Latino Studies - Feature Films
| Title: | ...and the earth did not swallow him [videorecording]. |
| Abstract: | Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farm worker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing is awful, sometimes the boss furnishes no water as the hands labor, and TB goes untreated. In good times the pay is $15 a day for adults, half that for children. For a few sordid weeks, his parents leave him in the care of a corrupt couple, he's expelled from school for hitting back, and he finds solace in a graveyard. As his parents long for their missing son, as folks gather around a local troubadour for songs of romance, comedy, and heartbreak, Marcos observes and remembers. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-252 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez [videorecording]
/ Moctesuma Esparza Productions, Inc. ; screenplay by Victor Villasenor ; produced by Moctesuma Esparza and Michael Hausman ; directed by Robert M.Young. |
| Abstract: | On June 12, 1901, Gregorio Cortez, a young Mexican family man, shoots and kills a sheriff in self-defense. For the next 11 days, he eludes an inflamed posse of 600 Texas Rangers in a 450 mile chase across Texas. His manhunt captures the nation's interest and his eventual trial is tainted by the extreme emotions of the country. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette Y75-1 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Before Night Falls [videorecording] / Fineline
Features ; Grandview Pictures ; Jon Kilik presents a film by Julian Schnabel. |
| Abstract: | A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States. |
| Location: | Audio Center DVD S357-1 DVD Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Capitalismo Selvagem [videorecording] = Savage capitalism / a Superfilmes apresenta ; co-production Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. |
| Abstract: | A romance between a reporter and a mining company executive. The romance crumbles when the executive's wife, long presumed dead, returns and drives the couple, the company and the country to the brink of a national disaster. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette K66-1 VC |
| Title: | El Castillo de la Pureza [videorecording] / una produccion de Estudio Churubusco ; direccion, Arturo Ripstein ; guion, Jose Emilio Pacheco y Arturo Ripstein. |
| Abstract: | The story of a man who kept his family locked in the house for l8 years to protect them from the world corruption. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-187 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Cecilia [videorecording] El Instituto Cubano del
Arte e Industria Cinematograficos e Impala S.A. de Madrid ; version libre de la novela "Cecilia Valdes" de Cirilo Villaverde ; guion cinematografico, Humberto Solis, Nelson Rodriguez, Jorge Ramos, Norma Torrado ; productor, Humberto Hernendez ; director, Humberto Solis. |
| Abstract: | Based on a Cuban 19th century novel by Cirilo Villaverde, this film concerns a young mulatto woman who is sought by both a black man and a white man. |
| Location: | Campus Resources Lang Resource Ctr 201 O'Shaugh. |
| Title: | The Devil Never Sleeps [videorecording] = El diablo munca duerme : 56 minute version / Women Make Movies ; Independent Television Service ; National Latino Communications Center. |
| Abstract: | Lourdes Portillo, niece of Oscar Ruiz Almeida, interviews family and associates of Ruiz Almeida's after his sudden death, ruled suicide by authorities. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette P852-1 VC |
| Title: | Los Dias del Agua [videorecording] / Instituto
Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficas ; direccion, Manuel Octavio Gomez ; guion, Bernabo Hernendez, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Julio Garcia Espinosa ; produccion, Miguel Mendoza. |
| Abstract: | A local woman's seemingly miraculous power to heal the sick and afflicted, gained by a visit from the Virgin Mary, is manipulated by politicos and charlatans. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-230 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Entre Pancho Villa y una Mujer Desnuda [videorecording] / Televicine, S.A. de C.V. |
| Abstract: | Comedic history of a love replete with passion, aversion, machismo, and infidelity. The lives and amorous encounters of Gina and Adrian are played out against a setting into which the phantasm of Pancho Villa, Adrian's advisor, persistently enters. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-97 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Hasta Cierto Punto [videorecording] = Up to a certain point / Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos. |
| Abstract: | This clever self-reflexive satire about the battle of the sexes in contemporary Cuba tells the story of an educated, liberal filmmaker who, in doing research for a film about the social problem of machismo in Cuban society, finds himself falling in love with the sexy, liberated Lina, a pioneering female dockworker. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-152VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | I, the Worst of All = [videorecording] : Yo, la
peor de todas / produccion, Lita Stantic ; direccion, Maria Luisa Bemberg ; ASSAI Communications and Screening 22 Films Int. presentan una produccion de GEA Cinematografica ; guion cinematografico, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Antonio Larreta. |
| Abstract: | This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to. |
| Location: | Audio Center DVD B455-2 DVD Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Lejania [videorecording] = Parting of the ways
/ Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos ; produccion, Humberto Hernandez ; escrita y dirigida por Jesus Diaz. |
| Abstract: | A woman's relationship with her husband is jeopardized when his mother returns to visit after living for ten years in the United States. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-227 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | La Ley de Herodes [videorecording] / Bandides Films; presented una pelicula de Luis Estrada; producer and director, Luis Estrada. |
