I caught "El Violin" on Thursday night at the Milwaukee International Film Festival. After reading the one-paragraph description of it in the MIFF program, I knew it sounded like something that would, ...

MEXICO CITY — It took months, but Mexicans finally are getting to see the movie that some here have called the country’s most socially significant work of cinema in many moons. Even before it arrived ...

From Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot to Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, the juxtaposition of weapon and musical instrument, the gun in the music case, has been potent. The musical instrument is the ...

Filmmaker Francisco Vargas makes his feature-film debut with this expansion of his well-received short film detailing the struggle between the peasants and military in 1970s-era Mexico.

'El Violin' isn't quite as depressing as its opening scenes of rape and torture might lead you to assume, but it's not far off. Its heroes are a group of Mexican rebels who return home from a mission ...

Expanded from an award-winning short, Francisco Vargas’ debut is a superbly judged, neo-realist study of resistance during Mexico’s peasant revolts of the 1970s. Driven from their village, farmer Don ...