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    CineLatino Film Festival to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month

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    DENVER --

    The Denver Film Society will host its inaugural CineLatino Film Festival September 25-28 to coincide with Hispanic Heritage month. The four-day long festival will celebrate the best in cinema from Latin America, Mexico, Europe and the United States. CineLatino will kick off Thursday, September 25, at the SieFilmCenter with the film Water & Power with director Richard Montoya in-person for a post screening Q&A.

    The Festival will present eight feature length films, three documentaries and one interactive web series. Highlights include: The Man Behind The Mask, with Lucha Libre star and subject of the film, El Hijo del Santo in person, along with the director, Gabriela Obregon; a special screening of Who Is Dayani Cristal? starring Gael Garcia Bernal; a panel discussion with the Colorado-based ProjectEnye team, Denise Cox and producer Henry Ansbacher; and the Closing Night film, Frontera, staring Eva Longoria, Michael Peña and Ed Harris.

    “The Denver Film Society is excited for CineLatino’s inaugural year. We are planting the seed for a yearly event that becomes part of the cultural tapestry of Denver during Hispanic Heritage month” said Denver Film Society programming manager Ernie Quiroz.

    All-access Festival passes are on sale now. A complete Festival pass to CineLatino is $50 for DFS members and $60 for non-members. The pass includes guaranteed seating to all films, as well as access to all special events, receptions and parties. Visit DenverFilm.org for more information. Individual tickets to CineLatino will go on sale September 1.




    Timothée Chalamet returns to “SNL” as host — and musical guest

    Friday, January 10, 2025
    Timothee Chalamet arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

    Timothée Chalamet will return to "Saturday Night Live" for his third stint as a host — but this time, he'll be pulling double duty.

    NBC announced Friday that comedian Dave Chappelle will host the sketch show Jan. 18, with musical guest GloRilla, while Chalamet will be the host and musical guest on Jan. 25.

    It's Chappelle's fourth time hosting. The trio of announced performers are all in the thick of awards season. Chappelle and GloRilla, one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2024, are each nominated for Grammys at the Feb. 2 show. Chalamet has been nominated for a slew of acting awards for "A Complete Unknown" and is considered a contender for the Oscars, whose nominations will be announced Jan. 19.

    For "A Complete Unknown," Chalamet sang and learned to play the guitar and harmonica to embody Bob Dylan. It's not clear what the actor will sing during the live show (he also sang in "Wonka" and dedicated fans may be hoping for a "Statistics" reprise), but he did previously identify to which Dylan songs he was drawn.

    "I like the more intimate songs like 'Girl From the North Country' or 'Boots of Spanish Leather' or 'One Too Many Mornings' or 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time,'" he told the AP late last year. "But then I also liked 'North Country Blues' and 'Rocks and Gravel' or 'Ballad of Hollis Brown' — things where you hear the iron ore in Bob's voice, the North Country in Minnesota, the Hibbing."

    Dylan himself has appeared on "SNL" — once, as the musical guest, in 1979. Current cast member James Austin Johnson, who portrayed Dylan in a skit earlier this season, briefly appears in "A Complete Unknown."

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