Special Screening of ‘EDUARDO AND MÔNICA’ and ‘THE BATWOMAN’ at the Museum of the Moving Image
Join Cinema Tropical for a special projection of the Brazilian film ‘EDUARDO AND MÔNICA’ by Rene Sampaio on Sunday, July 17th at 4pm, and a new digital restoration of the 1968 Mexican film ‘THE BATWOMAN’ by René Cardona on Sunday, July 31st at 5pm. The screenings are part of their ‘Las Premieres’ series at the ‘Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)’ in Astoria, Queens.
EDUARDO AND MÔNICA / EDUARDO E MÔNICA
A film by René Sampaio (Brazil, 2020, 114 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles) With Alice Braga and Gabriel Leone
Sunday, Jul 17 at 4:00 PM: Get your Tickets!
Inspired by the characters Eduardo and Mônica, popularized by the hit song composed by Brazilian rock legend Renato Russo, Sampaio’s feature is a timeless and irresistible romantic comedy set in Brasilia in the mid-1980s. Braga (Queen of the South, City of God) and Leone star as the unlikely couple, a bohemian medical student and a goofy soap opera-loving high schooler, who must overcome seemingly unbridgeable differences for their love to survive.
THE BATWOMAN / LA MUJER MURCIÉLAGO — New Digital Restoration!
(René Cardona, Mexico, 1968, 80 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) Starring Maura Monti, Roberto Cañedo, Héctor Godoy, David Silva, Crox Alvarado, Armando Silvestre, Manuel Capetillo, Ofelia Chávez, and Carlos Suárez.
Sunday, Jul 31 at 5:00 PM: Get your Tickets!
The Mexican Batwoman is a fascinating and fairly unknown addition to the already overwhelmingly superb Batman franchise. Taking advantage of Batman’s increased popularity director Rene Cardona, known later for his luchador (masked wrestler) adventure movies, began working upon a new movie that would showcase the talent of actress Maura Monti by splicing elements of ‘Batmania’ with the popular lucha libre style of Mexico. Under her cape, cowl, boots and bikini the gorgeous Maura takes on the lead role of Batwoman in this 1968 Mexican version. With stunning beauty and crime-fighting finesse she is called to investigate an evil and whacked out scientist who is capturing wrestlers and using their spinal fluid to create a Gill Man.
Screening followed by a Q&A with archivist Viviana García Besné, director of the Permanencia Voluntaria Archive.
The screenings are part of LAS PREMIERES
Presented by Museum of the Moving Image and Cinema Tropical
Co-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and the Mexican Studies Institute at The City University of New York