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Sandler Hopes to Help Gay-Rights Groups
 Associated Press
Adam Sandler says he would like to work alongside gay-rights groups after starring in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry."
'Trade' Movie Points to Evil Sex-Slave Industry
 James P. Pinkerton
Do you ever find yourself in a scary situation where you start spontaneously reciting the 23rd Psalm? You know, "The Lord is my shepherd ... "? Well, a new movie, "Trade," gave me the shuddering feeling that I needed protection from wickedness - that we all do, that America does.
Riviera Maya Underground Film Festival 2007
 PR-inside
Mexico's thriving film industry is at its peak with the upcoming Riviera Maya Underground Film Festival. Expected to be one of the biggest events of the season, the annual festival will be held from October 3 to 7, 2007 at selected cinemas around Playa del Carmen.
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Mexican Cinema
 Jeff Heinrich
Good things (like Tex-Mex music and tacos). Bad things (migrant smugglers and drug cartels). Ugly things (the 400 unsolved mysteries of murdered women in Ciudad Juárez since 1993). Whatever the vision, one truth emerges: this is a part of the world shot through with a streak of radical independence.
Jennifer Lopez Film to Debut in El Paso
 El Paso Times
Jennifer Lopez's film "Bordertown" will open in El Paso Oct. 19. Those associated with the film are trying to arrange for Lopez to come to El Paso for a screening of the film, but nothing is planned as of yet.
Luís Mandoki Cries Foul Over Documentary Release
 Reed Johnson
Director Luís Mandoki says one of Hollywood's major players, Warner Bros., is partly responsible for blocking the release of his new documentary about last year's disputed Mexican presidential election.
Mothers of Slain Women Unhappy with Juárez Films
 Alfredo Corchado
The mothers wanted the world to hear of their daughters' brutal slayings. Their hope was that movie producers in Hollywood could keep their memories alive and reignite the fight for justice. But critics panned the two Hollywood motion pictures inspired by the killings of hundreds of young women in Juárez, across the border from El Paso.
Small Countries, Great Films
 Diego Graglia
As the offer of Latin American-oriented cinema is increasing in New York City, Latinbeat has become a late-summer classic. The annual series organized by the Film Society at Lincoln Center holds its ground as a place to encounter the brightest and the latest of the region's cinema.
Film on Trauma of Troops Back From Iraq Hits Venice
 Mike Collett-White
The scars from the Iraq war do not heal when U.S. soldiers return home, says a powerful new film starring Tommy Lee Jones that keeps the conflict at the heart of the Venice film festival this year.
Bordertown: Changing the World a Little
Mindy Ran
Based on fact, the newly released Bordertown is a film about the bizarre murders of over 400 young women in the Mexican town of Juarez. One of the victims happened to be a Dutch tourist and her mother hopes the film will raise awareness further so that something can be done about bringing the killers to justice and preventing more lives being taken.
Scottish Film on Mexican Deaths Wins Plaudits
 Elizabeth Mistry
A Scottish documentary is winning international acclaim after revealing for the first time how the Mexican government colluded with a paramilitary hit squad to murder an unarmed group of indigenous people.
Making Genocide in Darfur Personal
 Ty Burr
"The Devil Came on Horseback" is a documentary about the human-rights crisis in Darfur. It's also about our response to the human-rights crisis in Darfur - not just the West as a whole, but you and me and the guy down the hall.
Mexican Actors Focus on 'Abuses'
 BBC News
Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal held a gala dinner as a way of raising money to support human rights causes. And they promised to make documentaries raising awareness of issues such as the unsolved murders of more than 300 women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
A Spirit Flows From 'Volcano'
 Reed Johnson
There's a saying that people here use when knocking back a shot of mescal, the spirit distilled from the agave plant with a fiery sting like the devil's own pitchfork: "Para todo mal, mescal. Para todo bien, también." For everything bad, mescal - and for everything good, as well.
A Blurry Line Between Propaganda and News
 Khody Akhavi
In a country revered for its freedom of speech and unfettered press, Eason's comments in Norman Solomon's documentary film "War Made Easy" would infuriate any veteran reporter who upholds the most basic and important tenet of the journalistic profession: independence.
