Actor Andy Garcia has made his mark on American cinema over the last couple of decades in powerful leading and supporting performances alike. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his exceptional turn as Vincent Mancini in Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER PART III, Garcia has also mastered terrific roles in such films as THE UNTOUCHABLES, WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN and all three installments of Steven Soderbergh's OCEAN’S ELEVEN franchise. This year's CITY ISLAND won Garcia critical praise for his nimble comedic chops as the father of a dysfunctional family in the Bronx.
Double Feature: CITY ISLAND, 2009, Anchor Bay Films, 104 min. Dir. Raymond De Felitta. When the Rizzo family patriarch Vince (a hilarious Andy Garcia) brings home an ex-con (Steven Strait), things in la familia get seriously shaken up. It turns out the Rizzos haven’t exactly been forthcoming with each other about their deepest ambitions - case in point, Vince is a corrections officer who secretly aspires to be an actor! [35mm]
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THE LOST CITY, 2005, Magnolia Pictures, 144 min. Andy Garcia directs and stars with Dustin Hoffmann and Ines Sastre in this tale of the Felloves, a Cuban family living in 1950s Havana. It is a time of extreme and violent political unrest as Fidel Castro overthrows the current oppressive ruling system and instates a Marxist regime, and Fico Fellove (Garcia), a nightclub owner, is faced with a decision that could alter the bonds of his family forever. [35mm] Discussion between films with Andy Garcia.
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Added by AmericanCinematheque on January 3, 2011