Even before it arrived in theaters here at the beginning of May, “El violin” (The Violin), the debut feature by writer-director Francisco Vargas, had been showered with more than 30 ...

Even before it arrived in theaters here at the beginning of May, “El violin” (The Violin), the debut feature by writer-director Francisco Vargas, had been showered with more than 30 ...

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 ...

Gregor Huebner's latest CD is not so much an album as a travel narrative. On "El Violin Latino" (Timba). The German violinist and composer, who makes his home in Harlem, retraces the evolution of ...

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 ...

Mexican director Francisco Vargas Quevedo‘s “The Violin” (El violin) won the San Francisco International Film Festival‘s Skyy Prize, while Israeli duo Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat‘s ...

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.

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 ...