El Mariachi (Cinemax Thursday at 4:40 a.m.)...
El Mariachi (Cinemax Thursday at 4:40 a.m.) is Robert Rodriguez’s sly and hilarious 1992 comedy starring Carloes Gallardo in the title role. He is an itinerant musician who happens into a Mexican border town only to be mistaken for a hit man.
Cabeza de Vaca (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is Nicolas Echeverria’s stunning anti-imperialist telling of an ill-fated 16th-Century Spanish voyage of exploration to Mexico and part of the United States. Juan Diego stars in this 1990 Mexican film.
The Exterminating Angel (El Angel Exterminador) (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.) is one of Luis Bunuel’s most inspired attacks on bourgeois morality; the guests at a swanky dinner party find themselves unable to leave--ever. Silvia Pinal stars. Made in Mexico in 1962.
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