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:

  • 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:

  • 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

  • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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

      • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Pretty banging read as well tbh. "Ready to go and not going", what a line

        • Wertheimer [any]
          ·
          3 years ago

          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.