When: January 8, 2009 8:00 pm to January 22, 2009 8:00 pm
Where: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas / IFC Center
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas - 1888 Broadway, Manhattan
IFC Center - 323 Avenue of the Americas Manhattan-
Price: $12 
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Ironically the most talked-about American film in the 2008 New York Film Festival is 98% in Spanish. The extra-long film’s controversy began at the Cannes Festival. There were love-hate notices, and considerable doubts about commercial prospects. As consolation the star, Benicio Del Toro, got the Best Actor award there. I’m talking about Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che,’ of course. That’s the name it’s going by in this version, shown in New York as at Cannes in two 2-hour-plus segments without opening title or end credits. ‘Che’ is certainly appropriate since Ernesto “Che” Guevara is in almost every scene. Del Toro is impressive, hanging in reliably through thick and thin, from days of glorious victory in part one to months of humiliating defeat in part two, appealing and simpatico in all his varied manifestations, even disguised as a bald graying man to sneak into Bolivia. It’s a terrific performance; one wishes it had a better setting.

About The Film:

Guerrilla is a 2088 biopic about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro as Che. The film covers Guevara’s attempt to foment revolution in Bolivia, leading to his eventual demise. The film comprises the second half of a two part examination of Guevara’s revolutionary saga, with the first part The Argentine, relating the events of the Cuban revolution.

Both films were screened together at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, as one four hour motion picture entitled Che.