Netflix Mexico has unveiled a rousing new slate in production this year that includes the series debut of Luis Estrada (“¡Que viva México!”), a new pic from Rodrigo Garcia (“Familia”), another series from hit-maker José Ignacio “Chascas” Valenzuela (“Who Killed Sara?”) and “La Reina del Sur”’s Kate del Castillo unusually toplining a comedy.
Also leading the pack is series “Gringo Hunters,” produced by Woo Films and Redrum in co-production with Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment in association with The Washington Post.
Said Francisco Ramos, VP of content for Latin America: “We begin 2024 by reaffirming our commitment to show Mexico, just as it is, on Netflix. This diverse and complex Mexico –immensely rich, sometimes contradictory, and with enormous possibilities– is what inspires, motivates and makes us always keep an eye out for the best stories, so that our offer is even more ambitious and accurate.”
“We will continue to explore...
Also leading the pack is series “Gringo Hunters,” produced by Woo Films and Redrum in co-production with Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment in association with The Washington Post.
Said Francisco Ramos, VP of content for Latin America: “We begin 2024 by reaffirming our commitment to show Mexico, just as it is, on Netflix. This diverse and complex Mexico –immensely rich, sometimes contradictory, and with enormous possibilities– is what inspires, motivates and makes us always keep an eye out for the best stories, so that our offer is even more ambitious and accurate.”
“We will continue to explore...
- 2/9/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Manuel García-Rulfo has been cast in the title role of Netflix’s Spanish-language film Pedro Páramo. Shooting has begun on the Mexican film, which marks cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s directorial debut.
García-Rulfo is best known for Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer, which debuted last year. He is leading Pedro Páramo opposite Tenoch Huerta, who will play Juan Preciado in the Mateo Gil adaptation of the Juan Rulfo novel.
They are joined by Ilse Salas, Mayra Batalla, Héctor Kotsifakis, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Giovanna Zacarías, Noé Hernández and Yoshira Escárrega among others.
Rulfo’s original novel follows a man who attempts to meet his father for the first time after his mother’s death, only to find a ghost town filled with spectral figures and discovers the reckless and dangerous choices his dad made during his life.
“Our commitment to Mexican cinema takes on a whole new dimension with the start of production of Pedro Páramo,...
García-Rulfo is best known for Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer, which debuted last year. He is leading Pedro Páramo opposite Tenoch Huerta, who will play Juan Preciado in the Mateo Gil adaptation of the Juan Rulfo novel.
They are joined by Ilse Salas, Mayra Batalla, Héctor Kotsifakis, Roberto Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Giovanna Zacarías, Noé Hernández and Yoshira Escárrega among others.
Rulfo’s original novel follows a man who attempts to meet his father for the first time after his mother’s death, only to find a ghost town filled with spectral figures and discovers the reckless and dangerous choices his dad made during his life.
“Our commitment to Mexican cinema takes on a whole new dimension with the start of production of Pedro Páramo,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Laura Baumeister’s debut world premiered at Toronto.
Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has scored a slew of sales for Laura Baumeister’s feature debut Daughter of Rage, the first fiction feature shot by a female Nicaraguan-born director.
The Spanish-language coming of age tale, whose original title is La Hija de Todas Las Rabias, follows a young girl growing up on a vast garbage dump in Nicaragua.
Best Friend Forever has sold the film to Tamasa Distribution in France, Trigon Film in Switzerland, A Contracorriente Films in Spain, Interior 13 Cine in Mexico, Stroll Films in Japan and HBO for Eastern Europe.
Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has scored a slew of sales for Laura Baumeister’s feature debut Daughter of Rage, the first fiction feature shot by a female Nicaraguan-born director.
The Spanish-language coming of age tale, whose original title is La Hija de Todas Las Rabias, follows a young girl growing up on a vast garbage dump in Nicaragua.
Best Friend Forever has sold the film to Tamasa Distribution in France, Trigon Film in Switzerland, A Contracorriente Films in Spain, Interior 13 Cine in Mexico, Stroll Films in Japan and HBO for Eastern Europe.
- 2/19/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Mel McKeon and Laura Myones Ruf have been working side by side so long that it’s common they finish each other’s sentences. That comes in helpful, especially now, as the veteran talent managers have a lot to talk about.
It’s been a year since the two, who started working together in 1997 with Myones starting as McKeon’s assistant, rebranded their McKeon/Myones Entertainment to Afa Prime Talent, a transition that has signaled a new era for their management-production company.
Together, they have maintained a client roster of busy actors including Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale), Sarah Shahi (Black Adam, Sex/Life), Alona Tal (Cross), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool 2, Invasion), Vivian Wu (Afterparty, Irma Vep), Michael Trucco (Average Joe), Thomas Barbusca (The Mick, Chad), Sean Patrick Thomas (Till, For All Mankind and The Boys spinoff Gen V), Missi Pyle (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Y: The Last Man), Elaine Hendrix...
It’s been a year since the two, who started working together in 1997 with Myones starting as McKeon’s assistant, rebranded their McKeon/Myones Entertainment to Afa Prime Talent, a transition that has signaled a new era for their management-production company.
Together, they have maintained a client roster of busy actors including Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale), Sarah Shahi (Black Adam, Sex/Life), Alona Tal (Cross), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool 2, Invasion), Vivian Wu (Afterparty, Irma Vep), Michael Trucco (Average Joe), Thomas Barbusca (The Mick, Chad), Sean Patrick Thomas (Till, For All Mankind and The Boys spinoff Gen V), Missi Pyle (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Y: The Last Man), Elaine Hendrix...
- 1/18/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Laura Baumeister’s feature debut “Daughter of Rage” ahead of its world premiere at Toronto and San Sebastian film festivals.
Baumeister previously directed the shorts “Isabel im Winter” which played at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2014 and “Ombligo De Agua” which screened in Rotterdam and Clermont-Ferrand in 2018.
The Spanish-language film follows Maria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a massive waste-disposal site in Nicaragua. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. After the deal falls through, Maria is dropped off by her mother at a recycling center in the city and realizes her mother won’t be coming back for her. Feeling lost, bewildered and angry, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
“We are thrilled to be working...
Baumeister previously directed the shorts “Isabel im Winter” which played at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2014 and “Ombligo De Agua” which screened in Rotterdam and Clermont-Ferrand in 2018.
The Spanish-language film follows Maria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a massive waste-disposal site in Nicaragua. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. After the deal falls through, Maria is dropped off by her mother at a recycling center in the city and realizes her mother won’t be coming back for her. Feeling lost, bewildered and angry, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
“We are thrilled to be working...
