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Welcome to El Cine Underground — where we expose the film游戏副本 they left us out of. We don’t just watch movies — we dissect the culture, decode the media, all through the Latin lens. We’re here for deep cuts and the movies you never knew existed. Cinema in focus, culture in every frame. Produ游戏副本 & Edited by Angel I. Salinas. Creator & Host: Mariana Da Silva
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- Dec 31, 202535 min
EP. 10 | Ending the Season Hungry: On Macario and Eating The Whole Turkey.
Closing out the year — and our first season — with Macario (1960). A film about hunger, dignity, death, and what it costs to ask for one moment to yourself in a world that demands everything. Macario reminds us that life and death sit at the same table, that poverty is never a moral failure, and that even the smallest desire can feel radical when you’ve been taught to endure in silence. As the year ends, may we remember this lesson:don’t be ashamed to eat the whole turkey — but don’t forget to feed those around you, too. Gracias for traveling through Latin cinema with us this season.This is just the beginning.Nos vemos en el cine.' Produced & Edited by Angel I. Salinas. Creator & Host: Mariana Da Silva SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Dec 31, 202538 min
EP. 9 | A Technicolor Navidad
In this holiday episode, El Cine Underground dives into Latin Christmas cinema through Mi Niño Tizoc (1972), Santa Claus vs. The Devil (1952), and The Shepherd’s Tale (1991). We explore Indigenous representation, the origins and symbolism of Posadas, Chicano religious imagery, and the contradictions at the heart of Catholic holiday storytelling. These films blend cultural critique, absurdity, and feel-good sentiment with a Mary Blair–esque sense of color, whimsy, and dreamlike holiday magic. Plus: details on our in-person screening at the Philosophical Research Society on October 19. Produced & Edited by Angel I. Salinas. Creator & Host: Mariana Da Silva SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Nov 26, 202538 min
EP. 8 | Noirvember: But Make It Latin
Holiday downtime hits different when you spend it in the shadows…For Noirvember, we’re taking you on a cross-continental descent into Latin Noir: Mexico’s political glamour, Hollywood’s dusty borderlands, and Argentina’s elegant revenge. Three films. Three countries. Three flavors of darkness. If you need a break from family, daylight, or holiday cheer…step into the shadows with us. 🎥 Another Dawn (1943)🎥 Border Incident (1949)🎥 The Beast Must Die (1952) Produced & Edited by Angel I. Salinas. Creator & Host: Mariana Da Silva SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Nov 13, 202540 min
EP. 7 | Brazilian Cinema: How Brazil Found God in the Camera
Brazilian cinema wasn’t built for comfort—it was built for survival.A handcuffed woman lost at sea (Limite), a drunk confessing to God (O Ébrio), a peasant mistaking a prophet for salvation (Black God, White Devil).Three stories. One heartbeat.Art made under pressure, faith filmed under dictatorship. This week on El Cine Underground: when silence, faith, and revolt all speak the same cinematic language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 29, 202539 min
Ep . 6 | The Devil Wears a Top Hat: Coffin Joe’s Brazil
The Devil Wears a Top Hat: Coffin Joe’s BrazilThis week, El Cine Underground descends into the world of Brazil’s most infamous horror icon — Zé do Caixão, known to the world as Coffin Joe. Created — and lived — by filmmaker José Mojica Marins, Coffin Joe is the undertaker who mocked God, tormented women, and became a national legend in the process. Watching these films wasn’t easy. They’re brutal, blasphemous, and often cruel — and as a woman, sitting through them felt like opening an old wound. But vulnerability is part of the work. As filmmaker Lourdes Portillo once said, “If you are going to document a culture, it is your responsibility to show the good and the bad.” Coffin Joe is both. He’s what happens when art, ego, and dictatorship collide — when horror becomes the only language left to tell the truth. Step inside the coffin. The Devil Wears a Top Hat: Coffin Joe’s Brazil — streaming now on El Cine Underground. Created by and hosted by Mariana Da Silva Produced and edited by Angel I. Salinas SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory #IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews #BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting #FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations #FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms #GenreDeepDive #CultMovies Presented by El Cine — where Latin cinema meets rebellion and reverence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 8, 202541 min
