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After winning his first Golden Globe for his performance in “Mozart in the Jungle,” Gael García Bernal is set to direct his first episode for the Amazon series. The Tracking Board reports that the actor will direct the third season finale.

Inspired by oboist Blair Tindall’s memoir “Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music,” Season 3 will continue the story of the talented musicians who perform under the baton of the brilliant New York Symphony conductor Rodrigo (García Bernal), and follow them as they take a trip to Europe. The second season took a look at labor relations and questioned whether classical music was dead and, if not, what was its future.

Read More: ‘Zorro’ Reboot: Jonás Cuarón to Write and Direct, Gael García Bernal to Star in ‘Z’

Earlier this year, “Mozart in the Jungle” also took home its first Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Comedy.

With a docu J.C. Chavez (2007), a short Revolución (2010) and his feature film under his belt – Abel (Sundance ’10), full fledged actor-filmmaker-producer Diego Luna’s sophomore, $10 million production began filming in April and is will most likely be in distributor Participant Media’s wishes to release the film at a socially conscious festival. Park City happens to be the lieu where Luna premiered Abel and countless other items as an actor, so we’re thinking an early fest 2013 premiere is in the cards for Chavez. The mostly English project features Rosario Dawson, Gabriel Mann, America Ferrera and Michael Peña in the lead role (see pic above).

Gist: Written by Keir Pearson, the inspirational story of Cesar Chavez, the celebrated Mexican American activist who, at great personal cost, put the shameful treatment of his fellow field workers on the map. He took their cause to the powerful Californian land-owners, the state government and beyond.

Critics' Week has already begun celebrating its 50th anniversary by posting 50 video interviews with directors and actors who've seen their work debut in this section at Cannes. We're celebrating, too. In association with the 4+1 Film Festival, Mubi is presenting a retrospective of some of the greatest films first seen in Critics' Week over the past half-century. And even though the first 1000 views of each of the films will be free to you, the viewer, the rights holders will carry on receiving their duly earned revenue.

The retrospective encompasses over 100 titles in all, but please do keep in mind that rights issues can get complicated and not every film can be available in every country. That said, here's a quick overview of just some of the highlights:

Over in the Garage, a La Semaine Blogathon is already on the roll, starting with Kj Farrington's entry on Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know,...

Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson

(from the 2010 AFI Fest)

Directed by: Diego Luna

Written by: Diego Luna and August Mendoza

Starring: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Gerardo Ruíz-Esparza, José María Yazpik, Karina Gidi and Geraldine Alejandra

Following his short contribution to “Revolución,” Mexican actor Diego Luna makes his feature film directorial debut with this family drama about a boy who thinks he’s someone he isn’t. His delusion is revealed gradually and seems harmless . until it’s not.

After two years in a psychiatric ward for women in provincial Aguascalientes, it’s time for nine-year-old Abel (Christopher Ruíz-Esparza) to transfer to a children’s hospital in Mexico City. Before he goes, though, his mother Cecilia (Karina Gidi) convinces his doctor to let her take him home for a week, despite his violent episodes and refusal to speak. She hopes she’ll be able to prove he can behave and she can take care...

Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson

(from the 2010 AFI Fest)

Directed by: Diego Luna

Written by: Diego Luna and August Mendoza

Starring: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Gerardo Ruíz-Esparza, José María Yazpik, Karina Gidi and Geraldine Alejandra

Following his short contribution to “Revolución,” Mexican actor Diego Luna makes his feature film directorial debut with this family drama about a boy who thinks he’s someone he isn’t. His delusion is revealed gradually and seems harmless . until it’s not.

After two years in a psychiatric ward for women in provincial Aguascalientes, it’s time for nine-year-old Abel (Christopher Ruíz-Esparza) to transfer to a children’s hospital in Mexico City. Before he goes, though, his mother Cecilia (Karina Gidi) convinces his doctor to let her take him home for a week, despite his violent episodes and refusal to speak. She hopes she’ll be able to prove he can behave and she can take care...

[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Christine Davila's take on the Best in Mexican Cinema in 2010.] To be clear, this is a list of Mexican films which either: traveled far in the 2010 film festival front, were critically acclaimed, received a healthy theatrical run, and which I consider the strongest celluloid among the Mexican narrative feature film trenches from where I culled and screened deep. Okay maybe not that deep, considering there are only about 100 feature narrative films produced in Mexico a year. But given that figure, this small percentage illustrates a strong dose of diversity and range of genre, budget, but more importantly original strong stories and voices. Before I begin....one special mention goes out to REVOLUCIÓN by Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, Fernando Eimbcke, Mariana Chenillo, Patricia Riggen, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Garcia, and Rodrigo Plá. The first time I ever heard use of the word Portmanteau was when this movie starting popping up at festivals beginning with the world premiere...

Despicable Me

Loved this movie. It's really funny but also sweet and touching. Pixar watch your back.

