Father Geek aqui con un buen articulo for Latin-AICN's regular Tuesday column...

I'm mosmo, and I want to share movie news from Peru with you.

From august 3 to 12 we are going to have the Fifth edition of the Latin American Movie Festival in Lima, Peru. Twenty movies are competing for the Best Picture Award and other prizes. These films are:

- From Argentina: "Nueces para el amor" (Nuts for love) (directed by Alberto Lecchi), "Nueve reinas" (Nine queens) (directed by Fabián Bielinski), and "Plata quemada" (Burned silver) (directed Marcelo Piñeyro)

- From Brasil: "Yo, tú, ellos" (I, you, them) (directed by Andrucha Waddington), "El auto de la compadecida" (The car of the compassionate) (directed by Guell Arraes), and "Villalobos" (directed by Zelito Viana)

- From Chile: "Coronación" (Crowning) (by Silvio Caiozzi), and "Time's up" (by Cecilia Barriga).

- From Colombia: "La toma de la embajada" (The taking of the Embassy) (by Ciro Durán)

- From Cuba: "Hacerse el sueco" (Acting Swedish) (by Daniel Díaz)

- From Haiti: "Lumumba" (by Raoul Peck)

- From Mexico: "La ley de Herodes" (Herode's Law) (by Luis Estrada), "La perdición de los hombres" (Men's perdition) (by Arturo Ripstein), and "Corazones rotos" (Broken hearts) (by Rafael Montero).

- From Peru: "El bien esquivo" (The aloof good, or something like that) (by Augusto Tamayo), "La bala perdida" (The lost bullet) (by Aldo Salvini) (this is a preview, this movie has not been released yet), and "Tinta Roja" (Red Ink) (by Francisco Lombardi).

- From Uruguay: "El viñedo" (The Vineyard) (by Esteban Schroeder), "25 watts" (by Juan P. Rebella and Pablo Stoll), and "Tres noches" (Three nights) (by Fernando Venturini).

I´ll send you more info about the movies as soon as I get it. Bye.

Father Geek back once more. This time with a mini-review from the MIFF film fest in Australia...

The best film of the day was the new one from Tony Gatlif who made "Latcho Drom" called "Vengo".

It was packed full of singing and dancing within an absorbing story of feuding families. Apart from the spectacular singers, musicians and flamenco dancers, the acting is also great, with a particularly good performance from Orestes Villasan Rodriguez who suffers from cerebral palsy.

Definitely have to get the soundtrack of this one.

Well, CineLocos, tengo no cuates, o criticas mas, sooooooooo here's Coffin Joe Jr. and his section of this week's column...

Hey there you freaks, Coffin Joe Jr. is here for another scary edition of Latin-AICN.

Read on or I´ll turn your tongue into a snake! Just kidding, relax I´m not gonna do it. I could. You know, if I wanted to, I could. Really, I could. Yes, I do have the power to do it, but I´m not really in the mood to perform such vicious spells. Still beware of Coffin Joe´s wrath! I´m sorry didn´t mean to scare you, please read the news. Once again, excuse my erratic behavior. I´m sorry. Just read on.

ARGENTINA

-The movie "La Fuga", directed by Eduardo Mignogna and which debuted in Argentina on May 24th, has a special behind-the-scenes program devoted to all aspects of its production, currently airing on the Latin version of the E! Entertainment Television channel. During the half hour show, we see interviews with cast members such as Ricardo Darín ("Nueve Reinas") talking about their characters, a bunch of prisoners who are plotting an escape from an Argentine jail in 1928, and the crew elaborates on the difficulties of pulling off a period film.

USA

-Our spy NAN has another scoop on "Once Upon a Time in Mexico":

"Here's some pictures from the set they appeared in this weeks TV y Novelas magazine."

"NAN"

BRAZIL

-Variety ran an article about the latest movie attached to director Walter Salles ("Central Station"), a remake of Akira Kurosawa´s 1963 thriller "High and Low". Martin Scorsese is one of the producers, and the project is currently at Touchstone/Disney.

The original film was about a wealthy business man who suspects his son has been kidnapped, but later discovers that it´s his driver´s son who has been taken. The man must decide wether or not he risks his life and his business, in order to save the kid.

