Jacobin Magazine documentary follows leftist economist Andres Arauz at 2021 polls.
Buffalo 8 has acquired North American rights to Héctor Muniente’s documentary The Ecuadorian Candidate which shot during the 2021 Ecuador election.
The Jacobin Magazine documentary follows the story of Leftist economist Andres Arauz as he bids to become the next president of Ecuador.
Arauz was backed by Rafael Correa, the former president who launched Ecuador’s Leftist movement, governed the South American country from 2007 to 2017, and was an ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.
Arauz contested the election against the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso, who was...
Buffalo 8 has acquired North American rights to Héctor Muniente’s documentary The Ecuadorian Candidate which shot during the 2021 Ecuador election.
The Jacobin Magazine documentary follows the story of Leftist economist Andres Arauz as he bids to become the next president of Ecuador.
Arauz was backed by Rafael Correa, the former president who launched Ecuador’s Leftist movement, governed the South American country from 2007 to 2017, and was an ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.
Arauz contested the election against the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso, who was...
- 7/17/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Jacobin Magazine documentary follows leftist economist Andres Arauz at 2021 polls.
Buffalo8 has acquired North American rights to Héctor Muniente’s documentary The Ecuadorian Candidate which shot during the 2021 Ecuador election.
The Jacobin Magazine documentary follows the story of Leftist economist Andres Arauz as he bids to become the next president of Ecuador.
Arauz was backed by Rafael Correa, the former president who launched Ecuador’s Leftist movement, governed the South American country from 2007 to 2017, and was an ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.
Arauz contested the election against the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso, who was...
Buffalo8 has acquired North American rights to Héctor Muniente’s documentary The Ecuadorian Candidate which shot during the 2021 Ecuador election.
The Jacobin Magazine documentary follows the story of Leftist economist Andres Arauz as he bids to become the next president of Ecuador.
Arauz was backed by Rafael Correa, the former president who launched Ecuador’s Leftist movement, governed the South American country from 2007 to 2017, and was an ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.
Arauz contested the election against the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso, who was...
- 7/17/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin are a match made in heaven. Stone’s upcoming documentary series “The Putin Interviews” could be just the project to give the filmmaker’s career the shot in the arm in desperately needs. The director of iconic films like “Platoon” and “JFK” has never wavered from tackling challenging political stories, both documentaries and narrative features, but the results as of late have been lackluster.
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“The Putin Interviews,” a four-night series airing on Showtime this June, could change all that. While Stone has always been an outspoken critic of governments around the world, the recent rise of issues like surveillance, hacking and cyberwarfare have made him even more energized, and concerned, about current events.
“What’s going on right now is pretty shocking,” Stone said at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Read More: Michael Moore on Broadway: 5 Things You Should Know About His Attack on Trump
“The Putin Interviews,” a four-night series airing on Showtime this June, could change all that. While Stone has always been an outspoken critic of governments around the world, the recent rise of issues like surveillance, hacking and cyberwarfare have made him even more energized, and concerned, about current events.
“What’s going on right now is pretty shocking,” Stone said at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
- 5/2/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Attention, all Last Week Tonight haters: John Oliver wants you for his latest marketing campaign.
HBO on Friday unveiled a promo and poster for the late-night series’ third season, in which the host embraces some of his most harsh criticism from Seasons 1 and 2.
RelatedLast Week Tonight: John Oliver Reveals 2016 Return Date in New Year’s Video
You’ll notice that the cruel words come from certain celebrities and political leaders that Oliver has lambasted, including Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and, of course, Donald Trump.
Last Week Tonight kicks off its 35-episode Season 3 on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 11/10c on HBO, but...
HBO on Friday unveiled a promo and poster for the late-night series’ third season, in which the host embraces some of his most harsh criticism from Seasons 1 and 2.
RelatedLast Week Tonight: John Oliver Reveals 2016 Return Date in New Year’s Video
You’ll notice that the cruel words come from certain celebrities and political leaders that Oliver has lambasted, including Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and, of course, Donald Trump.
Last Week Tonight kicks off its 35-episode Season 3 on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 11/10c on HBO, but...
- 1/15/2016
- TVLine.com
Welcome to the February 16, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: What was up with that Eddie Murphy appearance? The "SNL" alum made a puzzlingly brief homecoming for the show's 40th anniversary special Saturday, granting viewers only 73 seconds of his time despite a much-ballyhooed return to Studio 8H. No jokes, no Buckwheat, no sign of the comedy genius America fell in love with. To this, viewers could only wonder: why even bother? "Is Eddie Murphy unable to be funny? I don't understand why he did what he did tonight, which was nothing," tweeted Doug Kyed. "How does Miley get more stage time than Eddie Murphy?" wrote @tallkathy. TV pundits were similarly unimpressed. "I don’t understand. They brought out Eddie Murphy to accept applause and then go away? I want that job," tweeted TV Guide contributor Damian Holbrook.
- 2/16/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Last Week Tonight caused a bit of an international incident when host John Oliver provoked Ecuador President Rafael Correa for, among many things, acting like a buffoon on television by dancing with clowns and being too thin-skinned while spending way too much time on social media. (Oliver also said Correa looked like "a used Jeremy Piven salesman.")
After Correa went on national television to make fun of teenagers that teased him on Facebook and Twitter, Oliver recommended that his viewers help thicken Correa's skin by bombarding the president's @MashiRafael handle with further insults.
After Correa went on national television to make fun of teenagers that teased him on Facebook and Twitter, Oliver recommended that his viewers help thicken Correa's skin by bombarding the president's @MashiRafael handle with further insults.
- 2/13/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Hillary Clinton's showing off her sassy side! The former Secretary of State sat down with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday's "The Colbert Report" to promote her new book "Hard Choices" ... and she was landing just as many jokes as the comedian. Check out their hilarious banter above! Clinton -- who's rumored to be running for President in 2016 -- was welcomed to the political show with lots of cheers. While Stephen tried to crack a few jokes at Hillary's expense, she definitely held her ground! News: Hillary Clinton Opens Up About Monica Lewinsky's Essay, Hints At Run For President."I just don't buy any of this -- there is no way on earth one woman can be in so many places at once," Colbert explained, in reference to her memoir. Stephen also said that the former First Lady's novel is just one big name-dropping read. But Hillary quickly shot back,...
- 8/6/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Karlovy Vary – It doesn’t give Edward Snowden options, but director Oliver Stone wants to grant the National Security Agency leaker asylum. "If I were a country, I would give him asylum. I wish I could be a country," Stone told The Hollywood Reporter from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival where he is to receive a lifetime achievement award. The filmmaker added that he can do no more to protect Snowden from prosecution by the United States than joining fellow Hollywood stars like John Cusack, Roseanne Barr and Danny Glover to sign a petition that urges President Rafael Correa
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- 7/3/2013
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Edward Snowden may be stateless at the moment. But if there's one town that's definitely embracing the Nsa leaker, it's Hollywood. A host of progressive-minded celebrities including John Cusack, Oliver Stone, Roseanne Barr, Shia Labeouf and Amber Heard are urging Ecuador president Rafael Correa to grant Snowden's request for political asylum so that he may avoid espionage charges in the U.S. for blowing the whistle on the government's top-secret surveillance programs, which include collecting U.S. and European cell phone and Internet metadata. "Snowden's disclosures have already done much to unveil the alarming scale of U.S. government spying on its own citizens and the rights of people in...
- 7/2/2013
- E! Online
A who's who of Hollywood’s progressive activists -- including director Oliver Stone and stars John Cusack and Danny Glover -- have joined a cadre of anti-war intellectuals petitioning Ecuador President Rafael Correa to grant political asylum to fugitive National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Since fleeing the United States, Snowden, a private computer consultant working for the supersecret spy agency, has provided the Guardian newspaper with a series of leaks on how Nsa monitors domestic phone and Internet traffic and spies on U.S. allies in Europe. Snowden is currently in Moscow, his first destination since Hong Kong, where he took
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- 7/1/2013
- by Tina Daunt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Daniel Radcliffe ready to play a dad, Henry Cavill is kind of hot, and Ecuador turns the wrong way on equality
Glee’s Samuel Larsen has had enough of his trademark dreadlocks and has chopped them off, documenting the process with a photographer. I, for one, was not quite expecting what we got in the end.
