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LISTS 2007Sergio De La Mora's Top 10 Mexican Films

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2007-12-28 19:50:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Mexican films reaped a number of important international awards (Cannes, Venice, our own San Francisco International Film Festival) and kept the new Mexican cinema hot . Feature film productions in Mexico radically increased to nearly 60 films annually, in large part due to a recently enacted film tax incentive. Thematically and...
 
Tags: mexican, films, film, queer film, film festivals, mexican films, mexican film institute, mexican cinema, mexican cinema hot
 
 
 
 
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Backstreet DVD Companies of Mexican Horror

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2007-09-04 10:17:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
...Mexican holdings have been apparently acquired through package deals with other companies, and it's dubious that the original rights holders in Mexico, if they exist, are aware of the DVD production of their films in the United States. Still, as far as is known, everything is perfectly legal, despite the fact that it's hard, if not...
 
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Mexican Horror and the Latin Market

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2007-08-28 04:05:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
...Mexican American consumer directly. You really have to know what you are doing with that. Marketing to that demographic is a bit different then marketing to the other consumers. While the Latin consumer in America is slowly getting in the with the rest of the mix they still shop at their own stores and stick closely to their own culture so a...
 
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THE EUROSPY FILES: MEXICAN SLAYRIDE (1967)

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2008-01-01 17:51:00 by Robert Monell in I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND
...MEXICAN SLAYRIDE aka Coplan III undefined Coplan cambia de piel Spain (working title Entre las redes Spain (dubbed version Frank Collins 999 - Mit Chloroform geht's besser West Germany Mexican Slayride USA Moresque : obiettivo allucinante Italy Todesspur West Germany Tulitusta Meksikossa Finland In its full length, OAR format this is...
 
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East West's Mexican Horror and Fantasy Line

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2007-11-03 18:13:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
...Mexican films, including a few in the horror/fantasy/lucha libra genres. These are poverty-row budget DVDs that, if you can find them in your neighborhood ethnic DVD store, sell from $1 to $2. Covers are exploitatively interesting, making these DVDs collectable items despite their rather middling pictorial quality. Pictured above is the cover...
 
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'Silent Light' Shines Bright at Mexican Ariel Awards

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2008-03-27 00:00:00 by Eric D. Snider in Cinematical
...Mexicans agree, as Silent Light took home five trophies -- including best picture -- at Tuesday's Ariel Awards. (The Ariels are the Mexican equivalent of the Oscars.) Carlos Reygadas, who wrote and directed the film, won awards for both of those jobs, while Maria Pankratz was named best supporting actress. Alexis Zabe's cinematography was...
 
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Silence from Mexican Horror DVD Land

2007-09-23 13:16:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
 
...Mexican horror offerings. Neither has anyone heard anything recent from CasaNegra, despite a claim from Michael Liuzza that the company is not kaput. With rumors rampant that CasaNegra is no more and a request by Liuzza to spread the word that the company is alive, wouldn't it be wise for someone at CasaNegra to update its website or My Space...
 
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Forthcoming Mexican Horror DVDs

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2007-05-18 19:32:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
...Mexican horror course with the September releases of El mundo de los vampiros ( The World of the Vampires ) and La Cabeza Viviente ( The Living Head ). Both films are Abel Salazar productions. El mundo de los vampiros is particularly outre and mesmerizing
 
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The Dynamics of the CasaNegra Failure

2007-08-24 05:28:00 by Mirek in Vampiros and Monstruos
 
...Mexican horror films gives rise to speculation about what, if anything, the company did wrong, but chiefly (in my mind) about the viability of Mexican horror in the American and even international market Regarding CasaNegra itself, the company did get the attention of many horror fans and nutured a positive and in many cases enthusiastic...
 
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