The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis The final entry of a trilogy begun with The Other Francisco (1975) and Slave […]

The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis From Mali, Baara—the title translates as Labor, or Work—is by Soulaymane Cissé. Its three […]

The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Sara Gómez Yera was 30 when asthma took her life in 1974. Both Cuba’s […]

Canoa is based on an actual event. In 1968, in San Miguel de Canoa, a rural Mexican village, the local Catholic priest, who pretty much controlled the place, incited his parishioners into a murderous frenzy against innocent visitors, whom they mistook for Communist agitators at a time of widespread students protests. The priest insisted that […]

Responding to efforts by Argentina’s Fernando Ezequiel Solanas and Octavio Getino to construct an independent Third World cinema free of colonialist, neocolonialist and Hollywood influence, Brazil’s Nelson Pereira dos Santos sought to redefine cinema nôvo. Coinciding with his manifesto urging a popular rather than a bourgeois cinema, Pereira dos Santos made O Amuleto de Ogum, […]