At one of the first press previews for the Latino Film Festival in 1997, the film "Tango, the Obsession" by Marin Academy student Adam Boucher was shown on a pull-down screen in a classroom in the ...

Pablo Neruda: The Poet’s Calling is a 30-minute excerpt from director Mark Eisner’s documentary-in-progress about the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate. Described as “an artistic portrait of Pablo ...

There’s a glorious scene in Roberto Sneider’s “Me estás matando, Susana,” where Gael Garcia Bernal’s character, a young Mexican actor, flies to a U.S. writing seminar to win back the love of his wife, ...

President Videla (Alfredo Castro) personally tasks the ambitious policeman Oscar Peluchoneau (Gael García Bernal) with arresting Neruda. On the advice of his communist friends, Neruda has long since ...

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Sri Lankan director Asoka Handagama dares to explore legendary poet Pablo Neruda’s life in colonial Ceylon, including the rape that has cast a shadow over his legacy. By Elizabeth Kerr Often referred ...

Despite their titles, neither film is a biography of a 20th-century celebrity. Both unfold over a relatively short period, Jackie in the days immediately following the assassination of president John ...