CineMundo at Main Plaza: ¡Viva Pedro!
Posted by thomas-cummins on 05 Apr 2009 at 03:05 am | Tagged as: upcoming events
| Wed, Apr 15 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
| CineMundo Monthly Foreign Films at Main Plaza Kicks-off April 15th |  |
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| Written by Angela Martinez | |
| Wednesday, 25 February 2009 04:35 | |
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Slab Cinema and The Main Plaza Conservancy are teaming up to present CineMundo, a monthly foreign film series at Main Plaza.
Featuring: ¡Viva Pedro! on April 15, 2009 from 7-9pm. The event commemorates the 55th Anniversary of Pedro Infante’s death with a live mariachi performances of favorite Pedro Infante songs followed by a screening of “La Vida No Vale Nada”. In the film, which won Pedro a 1954 Ariel Best Actor Award, Pedro plays Pablo Galvan, a peasant who goes to the city in search of his fortune. Singer/actor Pedro Infante was 36 when he made this film, and was to die tragically two years later. He loved to fly, and was piloting a B-24 Bomber converted to a cargo plane, when it crashed on April 15, 1957. His popularity continues, making new fans to this day.
Join us May 30 for Cinema Paradiso and June 19th and 20th for CineMundo: India. |
