Andrés Wood Articles
Self-Defeating War on Drugs, Military Rape, Oppression in the Occupied Territories: Sundance 2012 Winners
Ra'anan Alexandrovicz's The Law in These Parts Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a young girl growing up in Louisiana (to be released by Fox Searchlight) was the top U.S. narrative feature at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In, a documentary about the United States' inane, costly, deadly, and corruptive war on drugs (good for [...]
Sundance 2012 Winners: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN, THE LAW IN THESE PARTS
Self-Defeating War on Drugs, Military Rape, Oppression in the Occupied Territories: Sundance 2012 Winners World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Violeta Went to Heaven World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: The Law in These Parts U.S. Dramatic: Grand Jury Prize: Beasts of the Southern Wild U.S. Documentary: Grand Jury Prize: The House I Live In World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic: Valley of Saints World Cinema [...]
MACHUCA Review: d: Andrés Wood; Coming of Age in Military Dictatorship
MACHUCA (2004) Director: Andrés Wood Cast: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim, Ernesto Malbran, Tamara Acosta, Francisco Reyes Screenplay: Andrés Wood, Roberto Brodsky, and Mamoun Hassan Recommended Matías Quer, Machuca Set in Chile right before the US-backed military coup that deposed popularly elected president Salvador Allende, Machuca is a generally well-made, at times moving depiction of a difficult historical period as seen through [...]