Michael Moore Says He's Been Served
 United Press International
Michael Moore said Thursday that the Bush administration has served him with a subpoena regarding his trip to Cuba during the making of his new film, "Sicko."
While Real Bullets Fly, Movies Bring War Home
 Michael Cieply
Some in Hollywood want moviegoers to decide if killing is emblematic of a war gone bad, part of a new and perhaps risky willingness in the entertainment business to push even the touchiest debates about post-9/11 security, Iraq and the troops' status from the confines of documentaries into the realm of mainstream political drama.
Migrant Chapel Destroyed by Ignorance and Fear in Documentary Film by John Carlos Frey
 PRNewswire
Award winning filmmaker, John Carlos Frey captures the story of faith pitted against the heated immigration debate in his latest documentary film entitled, The Invisible Chapel.
Mexico Exorcist Slams Harry Potter
 Paul Kiernan
The leading exorcist of Mexico's main archdiocese said the popular Harry Potter book and film series could allow the devil to enter children's minds, and does "a lot of damage."
Iñarritu: The US Is Ruled by a Fascist
 Prensa Latina
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu said this week that the United States is being ruled by a fascist, George W. Bush, whose administration manipulates the people and the media.
Americans Cheer "SiCKO," But Not All Convinced
 Andrea Hopkins
Fresh from the hospital and still hurting from a $757 prescription drug bill, moviegoer Ron Jackson emerged from a screening of Michael Moore's documentary on the U.S. health system feeling outraged and exuberant.
Internationally Acclaimed 'El Violin' Finally Makes It Home
 Reed Johnson
It took months, but Mexicans finally are getting to see the movie that some here have called the country's most socially significant work of cinema in many moons.
Global Health Care, Cuban-Style
 W.T. Whitney Jr.
Against a backdrop of ratcheted-up Bush attacks on Cuba and the devastating contradictions afflicting U.S. health care, the documentary “Salud!” by Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba is timely, informative and inspiring.
Boxing for the Big Screen
 Jo Tuckman
Sitting in his corner of the ring at the end of round four, eyes down and body slumped, Julio Cesar Chavez calls off the fight. He says his hand is broken. Later, in his dressing room, he dabs away the tears with a tissue.
Michael Moore's SiCKO
 Christopher Hayes
After introducing us to the horror stories all too typical among even the 250 million Americans fortunate enough to have health insurance, Moore takes a few moments for a brief history lesson. How, he asks, did we get here?
"Mexican Wave" Stars Back Together for New Movie
 Frank Jack Daniel
With bearhugs, wisecracks and peals of laughter, the dream team of "Mexican Wave" film stars is back together working on its first joint celluloid production in six years.
"SiCKO": The Profits of Life and Death
 Sari Gelzer
With one week till its national debut, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has been on the move with his new film "SiCKO." Moore, along with a movement of nurses and doctors, have been rallying around the film and are using it to pressure politicians and citizens to take a stance.
A Filmmaker's Tale of Harmony Giving Way to Discord
 Reed Johnson
It took months, but Mexicans finally are getting to see the movie that some here have called the country's most socially significant work of cinema in many moons.
When Mexican Cinema Was Bad, Not Bad-Ass
 Oscar Villalon
God bless Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Thirty years ago, it would have been insane to think that Mexican filmmakers would be reveling in the sort of international peer recognition, not to mention box office success, that these three artists have received.
Alexander Applauds Michael Moore’s Movie “Sicko”
 Peace and Freedom Party
The major problem with Michael Moore’s new movie "Sicko" is that the movie is right on; the movie takes aim at America’s healthcare system and how profit and cost has taken priority over patient care.
Mexican Spaghetti Western
 Mike Beek
Director, Writer, Producer and Composer Robert Rodriguez is a talented man. Besides all of the above he created a band in 2003, gathering together some of Austin’s hottest rockers to form CHINGON.
Is Everyone Doing the Cha Cha Cha?
 Daniel Holloway
If you believe the hype, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro are the harbingers of a golden age of Mexican cinema. When their films were nominated early this year for a collective 16 Oscars, Hollywood took notice.
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