Word: alejandro
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...trouble started on Aug. 4 when Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson's luggage inadvertently went through standard scanning procedures, instead of being exempt from such an examination because he was a VIP returning from Caracas on a flight chartered by Argentina's state oil company. As a result of the scan, customs officials at Buenos Aires' Newberry airport found a bag stuffed with $790,550 in unmarked $50 bills. The other passengers on the plane were seven Argentine and Venezuelan oil officials who had been in Caracas negotiating the bond and gas plant deals...
...Carlos Reygadas' name is rarely mentioned when journalists write about the new surge of Mexican cinema; they usually cite the three amigos: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro. Yet Reygadas, 36, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take on sex. With his competition film Stellet Licht (Silent Light), Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky...
...Three Mexican directors were nominated for Oscars this year: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men and Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth. Why the sudden recognition of these filmmakers...
...Apparently, there was a lot of uncertainty about whether you'd get the part. Alejandro told me he would give me the role only a week before shooting began, which if I think about it now is quite amazing. [Laughs.] He initially wanted a real deaf girl for the role of Chieko. I fully understood that, but I was also trying to find what I could bring into the role as an actress. I was constructing the character of Chieko, feeling how she would have felt...
...have any language problems working with him? It was beyond that. The theme of this film is that people should be able to communicate without words. In order not to diminish my concentration, Alejandro would ask me to communicate in sign language and had it interpreted into English...