Classics of Mexican Cinema

The history of Mexican cinema is often overlooked and under-appreciated. Too often Mexican cinema is unfairly sterotyped as being a bunch of cheap wresting movies. Its often, I think, over-looked entirely.

Mexican cinema had a lush silent period, a golden age, and with the current resurgence is an international force, creativly and at the box office. Of course, famously, Luis Buñuel and Sergei Eisenstein spent time making films there. More recently, the triumvirate of Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu have been internationally celebrated.

I’ll write more (and add more films to this...