Collections/October 2024

Three Starring Raúl Juliá

A dynamic, blazingly intense presence, Raúl Juliá broke barriers for Hispanic performers both onstage (he was a fixture of the New York theater scene and a celebrated Shakespearean) and on-screen, defying typecasting to embody an extraordinary range of characters while remaining defiantly true to his Puerto Rican roots. His supernova talent, charisma, and versatility are on display in this selection of career highlights that includes perhaps his most acclaimed screen performance, as a revolutionary political prisoner in Héctor Babenco’s provocative Kiss of the Spider Woman .

3 films — 1 on the Channel, 2 unavailable