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 V.17 No.3 | January 17 - 23, 2008 
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Reel World

By Devin D. O’Leary

Spanish Shoot-’Em-Ups

On Jan. 17, Instituto Cervantes at the National Hispanic Cultural Center kicks of a brand-new, multiweek film series. “Cinema Policíaco” shines a spotlight on the low-budget gangster thrillers studios in Madrid and Barcelona were pumping out in the ’50s. The series starts with a bang this Thursday thanks to ultraprolific director Ignacio F. Iquino’s Brigada Criminal. This 1950 film spins the story of a fresh-faced graduate from Madrid’s Police School who becomes involved in a robbery at a bank where his uncle works as a teller.

Films will screen every Thursday night at 7 p.m. through the middle of February. Future flicks include 1950’s Apartado de Correso 1001 (Jan. 24), 1952’s Los Ojos Dejan Huelos (Jan. 31), 1957’s Distrito Quinto (Feb. 7) and 1963’s A Tiro Limpio (Feb. 14). The films are in Spanish with English subtitles. All screenings are free and will take place at the NHCC’s Bank of America Theatre (1701 Fourth Street SW). Log on to www.nhccnm.org for more info.

Teenage Movie Moguls Wanted

The upcoming White Sands International Film Festival is, as part of its schedule of events, offering a High School Competition. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Jan. 31, giving up-and-coming filmmakers a little more time to get their entries in the mail. There are no entry fees, but entrants must be at high school level and must have submissions authorized by a parent, guardian or teacher. The maximum running time for films is 25 minutes. The festival is open to all types of films (animated, documentaries, music videos, short commentaries, etc.), so long as they incorporate “a relevant and dynamic storyline.” Video and DVD submissions should be sent to: “Film Submissions Archive Manager: Ms. Linda Gulley, White Sands International Film Festival, 101 North White Sands Blvd., Alamogordo, N.M. 88310.”

For more information on submissions, please visit the official website at www.wsiff.com or call the Otero County Film Office and speak with Rebecca Price at (575) 434-5882. The White Sands International Film Festival will be held in Alamogordo with a week of workshops, lectures and screenings beginning March 16.

Yee-Haw!

Gov. Bill Richardson took time off conceding the Democratic presidential nomination to announce yet another film preparing to shoot here in New Mexico. Country Western singers Toby Keith and Rodney Carrington will star in the film Beer for My Horses, about a pair of small-town deputies who “head off on an outrageous road trip to save the protagonist’s girlfriend from drug lord kidnappers.” While this doesn’t sound like the most high-profile of projects, I’m sure it will please regular viewers of Country Music Television. (Director Michael Salomon has helmed multiple episodes of “CMT Total Access.”)

Public Comments (8)
  • comment on "For The Bible Tells Me So"  [ Sat Jan 19 2008 2:33 PM ]

    placed here because there's no place to comment on film capsules.

    Devin, yer wrong. You wrote, "this provocative film explores how church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely on a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the Bible."

    Anyone capable of reading the Bible objectively can clearly see that homosexuality is denounced as an abomination worthy of death. All the wishful thinking in the world will never change this fact.

  • Want proof? Here's just a few  [ Sat Jan 19 2008 2:47 PM ]

    quotes that show how homosexuality is condemned in the Bible. Did you even see the movie or are you just printing pre-written info?

    Lev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."

    Lev. 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them"

    1 Cor. 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

    Rom. 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."

  • Should I cut my hair?  [ Sat Jan 19 2008 7:43 PM ]

    Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering. (1 Corinthians 11:14-15 NAS)

  • Kinda shows what happens when things are taken out of contex...  [ Sat Jan 19 2008 7:48 PM ]

    No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may be admitted into the community of the Lord.(Deuteronomy 23:2 NAB)

  • You learn well, Grasshoppa  [ Tue Jan 22 2008 2:10 PM ]

    Did you pick that shit up from me or did you find it yourself? Another favorite of mine is that I'll tell Christians that even if I did a 180 and I repented with all my heart I am doomed for all eternity to roast in hell because I insulted the Holy Ghost. Specifically, I told the Holy Ghost to suck my shorts. According to Jesus, insulting the Holy Ghost is the one unforgivable sin. WOOO-HOOOO!

    Anyone know where to get some X? Or just tell me where I can find the next desert rave - that should do the trick.

  • I want to hear more about the giants  [ Tue Jan 22 2008 4:12 PM ]

    in Genesis, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

  • GIANTS in the Bible  [ Wed Jan 23 2008 3:53 PM ]

    "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men...." Genesis 6:4

    This is one of the most interesting verses in the bible. Who were "the sons of God" who had sex with "the daughters of men"? Jesus and his long-lost brothers? Sex-crazed angels from hell? The bible doesn't say, but whoever they were, they seemed to have pissed off God. Because in the very next verse, he decides to kill every living thing that he had made.

    "And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshopper, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:33

    These are the same giants (the Nephilium) mentioned in Genesis 6:4. Somehow they managed to survive the flood, contrary to Gen.7:21.

    "The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; Which also were accounted giants...." Deuteronomy 2:10-11

    That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them. Dt.2:20-21

    For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it. Dt.3:11

    Og's bed was nine cubits long -- large enough for a 4 meter-long giant.

    "And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which as of the remnant of the giants ..." Joshua 12:4, 18:16

    "Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span." (10 ft, 3 m) 1 Sam.17:4

    Among those killed by the "mighty man", Benaiah, was an Egyptian "five cubits high" (7.5 ft, 2.3 m). 1 Chr.11:23

    God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of gaints as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. Amos 2:9

    ------------------------------------​----------------------------------------​----

    (A cubit is about 18 inches in length; a span is about 9 inches)

  • Tell ya what, Nick  [ Thu Jan 24 2008 12:01 PM ]

    I really don't know about Yetis or Bigfeet, but, like you, I'd love to believe they're real. But I can tell you FER SURE that Neanderthals have survived into modern times. I know, I'm seen them. I don't know what scientists would technically call these beings, but they look like big, lumbering cavemen with sloping foreheads and big brows (eyebrows) close to the eyes. And they look a little like Frankenstein's monster. Back in '93 (my best year ever) I went to West Virginia on a whitewater rapids expedition. On the highway there, I saw one of them driving with a Neanderthal female companion. He slung his arm out the window to drop a beer can as casually as a kindergartener picks his nose. It was really creepy. I also saw one sitting on the edge of the porch of his wooden shack, next to a humongous mountain of beer cans. Apparently, he just sat there all day drinking and dumped his empty cans right next to him on the pile.

 
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