- 8/22/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan prize at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Alexis Gambis’ Son of Monarchs follows a New York-based Mexican biologist who returns to his hometown in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán. After his grandmother’s recent death, the journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal and spiritual metamorphosis. Ahead of a theatrical release beginning on October 15 and an HBO Max bow on November 2, we’re pleased to present the exclusive trailer.
As Diego Andaluz said in his Sundance review, “Alexis Gambis’ fifth feature Son of Monarchs tells the story of Mendel (Tenoch Huerta), a Mexican biologist residing in New York who returns to his native country after his grandmother’s death. A lyrical portrait of a fractured identity torn between family and personal success, the film debuted in the Next section of Sundance and...
As Diego Andaluz said in his Sundance review, “Alexis Gambis’ fifth feature Son of Monarchs tells the story of Mendel (Tenoch Huerta), a Mexican biologist residing in New York who returns to his native country after his grandmother’s death. A lyrical portrait of a fractured identity torn between family and personal success, the film debuted in the Next section of Sundance and...
- 9/15/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Who knew peeling open a chrysalis under a microscope could be so mesmerizing? Apparently, Alexis Gambis did. The filmmaker opens “Son of Monarchs” (“Hijo de Monarcas”) with that unique image — a pointy tweezer piercing through the layers of an inert butterfly cocoon. The effect is a compelling mixture of beautiful and disturbing aspects that Gambis revisits throughout the film, as well as collages of pixelated close-ups of opaque wings, and the circular cells speckling a slide. These geometric images blend fluidly with more pastoral scenes — a young boy covered in a flutter of orange and black spots, the rolling greenery of Michoacán, the cold blues of a flooded memory — to form a visual landscape shrouded in unnerving color.
As arresting as it is disorienting, the imagery in “Son of Monarchs” eclipses its unwieldy script, which crowds its compelling protagonist with too many sub-plots and incidental players. Pared down to its essentials,...
As arresting as it is disorienting, the imagery in “Son of Monarchs” eclipses its unwieldy script, which crowds its compelling protagonist with too many sub-plots and incidental players. Pared down to its essentials,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Alexis Gambis’ fifth feature Son of Monarchs tells the story of Mendel (Tenoch Huerta), a Mexican biologist residing in New York who returns to native country after his grandmother’s death. A lyrical portraitl of a fractured identity torn between family and personal success, the film debuted in the Next section of Sundance and deservedly went on to be presented with the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for its scientific depictions. The drama works best as a metaphorical exploration of interpersonal turmoil, resulting in a deeply personal and intimate project that signals much promise for all the talent involved.
Orphaned from a young age, Mendel (Huerta) and his older brother Simon (Noé Hernández) are raised by their family in the heart of Morelia. Introspective, curious, and wide-eyed, Mendel never ceases to inquire about the world around him, contrasting Simon’s more methodical and grounded perspective on life. As the film brings us ahead,...
Orphaned from a young age, Mendel (Huerta) and his older brother Simon (Noé Hernández) are raised by their family in the heart of Morelia. Introspective, curious, and wide-eyed, Mendel never ceases to inquire about the world around him, contrasting Simon’s more methodical and grounded perspective on life. As the film brings us ahead,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Diego Andaluz
- The Film Stage
“Black Bear,” “Kokoloko,” “Night of the Kings,” “Rosa’s Wedding” and “Undine” have been selected as the competition titles for the Marimba Award at the upcoming Miami Film Festival Gems event.
The seventh annual edition of Gems will be held virtually from Oct. 8-11. The juried prize, which carries a $25,000 award, is given for a film that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.
“Black Bear is a U.S. film, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine and starring Aubrey Plaza, Sara Gadon and Christopher Abbot. It premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Kokoloko” (Mexico), directed by Gerardo Naranjo, received a Best Actor prize for Noé Hernández at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
“Night of the Kings” comes from Ivory Coast, France, Canada and Senegal. Directed by Philippe Lacôte, it is the Ivory Coast’s official submission in the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film category
“Rosa’s Wedding” (Spain...
The seventh annual edition of Gems will be held virtually from Oct. 8-11. The juried prize, which carries a $25,000 award, is given for a film that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future.
“Black Bear is a U.S. film, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine and starring Aubrey Plaza, Sara Gadon and Christopher Abbot. It premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“Kokoloko” (Mexico), directed by Gerardo Naranjo, received a Best Actor prize for Noé Hernández at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.
“Night of the Kings” comes from Ivory Coast, France, Canada and Senegal. Directed by Philippe Lacôte, it is the Ivory Coast’s official submission in the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film category
“Rosa’s Wedding” (Spain...
- 9/23/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A girl, a number of guns, also some cars: recombining knowingly archetypal elements from Gerardo Naranjo’s first two features, Drama/Mex and I’m Gonna Explode, Kokoloko is delightfully loose and unconstrained. In Oaxaca, Marisol (Alejandra Herrera) loves Mundo (Noé Hernández), much to the disapproval of her thuggish cousin Mauro (Eduardo Mendizábal), who literally picks her up and throws her in his car to separate the two. The not-quite-love-triangle unfolds in a larger, equally unsettled arena: road blockades are plotted, cartels are in orbit, and violence erupts at every level. The beachside backdrop recalls the Acapulco setting of Drama/Mex, Marisol and Mundo’s lovers-on-the-run arc I’m […]...
- 4/23/2020
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A girl, a number of guns, also some cars: recombining knowingly archetypal elements from Gerardo Naranjo’s first two features, Drama/Mex and I’m Gonna Explode, Kokoloko is delightfully loose and unconstrained. In Oaxaca, Marisol (Alejandra Herrera) loves Mundo (Noé Hernández), much to the disapproval of her thuggish cousin Mauro (Eduardo Mendizábal), who literally picks her up and throws her in his car to separate the two. The not-quite-love-triangle unfolds in a larger, equally unsettled arena: road blockades are plotted, cartels are in orbit, and violence erupts at every level. The beachside backdrop recalls the Acapulco setting of Drama/Mex, Marisol and Mundo’s lovers-on-the-run arc I’m […]...
- 4/23/2020
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“Kokoloko” is a film about frustration — it’s a woozy and violent product of the same inertia that it so viscerally portrays. Nine years ago, the gifted Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo seemed poised for a bold career on the international stage. Cartel thriller “Miss Bala” had coalesced the raw energy of the writer-director’s earlier work into a bitter lament for the collateral damage that drug wars have sown across his homeland, and Hollywood was eager to import Naranjo’s talent north of the border and sell it for spare parts.
Denied the resources to develop his own projects, Naranjo was put to work in all of the most obvious places (his recent credits include episodes of “Narcos” and “Fear the Walking Dead”). Prior to “Kokoloko,” he hadn’t made a feature since his “crossover” success in 2011, and Catherine Hardwicke’s risible 2019 remake of “Miss Bala” only added insult to injury.
Denied the resources to develop his own projects, Naranjo was put to work in all of the most obvious places (his recent credits include episodes of “Narcos” and “Fear the Walking Dead”). Prior to “Kokoloko,” he hadn’t made a feature since his “crossover” success in 2011, and Catherine Hardwicke’s risible 2019 remake of “Miss Bala” only added insult to injury.
- 4/22/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
"The odyssey of a Oaxacan girl..." The Match Factory has debuted the festival promo trailer for a Mexican drama titled Kokoloko, which is the latest feature from acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo. He broke out big with his film Miss Bala (which was later remade by Hollywood) but he hasn't made a film since that premiered in 2011. Now he's back with Kokoloko! Set in a tropical seaside village on the Oaxacan coast, Marisol pursues personal freedom while navigating between the two men in her life - her lover, and her violent cousin who is keeping her captive. Starring Alejandra Herrera as Marisol, along with Noé Hernández and Eduardo Mendizábal. This has that old school, grainy 16mm style to it that makes it all the more dream-like. I am looking forward to seeing what Naranjo has created for us this time. Not only a story about toxic masculinity, but a story...
- 4/22/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet, Félix Maritaud, Khaled Alouach, Noé Hernández, Thibault Servière, Bertrand Mandico, Bastien Waultier, Romane Bohringer, Dourane Fall, Jules Ritmanic | Written by Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione | Directed by Yann Gonzalez
Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) is a French 80s cinematic throwback directed by Yann Gonzalez. The film is set during 1979 in Paris and follows Anna (Vanessa Paradis) a gay porn producer who is recovering from heartbreak with romantic partner Lois (Kate Moran) when a mysterious killer begins to pick off Anne’s male talent one by one.
Variety describes Yann Gonzalez film as “unabashedly queer”, and you could not argue against a single letter in that description. Knife+Heart is incessantly provocative, too much at times, from its neon-lit opening to its apathetic climax. A stylish satirical feature that finds any form of over theatricality intensifies such and indulges to a sickly humorous extent.
Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) is a French 80s cinematic throwback directed by Yann Gonzalez. The film is set during 1979 in Paris and follows Anna (Vanessa Paradis) a gay porn producer who is recovering from heartbreak with romantic partner Lois (Kate Moran) when a mysterious killer begins to pick off Anne’s male talent one by one.
Variety describes Yann Gonzalez film as “unabashedly queer”, and you could not argue against a single letter in that description. Knife+Heart is incessantly provocative, too much at times, from its neon-lit opening to its apathetic climax. A stylish satirical feature that finds any form of over theatricality intensifies such and indulges to a sickly humorous extent.
- 8/12/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
The Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences hosted the 61st edition of their Ariel Awards on Monday evening, where Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Alejandra Márquez Abella’s “The Good Girls” stood out among the winners.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Cuarón’s “Roma” scooping best picture is that it’s only the second of his films to win an Ariel award, and the first to be nominated for best picture. In 1992 “Sólo con Tu Pareja” was nominated for best first work and screenplay, and won best original story. In 2001 he chose not to submit his Oscar-nominated classic “Y tu mamá también” in protest at the Academy’s voting practices.
By the end of the Monday evening however, “Roma” netted 10 prizes, including best director, supporting actress, photography, screenplay, editing, sound, art design, visual effects and special effects to go along with the best picture prize.
A festival darling over the past year,...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Cuarón’s “Roma” scooping best picture is that it’s only the second of his films to win an Ariel award, and the first to be nominated for best picture. In 1992 “Sólo con Tu Pareja” was nominated for best first work and screenplay, and won best original story. In 2001 he chose not to submit his Oscar-nominated classic “Y tu mamá también” in protest at the Academy’s voting practices.
By the end of the Monday evening however, “Roma” netted 10 prizes, including best director, supporting actress, photography, screenplay, editing, sound, art design, visual effects and special effects to go along with the best picture prize.
A festival darling over the past year,...
- 6/25/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma swept the boards at Mexico’s Ariel Awards last night in Mexico City.
The black-and-white period drama scored ten wins at the country’s leading film awards, bestowed by the Mexican Academy, including best film, director, cinematography and original screenplay.
Muchas gracias por acompañarnos en la sexagésima primera entrega del Ariel. ¡Hasta el próximo año! #Ariel2019 pic.twitter.com/waria4j1uq
— AcademiaCineMx (@AcademiaCineMx) June 25, 2019
Cuarón was unable to attend the ceremony for personal reasons but most of the Netflix movie’s cast and crew were on hand to collect their awards in the city in which much of the film is set. Multi-Oscar winner Roma, the darling of last year’s festival and awards season, charts a year in the life of a Mexican maid working for a middle class family during the early 1970s.
Alejandra Marquez’s drama The Good Girls was the only...
The black-and-white period drama scored ten wins at the country’s leading film awards, bestowed by the Mexican Academy, including best film, director, cinematography and original screenplay.
Muchas gracias por acompañarnos en la sexagésima primera entrega del Ariel. ¡Hasta el próximo año! #Ariel2019 pic.twitter.com/waria4j1uq
— AcademiaCineMx (@AcademiaCineMx) June 25, 2019
Cuarón was unable to attend the ceremony for personal reasons but most of the Netflix movie’s cast and crew were on hand to collect their awards in the city in which much of the film is set. Multi-Oscar winner Roma, the darling of last year’s festival and awards season, charts a year in the life of a Mexican maid working for a middle class family during the early 1970s.
Alejandra Marquez’s drama The Good Girls was the only...
- 6/25/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
More interesting news surrounding the wonderful world of Ghostbusters has recently been released ― as the film turns 35 this year. A new documentary called Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters is set to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Also: Hola Mexico Film Festival lineup, and details on both In the Blink of an Eye anthology series and Gunpowder & Sky and Justin Lin's student short film competition.
