The spirits of Jim Jarmusch and Kevin Smith hover over Fernando Eimbcke’s easy-going deadpan comedy set over a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Tag: Mexico
Luis Buñuel’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ on Amazon Prime
Luis Buñuel is best known for his witty, surreal comedies that satirized society, religion, politics, and sexual mores in the 1960s and 1970s, but he had a long career before his breakthrough as an internationally celebrated satirist. Robinson Crusoe (1954), his first English language movie and his first color feature, was produced not as a […]
Criterion Blu-ray: ‘Canoa,’ ‘Multiple Maniacs,’ ‘Blow-up’
Time to play catch up with Criterion releases of the past couple of months. I confess that I had never heard of Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Mexico, 1976) before Criterion announced it. Having now seen, I wonder how that could have been. While not on my radar, this is celebrated as a landmark of Mexican […]
‘Y tu Mama Tambien’ on Criterion Channel and Sundance Now
Y Tu Mamá También (Mexico, 2001), Alfonso Cuaron’s return to Mexico after his initial sojourn in Hollywood, recharged his ambitions and his creative juices. Ostensibly a coming of age drama by way of a sex comedy, it’s vivid, thoughtful, political and unapologetically raw. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna star as best friends, a pair […]