Extras include:

Commentary with directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, featuring the MinionsGRU-control: Through a picture-in-picture window, see the making of the film with behind-the-scenes footage and cast/filmmaker interviews (Bd-exclusive)The World of Despicable MeDespicable Beats: director Chris Renaud talks about the work of renowned music producer Pharrell WilliamsGru's Rocket Builder GameA Global Effort: learn all about the global effort behind Despicable Me, A director from France and another from the USA, plus an American and English cast created a movie in France, with artists from all over the world for a truly international movieThree all new shorts starring the Minions: "Home Makeover" "Orientation Day" "Banana"The Voices of Despicable MeSuper Silly Fun Land GameMiss Hattie's Top Secret Cookie Recipes The Other Guys

Adam McKay's send up of the buddy cop genre looks hilarious.

After some delays with production, everything's starting to piece back together for the upcoming film "Albert Nobbs." Amanda Seyfriend and Orlando Bloom originally were going to be part of the project but not anymore. In their place is "The Kids are All Right" actress Mia Wasikowska and "Nowhere Boy" star Aaron Johnson. You want to talk about a pretty cool upgrade. The project will be directed by "In Treatment" and "Revolución" director Rodrigo García. "Albert Nobbs" is written by John Banville and Glenn Close who will also be serving as producer. The film centers around Glenn Close’s title character – a woman in 19th century Ireland who disguises herself as a man in order to survive and work but whose deception leads her to an unusual love triangle.You can next see Wasikowska on the big screen in the romantic drama "Jane Eyre," out in theaters this March 11th, 2011. Also,...

As Rodrigo Garcia is currently readying himself for the Albert Nobbs shoot, Fox Searchlight is readying the Mother & Child director to perhaps next work from a Jose Rivera-penned adaptation of an Oscar-nominated Short Subject documentary La Corona. Julie Lynn, who's been producing alongside Garcia since Nine Lives, will produce. Gist: The feature film will be pulling from the short: I've included that "fuller" synopsis The contestants are murderers, guerrillas and thieves. The runner-up will cry when she doesn't get the tiara, wiping her tears with a tattooed hand. The winner will be crowned Queen, but she won't be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her cell. This is a beauty pageant like no other, and it happens every year in the Women's Penitentiary in Bogotá, Colombia. Read the rest. Worth Noting: Garcia was one of the...

Exclusive Worldwide Free Premiere In partnership with Celluloid Dreams, playing for free this weekend only is the online premiere of the Cannes-selected Revolución. Made in honor of the Mexican Revolution, it explores the 2010 centenary by uniting ten of the hottest Mexican directors, including Carlos Reygadas and actor Gael García Bernal, in one visionary project. Watch REVOLUCIÓN For Free Now Playing On Mubi...

This weekend, which is to say, all day Saturday and all day Sunday, Mubi presents the free online premiere of Revolución, an anthology of ten short films commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and examining its legacy. It also happens to be a sampler of sorts, collecting work by ten of the most engaging directors working in Mexico today: Gael García Bernal, Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Rodrigo García, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Carlos Reygadas and Patricia Riggen.

"Tonally and in subject matter, the vignettes in Revolución run the gamut," wrote Reed Johnson in the Los Angeles Times this summer. "Some have the rounded coherence of short stories. Others are more like dreams (or nightmares) than narratives, registering as impressionistic snapshots or tone poems. Some bristle with caustic humor and bitterness. Others ache with nostalgia, expressed in images of the country's rugged, sweeping landscapes and its stoic,...

Following his short contribution to “Revolución,” Mexican actor Diego Luna makes his feature film directorial debut with this family drama about a boy who thinks he’s someone he isn’t. His delusion is revealed gradually and seems harmless … until it’s not.

After two years in a psychiatric ward for women in provincial Aguascalientes, it’s time for nine-year-old Abel (Christopher Ruíz-Esparza) to transfer to a children’s hospital in Mexico City. Before he goes, though, his mother Cecilia (Karina Gidi) convinces his doctor to let her take him home for a week, despite his violent episodes and refusal to speak. She hopes she’ll be able to prove he can behave and she can take care of him so that he’ll be able to live with his family. Not much changes at first. But then suddenly one day Abel speaks. He’s acting strangely, but Cecilia denies it or goes along,...

As of today, Mubi is live on Sony's PlayStation 3 in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Australia and New Zealand. Next week, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal will follow.

You can download the free Mubi application from the PlayStation Store and start watching movies you rent individually or opt for a 30-day subscription. We'll also be hand-picking films, a few at a time, that we want to show you for free. Mubi Founder and CEO Efe Cakarel spells out all the details at the PlayStation.Blog.Europe — and he's got another announcement as well. On November 20, to coincide with the world premiere of Revolución, we'll be presenting, for free, the omnibus film (with contributions from the likes of Fernando Eimbcke, Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, Gerardo Naranjo and Gael García Bernal) reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution. And as Efe adds,...

