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'Emilia Perez' ranges from gritty and gunshot-riddled, to downright campy In Jacques Audiard's melodrama Emilia Perez, a prosecutor gets an unusual request from the head of a Mexican cartel. MONDELLO: Film maker Jacques Audiard has made what you'd have to call a genre-defying movie, a trans musical cartel melodrama that ranges from gritty and gunshot-riddled to downright campy, as when …

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Rep. Joaquin Castro says ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ should be added to the National Film Registry

As part of his work to champion Latino inclusion in Hollywood, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro has recommended that the crime dramas “ Blood In Blood Out ” and “American Me” be entered into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry for 2024. “Both movies were able to show the humanity in the Latino community, even within very flawed characters,” Castro …

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A new film on Fidel Castro titled Killing Castro has been announced with a star-studded cast featuring Al Pacino, Diego Boneta, Xolo Maridueña, KiKi Layne, Alexander Ludwig, Ron Livingston, Kendrick Sampson, Nicole Beharie, Logan Marshall-Green and Titus Welliver. “Shortly after winning the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro travels to New York City to deliver his first speech to the United Nations. …

Rep. Joaquin Castro continues his fight for Latino representation in film

Films by and about Latinos have often been left out of historical conversations including the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. “As an industry that is purported to be incredibly culturally progressive in all kinds of causes, has in fact been regressive and detrimental to the development of new voices, and the Latino community has paid the price of that …

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Editor’s Note: Ed Morales is a journalist and lecturer at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. CNN — Last week actor John Leguizamo voiced strong opposition to the announcement that James Franco had been cast in the role of Fidel Castro in the upcoming independent film, …

CNN — James Franco as Fidel Castro has at least one advocate. Alina Fernández, daughter of the former Cuban dictator who died in 2016, has told Deadline she supports Franco playing her father in the forthcoming independent film “Alina of Cuba.” “James Franco has an obvious physical resemblance with Fidel Castro, besides his skills and charisma,” she told the publication. …

James Franco, right, has been cast as Fidel Castro in a new film. On Thursday, Deadline announced that James Franco, he of “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” had been cast as Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Alina of Cuba,” a biopic inspired by the life of his estranged daughter, Alina Fernández. “e used Fidel Castro’s ancient Galician heraldry …

James Franco has recently been cast as Fidel Castro in an upcoming film. “Finding and convincing James Franco to play Castro was a fun and challenging process and has been the collaborative work of the universe, because our director’s original order was to find an actor who holds a close physical resemblance to the real Castro to build from, along …

How 1997 film Selena's inclusion in US National Film Registry may propel Latino representation in Hollywood

First there was Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the pathbreaking Latina singer who inspired a generation of artists and was killed at the cusp of national fame. Tribute albums, a Netflix series and podcasts followed, and now, more than two decades after the movie’s 1997 release, a group of US lawmakers are pushing for Selena to be added to the National Film Registry, …