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Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director.
Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 film Seduction was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1989 film Love Lies was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Some of Ripstein's films, especially the earlier ones, "highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape [their]destinies". Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity. Asi Es la Vida, according to Jonathan Crow, "boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices". Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times, is "a ferociously anti-romantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy small-time gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree."
As director
Devil Between the Legs
Bleak Street
The Reasons of the Heart
Crazy Carnival
Los héroes y el tiempo
Mi gran noche
The Virgin of Lust
Such is Life
The Ruination of Men
No One Writes to the Colonel
Divine
Deep Crimson
La mujer del puerto
The Beginning and the End
The Queen of the Night
Love Lies
The Realm of Fortune
El otro
The Black Widow
Trail of Death
Seduction
Aunt Alejandra
Life Sentence
The Illegal
The Place Without Limits
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
The Drunkard
Foxtrot
The Holy Inquisition
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
As actor
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
Jugaremos en el bosque
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
The Queen of Spain
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Internet Junkie
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Speaking of Buñuel
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
The African Lover
Trail of Death
The Flight of the Stork
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Cuartelazo
Familiarities
Mariana
The Specter's Road
There Are No Thieves in This Village
Los novios de mis hijas