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 Saturday, May 25, 2013
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NEW YORK LATINO JOURNAL
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 The obsessive
fanfare over “El Cantante,” the anticipated movie about Hector Lavoe,
has been flooding email inboxes across the nation. The span of feedback from music industry insiders to nostalgic fans — as well as its relatively good box office performance — have created at least one consensus: the community is hungry to see more. Share your thoughts on "El Cantante."
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REV. DR. LUIS BARRIOS
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I had the opportunity to see, and to read the movie, “El Cantante,” where our Boricua idol, Hector Lavoe, was projected onto the big screen. In general, the movie is stupendous; go see it and share your opinion with our community.
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 We
have to imagine the curse of making a film based on a beloved icon
whose fans, friends and detractors are still around. Can a “definitive”
James Brown film be made any time soon? Unlikely. So the risk in
‘disappointing’ people when interpreting these multidimensional,
larger-than-life figures on such a rich and complex medium as motion
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SERY COLÓN
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 Hector Lavoe unfortunately left us some time ago. But the movie, "El
Cantante," starring the very talented Marc Anthony, is
like seeing him again at his highest form. Marc
Anthony personifies Lavoe with lucidity, and interprets his songs as only
he can do and like Hector Lavoe (“The king of Punctuality”) did — with
a lot of flavor, happiness, passion, desperation and pain.
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 Of all the well-deserved hoopla surrounding this year’s festival, the premiere of “El Cantante,” the Leon Ichaso film about the legendary Puerto Rican singer, Hector Lavoe, will undoubtedly cause great commotion and bochinche leading up to the festival’s closing on July 29. However, there’s so much more.
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 There are thousands of demonstrators in Latin America angry over President Bush’s visit; Brazilian President Lula da Silva has signed an ethanol fuel pact with the United States; President Hugo Chávez is steaming, leading demonstrators. But wait -- Salma Hayek is pregnant! This is all just too much!
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SERY COLÓN and RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 Guillermo del Toro brings a graceful, striking and thought- provoking
gem to the silver screen. Pan’s Labyrinth is a dark and intimate fantasy of
depth and detail that leads you through a maze of fear, courage and
resolve. This is passionate, old-fashioned filmmaking with breathtaking visuals.
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ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IŃÁRRITU
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 The director of Amores Perros and 21 Grams talks about Babel, his third installment of family dramas set with backdrops of local and global violence, politics and economics. Gael García Bernal co-stars in this film that stems from “exile and the awareness of being an immigrant.”
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ENRIQUE E. TORRES
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 "The tide of the east is risin’
With people from every tribe
From China to Puerto Rico
We follow the same design
I travel this place with freedom
I sing to the moon and sky
I can’t stop the beast from roaming
The deepest fear my desire"
-- from "ONE BLOOD," by LILA DOWNS
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RICK KEARNS-MORALES
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 My work is at odds with this climate. It's gotten to the point that my ticket gets marked as a "special" at the airport, my luggage is checked and re-checked. The last time they told me, “We can do this in private,” and I said, “No, I want everyone to see what you’re doing.”
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ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA
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 Let's laugh at those who believe in something and let's celebrate
once and for all the joyful nihilism! If nothing makes sense, if world leaders are nothing but demented clowns
and we are the sad audience of their grotesque performance, let's paint
our faces and let's bring out the machine guns! |
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WALTER KROCHMAL
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 You
snicker at the multiple entendre, brain laboring upstream, ravaged by
exposure to bad Spanish radio. Aha! You think: A column with tips for
picking up cheap tricks! Ha! We don’t do cheap, and we may do sex, but that would be a different
department. This column exists solely for us to wax wonkish on World
Music, with forays into film and performance.
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PRENSA LATINA
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 The Oscar ceremony, an “orgy of self- reverence,” according to New York Times writer Nick Madigan, did nothing new this year for those who know the Academy well. Latinos seldom get an award. Quality is not enough. (nag, nag, nag...) |
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PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
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 "I am under the impression that the story has lived
within me as an alien for a long time, and that it has been necessary
to do fourteen other movies to get it to form. Once I am rid of it I
feel moved, light and happy."
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RAFAEL MERINO CORTÉS
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 "It is
my opinion that as a Puerto Rican, knowing well that my identity has
been very much shaped by more than 500 years of colonialism, any
expression of mine must be of a political nature."
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