SIMON DEL DESIERTO

Mexico, 1965

Genre: Short, Drama

Director: Luis Bunuel

Producer: Gustavo Alatriste

Writers: Julio Alejandro, Luis Bunuel

Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena*, Luis Aceves Castaneda*

Plot Summary:

The ascetic religious Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal in the middle of the desert to be closer to God and resist the temptations of the world. His followers are peasants and travelers that believe that Simón is a saint capable of performing miracles and they crowd to hear his speeches. However, Satan tries to tempt him with the pleasures of the world.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

USA, 2009

Genre: Adventure

Director: Spike Jonze

Producer: Tom Hanks, John B. Carls, Gary Goeztman, Maurice Sendak, Vincent Landay

Writer: Spike Jonze, David Egger (screenplay), Maurice Sendak (book)

Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener

Voices: Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker

Budget: $80M

Plot Summary:

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

INTERVIEW

USA, 2007

Genre: Drama

Director: Steve Buscemi

Producer: Scott Hornbacher, Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de Westelaken

Writer: Steve Buscemi, David Schechter, Theodor Holman

Cast: Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi

Plot Summary:

Everyone wants a piece of a celebrity. Pierre is a political reporter, assigned to write a fluff piece on Katya, a blond who acts in slasher movies and a Fox show about single girls in the city. The interview, at a restaurant, goes badly: she's late, he's unprepared and rude. After leaving, he bangs his head in a fender bender and she takes him to her loft to clean the wound. Lubricated by alcohol and competitive natures, the interview resumes. She takes phone calls from her fiancé, Pierre reads her diary on her computer. They discuss wounds, he expresses concern, father-daughter feelings arise. Out come camcorders to tape their darkest secrets. Is friendship or more in the offing?

GLORIA

USA, 1980

Genre: Crime

Director: John Cassavetes

Producer: Sam Shaw

Writer: John Cassavetes

Cast: Julie Carmen, Gena Rowlands

Plot Summary:

Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was keeping a personal copy of their records. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes with Gloria, a neighbor who was a former girlfriend of one of the gangsters. Gloria and Phil are chased throughout New York City because Phil has a black book containing the accounts of the mob.

WAGON MASTER

USA, 1950
Genre: Western

Director: John Ford
Writer: John Ford, Patrick Ford, Frank Nugent
Producers: John Ford, Merian C. Cooper
Cast: Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, Ward Bond

Plot Summary:
The plot takes us to 1849 Utah Territory, where two young horse traders are hired by a Mormon elder to guide a small party of Mormon families westward through the Utah desert. The wagon train is plagued by a series of events. Serious meaning a band of savage Indians, A dry desert and no water, and a band of crazy outlaws, who use the train as a disguise. A must see adventure!!