Indie Film Guide April-June 2008
News and upcoming titles being released April through June 2008 in indie film, focusing on Hispanic.
NEWS
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Monterey makes The Cry heard online
Label works the Web to target specialty audiences. Full story
Love for Bella
Lionsgate releases top-grossing Latino film on DVD. Full story
Allumination looks into Latino market
The studio is increasing its involvement in several categories, including Latino. Full story
UPCOMING TITLES
Desert Mountain
On vacation in Florida, a successful Cuban-American Wall Street trader finds the wreckage of a raft, which prompts him to fly to Cuba and discover his roots in Finally the Sea (Al Fin, El Mar) Special Edition. Street May 6, prebook April 1; DVD $14.99
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Eduardo Noriega portrays Che Guevara, the young idealist and revolutionary, in Che (DVD $14.98); in the passionate Spanish-only telenovela Amores Cruzados (Crossing Hearts) (DVD $19.99), you never know where the path to true love will take you. Both street May 20, prebook April 22
Laguna
Campeones De La Vida (Champions of the Life) tells the story of family and friendship in the lower-middle classes in Mexico City. Street June 10, prebook May 9; DVD $29.95
Microcinema
The 1962 film Night of Lust is a French potboiler about rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Street April 29, prebook March 25; DVD $19.99
MTI
In Blind Eye, a brotherhood of friends is torn apart by a dangerous secret and an even deadlier conspiracy. Street May 13, prebook April 15; DVD $24.95
PBS
Hosted by chef Jose Andres, Made in Spain explores the culinary and cultural riches of Spain. Street May 13, prebook now; two-disc set $34.99
Picture This
Family, science and the state all conspire against two women who are in love during the time of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in A Love to Keep. Street May 13, prebook April 1; DVD $26.95
Screen Media/Universal
In Who’s Your Monkey, four friends kill a drug dealer, rescue animals, dispose of a body and discover the unbreakable bonds of friendship over the course of a night. Street May 6, prebook April 8; DVD $24.98
Sony
In The Take, an armored truck driver (John Leguizamo) survives a shooting where he is left for dead and later sets out to discover who committed the crime against him. Street May 27, prebook April 24; DVD $24.96
Strand
Gregg Araki’s outlaw couple romance has been revamped in The Living End: Remixed and Remastered, the 1992 movie about two HIV-positive lovers who are on the run in ’90s America. Street April 29, prebook April 3; DVD $27.99
TLA
In Storm, Donny is a slacker whose life takes a terrifying turn when a woman enters his life possessing a box that may hold the answers to human existence. Street May 27, prebook April 29; DVD $19.99
Union Station/Anchor Bay
Patricia Barton and her loser boyfriend try their hand as Bonnie and Clyde-type criminals in Cut Off. Street June 17, prebook May 15; DVD $26.97
Water Bearer
Next Year in Jerusalem tells the story of Charlie, who hides his homosexuality from his orthodox parents until he meets Manny at his family’s Passover seder. Street April 29, prebook April 8; DVD $29.95
—Compiled by Cheryl Biggs
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