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Rivera is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. It is located at the north end of Route 5, on the border with Brazil. The Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento is right across the border, only a street away of it. Together they form an international city of around 200,000 inhabitants.
On 7 May 1862 the town Pueblo de Ceballos was created in honour of the Spanish viceroy Pedro de Cevallos,. In July 1867 it took on the official name Rivera and was recognized as a city. The Brazilian town Santana do Livramento already existed just across the border.
In 1943, the Plaza Internacional Rivera-Livramento (see photo) was built to celebrate the Fifth Conference of the Commission Mixta for Mixed Limits and as a hope for the future integration of the two towns, claimed to be the only international square in the world. From 1851 to this day, inhabitants of both communities are free to move in both sides. Customs and checkpoints are located outside the cities. Today, duty free shops are one of the main economic resources of Rivera.
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) better known simply as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929–1939 and 1940–1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, to a well-to-do family. Rivera was descended from Spanish nobility on his father's side. Diego had a twin brother named Carlos, who died two years after they were born. From the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He was sponsored to continue study in Europe by Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, the governor of the State of Veracruz. His mother was a Converso, a Jew whose ancestors had been forced to convert to Catholicism. Speaking about himself, Rivera wrote in 1935 "My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life.
Actors: Richard Brundage (actor), Bristol Pomeroy (actor), Franklyn (director), Franklyn (producer), Franklyn (editor), Benjamin Bauman (actor), Lauren Kelston (actress), Gary Keshner (actor), Gary Keshner (actor), Cheryl Brubaker (actress), Greg Tucker (miscellaneous crew), Dean Barry (producer), Dean Barry (editor), Dean Barry (actor), Mike Strachan (actor),
Plot: Allison Roberts travels to and from work, dulled by medication to suppress hallucinations. So isolated, her hallucinations become her only companion in life, in the form of a four foot tall cow man named Moo. Aside from Moo, Allison takes care of her aging father but tonight is her birthday and she is going to go out for a change. After a terrible and embarrassing night, Allison is mugged by a desperate man with a gun named Diggs Iggins. Later on, while going through her purse, he realizes it's her birthday and feels terrible. He returns Allison's belongings but unfortunately, for both of them, involves her in his escape from mobsters, who are looking for a stolen bag containing... half a million dollars. Allison against her better judgment finds Diggs endearing and begins to form a bond with this stranger who has shaken up her life. Although running for his life, Diggs, shows an uncommon interest in Allison and doesn't let her out of his sight. Through a series of events, they begin to realize that their lives and the lives of everyone they knew have been deeply intertwined. Dark secrets and family lies begin to surface as they become increasingly more dependent on each other to survive. Diggs, unaware of Allison's ailments and Allison, completely unaware of what is going on, are being chased through what will be... their last night in Brooklyn.
Keywords: brooklyn-new-york-city, gangster, love, money, new-york-city, revengeActors: Lawrence Bender (producer), Leonor Varela (actress), Frances Barber (actress), Elizabeth Peña (actress), Rutger Hauer (actor), Miriam Colon (actress), Garry Marriott (actor), Carmelo Gómez (actor), Stephen Dillane (actor), Sean Pertwee (actor), David Beckham (actor), Nick Cannon (actor), Luis Callejo (actor), Andy Stephens (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Warbeck (composer),
Genres: Drama, Sport,Actors: Andrei Boncea (producer), Andy Garcia (producer), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Andrei Boncea (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Elsa Zylberstein (actress), Udo Kier (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Ernest Maftei (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Guy Farley (composer),
Plot: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, modigliani, montparnasse, one-word-titleActors: Karl Pruner (actor), Raoul Bhaneja (actor), Raoul Bhaneja (actor), Allegra Fulton (actress), Pedro Guevara Mann (actor), Bob DerKach (composer), Brenda Longfellow (writer), Brenda Longfellow (director), Tanja Jacobs (actress), Murat Akser (miscellaneous crew), Arturo Fresolone (actor), Normahilda Castanares (producer), David McIntosh (producer), Tania Cabagne (actress), Humberto Pineda (actor),
Plot: Using reenactments, newsreel footage, and photographs, Longfellow tells the story of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), from 1920 when she's living in LA with artist Robo Richey to the assassination of her lover Julio Metta in 1929. She goes to Mexico in 1921 as Weston's companion, gets her first camera in 1924, and becomes an artistic photographer and a photojournalist, later a member of the Communist Party. Her beauty, liaisons, politics, and friendships with Rivera and other Mexican intellectuals are part of the story. But it is her observations, her journals, and her photographs - as well as those Weston took of her - that are the focus of the story.
Keywords: 1920s, adultery, aloneness, anarchist, anti-fascism, arrest, art, assassination, bare-breasts, benito-mussoliniActors: Patricia Reyes Spíndola (actress), Julie Weiss (costume designer), Salma Hayek (actress), Valeria Golino (actress), Ashley Judd (actress), Salma Hayek (producer), Saffron Burrows (actress), Edward Norton (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Diego Luna (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Mark Amin (producer),
Plot: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, accident, adulterous-wife, adultery, amusement-park, art, art-exhibition, art-modelActors: Claudia Ferri (actress), Philippe Ralet (editor), Claude Despins (actor), André Leduc (director), Frida Kahlo (actress), Bernar Hébert (producer), Aurora Lescale (producer), Julie Aubé (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Paul Giamatti (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Kyle Gass (actor), Peter Fernandez (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), John Cusack (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Carl Burrows (actor), Jack Black (actor), Rubén Blades (actor), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Barnard Hughes (actor),
Plot: In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.
Keywords: 1930s, actor, actress, anti-communist, art, artist, bare-breasts, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beaverActors: Brian Keane (composer), Philip Bosco (actor), Steven Culp (actor), Julio Medina (actor), Rosanna DeSoto (actress), Donald Symington (actor), Margaret Hall (actress), Ted Sorel (actor), Ron Parady (actor), Mary Lance (director), Mary Lance (producer), Sara Fishko (editor), Eric Breitbart (writer), Eric Breitbart (producer), John Hutton (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Sergio Jiménez (actor), Miguel Gómez Checa (actor), Alfredo Gutiérrez (actor), Aarón Hernán (actor), Eduardo Alcaraz (actor), Eric del Castillo (actor), Guillermo Gil (actor), Arturo Benavides (actor), Armando Araiza (actor), Claudio Brook (actor), Raúl Araiza (actor), Jorge Fegán (actor), José Alonso (actor), Manuel López Ochoa (actor), Sergio Barrios (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War,Actors: Rafael Castanedo (editor), Bruno Bichir (actor), Gina Morett (actress), Claudio Brook (actor), Salvador Sánchez (actor), Paul Leduc (director), Ofelia Medina (actress), Paul Leduc (writer), Max Kerlow (actor), Pedro Altamirano (actor), Odiseo Bichir (actor), Juan Ángel Martínez (actor), Manuel Barbachano Ponce (producer), Juan José Gurrola (actor), Paloma Woolrich (actress),
Plot: The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.
Keywords: amputee, artist, mexican-history, muralism, polio, radical, wheelchair