This weekend two award-winning films will be released alongside a number of independent films. Among those are "A Most Violent Year" and "The Immigrant."
What were Latin Post.com film writer David Salazar's favorite films of 2014? Here is a run down including the honorable mentions which include "The Imitation Game," "A Most Wanted Man," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," "Inherent Vice" and others.
For the past few months, pundits have been claiming that the Best Actress is a weak category with very few candidates. However, this statement might not actually hold much water. Yes the category is not as crowded as the Best Actor race but there are a lot of worthy performances that are not being taken into account.
With awards season having officially started, there are number of early releases that were critically acclaimed and which will most likely be ignored during the season. As a result, throughout the next month these Oscar pieces will be dedicated to arguing why the Oscars should consider these films.
The midpoint of cinema's yearly cycle is underway. Already 331 films have been released this year, and a number of art house and studio films have had terrific success both critically and financially. Here are some of my favorites thus far.
On May 16 a number of films will enter the marketplace hoping to become box office hits. On May 16, a number of films will enter the marketplace hoping to become box office hits.
On Sunday, the San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival came to an end, marking the fourth year of a powerful platform that captures the immigrant experience. SIFF, which runs from Dec. 1-15, "shows a human face on the issues of immigration, and immigrant workers' rights through the exhibition of films/videos that document the lives of immigrants, and exiles, the facts that motivate people to migrate, and the problems most people face in the process to migrate to other country."
