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A Tale of Two September 11

Remezcla Team — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:00:00 +0000

Writer and human-rights crusader Ariel Dorfman has multiple homes, multiple identities, three languages, at least three countries. Since the military coup in Chile – on September 11, 1973 – he has carried with him the legacy and the burden of survival and multiplicity. After struggling for a brief time to find any voice at all

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Heading Forward, Looking Back

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:00:00 +0000

“I don’t like frontiers. I don’t like hymns. I don’t like the military. I don’t like parades. I don’t like immigration officers.” The writer and advocate Ariel Dorfman has earned the right to dislike these things. Too many times in his life these social constructs have proven either the results or the harbingers of oppression

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Up In Smoke

Remezcla Team — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0000

Down past a cobblestone road and a half-row of terra cotta brick townhouses in downtown Brooklyn, The Heights Players theater stands ensconced within a small, late nineteenth century Gothic Revival chapel. The building, which also houses the Brooklyn Community Nursery School and their young Picasso-ish attempts at art, was an interesting venue for a Sunday

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O.K. is More than That

Remezcla Estaff — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:00:00 +0000

René Buch first staged Isaac Chocrón’s O.K. at Repertorio Español in 1974 — six years after he and producer Gilberto Zaldivar founded the theater and five years after the prolific Venezuelan penned the piece. In the ensuing 33 years, one would think the play might have lost its bite. I wasn’t around in ’74 to

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The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

Remezcla Estaff — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Q: If a Texas teenager gets blown away by an M-16 while herding his goats, does anyone go to jail? A: Not if the killer was an on-duty U.S. Marine. The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández investigates just such an incident, illuminating along the way broad political issues like militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the

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Take the Bridge

Remezcla Estaff — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:00:00 +0000

Yo quiero ir a Tierra del Fuego. Y pudiera. Para alguien como yo — un chico bien, educado y bastante adinerado, Tierra del Fuego es un lugar tangible, un lugar real. Pero para los jóvenes protagonistas de la película Take the Bridge, no es un lugar alcanzable — no es un lugar real. Es más

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Live!

Remezcla Estaff — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Move over Bamboozled. Here comes the next shocking satire about U.S. mass voyeurism and our submersion of the sadistic elements in our nature as illuminated via the story of an outrageous TV show. Instead of concealed (or less-concealed) racism, however, Live! explores our inherent blood lust and the current desperate situation of humanity. And it

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Amexicano

Remezcla Estaff — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:00:00 +0000

At first Amexicano isn’t much more than your average, cute indie-with-a-message, sporting clean, simple shots and naturalistic if somewhat shallow acting. Then, towards the end, something changes. Director Matt Bonifacio’s film has let you live in its little world but suddenly rips down the walls. Bruno (Carmine Famigliette, who also wrote the film) has no

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La Vida es Sueño, but Not Necessarily a Good One

Remezcla Estaff — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:00:00 +0000

“Let this strange spectacle be used as an example,” Segismundo tells the audience towards the end of the recent rendition of Calderón de la Barca’s play, La vida es sueño, at Culture Project on March 30th. The show, produced by Puy Navarro and directed by Cecil MacKinnon, marketed itself as “a pro-human rights theatrical event,

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La Habana llega a Yunai

Remezcla Estaff — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:00:00 +0000

(NYRemezcla is a media sponsor of HFFNY 2007.) The 8th Annual Havana Film Festival in New York opened with a son last Friday night — the U.S. premier of El Benny, a biopic of the legendary Cuban crooner Benny Moré. A well-made but rather familiar portrait of the artist, the film recounts the last ten

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