SDLFF 2013

Óscar Jaenada and Guillermo Francella star in "¡Atraco!"

SDLFF 2013: Dispatch #3 — “¡Atraco!” and “Post Tenebras Lux”

As the San Diego Latino Film Festival enters its final weekend, there’s still plenty of good stuff left to see (I have five selections slated for today and tomorrow). It’s been tough to find time to write about the festival films I’ve already seen—in addition to my usual load of regular screenings and reviews, I’ve […]

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A scene from Patricio Guzmán's "Nostalgia for the Light"

SDLFF 2013: Dispatch #2 — “The Body” and “Nostalgia for the Light”

Three days into this year’s San Diego Latino Film Festival, I’m still very much enjoying myself. Festival fatigue—that inevitable wave of exhaustion one gets from watching several movies in a row, then returning home to write about them—has not yet set in, though I’m sure it will in a few days. So I’m committed to

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A scene from "De jueves a domingo"

SDLFF 2013: Dispatch #1 — “De jueves a domingo” and “La sirga”

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t envious of fellow film bloggers who are reporting from South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this week—I haven’t been back there since I first attended in 2009—but plenty of cinematic discoveries await me at the local San Diego Latino Film Festival. Now in its twentieth year, the

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