Well, Latin-AICN fans Father Geek is here with LOBO's special report on AMORES PERROS and the coming Academy Awards. LOBO told me about this film months ago, he was excited about the groups used in the soundtrack. Later we got rave reviews from CANNES, then VENICE, and other festivals all over the world. When I was in Mexico City at the end of August there were street corner pirate VHS dealers everywhere. I figured a cool present for my future son-in-law would be a tape of the film. Every dealer I approached was sold out so I had to settle on other current release Mexican motion pictures on the below list instead. Then on Father Geek's last day in the largest city in the Western Hemisphere I ran across the 2 CD soundtrack for AMORES PERROS. LOBO lit up when I presented it to him on my return to Austin... now on to his current report on the flick...

AMORES PERROS (LOVE IS A BITCH) on the way to the Oscars...

Que onda Cinemaniacos, niÑos y niÑas, here I am one more time bringing you the latest information about the film that will represent Mexico at the Oscars ceremony in the Best Foreign Film category. In this report I have one more time the list that has all of the films that were competing for this opportunity and off course I also have the winner that goes straight to the Oscars and hopefully it will get nominated.. So vamos a ver quien es .....

Here is the list from where the selection was made by the AMACC...

1. Amores perros de Alejandro González Iñárritu

2. Ave María de Eduardo Rossoff

3. Bajo California: el límite del tiempo de Carlos Bolado

4. Crónica de un desayuno de Benjamín Cann

5. En un claroscuro de la luna de Sergio Olhovich

6. Por la libre de Juan Carlos de Llaca

7. Rito Terminal de Oscar Urrutia

8. Todo el poder de Fernando Sariñana

9. Un dulce olor a muerte de Gabriel Retes

And the one that got selected is "AMORES PERROS" (LOVE IS A BITCH), so with this I have to say it one more time, they have done it again and I wish the film the best of luck to be in the nominations..

Here is what I got today from my friends at the AMACC in Mexico...

La Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC), constituida en Comisión de Premiación, seleccionó en su 11ª Asamblea General Ordinaria, la película Amores perros, dirigida por Alejandro González Iñárritu y producida por Altavista Films, para participar en la categoría de Mejor Película de Lengua Extranjera, en la 73ª. Entrega Anual de los Premios OSCAR, que otorga la Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

AMORES PERROS (LOVE IS A BITCH)

Dirección: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Productor: Francisco González Compean

Guión: Guillermo Arriaga

Fotografía: Rodrigo Prieto

Edición: Luis Carballar, Fernando Pérez Unda y Alejandro González Iñárritu

Música: Gustavo Santaolalla

Sonido: Martín Hernández

Diseño de Arte: Brigitte Broch

Elenco: Emilio Echevarría (El chivo); Gael García Bernal (Octavio); Goya Toledo (Valeria); Álvaro Guerrero (Daniel); Vanessa Bauche (Susana)

This film my friends has been on tour all over the world in a lot of Film Festivals and has gotten a lot of awards. AMORES PEROS started the prize collection at the Cannes festival this year and since then it just keeps growing, winning prize after prize. I really wish for Alejandro Gonzalez and crew the best on this one..

Well Cinelocos this is it and if you want to know more about this film including reviews, check the previous LATIN-AICN reports or visit their site By Clicking Here where you can see a trailer.....so I'll see you later and for right now I am just going to wait on that other result ...