Thursday Highlights at the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
by Andre Soares
Thursday, October 27, highlights at the Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival, currently being held at the Egyptian Theater complex on Hollywood Boulevard, include Manuel Márquez’s Mexican documentary Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan - Simplemente Tin Tan (4:45p.m., at the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre), an examination of the life and career of the highly popular Mexican comedian Tin Tan; Mauricio Bonnett’s multinational documentary Mario Vargas Llosa: Literatura y libertad (5:00p.m., at the Spielberg Theatre), described as a "detailed account of the life and work of [the] Peruvian writer, cultural critic and politician"; and the Academy Award-nominated 1949 war melodrama Battleground (2:45p.m., at the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre), directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, and Ricardo Montalban. Though considerably less profound than it pretends to be, Battleground is worth watching as a historical curiosity for it is probably the most commercially successful World War II film made in the early post-war years.
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