FESTIVAL CELEBRATING LEGENDARY MEXICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AT FILM FORUM, JUNE 5-18 PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO EXHIBITION
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FESTIVAL CELEBRATING LEGENDARY
MEXICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
AT FILM FORUM, JUNE 5-18
PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION
WITH EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO EXHIBITION
A tribute to the great Mexican cinematographer GABRIEL FIGUEROA (1907-1997)
will run at Film Forum from Friday, June 5 through Thursday, June 18.
The two-week, 19-film retrospective is presented in conjunction with the exhibition
“UNDER THE MEXICAN SKY: GABRIEL FIGUEROA – ART AND FILM,” now on view
at El Museo del Barrio (1230 Fifth Avenue) through June 27.
Other national cinemas like Italy and Japan had a Big Three, but they were always
directors. Mexico alone had a Big Four: stars Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río,
director Emilio Fernández, and Director of Photography Figueroa. Influenced by
Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva México!, and taught by Citizen Kane’s Gregg Toland, Figueroa
worked with every luminary at home — including directors Fernández, Roberto
Gavaldón, and Luis Buñuel— and internationally with John Huston, John Ford, Don
Siegel, and Clint Eastwood. Often counted as Mexico’s fourth great muralist along with
Rivera, Siqueiros, and Orozco, Figueroa was nominated for the Ariel Award (Mexico’s
Oscars) for Best Cinematography every year from 1946 to 1954, 11 nominations
overall, winning 7 times (once against himself). No cameraman has ever dominated a
national cinema as he did or created so majestic and instantly recognizable an image of
it.
The series kicks off June 5 with Enamorada, often called “the Gone with the Wind of
Mexican cinema.” A “deliriously romantic re-working of The Taming of the Shrew” (TimeOut) set during the Mexican Revolution, it stars Armendáriz as a general who starts to
shake down the rich after taking the town of Cholula, but then falls for a staunch
conservative’s spitfire daughter, played by Mexican diva María Félix. Enamorada swept
the Ariels, winning for Best Film, Director, Actress, Editing, and Figueroa’s
cinematography.
Among the many highlights in the series are Figueroa’s collaborations with director
Emilio Fernández, including:
• Wildflower, the first collaboration of the “Big Four,” with Armendáriz as a
landowner who makes a desperate sacrifice for the love of idealistic peasant girl
del Río.
• Victims of Sin, the Film Noir soap opera musical starring Cuban rumba legend
Ninón Sevilla. The screening will be introduced by Eddie Muller, author and
founder of The Film Noir Foundation and host of TCM’s “Summer of Darkness.”
• María Candelaria, the co-Grand Prize winner and Best Cinematography prize
to Figueroa at Cannes, starring Armendáriz and del Río in the title role.
• Salón México, with Marga López sexily dancing up a storm to support her
younger sister.
• The Pearl, based on the John Steinbeck novel and shot by Figueroa on
Mexico’s Pacific coast, with Armendáriz as a down-on-his-luck diver who
happens upon the biggest pearl he’s ever seen.
• Pueblerina, the last of Fernández’ films about village life.
• Río Escondido, starring Félix as a dedicated schoolteacher who faces a rape
attempt, shooting and peasant revolt as she fights to bring education to a remote
Mexican village.
Figueroa’s prolific international work is represented as well, including John Ford’s The
Fugitive, starring Henry Fonda as the last priest in an anti-clerical state pursued by
Armendáriz’s nationalistic priest killer - one of Ford’s personal favorites; Clint Eastwood
and Shirley MacLaine on the run in Don Seigel’s Two Mules for Sister Sara; and two
by John Huston: Under the Volcano, with Albert Finney, and The Night of the
Iguana, Figueroa’s only Oscar nomination, photographed in Puerto Vallarta with
Richard Burton as the object of desire for Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon.
The festival also includes Buñuel masterworks Los Olvidados and Nazarín; Mexican
Film Noir Another Dawn; Pedro Páramo, starring half-Mexican Psycho star John
Gavin (later the U.S. ambassador to Mexico); and three films directed by the great
Roberto Gavaldón: Autumn Days, Rosa Blanca (based on a novel by Treasure of the
Sierra Madre author B. Traven), and Macario, the first Mexican film ever to be
nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
All films will be screened in 35mm (except María Candelaria, which will be shown in
16mm).
