Jacobo Morales Movies
One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, Nancy (Louise Lasser), to the fictional Central American country of San Marcos, where she is involved in a revolution. Nancy wants nothing to do with Fielding, but he soon becomes a guest of the country's dictator (Carlos Montalban), before accidentally becoming the leader of San Marcos himself. Fielding is eventually shipped back to the US and tried as a subversive, but being that this is a comedy, and an especially light one at that, everything works out in the end. A far cry from Allen's later, more somber films, Bananas still works as an often hilarious amalgam of sight gags, one-liners, and bizarre asides. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Starring:
- Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, (more)
- 1998
This documentary attempts to compress a full century of Latin America cinema into 90 minutes, with eleven segments and two roundtable sections, opening with a montage of Mexican silents (Ivan Trujillo's The Beginnings) and followed by the earliest Mexican sound films of the '30s (Maria Novaro's When We Started Talking) and the sociological and psychological aspects of early Mexican films (Marcela Fernandez Violante's Bodily Pleasures). Other segments look at the cinema of Venezuela (Edmundo Aray and David Rodriguez's When We Wanted to Become Adults), Cuba (Juan Carlos Tabio's Memories of an Island), Brazil (Orlando Senna's Cinema Novo), and Puerto Rico (Jocobo Morales) Playing Seriously), plus the folklore of Peru (Federico Garcia's Independence Day). Interviews include Robert Redford, the late Pilar Miro, and Costa Gavras. Shown at the 1998 Guadalajara Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- 1989
Santiago (Tommy Muniz) is a widower and a retired accountant. He likes things to be orderly. However, as his children have lives of their own, his days have grown increasingly lonely. For entertainment, sometimes he takes walks in the open spaces of Old San Juan: squares, public gardens, parks. There, in the most casual way, he meets Angelina (Glady Rodriguez), who unobtrusively comes to share his pleasure in these walks. Soon, he is arranging his walks so as to meet her, but the hours she gives for them to meet are never the same from day to day. She also refuses to give out any personal information about herself. As his attachment to her grows, so does his curiosity, and before long he has hired a private detective to find out what her story is. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1990
Three stories of rural life by Abelardo Diaz Alfaro, popularized on Puerto Rican radio in the 1940s, are gathered together in this anthology film. As in the radio dramas they are based on, they are tied together by the narrative supplied by Don Teyo Gracia (Juan Ortíz Jiménez). In the first story, "Don Procopio El Despedidor De Duelos," an undertaker's uncanny good cheer is shown to be overlaid with a pure certainty of his own eventual demise. In the second, "Peyo Mercé Enseña Inglés" a schoolteacher regrets that he is required to teach his students so much English that their progress in Spanish is hindered. In the third, "Bagazo," an elderly canecutter's eloquent pleas do not prevent him from being laid off by the new field boss. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1998
In this family oriented fantasy drama, a boy discovers his long-lost father is actually a gifted magician. After father and son are reunited, they discover a notorious criminal is on the magician's trail, determined to wrestle away his secret powers. The Effects of Magic stars brothers David Carradine and Robert Carradine, with Kathy Bates and Melinda Dillon highlighting the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jacobo Morales, Kathy Bates, (more)
Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist Margaret Reynolds (Barbara Streisand) is a women's liberationist, a closet lesbian, or a masochist. Based on the novel by Anne Richardson Rolphe, it follows Margaret's attempts to tell her husband that she is pregnant with yet another child. The everyday events of her life are punctuated by numerous and complex fantasy sequences which reveal her fears and her desires. It is clear that she is afraid that she and her husband Paul (David Selby) are growing apart -- and that he may be having an affair. Despite the increasingly elaborate and frantic nature of her fantasies, her disclosure, when she finally makes it, has happy results. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barbra Streisand, David Selby, (more)
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