Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima—like its new big-screen adaptation—is set in New Mexico in 1944, in a culture in transition. The film stars Luke Ganalon as a young boy living with ...

Rudolpho Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima is a classic of Chicano literature. The story begins for Antonio, 6, when Ultima comes to live with his New Mexico family in 1944. Ultima is called a witch ...

Luke Ganalon's first audition for a feature film landed him a role in a beloved Chicano novel's highly anticipated adaptation. The film version of “Bless Me, Ultima,” the award-winning 1972 ...

Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya's magic-infused coming-of-age tale set in 1940s New Mexico, is this year's Books on the Bayou offering. Published in 1972 and long considered a foundational work of ...

The film adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s first novel, Bless Me, Ultima, has strong performances by a mostly Latino cast. The film’s also got beautiful images of nature and individual scenes of ...

Offsetting stiff acting with rich atmosphere, visuals and music, this long-awaited pic hits the novel's key plot points without denying its spiritual soul. Nearly as sacred as the Good Book itself in ...

In Mexican-American literature, "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya is a classic. Anaya's novel, which came out in 1972, has just been turned into a movie. Film critic Kenneth Turan has this review.

Funded by the heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, this period piece based on the best-selling Hispanic novel follows a medicine woman with healing powers. By Stephen Farber Bless Me, Ultima Still - H 2013 ...

The independent film Bless Me, Ultima is based on the most widely read and best-selling novel of the Chicano literary canon, according to the film’s press kit. Written by Rudolfo Anaya and published ...

“Bless Me, Ultima,” the film based on Rudolfo Anaya’s landmark Chicano novel, is a meticulously observed time capsule, a vivid recreation of a self-contained world of Mexican-Americans in 1944 New ...