Ghostbusters Documentary's Cannes Premiere Details: "Leading global distributor Kew Media Distribution has secured international sales rights to a raft of new films that the company will be headlining in Cannes including the stunning and mysterious sci-fi film Deus, rock’n’roll documentary The Quiet One, the retrospective documentary Cleanin’ Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, the bizarre and deceptive documentary The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, the dystopian sci-fi film 2067, and the thriller Itsy Bitsy.
Kew Media Distribution’s Evp of Sales Jonathan Ford...
Ghostbusters Documentary's Cannes Premiere Details: "Leading global distributor Kew Media Distribution has secured international sales rights to a raft of new films that the company will be headlining in Cannes including the stunning and mysterious sci-fi film Deus, rock’n’roll documentary The Quiet One, the retrospective documentary Cleanin’ Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, the bizarre and deceptive documentary The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, the dystopian sci-fi film 2067, and the thriller Itsy Bitsy.
Kew Media Distribution’s Evp of Sales Jonathan Ford...
- 5/10/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Bodies of some of the 10 missing American soldiers were found after the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore on Monday, according to the U.S. Navy.
The remains of some of the missing soldiers were found by divers performing recovery operations inside the ship, Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.
“Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of those sailors and the families of our sailors who were injured,” he said. “The search-and-rescue efforts continue.”
The ship suffered “significant damage” to the hull after...
The remains of some of the missing soldiers were found by divers performing recovery operations inside the ship, Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.
“Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of those sailors and the families of our sailors who were injured,” he said. “The search-and-rescue efforts continue.”
The ship suffered “significant damage” to the hull after...
- 8/22/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
One of the seven sailors killed in the crash between a U.S. Navy warship and a shipping vessel was trapped below decks and drowned after he heroically dived into a flooded compartment to save his shipmates, his uncle said.
The USS Fitzgerald was taking on water and officers ordered the bulkheads closed while Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., was still under water, Stanley Rehm told Wkyc.
The U.S. Navy has declined to comment on Stanley Rehm’s version of events, though the story of Gary Rehm’s heroism is being widely circulated among sailors, People can confirm.
The USS Fitzgerald was taking on water and officers ordered the bulkheads closed while Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., was still under water, Stanley Rehm told Wkyc.
The U.S. Navy has declined to comment on Stanley Rehm’s version of events, though the story of Gary Rehm’s heroism is being widely circulated among sailors, People can confirm.
- 6/21/2017
- by Stephanie Petit and Susan Keating
- PEOPLE.com
Apr 28, 2017
Lucio Fulci, Frankenhooker and more in our round up of new horror Blu-rays and DVDs...
So, what’s your personal idea of hell? For this writer, it would almost certainly involve being chained down in the audience of an eternal live filming of Loose Women as Donald Trump waves a slice of tiger bread, forever just out of reach. Yours is likely to be similar, though it would have to be pretty grim indeed to come anywhere near Lucio Fulci’s 1981 career-best infernal vision and perhaps the definitive (obviously other than Little Nicky) cinematic depiction of eternal damnation, The Beyond.
See related Better Call Saul season 3 episode 3 review: Sunk Costs Better Call Saul season 3 episode 2 review: Witness Better Call Saul season 3 episode 1 review: Mabel
The Italian gore icon behind such genre classics as Zombie Flesh Eaters and The House By The Cemetery offers ostensibly a zombie film set in...
Lucio Fulci, Frankenhooker and more in our round up of new horror Blu-rays and DVDs...
So, what’s your personal idea of hell? For this writer, it would almost certainly involve being chained down in the audience of an eternal live filming of Loose Women as Donald Trump waves a slice of tiger bread, forever just out of reach. Yours is likely to be similar, though it would have to be pretty grim indeed to come anywhere near Lucio Fulci’s 1981 career-best infernal vision and perhaps the definitive (obviously other than Little Nicky) cinematic depiction of eternal damnation, The Beyond.
See related Better Call Saul season 3 episode 3 review: Sunk Costs Better Call Saul season 3 episode 2 review: Witness Better Call Saul season 3 episode 1 review: Mabel
The Italian gore icon behind such genre classics as Zombie Flesh Eaters and The House By The Cemetery offers ostensibly a zombie film set in...
- 3/20/2017
- Den of Geek
We Are The Flesh (Tenemos la carne)
Blu-ray
2017 / Color / 1:85 widescreen – though the aspect ratio changes at the director’s whim/110 min. / Street Date February 28, 2017
Starring: Noe Hernandez, María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel.
Cinematography: Yollótl Alvarado
Film Editor: Yibran Asuad and Emiliano Rocha Minter
Written by Emiliano Rocha Minter
Produced by Julio Chavezmontes and Moisés Cosío
Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter
Teetering on that thin edge between the ludicrous and the even more ludicrous, Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are The Flesh is a spittle-flecked, willfully deranged vision of life in a post-apocalyptic Mexico. Since its release in 2016, Minter’s movie, adrift in bodily fluids and overwrought speechifying, has been turning both heads and stomachs at film festivals across Europe.
An unconvincing mix of Living Theatre provocations and Eraserhead-like tableaus of bursting placentas and the drip, drip, drip of menstrual blood, Minter’s movie announces itself with the...
Blu-ray
2017 / Color / 1:85 widescreen – though the aspect ratio changes at the director’s whim/110 min. / Street Date February 28, 2017
Starring: Noe Hernandez, María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel.
Cinematography: Yollótl Alvarado
Film Editor: Yibran Asuad and Emiliano Rocha Minter
Written by Emiliano Rocha Minter
Produced by Julio Chavezmontes and Moisés Cosío
Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter
Teetering on that thin edge between the ludicrous and the even more ludicrous, Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are The Flesh is a spittle-flecked, willfully deranged vision of life in a post-apocalyptic Mexico. Since its release in 2016, Minter’s movie, adrift in bodily fluids and overwrought speechifying, has been turning both heads and stomachs at film festivals across Europe.
An unconvincing mix of Living Theatre provocations and Eraserhead-like tableaus of bursting placentas and the drip, drip, drip of menstrual blood, Minter’s movie announces itself with the...
- 3/7/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
The final day of February has many home entertainment offerings that horror and sci-fi fans are definitely going to want to add to their Blu-ray and DVD collections. Scream Factory is resurrecting the anthology Deadtime Stories in HD this week, and Tibor Takacs’ creature feature cult classic, The Gate, is getting the Vestron Video Collector’s Series treatment on February 28th as well.
