Interesting launch of Sayles film

John Sayles' AMIGO

John Sayles’ new film Amigo is opening this weekend in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Nothing unusual there.  But, in the San Francisco Bay Area, a Sayles film would usually open in the San Francisco, San Jose and Berkeley art houses.  Instead, Amigo, a historical drama set in the Phillipines,  is opening at mall multiplexes in Milpitas and southwestern San Francisco.  Why? It can’t be a coincidence that these theaters are most accesible to the thriving Filipino communities in Milpitas and northern San Mateo County.

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