EP. 5 | Guillermo del Toro: Birth of a Monster Maker
Guillermo del Toro once said, “If you look back at your life and nothing has changed, something is wrong. Sanity is change.” In this episode, we return to Guadalajara — to the messy, inspired beginnings of one of cinema’s greatest visionaries. Before Pan’s Labyrinth or The Shape of Water, a young del Toro was making short films like Geometría in cramped rooms, experimenting with latex, blood, and the beauty of the grotesque. Birth of a Monster Maker traces how those early experiments held the DNA of everything to come: the monsters built by hand, the mythology stitched with Catholic guilt, and the obsession with finding tenderness inside terror. It’s the story of how Guillermo del Toro learned to speak through his creatures — and how he turned horror into empathy, and cinema into sanctuary. by Angel I. Salinas SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory #IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews #BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting #FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations #FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms #GenreDeepDive #CultMovies Presented by El Cine — where Latin cinema meets rebellion and reverence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 25, 202539 min
EP.4 | Whose Story Is It? Cuban Cinema, Identity & Authorship
What makes a film truly Cuban? Can a story told by outsiders still belong to the culture it portrays? In this episode, we dive into Cuban cinema through Soy Cuba, Memories of Underdevelopment, and Le Salut Cubain—films that blur the line between authenticity and appropriation. From revolutionary propaganda to intimate portraits of identity, these works force us to ask: who gets to tell a nation’s story, and at what cost? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 10, 202543 min
EP.3 | Cuban Cinema: Myth or Memoria
Cuba’s revolutionary cinema isn’t just history—it’s an act of rebellion, shot in stark black and white and alive with the tension between power and freedom. These films expose how control—bullied in by governments or disguised as love—chokes our ability to live fully. Want to watch them? Lucía is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel JustWatchThe Criterion Collection. Death of a Bureaucrat can be watched for free on the Internet Archive Internet Archive. This week we dive into how Cuban cinema taught us that real revolution—whether in society or in intimacy—begins when we refuse to let anyone, no matter how ‘well-meaning’, tell us who to be. Listen in and step into the frame of resistance. Created and Hosted by Mariana Da Silva Prouduced and Edited by Angel I. Salinas SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. #FilmReview #MovieAnalysis #CinemaHistory #IndieFilms #FilmCriticism #DirectorInterviews #BehindTheScenes #FilmCulture #Screenwriting #FilmFestivals #MovieRecommendations #FilmTheory #MovieTrivia #ClassicFilms#FilmIndustry #DocumentaryFilms #GenreDeepDive #CultMovies #FilmSoundtrack #LatinCinema #LatinFilmHistory#LatinFilmCulture #LatinxCinema #CinemaLatino #LatinFilmLegacy #LatinxFilmmakers #LatinScreenStories#LatinFilmPodcast #LatinFilmVoices #LatinFilmCritique #LatinxDirectors #LatinCinemaUncovered #LatinFilmDeepDive #CinemaDeLatinoamérica #LatinFilmDiscussion #LatinxFilmCommunity #LatinCinemaNow #LatinFilmReel #UndergroundLatinCinema #CineLatino #RaícesDelCine #LatinxCinema #CulturaEnPantalla #CineConSabor #HistoriasLatinas #LatinoFilmmakers #CineIndependiente #VocesLatinas #CineDeRaíz #CulturaYReel#LatinxDirectors #PantallaLatina #CineSubterráneo #NarrativasLatinas #CineConIdentidad #CinemaLatinoamericano#HistoriasEnPantalla #ReelLatino #CineAuténtico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
About El Cine Underground
Welcome to El Cine Underground — where we expose the film游戏副本 they left us out of. We don’t just watch movies — we dissect the culture, decode the media, all through the Latin lens. We’re here for deep cuts and the movies you never knew existed. Cinema in focus, culture in every frame. Produ游戏副本 & Edited by Angel I. Salinas. Creator & Host: Mariana Da Silva
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