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EL NORTE AT THE ACADEMY

EL NORTE (1983) was the first of its kind: a contemporary drama detailing a brother and sister’s escape from persecution in Guatemala, and their journey north through Mexico to find work in Los Angeles—told from the siblings point of view. This landmark of American independent cinema has been restored by the Academy Film Archive, and will screen this week at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

During filming in Mexico, footage was seized at gunpoint, and an accountant was held for ransom. Following the screening, writer/director Gregory Navawriter/producer Anna Thomas, and the film’s stars Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando will participate in a panel discussion about the making of the film, and how times have changed and not changed since then.

 

EL NORTE, Monday, December 11, at 7:30 pm.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATER, A.M.P.A.S., 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills.

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David Villalpando and Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez in El Norte (1983).

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LUCRECIA MARTEL AT THE ACADEMY

“As LA CIÉNAGALucrecia Martel’s remarkable debut film—perspires from the screen, it creates a vision of social malaise that feels paradoxically familiar and new. Anyone who has wilted during the dog days of summer will recognize its mood and identify with the characters’ pervasive sense of exasperation. But LA CIÉNAGA is the first film I’ve seen that makes this mood its subject.” — Stephen Holden*

Writer-director Lucrecia Martel will present LA CIÉNAGA (2001) at a special Academy–PST: LA/LA screening on Monday night.

After the film, join Martel for a Q & A.

 

LA CIÉNAGA, Monday, November 6, at 7:30 pm.

SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATER, A.M.P.A.S., 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills.

See: sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/la-cienaga

*nytimes.com/movie/review

La Ciénaga (2001). Poster credit: A.M.P.A.S.

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TO SLEEP WITH ANGER — SCREENING AND TALK

This week in Hollywood, James Naremore—author of the forthcoming book Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge—will give the 15th AMPAS Film Scholars Lecture, followed by a screening of Burnett’s TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990).

JAMES NAREMORE lecture and TO SLEEP WITH ANGER screening, Thursday, September 7.

Reception at 6:30 pm. Lecture and screening at 7:30 pm.

LINWOOD DUNN THEATER, 1313 Vine Street, Hollywood.

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Danny Glover (left) and Charles Burnett on the set of To Sleep With Anger (1990).

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