| Abstract: | When in San Pedro de los Saguaros, the mayor is lynched by a group of indigenous people, the old politician Juan Vargas is named the Temporary Municipal President. This makes him believe that his dream of power is going to come true; but when confronted with the problems of the place, he decides to resign. However, his boss obliges him to stay by telling him that he's been touched by Herodes Law and gives to him the constitution as an aid and a gun. He soon discovers the delights of power applying the law along the way and provoking reactions that get out of control. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-287 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | El Lugar sin Limites [videorecording] = place without limits / [presented by] Conacite Dos. |
| Abstract: | La Manuela, a transvestite, lives in a brothel run by his daughter. When his daughter is threatened, La Manuela steps in to protect her with tragic consequences. |
| Location: | Audio Center DVD R593-1 DVD Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Maria de mi Corazon [videorecording] / Manuel Barbachano Ponce presenta una producci=n de Universidad Veracruzana y Asociados ; un pelfcula de Jaime Humberto Hermosillo ; escrita por Gabriel Garcia Marquez y Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. |
| Abstract: | An erotic black comedy about a petty thief and his former lover who reunite to form a magic act. All goes well until her bus breaks down and when she arrives at an insane asylum looking for help, no one believes her story and she becomes trapped with the inmate/patients. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-167 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | The Milagro Beanfield War [videorecording] / Universal City Studios. |
| Abstract: | Fable set in a magical New Mexican village where everyday people are caught up in extraordinary circumstances. |
| Location: | Audio Center Video Laserdisc |
| Title: | Mujeres Insumisas [videorecording] = Untamed women / Televicine ; Claudio Producciones ; productor, Jaime Casillas ; argumento, guion y direccion, Alberto Isaac. |
| Abstract: | Frustrated by their confined existences and being mistreated by their husbands, four housewives from a small Mexican town leave their husbands and children behind as they try to build new and more satisfying lives. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette I74-1VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Old Gringo [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |
| Abstract: | Set during the Mexican Revolution, a frustrated spinster, a retired journalist, and a fiery young general are inexplicably drawn together as they face love, death and war. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette P978-1 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | On the Line [videorecording] / an Amber/El Iman
S.A. production ; produced by Steven Kovacs and Jose Luis Borau ; directed by Jose Luis Borau. |
| Abstract: | Drama about a smuggler on the Mexican border pitted against the border patrol. |
| Location: | Audio Center DVD B726-1 DVD Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Del Olvido al no me Acuerdo [videorecording] /
una pelocula de Juan Carlos Rulfo = I forgot, I don't remember / a film by Juan Carlos Rulfo. |
| Abstract: | This potent Mexican film deals with the distressing but inescapable human characteristic of memory loss. Film maker Juan Carlos Rulfo is searching for his father, and on his investigative journey he encounters numerous people who remember the man by name. Sadly, however, they cannot remember anything else about him. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-128 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | El Otro Francisco [videorecording] = The other
Francisco / Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficas ; guian, Sergio Giral ; colaboradores, Tomßs Gutierrez Alea, Hector Veitia ; Julio Garcia Espinosa ; productor, Santiago Llapur ; direccion, Sergio Giral. |
| Abstract: | A socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-225 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | La Perla [videorecording] / Aguila Films en asociacion
con Oscar Dancigers presenta una pelicula de Emilio "Indio" Fernandez ; director, Emilio Fernandez ; producer, Oscar Dancigers. |
| Abstract: | After many unsuccessful dives off a treacherous reef, a poor fisherman finds a perfect and valuable giant pearl. The word of his discovery and new found fortune soon spreads across the countryside. The plight to keep the pearl from thieves and dishonest businessmen represents some of the best acting within the Mexican cinema. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-219 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Se Permuta [videorecording] = House for swap / Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematogrßficos. |
| Abstract: | Gloria, Yolanda's mother, exchanges their old house in Guanabacoa for a modern apartment in Vedado to keep Yolanda away from her boyfriend, but her plans soon backfire. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-229 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Sin Remitente [videorecording] = No return address / Televicine ; guion, Ignacio Ortiz, Silvia Pasternac ; produccion, Gabriela Obregon ; direcci=n, Carlos Carrera. |
| Abstract: | A lonely, aging postal worker, Andres is disturbed by the loud parties thrown by his young neighbor, Mariana. When he alerts the police to one of her parties, she plots revenge, sending him anonymous love letters, inventing a suicidal secret admirer. He hires a detective to locate the phantom woman. Meanwhile, his neighbor finds herself involved in an unrequited love affair as heartless as her own hoax. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-157 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Subida al Cielo [videorecording] = Mexican bus
ride / Maria Luisa Gomez Mena presenta para Producciones Cinematograficas Isla, S.A. |
| Abstract: | The story of a young peasant who is forced to leave his bride on their wedding night to travel to the city to finalize his dying mother's will. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-107 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Yo, la Peor de Todas [videorecording] = I, the
worst of all / una produccion de GEA Cinematogrßfica ; guion cinematografico, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Antonio Larreta ; produccion ejecutiva, Gilbert Marouani ; produccion, Lita Stantic ; direccion, Maria Luisa Bemberg. |
| Abstract: | This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette B455-2 VC Non-Circulating |
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