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      • The film turns public opinion in Villa's favor-- but the charismatic revolutionary never gets to see his star turn on the silver screen. "When you tell people about this story--that there was an American crew filming Pancho Villa in battle, in 1914 in Mexico--they say that's not true, that it is a fantasy, a legend," says Antonio Banderas.
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  1. Nov 6, 2012 · The notion of a contract that called for war to be fought Hollywood-style, in short, is myth–though the did not stop the New York Times from hazarding, on January 8, 1914, that “if Villa wants ...

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  3. Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empire 's press campaign against him.

  4. "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself," actually starring Antonio Banderas, is a new movie from HBO concerning the Mexican revolutionary's strange-but-true brief alliance with the American motion...

  5. Oct 18, 2019 · I know that this film is a modern one (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, 2003, starring Antonio Banderas and Eion Bailey), but I'm more interested in how accurately it depicts the filming of the 1914 silent film The Life of General Villa.

  6. Sep 7, 2003 · And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent. Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.

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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Bruce Beresford
    • 2003-09-07
  7. The movie within the movie conceit allows the claim that Villa appears as himself, so we are led to believe that somehow we are seeing a more accurate Villa than before.

  8. Sep 4, 2003 · By Phil Gallo. In HBO’s “And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself,” Larry Gelbart delivers an ambitious script, based on the true story of a Hollywood film company lensing the pre-WWI Mexican...

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