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...three gentlemen will beseated in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, each hoping to win an Academy Award or two. Just as fervently, they'll be rooting for one another, for they are compadres from Mexico City. It simplifies matters that they are not in direct competition. Alejandro Gonz??lez Irritu, who made Babel, is up for Best Picture and Best Director. Guillermo del Toro, writer-director of Pan's Labyrinth, has been nominated in the Foreign Film and Original Screenplay categories. Alfonso Cuarn, the director of Children of Men, could be onstage for Adapted Screenplay...
...trio of auteurs from a country best known in the U.S. recently for sending six million or so illegals (and millions of legals) across the border. Cuarn, del Toro and Gonz??lez Irritu are Mexican immigrants even Lou Dobbs could love...
...lose--whether Gonz??lez Irritu, del Toro and Cuarn come away with a half-dozen Oscars or none--their individual and collective eminence is great news for international cinema. And for Hollywood too. American movies are in their most artless, complacent period since, I don't know, ever. Somebody's got to shake the place up, and it might as well be the Mexicans...
...competition to stay afloat hasn't improved ethnic tensions, either. For all the vibrant, cross-hemispheric diversity in Miami, its Latino, black and white enclaves remain segregated and mistrustful of one another. The Cuban exiles' dominion over much of Miami politics (remember the Elin Gonz??lez uprising?) has bred resentment in some quarters. This showed in the outcry earlier this year when the Miami-Dade school board, whose system has a dismal 45% graduation rate, announced that it would spend tens of thousands of dollars in court to ban a kindergarten book about Cuba that it says...
BabelParamount VantageDirected by Alejandro Gonz??lez IñárrituMexican director Alejandro Gonz??lez Iñárritu really digs vehicular disaster. Maybe a little too much. First there was “Amores Perros,” his 2000 debut—a brilliant, difficult movie about the intersecting lives led by victims of a car crash. “21 Grams,” his ambitious first Hollywood film, came in 2003, overwrought and under-felt. Like “Amores Perros,” it followed several fractured lives thrown together following...