New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson, who gave the amusing speech just before the vote, writes an open letter to his Australian friends in support of equality there. “You might have seen there was rioting in France after they passed similar legislation. Not in New Zealand. People just carried on with their lives, as I suspected they would. Now, if that’s what the prophesised ‘gay onslaught’ looks like then we’ll take it every day and twice on Sundays. I can tell you that my own monitoring of the Pakuranga Highway, the road that cuts through my electorate,...
Glee’s Samuel Larsen has had enough of his trademark dreadlocks and has chopped them off, documenting the process with a photographer. I, for one, was not quite expecting what we got in the end.
New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson, who gave the amusing speech just before the vote, writes an open letter to his Australian friends in support of equality there. “You might have seen there was rioting in France after they passed similar legislation. Not in New Zealand. People just carried on with their lives, as I suspected they would. Now, if that’s what the prophesised ‘gay onslaught’ looks like then we’ll take it every day and twice on Sundays. I can tell you that my own monitoring of the Pakuranga Highway, the road that cuts through my electorate,...
- 5/28/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Venezuelan president places deputy in charge but vows to return from Cuba after 'absolutely essential' fourth procedure
Hugo Chávez underwent cancer-related surgery in Havana on Tuesday, his fourth operation in 18 months, after announcing that an examination had found a recurrence of malignant cells. The Venezuelan president returned to Cuba on Monday for further surgery.
"It is absolutely necessary, absolutely essential that I undergo this new surgical procedure. And this must happen in the next days," Chávez said in a nationwide broadcast on Saturday night.
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, a close ally of Chávez who met with him in Cuba on Monday, said: "Commander Hugo Chávez is being operated on at this moment. It's a very delicate operation.
"He's passing through one of the hardest moments of his life. Our heart and our solidarity go out to a historic president."
Chávez first had surgery 18 months ago to remove an undisclosed type...
Hugo Chávez underwent cancer-related surgery in Havana on Tuesday, his fourth operation in 18 months, after announcing that an examination had found a recurrence of malignant cells. The Venezuelan president returned to Cuba on Monday for further surgery.
"It is absolutely necessary, absolutely essential that I undergo this new surgical procedure. And this must happen in the next days," Chávez said in a nationwide broadcast on Saturday night.
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, a close ally of Chávez who met with him in Cuba on Monday, said: "Commander Hugo Chávez is being operated on at this moment. It's a very delicate operation.
"He's passing through one of the hardest moments of his life. Our heart and our solidarity go out to a historic president."
Chávez first had surgery 18 months ago to remove an undisclosed type...
- 12/12/2012
- by Virginia Lopez
- The Guardian - Film News
With his latest film Savages, the acclaimed Us director turns his vision to the murderous narcotics-fuelled conflict in Mexico
A man steps across the floor of what seems to be a basement or dungeon, on a film shot by a wobbly, handheld camera. Blood, sticky underfoot, runs beneath his boots – and the camera catches what seems to be a severed head. The scene is being played on a computer screen, watched by an intense young man, transfixed. A beautiful girl looks also, over his shoulder. "Is that Iraq?", she asks, squirming at the degenerate and apparently gratuitous cruelty. "Mexico," replies the man with a grunt, clearly terrified himself. Welcome to the latest film by Hollywood's – even America's – heretic-in-chief, Oliver Stone. Unsurprisingly, this brief exchange is charged with greater meaning than it appears at first sight, and the film's director has come to elaborate.
The physical presence of Oliver Stone is...
A man steps across the floor of what seems to be a basement or dungeon, on a film shot by a wobbly, handheld camera. Blood, sticky underfoot, runs beneath his boots – and the camera catches what seems to be a severed head. The scene is being played on a computer screen, watched by an intense young man, transfixed. A beautiful girl looks also, over his shoulder. "Is that Iraq?", she asks, squirming at the degenerate and apparently gratuitous cruelty. "Mexico," replies the man with a grunt, clearly terrified himself. Welcome to the latest film by Hollywood's – even America's – heretic-in-chief, Oliver Stone. Unsurprisingly, this brief exchange is charged with greater meaning than it appears at first sight, and the film's director has come to elaborate.
