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LOS ANGELES - EntSun -- The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA) proudly co-presents the special virtual screening of American Spanish-language classic film Verbena trágica (Block Party), starring late actor, Fernando Soler (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812937/?ref_=tt_cl...), remembered among the Golden Age of Mexican cinema's greatest.
The free streaming of Verbena trágica is co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and will be available on Thursday May 13, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. PDT.
This live screening of the film will be followed by a conversation with Latina/o media and art and Latin American cinema historian Colin Gunckel and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television lecturer Maria Elena de las Carreras, who both served as curators for the Archive's 2017 program, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles.
The conversation will be moderated by Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles program manager and screenwriter Guido Segal.
"Prolific filmmaker Charles Lamont – known before and after Verbena trágica for his comedy shorts and features - Charley Chase and Three Stooges for Columbia, and later Abbott and Costello vehicles – showed his flair for comedic touches, especially in the recurring gag of Mamita slapping her teenage son Pepito (Jorge Mari) for no good reason. Song numbers by Pilar Arcos, a renowned singer and wife of Fortunio Bonanova, of Citizen Kane opera singing fame, and Sergio de Karlo soften the tragedy but stop short of turning it into the Mexican-style melodrama that could have been expected," shared Maria Elena de las Carreras, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television lecturer.
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Register here to watch VERBENA TRÁGICA (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/verbena-tragica-registration-151231801389)
Cantabria Films' Verbena trágica second independent production (the first being La Vida Bohemia, 1938) was very successful in the cinemas of Los Angeles' Mexican neighborhoods, although the narrative takes place in New York City's Spanish Harlem.
On the eve of Columbus Day celebrations, the boxer Mateo (Fernando Soler) returns home from a stint in prison and realizes that his wife is pregnant, and he can't be the father. His wife Blanca (Luana de Alcañiz) has in fact been having a secret affair with her sister Lola's fiancé, Claudio (Juan Torena). Mateo confronts his wife, but she refuses to name the father, leading to tragic results. Produced at the Grand National Studios, Mexican actor Fernando Soler is playing against type, earning him kudos from the Spanish-language press.
Other actors come from Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, making Verbena trágica an ode to New York's diverse Latino community.
Noteworthy to mention is that this film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996, click her to see this validating clip on the Los Angeles Times (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20039043/la-verbena-tragica-1939-national/).
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B&w, in Spanish with English subtitles, 85 min. Director: Charles Lamont. Screenwriter: Jean Bart, Miguel de Zárraga. With: Fernando Soler, Luana de Alcañiz, Juan Torena. Note adapted from text written by Jan-Christopher Horak in 2017.
Verbena trágica
Block Party
U.S., 1939
The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles' 2021 programs are made possible with funds from Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles, LA County Arts Commission, HFPA, Bal- Sol Enterprises.
The free streaming of Verbena trágica is co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and will be available on Thursday May 13, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. PDT.
This live screening of the film will be followed by a conversation with Latina/o media and art and Latin American cinema historian Colin Gunckel and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television lecturer Maria Elena de las Carreras, who both served as curators for the Archive's 2017 program, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles.
The conversation will be moderated by Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles program manager and screenwriter Guido Segal.
"Prolific filmmaker Charles Lamont – known before and after Verbena trágica for his comedy shorts and features - Charley Chase and Three Stooges for Columbia, and later Abbott and Costello vehicles – showed his flair for comedic touches, especially in the recurring gag of Mamita slapping her teenage son Pepito (Jorge Mari) for no good reason. Song numbers by Pilar Arcos, a renowned singer and wife of Fortunio Bonanova, of Citizen Kane opera singing fame, and Sergio de Karlo soften the tragedy but stop short of turning it into the Mexican-style melodrama that could have been expected," shared Maria Elena de las Carreras, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television lecturer.
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Register here to watch VERBENA TRÁGICA (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/verbena-tragica-registration-151231801389)
Cantabria Films' Verbena trágica second independent production (the first being La Vida Bohemia, 1938) was very successful in the cinemas of Los Angeles' Mexican neighborhoods, although the narrative takes place in New York City's Spanish Harlem.
On the eve of Columbus Day celebrations, the boxer Mateo (Fernando Soler) returns home from a stint in prison and realizes that his wife is pregnant, and he can't be the father. His wife Blanca (Luana de Alcañiz) has in fact been having a secret affair with her sister Lola's fiancé, Claudio (Juan Torena). Mateo confronts his wife, but she refuses to name the father, leading to tragic results. Produced at the Grand National Studios, Mexican actor Fernando Soler is playing against type, earning him kudos from the Spanish-language press.
Other actors come from Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, making Verbena trágica an ode to New York's diverse Latino community.
Noteworthy to mention is that this film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996, click her to see this validating clip on the Los Angeles Times (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20039043/la-verbena-tragica-1939-national/).
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B&w, in Spanish with English subtitles, 85 min. Director: Charles Lamont. Screenwriter: Jean Bart, Miguel de Zárraga. With: Fernando Soler, Luana de Alcañiz, Juan Torena. Note adapted from text written by Jan-Christopher Horak in 2017.
Verbena trágica
Block Party
U.S., 1939
The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles' 2021 programs are made possible with funds from Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles, LA County Arts Commission, HFPA, Bal- Sol Enterprises.
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