Diego Lerer

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AFI Fest: Showcase on Argentina

Diego Lerer
Two-thousand-eight will be remembered as a landmark year for Argentine cinema, beginning with the selection of not one but two local films for the official competition in Cannes. Those two movies — Pablo Trapero’s Lion’s Den and Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman — anchor AFI Fest’s five-film “Showcase on Argentina.”......

Mixed Signals

Diego Lerer
The last 12 months were a kind of annus horribilis for Argentine cinema, both artistically and commercially. With very few exceptions, local releases didn’t make a dime at the box office and they were not invited to the main competitions of the biggest international festivals. Not surprisingly, the American Cinematheque’s......

New Argentine Cinema

Diego Lerer
2006 was a dark year for Argentine cinema. Not only because of the quality of the films released, but for the sudden passing of two of its major filmmakers: Fabián Bielinsky, 47, and Eduardo Mignogna, 66. Mignogna’s death, three weeks ago, marked the end of the career of one of......