NOTES
AND REFERENCES
23.BROOKS, Xan, "First
Steps in Latin," The Guardian, July 19, 2002, Internet edition.
24.WAXMAN, Sharon, "Filmmaker's
Road Picture Steers Him Back to His Roots," The Washington Post,
March 4, 2002, pp. C1-C4.
25.
PUIG, Claudia, "Mexico still beckons to these expatriate directors,
USA Today, April 11, 2002, p. 4D.
26."In the US, it
has earned a whopping Dollars 13m (unheard of for an unrated, subtitled
movie). Last week its box office takings of pounds 1.3m confirmed it
as the UK's most successful Spanish-language film ever." BROOKS,
"First Steps in Latin."
27.As of this writing (April
2003), Cuarón still was director of the Harry Potter film, even
though he politicized the movie by equating the evil Lord Voldemort
with both President George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein.
28.For an assessment of
current Mexican cinema, see GARCÍA TSAO, Leonardo, "The
Very Latest in Mexican Cinema," Voices of Mexico, No. 59
(April-June, 2002), pp. 42-49.