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It’s OK Santropez, as long as no one posts there, it will accidentally vanish if no one replies. Let’s stick with this thread here!
I adore the few films from Ripstein I’ve watched, even his perversive psychology in Deep Crimson.
I need to watch more from his 70’s since Castle of Purity and Place Without Limits are two deviant but thematically close tales in Ripstein’s sexually morbid films. I did appreciate his Spanish Civil War references too in Virgin of Lust although if it weren’t for Ariadna Gil, I don’t know how would this film be more than average, hehe.
I hop to see more reactions as well as great conversations, particularly on the masterpieces I haven’t seen.
Dimitris: I just watched Such is life, and I’m almost sure I am going to use it for the cup. It has no more than 50 shots in over 90 minutes of duration! I’m also getting some of his underground films on saturday (:
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So which film will we be seeing first (PM me if you don’t want it public).
I’m starting with Castle of purity, I was going to avoid because many people think that’s his only worth watching film, but I chose it to make more people vote, after this I’m going to use his unknown masterpieces for the matches.
So great you chose to manage Ripstein. I chose some of his films for the Auteur’s world cup a few years ago, so he has a bit of experience in competitions like this :P
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I’m seeing Castle of Purity this weekend, and I’ve already seen your competition, so I’ll be able to vote, though I usually don’t divulge my votes till the day of the match.
It’s good to see so much love towards Castle of purity! You guys are going to die with the two films that are coming for the next rounds (O:
Ripstein films are indeed very, very complex most of the time. Since his first film Time to die he made a brilliant use of symbolism, narrative, and camera movements. Talking with him about one of his latest movies, he told me that there was an ocassion when the University of Buenos Aires opened a course about understanding that particular film. The course was given over two months with two sessions per week.
I posted an analysis thread for Such is life (my 2nd round pick), and it is here.
Santropez
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen has been involved in cinema during all his life. His father was one of the most important producers in Mexico during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema so, Arturo loved to spend the most time possible in the studio watching how films were done. Not just this, but also, his father was a very close friend to Spanish director Luis Buñuel. However, it was not until he went to the cinema with Buñuel and his father to see Nazarín that he discovered his passion for film (and also realized that Buñuel was not just the guy with whom his father went hunting).
He spent some years in the law school (his father wouldn’t let him be in the film industry before he had studied a career), but as he said, this took a lot of his time and dropped off. After this, he chose to study History because this was the carreer with the most comfortable schedule, and like this, he was going to be able to spend his time in the studios.
At the same time he was pretending to study history he was serving as Buñuel’s assistant, driving him to the studios and back home, but he says nothing has ever taught him more than watching bad directors work.
“Luis was very sure about he was doing, and one could not make any recommendations to him, but bad directors made me think about how I would’ve made the same film.”
After dropping off history school, his father finally accepted that the only option for Arturo was becoming a filmmaker. For this, Ripstein teamed with a young Colombian journalist called Gabriel García Márquez (obviously before he had won the Nobel Prize) and Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes to write his first film.
At the time I made my first feature, Time to die with Márquez and Fuentes, all I was thinking about was making a film like Truffaut, Godard or Chabrol.
Since his first film in 1965, he has worked in 56 productions including TV series and is currently in the post-production process of his film Las razones del Corazón. He has been nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes three times and has won the FIPRESCI Prize in 6 different occasions.
His work is immensely variated, but most of the times shows the problems of society with crudity and its least favorable characteristics. Among his most recognised films are:
Time to die (1965)
Memories of the future (1969)
Castle of purity (1973)
Foxtrot (1976)
The place without limits (1978)
In for life (1979)
The realm of fortune (1986)
Principio y fin (1993)
Deep Crimson (1996)
No one writes to the Colonel (1999)
Such is life (2000)
The Sodom Carnival (2006)