Thanks to the 2010 commemoration of the centenary of the Revolution, its representation on screen has garnered reknewed attention. This is welcome after many years of comparative neglect. As, apart from a select number of supposedly exceptional films, ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Fernando de Fuentes, 1936) and the auteurist films by Emilio ‘El indio’ Fernández, they…
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Grupo nuevo cine
Mexican cinema went through various periods of flux and renewal, one of these was in the 1960s. There were major events that occurred throughout that decade that changed cinema and filmmaking dramatically. One these was the formation of the Grupo nuevo cine [New Cinema Group]. This was a collective of filmmakers, critics, theorists and aficionados…