http://www.tvguide.com/movies/night-falls/135003 The latest on Before Night Falls TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://www.tvguide.com/movies/night-falls/135003 http://video.tvguide.com/ID/822673?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/822673?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/429/018059_22.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Before Night Falls" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and support he receives from his mother (played by the director's wife, Olatz Lopez Garmendia). As a young man, Arenas (Javier Bardem) is singled out by his teachers and encouraged to further his skills as a writer -- no easy task, considering the Castro regime's censorship of any work considered to be subversive or anti-authoritarian. Still, the author manages to smuggle his work out of the country through friends, who arrange for one of his novels to be published in France. Not only persecuted for his creative beliefs, the openly gay Arenas is jailed on a bogus sex charge; he escapes internment only to be captured and persecuted later for his contraband dispatches. In 1980, Arenas is finally allowed to leave Cuba for the Un</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/822673?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:33:59 +0000 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/822673?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/429/018059_22.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="Before Night Falls" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and support he receives from his mother (played by the director's wife, Olatz Lopez Garmendia). As a young man, Arenas (Javier Bardem) is singled out by his teachers and encouraged to further his skills as a writer -- no easy task, considering the Castro regime's censorship of any work considered to be subversive or anti-authoritarian. Still, the author manages to smuggle his work out of the country through friends, who arrange for one of his novels to be published in France. Not only persecuted for his creative beliefs, the openly gay Arenas is jailed on a bogus sex charge; he escapes internment only to be captured and persecuted later for his contraband dispatches. In 1980, Arenas is finally allowed to leave Cuba for the Un</p> Before Night Falls http://www.tvguide.com/listings Get your local listings TV Guide Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:20:55 +0000