This Tuesday, Vinegar Syndrome is giving a high-def overhaul to another cult classic, Slaughterhouse, and for those who may have missed it during its successful festival run, Arrow Video is releasing We Are The Flesh on multiple formats, too.
Other notable releases for February 28th include Doctor Strange, Ape 3D (aka A*P*E*), Child Eater, The Raid Collection, The Creature Below, Shut In, and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970).
Deadtime Stories (Scream Factory, Blu/DVD Combo)
Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute...
This Tuesday, Vinegar Syndrome is giving a high-def overhaul to another cult classic, Slaughterhouse, and for those who may have missed it during its successful festival run, Arrow Video is releasing We Are The Flesh on multiple formats, too.
Other notable releases for February 28th include Doctor Strange, Ape 3D (aka A*P*E*), Child Eater, The Raid Collection, The Creature Below, Shut In, and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970).
Deadtime Stories (Scream Factory, Blu/DVD Combo)
Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute...
- 2/28/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
MoreHorror.com
Emiliano Rocha Minter's nightmare fantasy horror film We Are the Flesh kicked off its theatrical rollout on Friday, December 13 in Los Angeles and continues opening through January 27 in select cities.
Check out all the official details and release dates below.
From The Press Release
Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter's We Are the Flesh. After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter's provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time. We Are the Flesh will open in Los Angeles at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre January 13th and in New York City on January 20 at Cinema Village.
We Are the Flesh...
Emiliano Rocha Minter's nightmare fantasy horror film We Are the Flesh kicked off its theatrical rollout on Friday, December 13 in Los Angeles and continues opening through January 27 in select cities.
Check out all the official details and release dates below.
From The Press Release
Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter's We Are the Flesh. After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter's provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time. We Are the Flesh will open in Los Angeles at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre January 13th and in New York City on January 20 at Cinema Village.
We Are the Flesh...
- 1/19/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Stars: Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel, Gabino Rodríguez, María Cid | Written and Directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter
“This is not your average party” hisses Mariano, the de facto protagonist-slash-antagonist of We Are The Flesh, the auspicious debut feature film from Mexican arthouse enfant terrible Emiliano Rocha Minter. Never has a truer phrase been spoken.
We are living in interesting times, make no mistake. There was a time where censorship in the UK had reached such fevered levels of absurdity that simply having the word “cannibal” in the title of your film was sufficient grounds for said film to be deemed obscene, banned and for anyone found peddling said smut to face potential fines and, potentially, imprisonment.
Thankfully, times have changed (for the most part) and that a film such as We Are The Flesh can now be released, fully uncut, by one of the world’s finest distribution companies,...
“This is not your average party” hisses Mariano, the de facto protagonist-slash-antagonist of We Are The Flesh, the auspicious debut feature film from Mexican arthouse enfant terrible Emiliano Rocha Minter. Never has a truer phrase been spoken.
We are living in interesting times, make no mistake. There was a time where censorship in the UK had reached such fevered levels of absurdity that simply having the word “cannibal” in the title of your film was sufficient grounds for said film to be deemed obscene, banned and for anyone found peddling said smut to face potential fines and, potentially, imprisonment.
Thankfully, times have changed (for the most part) and that a film such as We Are The Flesh can now be released, fully uncut, by one of the world’s finest distribution companies,...
- 1/12/2017
- by Andy Stewart
- Nerdly
The malevolent methods of the hermit Mariano will expand to more Us cities this January with Arrow Films' expanded theatrical release of We Are the Flesh, and horror fans can get a taste of the movie's eerie atmosphere in the official trailer.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA - Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter's We Are the Flesh. After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter's provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time. On the heels of the January 13 Los Angeles debut, We Are the Flesh will open in New York City on January 20, 2017 for a week's run at Cinema Village.
We...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA - Arrow Films has announced the January 2017 theatrical rollout of Emiliano Rocha Minter's We Are the Flesh. After a thought-provoking and acclaimed year on the festival circuit, the film will screen in over ten cities across the United States. Visionary, unrelenting, and not for the faint-hearted, Rocha Minter's provocative and explicit creation is an erotic inferno of the senses that manages to pack all manner of delirium into its short running time. On the heels of the January 13 Los Angeles debut, We Are the Flesh will open in New York City on January 20, 2017 for a week's run at Cinema Village.
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- 12/22/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It’s all red filter, hardcore action and impending doom in Emiliano Rocha Minter’s orgiastic dystopian nightmare set in Mexico
“This is not your average party!” announces this film’s gurningly grotesque lead character. He can say that again. Writer-director Emiliano Rocha Minter (who scripted Gerardo Naranjo’s Tijuana gangland movie Miss Bala) has whipped up an eroto-pocalyptic nightmare, set in Mexico, apparently influenced by that adulte terrible of extreme cinema, Gaspar Noé. Rocha brings the red filter, the hardcore action, the throbbing soundtrack, and the sense of impending doom. Yet in its climactic orgiastic scene and the final gotcha-reveal, it looks like a controversial or banned movie from the 70s. In a wrecked world, a young brother and sister (played by María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel) roam the shattered city, desperate for food and shelter. A creepy old guy, Mariano (Noé Hernández), takes them in on condition that...
“This is not your average party!” announces this film’s gurningly grotesque lead character. He can say that again. Writer-director Emiliano Rocha Minter (who scripted Gerardo Naranjo’s Tijuana gangland movie Miss Bala) has whipped up an eroto-pocalyptic nightmare, set in Mexico, apparently influenced by that adulte terrible of extreme cinema, Gaspar Noé. Rocha brings the red filter, the hardcore action, the throbbing soundtrack, and the sense of impending doom. Yet in its climactic orgiastic scene and the final gotcha-reveal, it looks like a controversial or banned movie from the 70s. In a wrecked world, a young brother and sister (played by María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel) roam the shattered city, desperate for food and shelter. A creepy old guy, Mariano (Noé Hernández), takes them in on condition that...
- 11/17/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Fans of We Are the Flesh take note, because Emiliano Rocha Minter's film will be available for home viewing sooner than you might think! The UK and Us Blu-ray / DVD releases of We Are the Flesh are slated for February 2017 from Arrow Video! Read on for full specs and pre-order details.
From Arrow Video: "New UK/Us Title: We Are The Flesh Blu-ray/DVD
An unforgettable, boundary-pushing experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
Pre-order your UK Blu-ray here: http://bit.ly/2eZw8jt
Pre-order your UK DVD here: http://bit.ly/2eZygYR
North American pre-orders links should be live soon!