CANADA

-Lots of cool stuff at Fantasia, the film fest that´s happening up in Montreal. Among the movies being screened you got Coffin Joe´s "This Night I´ll Possess your Corpse" and his drug opus "Awakening of the Beast" in its full uncut glory, a pretty cool slasher pic from Chile called "Angel Negro", and the documentary on Mojica ("Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins") that won an award at Sundance earlier this year.

Besides these Latin offerings, you got the usual coolness from Asia and some new flicks from cult directors such as Scott Reynolds ("The Ugly", "Heaven"), Andrew Parkinson ("I, Zombie"), Larry Fessenden ("Habit") and Maurice Devereaux ("Lady of the Lake").

If I was there I wouldn´t miss Johnnie To´s latest, called "Wu Yen". Have you guys seen To´s previous efforts? "The Mission" or "Running out of Time"? The guy is good.

-These are the feature films scheduled for the 5th edition of the Los Angeles International Latin Film Festival, which started last Friday, July 20th and ends on the 29th:

Argentina:

"Herencia" - Dir: Paule Hernández

"Garaje Olimpo" - Dir: Marco Bechis

"Una noche con Sabrina Love" - Dir: Alejandro Agresti (www.sabrinalove.com.ar)

"Nueces para el amor" - Dir: Albert Lecchi

"Esperando al mesías" - Dir: Daniel Burman

"Cien años de perdón" - Dir: José Glusman

"Botín de guerra" - Dir: David Blaustein

Brazil:

"Amores possíveis" - Dir: Sandra Werneck

"Castelo Rá Tim Bum" - Dir: Cao Hamburguer

Mexico:

"Así es la vida" - Dir: Arturo Ripstein

"La perdición de los hombres" - Dir: Arturo Ripstein

"Perfume de violetas" - Dir: Marisa Sistach

"Su alteza serenísima" - Dir: Felipe Casals

"Por la libre" - Dir: Juan Carlos de Llaca

"Crónica de un desayuno" - Dir: Benjamín Cann

"Corazonas rotos" - Dir: Rafael Montero

"Sin dejar huella" - Dir: María Novaro

"Las caras de la luna" - Dir: Guita Schytfer

Spain:

"Calle 54" - Dir: Fernando Trueba

"Sexo por compasión" - Dir: Laura Mañá

"La espalda del mundo" - Dir: Javier Corcuera

"El corazón del guerrero" - Dir: Daniel Monzón

"Las razones de mis amigos" - Dir: Gerardo Herrera

"El cielo abierto" - Dir: Miguel Albaladejo

"Las cenizas del volcán" - Dir: Pedro Pérez Rosado

US:

"La mujer que todo hombre quiere" - Dir: Gabriela Tagliavini

"The blue diner" - Dir: Jan Egelson

"Zootsuit" - Dir: Luis Valdez

"Living the life" - Dir: Alex Muñoz

"Requiem for a heavyweight" - Dir: Ralph Nelson

"To protect and serve" - Dir: Joseph Perez

"Accordion dreams" - Dir: Hector Galán

Cuba:

"Lista de espera" - Dir: Juan Carlos Taibo

"Spirits of Havana" - Dir: Bay Wayman

"Van van empezó la fiesta" - Dir: Aaron Vega

"Hacerse el sueco" - Dir: Daniel Díaz Torres

Venezuela:

"Manuela Saenz" - Dir: Diego Risquez

"Oro diablo" - Dir: José Ramón Novoa

"Sangrador" - Dir: Leonardo Henríquez

Chile:

"Coronación" - Dir: Silvio Caiozzi

"Tierra del fuego" - Dir: Miguel Littin

"El vecino" - Dir: Juan C. Bustamante

Porto Rico:

"El beso que me diste" - Dir: Sonia Fritz

"Vieques, un largometraje" - Dir: William Nemcik

"Los días de Doris" - Dir: Abdiel Colberg

Peru:

"Pantaleón y las visitadoras" - Dir: Francisco Lombardi

"Tinta roja" - Dir: Francisco Lombardi

Colombia:

"La virgen de los sicarios" - Dir: Barbet Schroeder

I´m done for this week.

Coffin Joe Jr. says: bye.