Articles Tagged with: review

Remezcla Recap 2009
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Remezcla Recap 2009

Here’s a recap of our best of ‘09 digs, shout back Remezcleros, SFRemezcla wants to know your take!

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Ximena Sariñana on Twilight’s New Moon Soundtrack?
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Ximena Sariñana on Twilight’s New Moon Soundtrack?

A few months ago we heard a rumor that Ximena Sariñana’s song “Frente al Mar” would be featured on the Twilight New Moon soundtrack as…

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Replay: Devendra Banhart, R-Tronika
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Replay: Devendra Banhart, R-Tronika

In the hot seat this week: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Superaquello, Devendra Banhart, and R-Tronika.

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La Linea
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La Linea

Drug films face the same argument that anti-war films face; in showing the actions of the characters, they end up glamorizing the very thing they…

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Bajo La Sal
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Bajo La Sal

Before Bajo La Sal, I had wondered aloud, when will Mexico’s weirdo’s get their chance, where’s their movie? The murders in Ciudad Juarez have captivated…

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La Milagrosa
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La Milagrosa

Colombia has endured one of the region’s most prolonged and deadliest conflicts in the Americas.  While there have been other films about the conflict, few…

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Tony Manero
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Tony Manero

A bleak look at Pinochet-era Chile through the eyes of a man obsessed with Saturday Night Fever, and little else.

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Unmade Beds Closes the SF Film Festival
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Unmade Beds Closes the SF Film Festival

A graceless and conflicted teen, while in search for his father, comes to stay in a colorful London quat where he experiences disoriented affairs with…

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Cinco x Cinco de Mayo
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Cinco x Cinco de Mayo

Viva Mexico! Y que Viva el Cinco de Mayo! The day when we all sing “Mexico lindo y queridoooo!!!” because we all get hammered on…

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Bajofondo
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Bajofondo

Not for nothing but if I could sum up my 25 years of music experience till now, it would sound like a tedious replay of…

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Diego and Gael get Rudo y Cursi
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Diego and Gael get Rudo y Cursi

Siblings Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael García Bernal) are plucked from their provincial life as banana-pickers in rural Jalisco to play professional soccer in…

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Sin Nombre
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Sin Nombre

Cary Fukanaga’s debut is a beautifully shot, but unromanticized look at immigration, gang violence, and poverty in Central America.

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Lost in Utah with Gael
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Lost in Utah with Gael

I just got back from my first trip to Sundance. A short film I acted in (Small Collection by Dir. Jeremiah Crowell – shameless plug)…

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Calle 13, Cumbia Electronica and the Best of 2008
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Calle 13, Cumbia Electronica and the Best of 2008

It was an interesting year for that dubious genre known as “Latin Alternative”: Latin rockers based in the US came out with refreshing, bilingual tunes…

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Los Cronocrimenes
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Los Cronocrimenes

In 1992, physicist Stephen Hawking, formulated the” Chronology Protection Conjecture,” which  postulated that the fundamental laws of nature prevent time travel. Too bad that logic…

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