Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 50s, Cesar and Nestor Castillo (Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas), two Cuban brothers, arrive in New York dreaming of success as musicians. America finds itself in the midst of the mambo craze, and the Castillos intend to be part...
...Cesar Castillo emerges as the extroverted half of the pair, while Nestor plays the shy musician with a suitcase full of boleros...
Throughout it all, we get the pleasure of Armand Assante's extraordinary performance as Cesar Castillo. He is Don Juan with a motor, blessed with a sense of humor and self-irony, as well as with compulsive cavalierness, Assante never fails to be riveting. He takes over the movie and sends it sky-high...
...event, designed to raise money to bring human rights activist Cesar Chavez to campus, is jointly sponsored by RAZA, the Black Students Association, the Asian American Association and La Organization Estudiantil Boriqua...
Since modern art helped form Glimcher's famous taste, he can be expected to daub some of it on his screen. A poignant scene of Cesar and Nestor in a Times Square photo booth was influenced by Andy Warhol; it replicates a visit Glimcher and his family made to have their snaps taken for a Warhol portrait. Close watchers of The Mambo Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper...