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...challenge in immigrant communities--in part because there's no cheaper dose of assimilation than a trip to Burger King. The New York Times Magazine reported that a couple of years ago, after administrators trimmed fat and sugar from menus at schools in Rio Grande City, Texas, along the Mexican border, students staged lunchroom protests, hanging signs that read NO MORE DIET and WE WANT TO EAT COOL STUFF--PIZZA, NACHOS, BURRITOS...
...stale action-adventure genre," which he feels has been taken hostage by computer-generated imagery (CGI), stock stories and shallow characters. To rattle the cage, he says, "we had to think of something utterly different." The Mad Maya hero in Apocalypto is Jaguar Paw. His escape through the Mexican rain forest will "feel like a car chase that just keeps turning the screws," says Gibson, flashing one of his patented bug-eyed expressions. True to the no-pain, no-gain credo of his other films, Apocalypto seeks to deliver enough pre-Columbian punishment--like the decidedly non-CGI mauling...
Given that controversy hit his last film months before it even finished production, Gibson has been careful to build Mesoamerican goodwill for Apocalypto: two-thirds of the cast and crew are Mexican, and Gibson has donated $1 million to communities in Veracruz state affected by Hurricane Stan last year. Mexican cast members like Mayra Sérbulo, 30, a Zapotec Indian who plays a villager, say they expect some criticism of the film from Mexican nationalists (who also tore into Salma Hayek's Frida), especially since it touches on the raw issue of human sacrifice, which scholars don't believe...
...Dust,” follows the trials of Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a struggling Italian-American author who calls himself “a lover, equally fond of man and beast alike.” Don’t ask me what that means. Bandini meets a beautiful Mexican waitress, Camilla, played by Salma Hayek. The two fall madly in love, of course, but their relationships is hindered by fear from publicly expressing their interracial romance. Bandini constantly insults Camilla with racist retorts. But we soon realize that his insults are actually a reflection of his own anxieties of personal shortcoming...
...Season Directed by Fernando Eimbcke Warner Independent Pictures 4 stars If it weren’t for the appearance of an Xbox, porn magazines, and pot brownies, “Duck Season” would look like a filmed Samuel Beckett play. Indeed, in his auspicious feature-length debut, Mexican writer-director Fernardo Eimbcke wraps existential pretensions in the simple staples of adolescent existence, posing many questions along the way: Can videogames settle monetary disputes? Can pornography explain adolescent romance? Can pot brownies reveal the mysteries of growing up? Eimbcke deigns to answer these questions. He is interested...