As someone who is developing a project on curation, this article from NACLA about the growing influence of the Guadalajara Film Festival and its role in supporting Mexican filmmaking is very apropos: http://nacla.org/news/2014/7/29/guadalajara-takes-new-leading-role-mexican-film
Month: August 2014
Arturo Ripstein and La perdición de hombres
I recently sent off a chapter to the editors of a collection on the Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein. I want to share some brief thoughts on this prolific director and some images from the film I discuss in my chapter, La perdición de los hombres/The Ruination of Men (2000). In an interview with Paulo Antonio Paranaguá…