The Spanish Film Series presents a provocative tour of Spanish cinema’s history through a series of movies that weave together the country’s cinematography.
It has been more than a century since Fructuós Gelabert filmed Riña en un café in 1896, putting in motion the Spanish film industry. In an effort to shed light on, and promote lesser-known films, we have selected a series of movies that exemplify the most avant-garde and unorthodox trends of our cinema over the past century.
Films include: Bienvenido Mister Marshall, Viridiana, El Espíritu de la colmena, Los santos inocentes, El color de las nubes, En la Ciudad sin Límites.
Presented by the Instituto Cervantes and the NHCC, Bank of America Theater. Open to the public, 7pm on Thursdays. Admission is free.
When: September 15 –November 3, ... Go to event
In commemoration of two historic events in Mexico’s history, the bicentennial of the independence movement and the centennial of Mexican Revolution, the DFT is pleased to join with the consulate of Mexico’s Cultural Affairs Department to present a number of significant gems from Mexico’s rich cinematic history. Admission is free to all films in the Mexican Cinema series, which will continue on Thursday evenings through October 13.
This first program consists of a pair of classic works directed by Emilio Fernández (known by his colleagues as El Indio) and photographed by the legendary Gabriel Figueroa. La Perla is an acclaimed 1945 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, starring Pedro Armendáriz and Maria Elena Marqués. Las Abandonadas(1944) is the daring and invo ... 
A documentary on the rise of the ancient civlizations of Mesoamerica and the genesis of the Mexican people. This is in collaboration with the Mexican consulate of Albuquerque. This beautiful documentary series is no longer available, but bases its narrative on the cultural and artistic productivity of the age it covers. This is the first in a series. The film is in English, but the Spanish version will be shown at the Mexican Consul on 4th Street.
For information on those screenings: 242-7566.
When: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Time: 7 pm
Where: Wells Fargo Theatre,
1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Admission: Free
For more info click here.
An architecture exhibit and lecture series that presents the most recognized architectural award in Europe: The Mies Van Der Rohe award.
Exhibit and lectures series – European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2011.
The Mies Van Der Rohe exhibition and accompanying lecture series bring to Chicago the most recognized architectural award in Europe, establishing a strong cultural connection between the architectural discipline in Europe and the US, especially in Chicago. This exhibition and lecture series reinforce the efforts of cultural exchange initiated with the first two editions of the lecture series at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago in collaboration with Mas Studio.
Free and open to the public. Opening reception: September 22 at 6:00 pm.
When: Septem ... 
Join us this Thursday, September 22nd for an intimate evening of Latin Culture, Live Art, Dance and Music.
LATINOLIFE.COM Presents the “Ritmos y Cultura” Series (Sept. 15th - Oct. 15th): A SHOWCASE SERIES THAT MELDS LATIN GASTRONOMY, MUSIC, DANCE, ART AND CULTURE THROUGHOUT SELECT DINING DESTINATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY.
“Ritmos y Cultura” exemplifies Latino Life’s core mission of highlighting the rich diversity of Latino culture, everything from heart pounding flamenco to pulsing Afro-Latino beats, as the series explores the varied cultures of Latin America through such integral cultural components as music, food and art. The series also highlights the wealth of authentic Latino culture found within New York City, a mecca for Latino artists and chefs who aim to preserve and disp ... 
A key player in Mexican theatre of the 1930s, Julio Bracho felt that he could have a far greater influence by bringing his storytelling skills to the cinema. The result was a series of extraordinary works which find their roots in everyday stories. Ay Que Tiempos Señor Don Simón! (1941) is a charmingly comic tale of suspected infidelity, in which a pair of spinster sisters spot a woman attending a theatrical performance that is “for men only,” and as a result want her expelled from the “Committee for the Defense of Good Manners.” In the celebrated Distinto Amanecer (1943), the killing of a union leader leads to intrigue and danger, as well as the unexpected rekindling of a forgotten romance. With Pedro Armendáriz and Andrea Palma.
Spanish with English subtitles.
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Sponsored by the Irish Film Board, Irish Film Institute and Culture Ireland. This festival is part of the 2011 Imagine Ireland program.
September 30 – October 2, 2011
LAIFF celebrates the Irish passion for storytelling, a tradition that started around the hearth of every Irish household and has found its voice internationally through the medium of film. Coupled with the treasures of Ireland’s moviemaking past, LAIFF presents modern works as diverse as they are unique, creating a cinematic barometer for the cultural climate of Ireland in 2011.
Kicking off the festival is the Los Angeles premiere of THE SWELL SEASON, the moving documentary about the folk rock band featuring ONCE stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, followed by a 20th-anniversary screening of THE COMMITMENTS. Next u ... 
An interactive, audiovisual display accompanied by a series of conferences for young people and adults.
After the prolific Spanish production of video games in the 80′s (the Golden Age of the Spanish video game), arrived the technological crisis of the 90′s, where no Spanish speaking country produced any video games until 2000. During these years of creative vacuum, U.S., Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom were positioned as the main world producers of video games.
Twenty years later, the cultural industry of the Spanish video game is being enriched by the contributions made by Hispanic-American countries. With the new push of the market for video games in Spanish, it is a matter of counteracting the hegemonic Anglo-Japanese influence on this powerful tool of communication, w ... 
WHITE WAVE announces its 6th Annual WAVE RISING SERIES, New York City’s only rising contemporary dancemakers festival, giving 24 companies rare opportunities to present full-length programs in the dance capital of the world. The SERIES spotlights talented dancemakers from all across the United States and beyond. Channel 13 Sunday Arts has praised the SERIES, highlighting it as a “renowned” production featuring an “eclectic range of dance companies.” The New York Times stated that the SERIES presents “a broad variety of work. Tickets are cheap and dancing plentiful, it’s a good mix.” This year, two stellar companies from Korea, Chang Yoo Kyung Dance Company of Daegu and Kim Yun-jung/YJK Dance Project of Seoul/ Germany as well as Korean-born choreographer Eun Jung Choi and her Da.Da. Dance P ... 
n the 1950s and ’60s, Mexico’s Churubusco Studios produced a series of bizarre, inventive and increasingly grotesque horror films, eventually culminating in this truly incredible, one-of-a-kind tale of a devil-may-care, 17th century baron and notorious playboy (played in a priceless, over-the-top performance by the film’s producer, Abel Salazar) who, after being burned at the stake for satanic acts, returns 300 years later – in 1961 – to take revenge on his tormentors by devouring the brains of their descendants by use of a long, forked tongue – and an occasional spoon.
A low-budget cult favorite unique in horror-film history, the grotesque but hypnotic cheesiness of El Barón del Terror (released in an edited version in the U.S. asBrainiac) will have you ... 
