And while the programming of the 58th edition of the Muestra is not as attractive as it should have been, it brings several
important films for the first time to Mexico City, so I'm highlighting five of them.
Not exact matches
For the
first time in over a decade, all the major
film studios including Paramount, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Disney (and their partners at DreamWorks, Marvel Entertainment and Pixar) and Universal were represented at CinemaCon 2012, the annual convention of NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) that is the largest and most
important gathering of cinema owners and operators from around the world.
As with any Apatow - produced flick, the runtime is overlong and the amount of improv often derails any momentum, but
for the
first time in the run of
films produced by the man, that momentum is incredibly
important: in action cinema, tension and pace is required to make things exciting, but Pineapple Express forgets about that so its characters can sit around smoking weed and saying silly things another four or five
times.
«X-Men,» more than any other
film, is responsible
for the glut of superhero movies we now have — the
film was the
first in a long
time to treat the source material with respect (after the 90s «Batman» movies and things like «The Phantom,» this proved
important), and showed that they could work without A-list stars, with the property doing the heavy lifting.
For the
first time, experience the world's most
important art exhibition through a series of 360 °
films produced by Scenic in collaboration with UBS.
For the
first time in the US, these
important video works spanning a 25 year history of collaborations between contemporary dance, movement, and visual art with
film and video were shown.