UK Release Date: 13th February 2017
Us Release Date: 14th February 2017
A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican arthouse cinema, We Are The Flesh is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldly dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well...
From Arrow Video: "New UK/Us Title: We Are The Flesh Blu-ray/DVD
An unforgettable, boundary-pushing experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
Pre-order your UK Blu-ray here: http://bit.ly/2eZw8jt
Pre-order your UK DVD here: http://bit.ly/2eZygYR
North American pre-orders links should be live soon!
UK Release Date: 13th February 2017
Us Release Date: 14th February 2017
A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican arthouse cinema, We Are The Flesh is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldly dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well...
- 11/17/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
★★★☆☆ "This is no average party." Damn right. Emiliano Rocha Minter's We Are the Flesh is a thoroughly tough sell, and will likely find a small audience; those who like their transgressive cinema with an equally extreme arthouse flavour. A promising debut, for sure, but its reach will be very limited. In what looks like post-apocalyptic Mexico, a scuzzy hermit (Noe Hernandez) lives out his days in a filthy hovel.
- 11/17/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
A fresh UK quad poster and trailer for writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter’s new film We Are the Flesh (review), or Tenemos la Carne for you purists out there, have arrived; and you can dig them right here. Noé Hernández stars.… Continue Reading →
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- 10/21/2016
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Tricia Lee's Blood Hunters kicks off today's Horror Highlights with news that the film will have three screenings this month in North America, just in time for the most glorious of holidays, Halloween! Also: a recap / photos for Trash Fire's Screamfest screening in Los Angeles, a trailer / poster for The Terrible Two, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival's list of awards.
Blood Hunters North American October Premiere: Press Release: "The trees are changing color and the weather is starting to cool, but Halloween is right around the corner. And Blood Hunters is having its North American premiere in the month of October. With three screenings scheduled this month, the film is fresh off a successful and well-received world premiere at Horror Channel Frightfest in London.
Directed by Tricia Lee and starring Lara Gilchrist, Benjamin Arthur, Torri Higginson, Julian Richings, Mark Taylor, and Peter Blankenstein, the film debuted in...
Blood Hunters North American October Premiere: Press Release: "The trees are changing color and the weather is starting to cool, but Halloween is right around the corner. And Blood Hunters is having its North American premiere in the month of October. With three screenings scheduled this month, the film is fresh off a successful and well-received world premiere at Horror Channel Frightfest in London.
Directed by Tricia Lee and starring Lara Gilchrist, Benjamin Arthur, Torri Higginson, Julian Richings, Mark Taylor, and Peter Blankenstein, the film debuted in...
- 10/20/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
While at the 2016 Fantastic Fest last month, I had the opportunity to check out a few films that were on the fringes of horror and sci-fi, so I’ve decided to recap my thoughts on a few of those movies here.
24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters: A documentary about the art form of creating movie-themed posters, first-time filmmaker Kevin Burke’s documentary, 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters, hit all the right notes for me. It perfectly covers the rise—and subsequent fall—of the artists behind some of the most iconic movie posters in cinema, and it also offers an in-depth look at the creative process that goes into crafting images that would go on to become iconic, huge parts of pop culture.
24x36 covers a decent amount of ground history-wise (although the geek in me would have always loved more), and the way Burke delves...
24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters: A documentary about the art form of creating movie-themed posters, first-time filmmaker Kevin Burke’s documentary, 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters, hit all the right notes for me. It perfectly covers the rise—and subsequent fall—of the artists behind some of the most iconic movie posters in cinema, and it also offers an in-depth look at the creative process that goes into crafting images that would go on to become iconic, huge parts of pop culture.
24x36 covers a decent amount of ground history-wise (although the geek in me would have always loved more), and the way Burke delves...
- 10/13/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Here’s my million-dollar proclamation for Fantasia 2016 – We Are The Flesh will be the most talked-about film of the festival. Some patrons will exit their screening aroused by ethereal pornography that doubles as social commentary. Others will walk out while filmmaker Emiliano Rocha Minter smashes the stylings of Michel Gondry and Lars Von Trier together in a Nfsw (not safe for anywhere, really) apocalyptic orgy. I mean, “Wtf” is going on here – or, more appropriately, “WaTF.” Rocha Minter leaves Everything up to interpretation. Maybe it’s a commentary on primitive associations between our civilized lifestyles and deeply-rooted depravity that we keep stashed away? Maybe it’s a dangerous religious portrayal of the second coming of Christ? Maybe it’s simply about a crazy homeless guy, forced incest, brainwashing, and sex addiction? I Don’T Know.
If you’re coming here for an explanation, you’re going to be sadly disappointed.
If you’re coming here for an explanation, you’re going to be sadly disappointed.
- 7/23/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
To celebrate the DVD release of Gerardo Naranjo's Mexican thriller Miss Bala (2011) - which stars newcomer Stephanie Sigman and Noe Hernandez - we have Three DVD copies of the film to give away to our world cinema-loving fans. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook fans, so if you haven't already, head over to facebook.com/CineVueUK, 'Like' us, and then follow the instructions below.
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- 2/20/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Model-turned-actress Stephanie Sigman gives one of the best breakout performances in recent memory in the breathless Mexican thriller "Miss Bala."
The film premiered to solid notices at last year's Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, and has since made good on its buzz by becoming Mexico's official bid for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It comes out this Friday in limited release, so now's your chance to see if the film has the potential to go all the way. We hope it does.
In the movie, directed by Gerardo Naranjo, Sigman plays Laura, a beautiful girl from a poor family in Tijuana who dreams of going all the way in a beauty pageant. Her dreams get thwarted when she's kidnapped by a posse of ruthless hit men at a club. Rather than leaving her for dead, the head of the gang -- the drug lord Lino...
The film premiered to solid notices at last year's Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, and has since made good on its buzz by becoming Mexico's official bid for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It comes out this Friday in limited release, so now's your chance to see if the film has the potential to go all the way. We hope it does.
In the movie, directed by Gerardo Naranjo, Sigman plays Laura, a beautiful girl from a poor family in Tijuana who dreams of going all the way in a beauty pageant. Her dreams get thwarted when she's kidnapped by a posse of ruthless hit men at a club. Rather than leaving her for dead, the head of the gang -- the drug lord Lino...