The physical presence of Oliver Stone is...
- 9/24/2012
- by Ed Vulliamy
- The Guardian - Film News
London - Prominent Hollywood figures are among those who signed a letter in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's request for political asylum in Ecuador. The petition, which a group called Just Foreign Policy delivered to the country's embassy here where Assange sought refuge last week, was signed by Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Bill Maher and author Naomi Wolf, among others, it said. Just Foreign Policy said it delivered the letter with more than four thousand signatures from Americans urging Ecuardo's president Rafael Correa to approve Assange's asylum request. Assange, who is Australian, walked into the Ecuadorian embassy last
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- 6/26/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky among signatories to letter delivered to Ecuador's embassy in London
A letter signed by leading Us figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.
Among those who signed the letter were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
Other signatories included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former Us military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.
Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than four thousand Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange's request for asylum.
The Australian national arrived at Ecuador's embassy last week in the latest dramatic twist...
A letter signed by leading Us figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.
Among those who signed the letter were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
Other signatories included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former Us military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.
Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than four thousand Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange's request for asylum.
The Australian national arrived at Ecuador's embassy last week in the latest dramatic twist...
- 6/26/2012
- by Ben Quinn
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali talk about their new documentary, South of the Border, and tell us how they got involved with the project and the experience of getting it made. Plus, Stone talks about spending time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and what taste he has in films.
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon...
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon...
- 7/27/2010
- by helen.cowley@lovefilm.com (Helen Cowley)
- LOVEFiLM
Director Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali talk about their new documentary, South of the Border, and tell us how they got involved with the project and the experience of getting it made. Plus, Stone talks about spending time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and what taste he has in films.
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon...
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon...
- 7/27/2010
- by helen.cowley@lovefilm.com (Helen Cowley)
- LOVEFiLM
Eighteen months ago, Tariq Ali got a call from Oliver Stone: could he help with his new film? The result was a powerful documentary about Latin America – and a new friendship
Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call from Paraguay. It was Oliver Stone. He had been reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, my collection of essays on the changing politics of Latin America, and asked if I was familiar with his work. I was, especially the political films in which he challenged the fraudulent accounts of the Vietnam war that had gained currency during the B-movie years of Reagan's presidency.
Stone had actually fought in that war as a Us marine, which made it difficult for others to pigeonhole him as a namby-pamby pacifist. Many of his detractors had avoided the draft and were now making up for it by proclaiming...
Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call from Paraguay. It was Oliver Stone. He had been reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, my collection of essays on the changing politics of Latin America, and asked if I was familiar with his work. I was, especially the political films in which he challenged the fraudulent accounts of the Vietnam war that had gained currency during the B-movie years of Reagan's presidency.
Stone had actually fought in that war as a Us marine, which made it difficult for others to pigeonhole him as a namby-pamby pacifist. Many of his detractors had avoided the draft and were now making up for it by proclaiming...
- 7/26/2010
- by Tariq Ali
- The Guardian - Film News
HollywoodNews.com: It’s the 3rd round of what could turn out to be a 12 round fight between filmmaker Oliver Stone, and Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader. He is the architect of a powerful new movement that promises to unite Venezuelans behind an alternative vision of democracy, free enterprise, and social change. The 38-year-old Harvard educated leader is the face of a new future for Venezuela: Democratic, inclusive, and solution-oriented.
The Associated Press calls Lopez “the man who is challenging President Hugo Chavez’s grip on power.” According to the “Washington Post,” he “represents a fresh generation” of Venezuelan leaders. “Caracas Chronicles” calls him “an early front-runner for the 2012 opposition Presidential nomination.”
Lopez was mayor of Chacao from 2000 to 2008. He won Transparency International’s Award for the most transparent municipality in Venezuela. In 2009 he founded Voluntad Popular, a social organization with the goal of promoting democracy and human rights.