The GABRIEL FIGUEROA retrospective is presented in association with FUNDACIÓNTELEVISA, EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, CINEMA TROPICAL, and THE MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK, with the support of FILMOTECA DE LA UNAM, THE MEXICAN AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, and the CONSULATE GENERAL OF MEXICO IN NEW YORK. PRESS SCREENINGS TO BE ANNOUNCED. Public Screening Schedule (all separate admissions) JUNE 5 FRI ENAMORADA (1946, Emilio Fernández) 35mm Pedro Armendáriz, María Félix 12:30, 4:45, 9:05 MARÍA CANDELARIA (1943, Emilio Fernández) 16mm print courtesy Museum of Modern Art Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz 2:30, 7:00 JUNE 6 SAT ENAMORADA (1946, Emilio Fernández) 35mm 12:30, 9:20 ANOTHER DAWN (Distinto amanecer, 1943, Julio Bracho) 35mm Pedro Armendáriz, Andrea Palma 2:30 VICTIMS OF SIN (Victimas del pecado, 1951, Emilio Fernández) 35mm Ninón Sevilla, Rodolfo Acosta, Pérez Prado 4:50 ONLY Introduced by Eddie Muller, founder of the Film Noir Foundation and host of TCM’s “Summer of Darkness” JUNE 7 SUN MARÍA CANDELARIA (1943, Emilio Fernández) 16mm 1:00 ENAMORADA (1946, Emilio Fernández) 35mm 7:00, 9:00 JUNE 9 TUE PEDRO PÁRAMO (1966, Carlos Velo) 35mm Carlos Fernández, John Gavin 12:30, 4:45, 9:10
THE FUGITIVE (1947, John Ford) 35mm Henry Fonda, Pedro Armendáriz 2:40, 7:00 JUNE 10 WED ANOTHER DAWN (Distinto amanecer, 1943, Julio Bracho) 35mm 12:30, 4:45, 9:10 PUEBLERINA (1948, Emilio Fernández) 35mm Roberto Cañedo, Columbia Domínguez 2:40, 7:00 JUNE 11 THU WILDFLOWER (Flor silvestre, 1943, Emilio Fernández) 35mm Pedro Armendáriz, Dolores del Río 12:30, 4:35, 8:40 UNDER THE VOLCANO (1984, John Huston) 35mm Albert Finney, Anthony Andrews, Jacqueline Bisset 2:25, 6:30 JUNE 12 FRI THE PEARL (1947, Emilio Fernández) 35mm Pedro Armendáriz 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 LOS OLVIDADOS (1950, Luis Buñuel) 35mm Roberto Cobo 2:15, 5:45 UNDER THE VOLCANO (1984, John Huston) 35mm 9:15 JUNE 13 SAT THE PEARL (1947, Emilio Fernández) 35mm 12:30, 4:00 LOS OLVIDADOS (1950, Luis Buñuel) 35mm 2:15, 8:15, 10:00 THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964, John Huston) 35mm Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon 5:45 Introduced by JAMES GRISSOM, author of FOLLIES OF GOD: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND THE WOMEN OF THE FOG
JUNE 14 SUN THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964, John Huston) 35mm 1:10 MACARIO (1959, Roberto Gavaldón) 35mm Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer 3:40, 7:30 RÍO ESCONDIDO (1947, Emilio Fernández) 35mm María Félix 5:30, 9:20 JUNE 15 MON MACARIO (1959, Roberto Gavaldón) 35mm 12:30, 4:25, 8:20 ROSA BLANCA (1961, Roberto Gavaldón) 35mm Ignacio López Tarso 2:20, 6:15, 10:10 JUNE 16 TUE TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (1970, Don Siegel) 35mm Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine 12:30, 4:30, 8:35 LOS OLVIDADOS (1950, Luis Buñuel) 35mm 2:45 NAZARÍN (1958, Luis Buñuel) 35mm print courtesy Harvard Film Archive Francisco Rabal 6:45 ONLY JUNE 17 WED SALÓN MÉXICO (1949, Emilio Fernández) 35mm Marga López, Rodolfo Acosta, Miguel Inclán 12:30, 4:25, 8:20 RÍO ESCONDIDO (1947, Emilio Fernández) 35mm María Félix 2:25, 6:20, 10:15 JUNE 18 THU (Separate Admission) THE PEARL (1947, Emilio Fernández) 35mm 12:40
AUTUMN DAYS (Días de otoño, 1962, Roberto Gavaldón) 35mm
Pina Pellicer
2:30, 4:30, 7:00
ENAMORADA (1946, Emilio Fernández) 35mm
9:00
Repertory calendar programmed by Bruce Goldstein
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