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An error has ocurred. Please try againLos siguientes directores cuentan con más de un título dentro del top:
Emilio Fernández: 10 Ismael Rodríguez: 8 Roberto Gavaldón: 8 Luis Buñuel: 7 Jaime Humberto Hermosillo: 5 Alejandro Galindo: 5 Fernado de Fuentes: 4 Juan Bustillo Oro: 4 Felipe Cazals: 3 Fernando Méndez: 3 Julio Bracho: 3 Luis Alcoriza: 3 Arturo Ripstein: 2 Paul Leduc: 2 Gilberto Martínez Solares: 2 Rogelio A. Fernandez: 2 Alberto Gout: 2 Arcady Boytler: 2
Y por década:
10’s: 1 20’s: 0 30’s: 9 40’s: 32 50’s: 23 60’s: 11 70’s: 10 80’s: 6 90’s: 8
PD: this list is in full growth.
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La noche avanza (1952)
A rare spearhead of the Mexican Noir
In "La noche avanza" there are no good or decent characters. There are only anti-heroes and self-assumed victims who do not hesitate a second to become perpetrators to take revenge on their own perpetrators: jealous, liars or possessive women, dangerously self-destructive; And men whose maximum value is opportunism. There is no trait of kindness here, only facets of selfishness. Considering the improbability of this happening (not only in Mexican cinema of that time but in cinema in general), La noche avanza has a spectacular and quirky freshness.
In addition, the frenzy accelerates as the night advances. Quite a few scenes from the second half of this film could be considered even pre- tarantinescan. So far the best movie I've found of the so-called Mexican Noir and the second best of the director Roberto Gavaldón (after Macario, 1960).
Del olvido al no me acuerdo (1999)
Superb... but not for everybody
It is not too much to appreciate in this movie for them whom do not have deep knowledge about the biography of the brilliant Mexican writer: Juan Rulfo.
And does not help in anything the non-orthodox decision of not introducing/displaying the names of the interviewed people, avoiding therefore the relation that each of these kept with Juan. Saving this point, which is in fact the central plot of the film (recollections of the people who lived with this author), the context is wonderful: beautiful landscapes, the memories and forgetfulnesses of a country that Mexican people have let go but at the same time it stay with them, and great senile humor and popular wisdom of personages of a peculiar (but in some way also a representative) Mexican little town.
To only add, here death plays an important role, like indeed is that ingrained idiosyncrasy which beats in Mexican people veins and nevertheless modernity has kill it (but not buried).