The Associated Press calls Lopez “the man who is challenging President Hugo Chavez’s grip on power.” According to the “Washington Post,” he “represents a fresh generation” of Venezuelan leaders. “Caracas Chronicles” calls him “an early front-runner for the 2012 opposition Presidential nomination.”
Lopez was mayor of Chacao from 2000 to 2008. He won Transparency International’s Award for the most transparent municipality in Venezuela. In 2009 he founded Voluntad Popular, a social organization with the goal of promoting democracy and human rights.
- 7/23/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
There's no let-up for Hollywod's most controversial director – the sequel to Wall Street, a documentary about Hugo Chávez and his most ambitious and personal project to date, the secret history of America
Oliver Stone is a man's man. Of this I have no doubt before meeting him. Not just because of his status as a sort of latter-day Ernest Hemingway, an action man with a reputation for women and drugs who won the Purple Heart for bravery in Vietnam, and then an Oscar for reproducing his experiences on celluloid. But because the most compelling sequences from his latest film, a documentary called South of the Border, show him hanging out with Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, chewing the cud about politics and war, talking very much mano a mano.
It's an impression that's reinforced moments before I meet him in his Los Angeles office when the photographer appears and shows me...
Oliver Stone is a man's man. Of this I have no doubt before meeting him. Not just because of his status as a sort of latter-day Ernest Hemingway, an action man with a reputation for women and drugs who won the Purple Heart for bravery in Vietnam, and then an Oscar for reproducing his experiences on celluloid. But because the most compelling sequences from his latest film, a documentary called South of the Border, show him hanging out with Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, chewing the cud about politics and war, talking very much mano a mano.
It's an impression that's reinforced moments before I meet him in his Los Angeles office when the photographer appears and shows me...
- 7/21/2010
- by Carole Cadwalladr
- The Guardian - Film News
Knight and Day I've reviewed it and I mentioned it again yesterday so I think you know where I stand, but if you don't... go see it, it's fun.
This film is rated PG-13 for sequences of action violence throughout, and brief strong language. Click Here For The Gallery Of 10 Pictures My Review / Get More Info
Grown Ups This week has been a busy one and it got to a point Wednesday night where it was either go see Grown Ups or sit at home and relax for a couple of hours. Considering I don't have a review for this one online I think you know what my decision was.
This film is rated PG-13 for crude material including suggestive references, language and some male rear nudity. Click Here For The Gallery Of 36 Pictures Get More Info
Dogtooth I just finished watching this only a few hours ago and will...
This film is rated PG-13 for sequences of action violence throughout, and brief strong language. Click Here For The Gallery Of 10 Pictures My Review / Get More Info
Grown Ups This week has been a busy one and it got to a point Wednesday night where it was either go see Grown Ups or sit at home and relax for a couple of hours. Considering I don't have a review for this one online I think you know what my decision was.
This film is rated PG-13 for crude material including suggestive references, language and some male rear nudity. Click Here For The Gallery Of 36 Pictures Get More Info
Dogtooth I just finished watching this only a few hours ago and will...
- 6/25/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Before American audiences can get their greedy eyes on Oliver Stone's long-anticipated sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" this fall, the three-time Oscar winner will release an even more politically minded film, if you don't mind Hugo Chávez standing in for Shia Labeouf. As genial as it is revealing, "South of the Border" sees Stone on a road trip in the titular direction, conducting humanizing interviews with presidents who -- as is the refuting point of Stone's doc -- have been unfairly maligned by the American government and media.
Stone gets up close and personal with the aforementioned Venezuelan leader, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Kirchner (and her husband, ex-President Nėstor Kirchner) and, most predictably from the director of "Comandante" and "Looking for Fidel," Cuban top dog Raúl Castro.
Stone mentioned to me that the film was partly shot...
Stone gets up close and personal with the aforementioned Venezuelan leader, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Kirchner (and her husband, ex-President Nėstor Kirchner) and, most predictably from the director of "Comandante" and "Looking for Fidel," Cuban top dog Raúl Castro.
