Doc to get Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco in November.
Icarus Films has acquired Natalia Almada’s 2021 Sundance award winner Users and has additionally signed a deal to represent the Mexican filmmaker’s back catalogue.
Users will get an Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco on November 25 and is a cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
The film earned California-based Almada the Sundance documentary directing award, the same prize she won at the festival in 2009 for The General (El General), her account of the life of her great-grandfather and former Mexican president, General Plutarco Elías Calles.
Both the Users...
Icarus Films has acquired Natalia Almada’s 2021 Sundance award winner Users and has additionally signed a deal to represent the Mexican filmmaker’s back catalogue.
Users will get an Academy-qualifying limited release in San Francisco on November 25 and is a cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
The film earned California-based Almada the Sundance documentary directing award, the same prize she won at the festival in 2009 for The General (El General), her account of the life of her great-grandfather and former Mexican president, General Plutarco Elías Calles.
Both the Users...
- 9/22/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In 1926, Mexican president Plutarco Elías Calles outlawed the Catholic Church for violating the country's post-revolution constitution, prompting a civil war whose rebels called themselves Christeros and swore loyalty to Christ the King. An official amnesty treaty was sworn in 1929, after which the government's persecution of Catholics continued nonetheless. The film The Last Christeros begins with an old former Christero recalling the start of the war over a black screen, then moves into a fictional re-creation of the last days of a band of Christero soldiers hanging on in the late 1930s. Director Matías Meyer's third feature—which will run at Anthology Film Archives as prelude to a strong panorama of recent Mexican movies—is a war film consumed with w...
- 8/28/2013
- Village Voice
Tune in alert for award-winning director Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, Pov 2006; El General, Pov 2010) who returns to Pov with a beautiful and mesmerizing new film. From dusk to dawn, El Velador (The Night Watchman) accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico.s most notorious drug lords. In the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us that, amid the turmoil of a drug war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives, ordinary existence persists and quietly defies the dead. Almada, who is the great-granddaughter of former Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles, has enlisted a number of prominent Mexican and international writers to write essays...
- 9/19/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Made with veteran screenwriter and Stagecoach collaborator Dudley Nichols, John Ford’s The Fugitive took a number of liberties in adapting The Power And The Glory, Graham Greene’s 1940 novel about a priest on the run. In lesser hands, those liberties might have softened the material into mush. Where Greene’s novel featured a clay-footed hero with many failings, star Henry Fonda plays a virtuous man who falls short of his own demanding standards when placed in an impossible situation. And where Greene specifically set his novel in Mexico during the reign of Plutarco Elías Calles and an ...
- 2/15/2012
- avclub.com
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