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Gabriel Figueroa Movie Screenings - Latino Heritage Month

Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:30pm
Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:30pm
Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:30pm
Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 6:30pm

Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 West 5th Street, Downtown, Oxnard

Event Description

Downtown Center for the Arts will present a Tribute to internationally acclaimed cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa with a four-week film series during Latino Heritage Month with the participation of Gronk, a nationally known performance artist and painter.

The Figueroa Tribute will be presented on consecutive Mondays beginning September 15 through Oct 6.

The following four films, which are part of Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema (1935-1960), are Nazarin, Enamorada, La Perla and Macario.

September 15th
NAZARIN
1958 Cannes Film Award for Excellence in the Foreign Film Market. This story follows the life of a priest who is forced to leave the priesthood due to his womanizing. In his travels, he acquires an odd assortment of followers including a homicidal prostitute, a failed suicide, and a lascivious dwarf. After a streak of extremely bad luck, the priest lands in prison, where another chain of events restores his faith in the kindness of humankind.

September 22nd
ENAMORADA
During the Mexican Civil War, a revolutionary general (Pedro Armendariz) and his army take over the small town of Cholula. As the troops ransack the town and treat the citizens with less than respect, the general falls for a wily young woman named Beatriz (Mariz Felix), the daughter of one of the town's wealthier citizens.

September 29th
LA PERLA
In a fishing village, Kino (Pedro Armendáriz) and his wife Juana (Maria Elena Marqués) are in anguish because their little son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion. The local doctor (a foreigner) refuses to treat the child and the boy is taken to a curandera. Later the doctor and his brother (Fernando Wagner), a loan shark, meet Kino again, after he finds an expensive pearl and decide to steal it from him. Filmed in two versions: English and Spanish.

October 5th
MACARIO
B. Traven, the reclusive author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, used an old Mexican folk tale as the basis for his novel The Third Guest. The book was in turn adapted for film as Macario. Ignacio Lopez Tarso plays a poverty-stricken peasant who goes on a hunger strike, hoping that someone will take pity on him and give him a turkey dinner. Tarso's wife Pina Pellecier steals a turkey, and just as Tarso is about to wolf down his food, he is visited by Death (Enrique Lucerio). The grim reaper offers to bestow magical powers upon Torres in exchange for part of the meal. Tarso is gifted with the ability to restore health to sick people, but he is permitted to utilize this gift only upon persons of Death's choosing. At first, Tarso is lauded as a hero, but before long he is being shunned as an instrument of Satan. Tarso last-ditch effort to redeem himself causes him to renege on his bargain with death. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

General Admission: $9.25
Seniors: $5.75