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- 6/23/2010
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
Oliver Stone has demonstrated his South American left-wing sympathies since his 3rd film, 1986’s Salvador – a drama about an American journalist (played by James Woods, who was also nominated for his performance by the Academy) in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war.
So, him making a documentary titled South Of The Border, about South America’s political and social movements, shouldn’t be a surprise.
Shot across five countries, Stone’s reported intent with the film is to challenge North American mainstream media misperceptions of South America, via personal interviews with seven of its elected presidents, including Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba).
Stone gained “unprecedented access” to each president and region, in making the documentary, which is said to shed new light on the “exciting” transformations in South America.
Indie distribution company,...
So, him making a documentary titled South Of The Border, about South America’s political and social movements, shouldn’t be a surprise.
Shot across five countries, Stone’s reported intent with the film is to challenge North American mainstream media misperceptions of South America, via personal interviews with seven of its elected presidents, including Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba).
Stone gained “unprecedented access” to each president and region, in making the documentary, which is said to shed new light on the “exciting” transformations in South America.
Indie distribution company,...
- 6/8/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Buenos Aires -- American director Oliver Stone deflected criticism that his film about South American presidents provided a glossed-over picture of the region's political landscape and its controversial leaders.
In a packed auditorium at the University of Buenos Aires' Law School, Stone presented "South of the Border" with a public interview alongside producer Fernando Sulichin and scriptwriter Mark Weisbrot. Moderated by local journalist Jorge Lanata, the dialogue would later turn into a press conference that included an open microphone for the public.
The interview was the final event in his promotional tour through the region, which had started last week in Caracas with the premiere of his film, which is based on a series of interviews with Latin American presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva of Brazil, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, and Raul Castro of Cuba.
In a packed auditorium at the University of Buenos Aires' Law School, Stone presented "South of the Border" with a public interview alongside producer Fernando Sulichin and scriptwriter Mark Weisbrot. Moderated by local journalist Jorge Lanata, the dialogue would later turn into a press conference that included an open microphone for the public.
The interview was the final event in his promotional tour through the region, which had started last week in Caracas with the premiere of his film, which is based on a series of interviews with Latin American presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva of Brazil, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, and Raul Castro of Cuba.
- 6/4/2010
- by By Agustin Mango
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cinema Libre Studio acquired the North American rights to South of the Border, the documentary from Oliver Stone, which chronicles his travels to South America in the winter of 2009, and his conversations along the way with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba). The film premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, then screened at the New York Film Festival. Cinema Libre will premiere ...
- 3/29/2010
- by twhite
- International Documentary Association
Merciless dictator for some, political "Robin Hood" fighting against the power of the United States for others, the head of the Venezuelan government attended the world premiere of the movie about him by Oliver Stone. During press interviews after the screening of "South of the Border", the American director announced that what the world needs is tens of politicians like Hugo Chavez, people who keep their promises, citing the discipline and honesty of the Venezuelan leader. The maker of "Wall Street" snd "JFK" strongly criticized the American media, saying it goes out of its way to shed a negative light on the South American politician. In his film, Oliver Stone was able to interview other left wing Latin American heads of state, such as Argentina's Cristina Fernández, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Brazil's Lula, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Raúl Castro, brother of the seemingly immortal Fidel, while avoiding the...
- 9/8/2009
- by Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
- Cineman.ch/en
I smell controversy. In his latest project, Oliver Stone travels from the Caribbean down to the Andes while examining the failed effort to push Us free-market policies upon Latin America. In South of the Border Stone specifically focuses on Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez and the opposition he faces worldwide. Chavez isn.t the only Latin American leader in this documentary. Stone chats with a number of others including Evo Morales of Bolivia, Cristina Kirchner of Argentina, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Raul Castro of Cuba, and Lula da Silva of Brazil all who expressed concerns over being considered equals with the Us. The big question surrounding this film is whether or not Stone can convince audiences Chavez really isn.t as bad as he.s made out to be. South of the Border will premiere this week at the Venice Film Festival but has yet to acquire domestic distribution. For now,...
- 9/5/2009
- cinemablend.com
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