- 1/20/2012
- by Nigel Smith
- NextMovie
Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman) dreams of winning a beauty pageant. The 23-year-old is from a poor family in Tijuana and is therefore mostly unprepared for her pageant audition when it finally arrives, but she has a striking quality about her that gets her through to the next round. When her friend Suzu (who also made the cut) goes out to celebrate, Laura tags along. But she's soon caught up in a vicious drug cartel and turned into a runner for the organization.
On the surface, the film is a warning against the escalating dangers of the Mexican drug trade and its effect on the citizens of that country. But writer/director Naranjo also seems to indicate that vanity is almost as dangerous as bullets and the cartels who wield them. Laura's goal of winning a pageant comes as an ironically bitter victory near the end of the film considering the...
- 11/6/2011
- by benp
- GeekTyrant
It is certainly true that in much of the world and in many circumstances, women are powerless, helpless to control the situations they find themselves enmeshed in at the behest of men. It is true that women are very often pawns in the games of men. But there is a whole lotta frustration to be found in a movie about such a woman forced to play men’s games who doesn’t fight back... not even a little. I would like to believe that up-and-coming Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo (who cowrote Miss Bala’s script with Mauricio Katz) is making some sort of feminist statement in his tale of Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman, who embodies a palpable power in spite of the film she finds herself in), a poor but pretty young woman from Tijuana who dreams of a beauty pageant win to lift her out of her poverty and desperation.
- 11/6/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A would-be beauty queen finds herself embroiled in a violent gang war in director Gerardo Naranjo’s Miss Bala. Here’s Ryan’s review…
Imagine a dystopian city where nobody can be trusted. Where war perpetually rages, as law and order teeters on collapse. This isn’t a nightmare future vision from the pages of Orwell or Huxley, or even one of Kafka’s angst-ridden fables, but Miss Bala, director Gerardo Naranjo’s mesmerising version of a present-day Mexican city.
Against a backdrop of corruption and gang warfare, Laura (Stephanie Stigman) enters a beauty pageant, only to find herself embroiled in the running battle between criminals and police. While attempting to locate her missing best friend, Laura falls into the clutches of seedy, sweaty gangster Lino Valdez (Noe Hernandez), and becomes an unwitting accomplice as violence in the city continues to escalate.
From a technical standpoint, Miss Bala is an astonishing achievement,...
Imagine a dystopian city where nobody can be trusted. Where war perpetually rages, as law and order teeters on collapse. This isn’t a nightmare future vision from the pages of Orwell or Huxley, or even one of Kafka’s angst-ridden fables, but Miss Bala, director Gerardo Naranjo’s mesmerising version of a present-day Mexican city.
Against a backdrop of corruption and gang warfare, Laura (Stephanie Stigman) enters a beauty pageant, only to find herself embroiled in the running battle between criminals and police. While attempting to locate her missing best friend, Laura falls into the clutches of seedy, sweaty gangster Lino Valdez (Noe Hernandez), and becomes an unwitting accomplice as violence in the city continues to escalate.
From a technical standpoint, Miss Bala is an astonishing achievement,...
- 10/25/2011
- Den of Geek
Up until last year, film festivals had always been a bit of a mystery to me. I had gone to a few conventions before and been shown advanced screenings of films, but to actually go to an event where all you did was watch films seemed a bit beyond my reach. Didn’t help either that I had never really lived in areas with affordable or frequent festivals. That is, up until last year when I was introduced to AFI Fest. They hooked me in with free tickets and the promise of engaging cinema from around the world. To say I had fun is a bit of an understatement. As the credits to the last film rolled, I decided that I would come back next year in a more professional manner and write about it.
Which brings us to now. AFI Fest 2011 Presented by Audi is a little over a...
Which brings us to now. AFI Fest 2011 Presented by Audi is a little over a...
- 10/24/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
Miss Bala opens on a static shot of a wall, a wall filled with cut out pictures of American female fashion icons – Madonna, Monroe, Audrey Hepburn – and a mirror. Reflected in the mirror we get a glimpse at our protagonist, Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman), partially obscured as she busies herself around her room. The symbolic potency of this opening is effective and it aptly sets up the slow and considered approach of director Gerardo Naranjo.
This opening is also perhaps the furthest we ever get from the character of Laura for the entirety of Miss Bala, as newcomer Stephanie Sigman, who is startling good here, is in every scene, Naranjo putting us right alongside her at every moment.
Laura is a young woman living in Mexico and sees a way out of her and her family’s poverty through the Miss Baja California beauty pageant. Unfortunately though, the night before...
This opening is also perhaps the furthest we ever get from the character of Laura for the entirety of Miss Bala, as newcomer Stephanie Sigman, who is startling good here, is in every scene, Naranjo putting us right alongside her at every moment.
Laura is a young woman living in Mexico and sees a way out of her and her family’s poverty through the Miss Baja California beauty pageant. Unfortunately though, the night before...
- 10/21/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To coincide with the release of Miss Bala in cinemas on 28th October, Metrodome have not only given us this exclusive clip from the movie but also the chance to win a signed poster from the movie. In the clip which is rather intense and should be viewed with caution, we see some of the hard-hitting action which is rife in this amazing movie which we’ll be reviewing imminently. In the meantime, scroll down to view the clip and even further down to enter our competition to win a signed poster. You can see all our coverage including the trailer for Miss Bala here.
Miss Bala stars Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Noe Hernandez, James Russo, Stephanie Sigman, Jose Yenque and is directed by Gerado Naranjo.
Miss Bala (“Miss Bullet” in English) tells the story of Laura, a young aspiring beauty queen who finds her dream turned against her when...
Miss Bala stars Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Noe Hernandez, James Russo, Stephanie Sigman, Jose Yenque and is directed by Gerado Naranjo.
Miss Bala (“Miss Bullet” in English) tells the story of Laura, a young aspiring beauty queen who finds her dream turned against her when...
- 10/18/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If you ever have a daughter that begs you for entrance into a beauty pageant and you can’t bring yourself to comply, pop on Miss Bala and she’ll never ask again. Taking place in Mexico amidst an unwinnable war on drugs, Gerardo Naranjo’s film portrays a never-ending series of impossible situations for its star. All Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman) wanted was to have fun, wear beautiful dresses, and flaunt her body. But like twenty-somethings in any culture, kids who enjoy partying get mixed up in things out of their control. When her friend Suzu’s quasi-boyfriend Javi takes them to a club, no one could have anticipated the world of pain to follow. The girls finally decide to leave, but not before a militant group of criminals descends into the women’s bathroom to ambush what is a DEA soiree, unloading machineguns into the crowded room.
Caught...
Caught...
- 10/5/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
For the month of October, New York is where it appears to be happening for cinema, as the 49th New York Film Festival gets under way. Beginning September 30, this year's slate offers features from directors such as Roman Polanski, Lars von Trier, David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar, the Dardenne Brothers and Alexander Payne. As with previous years, many of these films have already debuted at film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Toronto. That also makes them susceptible to piracy and I'm sorry to say that a good number of these films are already available as illegal downloads online. Let's face it, unless you're a New Yorker or true cinephile, the average moviegoer isn't going to pay out extravagant prices to see a slate of films like this. But there are some good films to be found here and although many of them have yet to be released or find distribution, I...
- 10/3/2011
- LRMonline.com
We are looking for upwards of 65 total submissions for Oscar's list of Foreign Language contenders and we are inching closer as I have just added 18 more titles to the list bringing the total up to 40. Today I added submissions from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Israel, Peru, Slovakia, South Africa and Vietnam along with China's submission of Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War starring Christian Bale.
Yimou, as I'm sure most of you know, is best known for helming House of Flying Daggers and Hero and with Flowers of War he's working from an adaptation of Geling Yan's novel "13 Flowers of Nanjing," centering on the Nanjing Massacre, when Japanese troops killed thousands of Chinese citizens in what was then the nation's capital in 1937. Bale plays John Haufman, an American trapped amidst the chaos of battle and the ensuing occupation takes shelter,...
Yimou, as I'm sure most of you know, is best known for helming House of Flying Daggers and Hero and with Flowers of War he's working from an adaptation of Geling Yan's novel "13 Flowers of Nanjing," centering on the Nanjing Massacre, when Japanese troops killed thousands of Chinese citizens in what was then the nation's capital in 1937. Bale plays John Haufman, an American trapped amidst the chaos of battle and the ensuing occupation takes shelter,...
- 9/23/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Metrodome have unveiled the official U.K. poster for Miss Bala.
Written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala stars Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Miguel Couturier, Gabriel Heads, Noe Hernandez, James Russo and Jose Yenque.
In Mexico, a lawless country, Laura (Sigman), a young aspiring beauty queen finds her dream turned against her when she unwillingly gets involved with a criminal group at war.
Miss Bala premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 64th Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews, and will hit U.K. cinemas on October 28.
Check out the poster below:
Source: Empire...
Written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala stars Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Miguel Couturier, Gabriel Heads, Noe Hernandez, James Russo and Jose Yenque.
In Mexico, a lawless country, Laura (Sigman), a young aspiring beauty queen finds her dream turned against her when she unwillingly gets involved with a criminal group at war.
Miss Bala premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 64th Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews, and will hit U.K. cinemas on October 28.
Check out the poster below:
Source: Empire...
- 9/21/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cannes can be both boon and burden to filmmakers. A positive reception can see your career move forward in leaps and bounds, while a thumbs down from the critical Croisette faithful can serve as a major setback. For new rising filmmakers, the risk is even greater but for Mexican helmer Gerardo Naranjo his first visit to France will be a memorable one. Playing to strong reviews and even bigger word of mouth, "Miss Bala" was one of the most talked about entries in the Un Certain Regard slate at Cannes this year. Starring Stephanie Sigman and Noe Hernandez, the film…...
- 8/29/2011
- The Playlist
In a visceral manner, the Mexican thriller Miss Bala brings into focus a serious problem the country faces with the drug cartels. It centers on an young girl Laura Guerrero, played intensely by newcomer Stephanie Sigman, aspiring to become a beauty queen to win some money for her brother and father. Director Gerardo Naranjo displays a strong and confident cinematic voice with excellent use of carefully composed long shots that drive up the tension tenfold. Produced by the Y Tu Mamá También boys Diego Luna and Gael García Berna, the core of the movie is intended as a reflection of the times. By creating a character whose situations are impossible not to sympathize for, Miss Bala becomes a tour de force of action wrapped within the sub text of serious socio-economic issues.
The title which translates to Miss Bullet, is a play on the beauty pageant award Miss Baja California...
The title which translates to Miss Bullet, is a play on the beauty pageant award Miss Baja California...
- 5/17/2011
- by Raffi Asdourian
- The Film Stage
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Director Gerardo Naranjo is no stranger to the Croisette following Drama/Mex, which screened during Critics Week in 2006. His latest feature, Miss Bala, is screening as part of the Un Certain Regard at this year’s Festival.
The movie is set in Mexico, where gangs rule the streets, with a police force that is riddled with corruption. Miss Bala tells us the story of Laura Guerrero, a young woman who dreams of one day winning the Miss Baja California beauty pageant. After auditioning for the contest Laura finds herself at a warehouse party, upon following her friend, and things soon turn sinister as Laura becomes caught up in a shoot-out involving a gang who raid the gathering.
Noe Hernandez stars as crime boss Lino. Despite this being Hernadez’s first feature length production, his performance is one of seemingly far more accomplishment than on his CV.
Director Gerardo Naranjo is no stranger to the Croisette following Drama/Mex, which screened during Critics Week in 2006. His latest feature, Miss Bala, is screening as part of the Un Certain Regard at this year’s Festival.
The movie is set in Mexico, where gangs rule the streets, with a police force that is riddled with corruption. Miss Bala tells us the story of Laura Guerrero, a young woman who dreams of one day winning the Miss Baja California beauty pageant. After auditioning for the contest Laura finds herself at a warehouse party, upon following her friend, and things soon turn sinister as Laura becomes caught up in a shoot-out involving a gang who raid the gathering.
Noe Hernandez stars as crime boss Lino. Despite this being Hernadez’s first feature length production, his performance is one of seemingly far more accomplishment than on his CV.
- 5/14/2011
- by Peter Willis
- Obsessed with Film
Actress Stephanie Sigman poses during the photocall for 'Miss Bala' at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, 13 May 2011. The movie by Mexican director Gerardo Najanjo is presented in the 'Un Certain Regard' section of the film festival, running from 11 to 22 May. Epa/Guillaume Horcajuelo French director Maiwenn (C) poses with French actors and cast members, (L-r) Nicolas Duvauchelle, Joey Starr, Arnaud Henriet, Jeremie Elkaim, Frederic Pierrot and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing during the photocall for 'Polisse' at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, 13 May 2011. The movie by Maiwenn is presented in the Official Competition of the film festival, running from 11 to 22 May. Epa/Guillaume Horcajuelo Mexican actor Noe Hernandez poses during...
- 5/13/2011
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
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