Great Movies
MZS
30 Minutes on: "The Public"
Potentially another "Dog Day Afternoon." Too bad about the execution.
Potentially another "Dog Day Afternoon." Too bad about the execution.
Why don't we ever see Latino families in the movies? All the other American ethnic groups have given us movies about their march through the generations, but Latinos, until now, have been represented mostly by crime movies and comedies, neither presenting their culture in an especially positive light. A Chicano I know went to see "American Me," a film by Edward James Olmos that is brave and powerful but unremitting in its portrait of a man destroyed by prison, and came out saying, "If I wasn't Chicano, this movie wouldn't have made me want to know any."
