FILMS

 

Capital Community College’s Latin American and Latino film collection is located in the library on the 5^th floor of the campus.  Students enrolled in English 272 are welcome to view the following films that have been placed on reserve for this course. 

 

Please refer to the LatinoGuide at http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/latinoguide/

And click on the “FILM” button for information about these films:

 

“El Norte”

“El Super”

“Short Eyes”

 

Additional films of interest:

 

Films that concern the Chicano world:

“The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez”

                        “Zoot Suit”

                        “Y no se lo tragó la tierra”

                        “Fear No Evil”

 

Films that concern the Puerto Rican world:

“Pinero”

“Almost a Woman”

“Short Eyes”

“Mi Puerto Rico”

“Blackboard Jungle”

“West Side Story”

 

Films that concern the Cuban-American world

                        “El Super”

 

Films that concern the Dominican-American world

                        “In the Time of the Butterflies”

                        “Nueba Yol”

 

Other films of interest: Literary Films

                        “Miguel Piñero Reading”

                        “Martín Espada Reading” (At Capital 1997)

                        “Lannan Videos:

                                    Sandra Cisneros (Chicana writer and poet)

                                    Victor Hernandez Cruz (PR poet)

                                    Luis Rodriguez (Chicano Poet)

 

Other Films of interest: Political/Historical

                        US based:

“The School of the Americas”

 

                        Latin American Based:

                                    “Missing” (Chile)

                                    “Salvador” (El Salvador)

                                    “Bitter Sugar” (Cuba)

                                    “Official Story” (Argentina)

                                    “Los Olvidados” (Mexcio)

                                    “Theresa” (Cuba)

                                   

                       

 

Films Latinos and films and stereotypes:

NEWS:

January 10, 2003:

New York Times: New Movie about Pancho Villa:

“The latest furor is over an HBO movie titled "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself." The title role has gone to Spanish actor Antonio Banderas.  Villa loyalists say he hated two nationalities the most. One was American, and the other was Spanish. And now these loyalists are chapped. "They should have given the role to a Mexican," Adolfo Lopez, an activist who founded the Francisco Villa Popular Front in 1988, told The Associated Press. "I like Banderas, but he's a Spaniard. I think there are Mexican actors who could do the role well."

 

There is nothing new here, since a Puerto Rican actress, Jennifer Lopez, played the Chicana singer, Selena; Charleton Heston played a Mexican in Orson Well’s “Fear No Evil,” Natalie Wood played a Puerto Rican in “West Side Story,” Al Pacino plays a Cuban in “Scarface,” and Spanish born Antonio Banderas usually gets the role whenever a Latin American male is required: he’s Cuban in “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” Chilean in Isabel Allende’s “The House of Spirits,” the Argentinian Che Guevara to Madonna’s “Evita,” a Mexican in “Frida.”  Puerto Rican born, Selma Heyek is Dominican in Julia Alvarez’s “In the Time of the Butterflies,” and Mexican in “Frida.”  The list is endless.