This interview between María Félix and Iván Trujillo has been made available by the Filmoteca at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [National Autonomous University of Mexico] (UNAM). It is possible to download it or stream it from the site for free. Carried out in 1992 as part of a celebration of her life on screen and…
Tag: Archives
1976: Haunted by 1968
I have spent much of the last few weeks drafting and re-drafting a chapter for a forthcoming edited collection on Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual Culture, a project I am co-editing with Miriam Haddu. My chapter considers three films released in 1976 that I contend are all haunted in different ways by the ghosts…
Filmoteca and the Mexican Revolution
I have just discovered this resource by the Filmoteca de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: http://www.cineyrevmex.unam.mx/home.seam. I have yet to fully explore it. It looks like a good starting point. But, at a glance I can see that the bibliography is not up to date. Missing are some recent books I reviewed here, as well…
Private archives/Public Good: Classic Mexican film online
I love the connectedness of semantic web. I first came across this project to make classic Mexican cinema available online when Ernesto Priego (@ernestopriego) tweeted about it and sent on this link for a free trial which ends today (28th February 2012): http://univstandrewse-resources.blogspot.com/2012/01/trial-e-resource-classic-mexican-cinema.html. I retweeted it to spread the word, then some Facebook friends posted about it. Last week I received notification of…