R.I.P. Raúl Ruiz
The maestro is gone. :(
thanks for link article. rest in peace. it´s shocking headline.
Sad news. I didn’t know he was sick. Mistérios de Lisboa is a great work to go out on, a final masterpiece.
i’m stunned. awful loss. :(
Just finished going through his available oeuvre.
RIP
I JUST READ IT!!
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I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!!!!
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Very sorry to read of this. I’m hoping to see MYSTERIES OF LISBON next week.
At least we know in an alternate timeline he survived and brought tragedy to his loved ones.
As Linhas de Torres, his next feature, was on pre-production.
I still can’t believe this. I’m speechless. This is awful. :(
Another terrible loss, he had been one of the remaining masters of world cinema. His “Mysteries of Lisbon” gave evidence that he was still to be counted among the great storytellers. My favorite Ruiz film remains “Nobody Said Anything”, though I also discovered a lot of other brilliant works by him in last year’s directors’ cup. I’m sad there will be no further films by him.
RIP, RR.
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RIP Senor Ruiz.
Damn, it always seems to take a director’s death for me to realize that I need to familiarize myself with more of his filmography. First Mani Kaul, now Ruiz. RIP
The Guardian’s obit.
Oh no.
RIP
RIP Ruiz.
This is really sad news.
I’m just glad we got to explore his work a bit in last year’s cup.
¡VIVA RAÚL RUIZ!
Hope that he reaches the distance of horizon from those wonderful tales of his childhood, about pirates from some mysterious shores and… rest in peace.
Even though I didn’t always appreciate his style as much as I wished I could have, I respect the man deeply. From what I’ve seen he was a great mentor and collaborator as well.
Thankfully he lives on through his incredible films. Mysteries of Libson had better come to Dallas. In fact, I’m going to work on trying to put together a retrospective at one of the local arthouses.
I’ve had mixed reactions to his films (though Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting and City of Pirates are both wonderful), and I’m not going to pretend that I’m sad about a man dying when I don’t know him personally, he managed to live to 70 and also got to create a huge and highly regarded body of work, but like Risselada I do respect Ruiz and can only hope that one day I am able to appreciate his films more. RIP
This is sad news. RIP.
An incredible prolific director, whose career has shown a great spirit, curiosity, zest for life and sense of freedom. I hope his films will be much more widely distributed, known and appreciated in future.
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Descanse en paz Senior Ruiz. You have made some of the most original films that I have ever seen. Such a great loss.
I am saddened to hear the news of the passing of one of the most unique creative talents in world cinema. Ruiz was a polymath with a remarkable variety of interests and artistic breath. Thanks to Dimitris’ pick of him for last year’s Director’s Cup, I had the opportunity to explore his work in some detail, only having seen Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting before. The most literate of filmmakers, Ruiz was innovative and allusive, obviously familiar with the literary avant-garde of his day. His complex technique owes something to the surrealist’s impulse or the magic realism of his Latin American compatriots like Garcia Marquez, Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Cortazar, and Puig. When he left Chile (with the assent of Allende) and moved to France, he also took from European avant-garde writers such as Breton, Gombrowiscz, P. Klossowski (inspiration for Ruiz’s Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting) and Calvino. He shares with them a tendency for multi-layered, conflicting storylines and a wicked sense of humour. Like them, he is very playful and likes mixing mythical and symbolic references, labyrinthine plots, stories within stories, mirrors, overlapping narratives. Yet, this is all done with an emphasis on the ironic and comic. He seemed to always have a twinkle in his eye when I saw him interviewed. He was the modern Merlin of the cinema, a bit like a magician pulling cinematic rabbits – or maybe pirates – out of his ever-flowing hat.
Great article about him on the current Notebook. We need to see his filmography made more accessible to enquiring cinephiles. Although some good articles and studies of him exist, he is still largely unknown, which is definitely a shame. I hope to catch more of his films as they become available to me (on Mubi perhaps?). Films like Three Crowns of the Sailor, Three Lives and Only One Death, City of Pirates, Time Regained, Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, The Suspended Vocation – and others I have yet to see – should have a much wider audience than they do.
From Ruiz’s City of Pirates
http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2011/08/19/raul-ruiz-has-left-the-building/
So sad. Incredibly prolific talent.
dust in love
Rest in peace :(
Another terrible loss this week.
Article translated here