link to the Cytube :hexbear-retro:
This Friday we were planning to have a Spanish Language Movie Friday. so Post your favorite publicly posted or pirately hosted movie for Cytube Fridays, some restrictions will be that the movie you nominate must be made in Latam
this Friday its going to be a double Feature so that mean that the 1st and 2nd most voted movies will be the ones we watch
Movies usually play 08:00am & 8:00pm Central Time Cytube is a finicky beast and usually accepts Youtube, Vimeo, Daily Motion, GoogleDrive(requires plug-ins, ez pz)and occasionally others if it feels charitable that day. Here’s the manual
This Special Movie friday is from an Idea we had where the first Friday of each month will be a comm specific movie friday, this month being c/latam.
and The 2 winners are:
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Motorcycle diaries: "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s. :che-poggers:
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Machuca: Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase. :allende-rhetoric:
Looks like we are gonna have some Southern Cone dominace in this Latam movie friday
Machuca :allende-rhetoric:
it has anglo substhe sub version its not complete lolChile, 1973. Gonzalo Infante and Pedro Machuca are two eleven-year-old boys who live in Santiago, the first in an affluent neighborhood and the second in a humble illegal town recently installed a few blocks away, two worlds separated by a great invisible wall. that some, in their eagerness to make the dreams of a time full of revolutionary hopes come true, want to overthrow.
One of these dreamers, the director of a private religious school, Father McEnroe, with the support of their parents, integrates children from low-income families from the village into the elitist school, with the firm determination that they learn to respect each other. This is how Pedro Machuca is in the same class as Gonzalo Infante and a friendship full of discoveries and surprises is born between them.
But to the objective difficulties of this attempt at integration are added those derived from the climate of open social confrontation in Chilean society ...
Zama is super tight. An 18th century magistrate is deployed to a remote colony in Argentina, waiting on a detached bureaucracy for a promotion to a more prestigious post that never comes. It's absurd and scathing in its indictment of class and colonial politics, it's beautifully shot, and it's pretty funny. A fantastic addition to the "white man is undone by colonial ambition" subgenre alongside Aguirre, Wrath of God and Apocalypse Now
Pretty banging read as well tbh. "Ready to go and not going", what a line
Great book, great film. I'm particularly fond of the first page, which ought to hook anyone. " . . . when it was still a monkey and not only a monkey's corpse."
Esther Allen's translated a bunch of other great books, too, like Rosario Castellanos's The Book of Lamentations.
Motorcycle diaries is in spanish and it has teenage heartthrob :che-cigar:
I recently watched a Brasilian film called Bacurau, and although not Spanish, I guess it counts for LatAm? Ignore if not.
It's an excellent film that I cannot explain without spoiling anything, but suffice to say, it's best summed up as something of a modern-day Western where there the protagonist isn't so much any singular character so much as the town itself. It also touches on a lot of topics we discuss here, such as colonialism, land-grabbing, racism, etc.
Yes of course Brasil counts as LatAm. Not sure about French Guyana and those other places where people speak Dutch tho
suriname and guyana are latin america to me, so they should be allowed, also all the Caribbean
But surinamians speak fucking Dutch!Yes of course, history is homologous in all south and central america, and that's more important than which European empire colonized each land. It's infuriating being so atomized.
Yes, dutch- and english-speaking places are not strictly "latin", but I really don't care because I say "latin america" as proxy for "south and central america" where all countries have homologous histories, and troubles and material conditions and shit.
ok then, count the guyanas in the Caribbean category with Belize and latin language speaking countries in the latin american category
brb gonna beat up my 4th grade geography teacher for making me look like a clown
Los Olvidados/The Young and the Damned
Once he escapes juvenile prison, El Jaibo (Roberto Cobo) resumes his role as the ringleader of a group troubled street kids in Mexico City's slums. El Jaibo leads them to pilfer, but he wants retribution. Determined to find the man who allegedly sent him to jail, he enlists the help of Pedro (Alfonso Mejía), one of the younger boys. Before long, Pedro becomes entangled in a criminal world that threatens to destroy what little he has, no matter how hard he tries to leave that world behind.
This is from Bunuel's Mexican period, and easily his most penetrable work. I liked it.
La Dictadura Perfecta :liberty-weeping:
After accepting a massive bribe, a powerful television corporation tries to improve the image of a notorious corrupt politician with lies. After a mistake made by the president of the republic, a television station tries to divert attention from his mistake by revealing a video that involves the crimes of Governor Carmelo Vargas. Later, the governor decides to negotiate with the television station to change his image and turn him into a political star.
Probably the best Central American film out there, La Llorona takes the classic latam folk tale of the weeping woman and gives it a political edge. An aging ex-dictator (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) believes he has evaded justice, but is haunted by the ghost of an indigenous woman killed during the genocide he oversaw. It's particularly timely given the indigenous-led protests in Guatemala at the moment, and the ongoing prosecution of the perpetrators of the dictatorship's war crimes.
@RNAi @Grownbravy @Wmill you guys may want to nominate a few movies
I remember some monster movie that was on tv, and all i remember was what they did at the end.
spoiler cause IT’S THE FUCKING END OF THE MOVIE
They beat the monsters by distracting themselves by not thinking about the monsters since they were figments if their imaginations, so they all held hands togethers chanting “Pastel de chocolate” over and over again and they just popped out of existence.
Oh my god!!! Thank you!!! @thelastaxolotl search is over, lets watch this!
Oh shit I'm not really into movies, but I think a very friendly-for-all-audiences would be Nueve Reinas. It's like a comedy/thriller I think? It's very good and the main theme is an old it*lian pop song that gets in your brain. Also recent-ish hits friendly-for-all are "Relatos Salvajes" and "El Ciudadano Ilustre", but again, I'm not really into movies.
I don't know what the people would enjoy the most: something similar to average hollywood, or something really weird. For example "Esperando la carroza" is great but the main comedic worth is very specific references of argie everyday life, like "grotesque" I think is the name for the "genre".
There's a lot of leftist-themed movies, but those are always depressing as fuck.
I like cantiflas movies mostly because that's what my parents showed me so I'd recommend el padrecito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWR1WVyk6Bw&t=2533s
Watched a bit of it and seems to have a good message.
pls pin, its for movie friday @Zoift @CARCOSA @ella @DashEightMate @KiraNerys @Zangief
El Santo y Blue Demon vs Dracula y el Hombre Lobo :meow-fiesta:
After being defeated by the wizard Cristaldi, Dracula returns to exact revenge on Santo and Blue Demon against Dracula and the Werewolf. With the help of the Werewolf and his followers, victory is imminent. A descendant of the Magician Cistaldi is warned of Dracula's plans and asks Santo and Blue Demon for help.
El Agente Topo: Very recent documentary about and old man that hired by a detective agency and goes undercover to a nursing home to investigate posible crimes. The movie shows the life at nursing homes and it gets really emotional I cried a couple of times watching it
I've got both movies re-encoding with the subtitles baked in, but it looks like cytu.be provides a way to link to subtitle tracks using JSON as well.
I'm going to experiment with this. If I get it working, I can provide links to the hosted files.
Edit:
I figured the JSON shit out. Got non-baked subtitle tracks working in Spanish and English working in Cytu.be.
