TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Remember when you bought a Blu-ray player, and prayed to your respective god(s) that Criterion would jump on the Blu bandwagon? Then do you remember how the company that set the standard for how films should be presented in home-entertainment formats announced that its first wave of Blu-ray titles would be coming out in November? [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Back in 1983, when Gregory Nava co-wrote and directed the epic immigration film "El Norte," the idea of a Latino film festival was the furthest thing from his mind. The mere concept of Latino film as its own genre had never even occurred to the Mexican...
High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The Criterion Collection has announced its latest Blu-ray title, setting a late-January date for 'El Norte.' Directed by Gregory Nava, the critically-acclaimed immigrant drama will receive its Blu-ray...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The Criterion Collection has announced its latest Blu-ray title, setting a late-January date for 'El Norte.' Directed by Gregory Nava, the critically-acclaimed immigrant drama will receive its Blu-ray...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
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Brown Sista (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
As many of you well know, Beyonce is hard at work on third solo CD, which has a tentative release date of around November 2008. Rumors spread throughout the net a few weeks ago that the new album title was Virtuoso Intellect, but now even more reliable information about the first single and the [...]
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The arthouse label--long known for its prestigious titles, meticulous transfers and copious extras--has announced a baker's dozen Blu-ray Discs for October and beyond.
Man Eegee - Latino Politico (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
An all-star cast of stars united in 2007 for this powerfully-told tale of the ongoing disappearance and murder of women in El Paso's sister city of Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The film reunited director Gregory Nava with leading-actress Jennifer Lopez ten years after their collaboration on Selena . Lopez' character, Lauren Adrian, is an accomplished U.S. journalist who has been put on assignment...
DosCentavos.net (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
On the border wall, that is. Internationally-acclaimed Norteño music outfit Los Tigres del Norte packed in the AT&T Center in San Antonio as part of their Rodeo. Never fearful of using their music and stature as a means of promoting Mexican culture, public policy and more, Los Tigres have a song on their recent Grammy winning CD (Norteño category) called, El Muro (the barrier). San Antonio Express-News...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Skip It The Movie For his first film in nearly a decade, writer/director Gregory Nava dives headfirst into the seamy, sad world of young Mexican women and the murderous individuals preying upon them near the United States/Mexico border. It's a topic certainly worth exploration (the film begins with exposition and culminates with the chilling caption "inspired by true events") and one that seems positively...
scanners (Free subscription) | 08/01/2007
View image Some of the best things I've read since Ingmar Bergman's death about his place in cinema: E-mails to Roger Ebert from filmmakers and writers including David Mamet, Paul Schrader, Sally Potter, Haskell Wexler, Paul Theroux, Richard Linklater, Gregory...
