Media Type: Film Year: 1966 Who wrote / made it : Juan Ibáñez Plot summary: María Félix’s last Revolutionary film, La Generala, was a disaster on a lot of fronts, particularly financially and aesthetically. The plot is absurd. It includes an incestuous relationship, a love triangle representing the class struggle, a bizarre surrealistic dream sequence,…
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La Cucuracha
Media Type: Film Year: 1958 Who wrote / made it : Ismael Rodríguez Plot summary: The opening sequence of La Cucuracha (Ismael Rodríguez, 1958) follows a grand mass of people moving through the mountains, the music is reminiscent of that of a US Western. Over this movement of people is written: “…Y abandonaron sus casas…
La Bandida
Media Type: Film Year: 1962 Who wrote / made it : Roberto Rodríguez Plot summary: In La Bandida María Félix plays a prostitute, María/La Bandida, represented as a ‘bad’ woman. The film focuses on a love triangle, which, at times, dwells more on the homosocial relationship between the two men. The film opens with two…
Juana Gallo
Media Type: Film Year: 1960 Who wrote / made it : Miguel Zacarías Plot summary: The protagonist, Ángela Ramos’ (María Félix) father and husband are killed by the Federal army. In revenge she changes her name to Juana Gallo, takes up arms and leads an army. In the first act, and nearly single-handedly, she defeats…
El compadre Mendoza
Media Type: Film Year: 1933 Who wrote / made it : Fernando de Fuentes Plot summary: This is one of a trilogy of the Revolutionby the director Fernando de Fuentes of which ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! is the best known. The other one is Prisionero 13 (1933) . El compadre Mendoza recounts the experiences of a hacendado…
Prisonero 13
Media Type: Film Year: 1933 Who wrote / made it : Fernando de Fuentes Plot summary: It is one of the trilogy which also includes ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936) and El compadre Mendoza (1933) by the director Fernando de Fuentes. Prisionero 13 tells the story of Colonel Julián Carrasco [Alfredo del Diestro], a Huertista, who…
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
Media Type: Film Year: 1936 Who wrote / made it : Fernando de Fuentes Plot summary: ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! is the best known of a trilogy of films of the Revolution. The other two are Prisionero 13 (1933) and El compadre Mendoza (1933) by the director Fernando de Fuentes. He is best known as…
Mexican home movies from the 1930s
Here’s a link to rare Mexican home movies: http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2012/08/hirsch-rogo-home-movies.html. I came across the link on the Amateur Cinema Studies Network blog.
The New Mexican Student Movement in Context
As I write controversy over the recent Mexican elections (2012) are rumbling on. Amid allegations of fraud, the PRI has been declared winners and are returning to power. The reasons for this are complicated, support for them varies across the country and the win was far from resounding.[i] It was a bitterly fought election and…
Cine y cambio político en México
Un artículo interesante y relacionado con mi actual estudio: “El papel del cine mexicano en el cambio democrático de México (1968-2000)” por Hugo Lara Chávez