Rice Cinema to screen three Mexican films this weekend

Rice Cinema will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with a free festival of Mexican films Oct. 22-24.

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The series is free and open to the public and will be shown at Rice Cinema.

The Mexican Revolution Film Series begins Friday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. with “Pueblo de Madera,” a 2007 film by Juan Antonio de la Riva. The director will be on hand to discuss his work.

The following night, also at 7 p.m., the 1949 classic “La Negra Angustias” by Matilde Landeta will be screened.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, Francesco Taboada Tabone’s “Los Ultimos Zapatistas, Heroes Olvidados” (2002) will chronicle the filmmaker’s efforts to find and interview the last surviving soldiers who fought alongside Emiliano Zapata in the 1910 Revolution.

The films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.

The festival is sponsored by the Consulado de México en Houston, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Bank of America, Institute of Hispanic Culture of Houston, city of Houston, Houston Arts Alliance, Rice Cinema and Rice University’s Office of Multicultural Community Relations (a division of Public Affairs) and departments of Hispanic Studies and of Visual and Dramatic Arts.

For more on the films, go to http://ricecinema.rice.edu/Events.aspx.