the vaults at RKO, then at Desilu, and again at Paramount Pictures, Inc., where it was discovered in 1980. 200,000 feet of black-and-white footage were deposited at UCLA Film and Television Archive for preservation in March of 1985, and a documentary reconstruction of portions of the three episodes was released by Paramount and Les Films Balenciaga in 1993. Nearly half of the surviving footage was preserved for this purpose; yet more than 100,000 feet corresponding to the three episodes are still in nitrate form – and thus have yet to reach the public eye. This program features four unique reels of footage preserved since the 1990s with funding from the National Center for Film Preservation/American Film Institute and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. |