Word: sancho
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...will fascinate and possibly even delight cinephiles. Who does not enjoy gawking at accidents, particularly those in which there are no fatalities and the sad story unfolds in almost slow-motion clarity? The film, however, is not likely to prove cautionary for other filmmakers. There was no shortage of Sancho Panzas on this shoot. But in show biz, the one-eyed visionary is always (or until it's too late) king. His fellow adventurers' realism and reasonableness could not prevent Don Quixote's gallant gallop to ruin. --By Richard Schickel
...Fathers in Los Reyes, Mexico, are no exception to the rule: underneath the deceptively untroubled surface of this bucolic community seethes a mass of corruption. As revealed by the local newspaper, Father Benito (Sancho Gracia), the aging parish priest, has been fraternizing with drug lords in order to finance a new hospital, and Father Natalio (Damian Alcazar) has been assisting guerilla troops...
Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Garcia, Ana Claudia Talancon
...complex business, part psychiatry, part police work - at its best, creative, at its worst, destructive. A good editor can, with a touch, bring dead writing to life. A bad editor strangles good writing in the crib. A good editor is boxing coach, personal trainer, confidant, authority figure, Sancho Panza, guardian angel, and dominatrix...
McCain, alas, isn’t much of a threat to this vast conspiracy of his feverish imaginings. Like Don Quixote, with Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) as his faithful Sancho Panza, McCain is tilting at windmills. His crusade, which has managed to fire up op-ed pages and college students across the country, is nothing more than a sideshow, a distraction from the real battles over the size of government and our nation’s place in the world...