The “La Bamba” and “Zoot Suit” creator will appear at the Plaza Classic Film Festival, where he’ll reflect on art, identity ...

A Visual History" revisits the 1987 Ritchie Valens biopic through the lens of L.A. photographer Merrick Morton ...

A founding father of rock ’n’ roll, he would lose his life barely a year later, when the plane carrying members of the Winter ...

It started with a premonition, in real life and in the movie. An airplane flies over a grade school, collides with another airplane and showers twisted metal on schoolchildren below. Ricardo Valenz… ...

“La Bamba” is a terrific movie, not only because it brings to the screen the story of Ritchie Valens, an overlooked but important late 1950s rock ‘n’ roll singer/songwriter, but because it ...

This week, it moved up from No. 2 to knock off another movie hit-Madonna`s ”Who`s That Girl,” which slipped to No. 2 after just one week in the top spot. How long can ”La Bamba” rule?

The Academy Museum will screen “La Bamba” in 4K on Saturday with star Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays Valens, scheduled to appear along with actor and musical director Daniel Valdez and actor ...

Thirty years ago the iconic film 'La Bamba' redefined roles for Latinos by showing a rock and rock pioneer instead of a "villain" role, director Luis Valdez recalls.

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Almost 40 years after its release, “La Bamba,” the beloved biopic of singer Ritchie Valens, is getting a remake. And Luis Valdez, the original director and writer, wants people to know: "This ...

La Bamba (1987) Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens in "La Bamba" (Movie Still from Photofest/Getty Images) Before Bad Bunny and Karol G crossed over with Spanish-language pop hits, ...

Movies 'La Bamba' rocks back into movie theaters nationwide. Ritchie Valens' 1950s rise from California's fruit groves to the front lines of rock 'n' roll is coming back to the big screen.