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| Title: | Alsino y el condor / Alsino and the condor |
| Director: | Miguel Littín |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (89 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | Beverly Hills, Calif. : Pacific Arts Video, c1983 |
| Language: | Spanish and English dialogue, English subtitles.
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| Notes: | un film de Miguel Littín ; productor ejecutivo, Hernan Littín ; dirección, Miguel Littín. Writers, Isadora Aguirre, Miguel Littin, Thomás Pérez Turrent; original music, Leo Brouwer; cinematography, Jorde Herrera, Pablo Martínez. Performer Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster.
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| Plot: | "Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict"--IMDb plot summary.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Nicaragua. Central America. History. 1951-1979. United States. Foreign relations. Central America. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Carla's song |
| Director: | Ken Loach |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (127 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, c1998. |
| Language: | English with optional soundtrack in Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996. Shadow Distribution presents a Channel Four Films production of a Parallax Picture producction ; directed by Ken Loach. Performer Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn. Credits Edited by Jonathan Morris ; sound by Ray Beckett ; photography by Barry Ackroyd ; music by George Fenton.
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| Plot: | George, a Glasgow bus driver risks his job by giving a free ride to a beautiful Nicaraguan woman with no money. From the moment he sees her, he becomes infatuated. He finds her a place to live and learns that her boyfriend has probably been killed by the Contras. George accompanies her to Nicaragua where he helps her come to terms with her past, and at the same time, discovers more about himself.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Nicaragua. Nicaraguans -- Scotland -- Glasgow . |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Después del terremoto /
After the earthquake |
| Director: | Lourdes Portillo |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (23 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 1/2 in |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2000 |
| Language: | Dialogue and subtitles in English and Spanish
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| Notes: | Videocassette release of the 1979 motion picture by the American Film Institute. American Film Institute. Producer, Lourdes Portillo; written and directed by Lourdes Portillo, Nina Serrano; editor, Lynn Hamrick; cinematographer, Stephen Lighthill. Participants: Vilma Coronado, Angelo Guzmzan, Leticia Cortez, Themilda Leiva, Maria Reyes.
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| Plot: | A young Central American woman living in the United States is joined by her fiancé who is escaping the political situation in his homeland. The different courses their lives have taken call into question their values and their engagement.
Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano made this film about a Nicaraguan woman who migrates to San Francisco after the Nicaraguan earthquake of 1976.
Read the following article about this short film:
"Differential Consciousness" in Despues del Terremoto
by Rosa Linda Fregoso
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Short films. United States. Nicaragua. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Under fire |
| Director: | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 2 hr., 8 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 2001. |
| Language: | Dialogue in English with optional French soundtrack, and with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
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| Notes: | 2001 videodisc release of the 1983 motion picture. A Lion's Gate film ; an Orion Pictures release ; produced by Jonathan Taplin ; directed by Roger Spottiswoode ; screenplay by Ron Shelton and Clayton Frohman ; story by Clayton Frohman. Performer Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy.
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| Plot: | The final days of Somoza's Nicaragua as witnessed and experienced by three American journalists.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Nicaragua -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Walker |
| Director: | Alex Cox |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) |
| Imprint: | New York: Criterion Collection, 2007 |
| Language: | English
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| Notes: | Originally produced in 1987. Universal ; written by Rudy Wurlitzer ; directed by Alex Cox ; an Edward R. Pressman production in association with Incine ; producer, Angel Flores Marini ; produced by Lorenzo O'Brien ; a film by Alex Cox ; Walker Film Production, Inc. Director of photography, David Bridges; editors, Carlos Puente & Alex Cox; music composed by Joe Strummer. Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Sy Richardson, Xander Berkeley, John Diehl, Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval, Marlee Matlin. Special features: commentary soundtrack with director Cox and screenwriter Wurlitzer; "Dispatches from Nicaragua," a making-of featurette; "On moviemaking and the Revolution," a featurette with reminiscences twenty years later from an extra on the film; "The immortals,' photo gallery.
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| Plot: | The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Nicaragua. Filibusters. Walker, William, 1824-1860 |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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