Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes
Theatrical release poster
Directed byIsrael Adrián Caetano
Bruno Stagnaro
Written byIsrael Adrián Caetano
Bruno Stagnaro
Produced byBruno Stagnaro
StarringHéctor Anglada
Jorge Sesán
Pamela Jordán
CinematographyMarcelo Lavintman
Edited byAndrés Tambornino
Music byLeo Sujatovich
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Líder Films[1] (Argentina)
  • Filmfreak Distributie (Netherlands)
Release date
  • January 15, 1998 (1998-01-15) (Argentina)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (Spanish: Pizza, birra, faso; also known as Pizza, Beer & Smokes) is a 1998 Argentine crime drama film written and directed by Israel Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro and starring Héctor Anglada, Jorge Sesan and Pamela Jordán. The film tells the story of a gang of marginalized adolescents who survive on the streets of Buenos Aires carrying out low-level robberies. Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes is the film that's known as "the spark that ignited the New Argentine Cinema when it premiered at the international Mar del Plata Film Festival."[2] It was filmed entirely in Buenos Aires.

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 10th position.[3] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 8th position.[4]

  1. ^ "Con Realismo". La Nación (in Spanish). 15 January 1998. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. ^ Shpuntoff, Richard. MovieMaker Magazine, "Don’t Cry for Argentina," Issue #54, Spring 2004.
  3. ^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  4. ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.