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So far Guillermo Lopez Meza has created 120 blog entries.

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

The behind-the-scenes adventures, provocations, and controversies of Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread.

By |August 15th, 2019|Animated, Film History|0 Comments

Los Reyes

You could never imagine that a single park and two dogs could produce so many different images and angles.

By |August 15th, 2019|Documentary|0 Comments

La Flor

The question about watching La Flor, one of the more exceptional films in recent South American cinema, shouldn't be if but when.

By |August 1st, 2019|South American, Top Picks|0 Comments

Rojo

Rojo intentionally mimics the look and grammar of cinema from the 1970s and looks amazingly retro, but it's much more than a movie that emulates a certain way of filmmaking and storytelling.

By |July 12th, 2019|South American|0 Comments

Our Time

Conventional is not the adjective that usually defines Carlos Reygadas's semi-abstract and allegorical work. In that regard, his new film is an atypical surprise with mixed results.

By |June 13th, 2019|Foreign|0 Comments

The Proposal

Reality, performance, and protest amalgamate in a political and artistic gesture that defies notions of patrimony, marketing, and property in the art world.

By |May 23rd, 2019|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

My Son

At least for the first half-hour or so, My Son works as an intimate familiar drama underlined by a mystery.

By |May 9th, 2019|Thriller|0 Comments

Little Woods

Little Woods has so many things to say about contemporary American life that it almost feels like two or three movies.

By |April 19th, 2019|Crime, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Satan & Adam

The story of the odd duo of Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow looks like the kind of source material that could inspire a sweetened Hollywood movie.

By |April 12th, 2019|Music, Top Picks|0 Comments