Dallas' Vistas Latino Film Festival is celebrating its eleventh annual appearance with a great line up of Latin American films and visits from several of the minds and faces behind them.  Vistas runs from October 28th through the 31st and showcases some of the best recent Latino film of recent years.  The Mexican omnibus film, Revolucion opens the festival on October 28th at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station.  This is Revolucion's Us debut and stars Jaime Camil, Blanca Soto, Alejandra Barros, Liz Gallardo, Adal Ramones, Alejandra Ambrosi, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Jeannine Derbez, Gustavo Sanchez-Parra, Humberto Busto, Erik del Castillo, and Maria Soleno will be in attendance, it should be a fun night!  Twitch readers will probably recognize Seres: Genesis among the films being screened this year.  The film opened a couple of weeks ago in Mexico and is getting good notices, this could be a new landmark in Latin American Sci-fi,...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Cathryn Collins‘ Vlast / Power, (top); Davis Guggenheim‘s Waiting for Superman, (middle); Michael Noer, Tobias Lindholm‘s R (bottom) The omnibus feature Revolución, Davis Guggenheim‘s Waiting for Superman, Cathryn Collins‘ Vlast / Power, Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer‘s R, and "Over the Top: An Evening with John Lithgow" are some of the highlights at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Tuesday, June 22. Fernando Eimbcke, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Carlos Reygadas are some of the directors of several short films found in Revolución, about the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Vlast shows how Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky became a threat to Vladimir Putin‘s power, while R follows life behind bars for two inmates in a Danish prison: one a local Dane; the other a Muslim. "Why," asks Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for Superman, "does one of the richest nations in the world do such a poor job educating its children?...

It's been 100 years since the Mexican Revolution sought to even the playing field between the country's rich ruling classes and its poor populous. Has anything changed? That's the question asked by Revolución, a collection of short films by some of Mexico's most exciting young directors.

The country's film industry, ignited following a renaissance of the early 2000s, is clearly the right medium for this sort of discussion, and the shorts all follow a simple pattern. They're each no longer than 10 minutes and every one of them is contemporary. They were also created in isolation, with each director unaware of what the others were working on.

And while each short has a different story to tell, the consensus seems to lean towards a conclusion that Mexico is still fundamentally troubled. Stories explore inequalities between the classes, rampant problems with crime and generational and situational disconnects about what it means to be Mexican.

Riot police held back protesters and security was extra tight Friday at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival in response to the protest surrounding the screening of Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi (Outside the Law), which takes place during the Algerian struggle for independence from France after World War II. Just paces down the Croisette sitting on a white leather couch in front of the makeshift sandbar of the Terrazza Martini and on a break from jury duty for the festival was Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Amores Perros - 2004 and 2000, respectively), speaking about his directorial adventure with Revolución, a film the Mexican government commissioned ten 10 minute films from 10 Mexican directors to "make something out of what we think of what had happened to Mexico during the last 100 years after the Revolution," according to fellow filmmaker...

The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival is set to run June 17-27 in a brand new location. Oh, it’s still in L.A, but it’s moving across town, from Westwood — where it’s been held the past few years — all the way over to Downtown.

The main “hub” for the fest will be the new L.A. Live complex, but there will also be screenings at other locations, such as the Downtown Independent and Redcat theaters. The city is really trying to build downtown up into a major arts and culture hub, so the festival moving there fits in with that agenda. Film Independent, the organization that runs Laff, also runs the annual Independent Spirit Awards, an event that also moved downtown — from Santa Monica — this year.

On Bad Lit, I tend to like to put up festival lineups that include days and times of screenings. However, since I...

The French sales/production company is supplying this year's Cannes fest with a trio of titles, but you might find me doing cartwheels more for a project that hasn't even began lensing in Marjane Satrapi's Waiting for Azrael. Red, white and green helmer Daniele Luchetti returns to the French festival for the umpteenth time with La Nostra Vita (see pic above) and Takeshi Kitano will break decibel levels with Outrage --- the film's trailer says it all. Celluloid Dreams' is also repping something for doc enthusiasts and tourists who love Paris: Fred Wiseman's Crazy Horse. If I Want To Whistle I Whistle by Florin Serban - Completed La Nostra Vita by Daniele Luchetti - Completed Outrage by Takeshi Kitano - Completed REVOLUCIÓN by Carlos Reygadas - Completed We Are The Night by Dennis Gansel - Post-Production A Prophet (Un Prophete) by Jacques Audiard - Completed Apart Together (Tuan Yuan...

Like the headline says, the complete lineup for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival has been announced and it's a fascinating, eclectic mix. How happy am I to see music doc Separado! in there? Pretty damn happy, as it's one of my absolute favorites of the year and has been resoundingly overlooked.  Read the complete announcement below!

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Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American...

Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world.

The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 40 countries. This year, the Festival received more than 4,700 submissions from filmmakers around the world. The final selections represent 28 World, North American, and U.S. premieres, which more...

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- Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right to Kick Off Festival   -

- World Premiere of Universal Pictures' 3-D CGI Feature Despicable Me Selected for Closing Night   -

- Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to have World Premiere -

- Galas include Animal Kingdom, Cyrus, Mahler on the Couch, Revolución,& Waiting for Superman   -

Los Angeles (May 4, 2010) - Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and year-round artist development programs and exhibition events, announced the official selections for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times. The Festival will run from Thursday, June 17 to Sunday, June 27 in downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live. Now in its sixteenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing...