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Arturo Ripstein
Mexico City, Mexico
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director. Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1…
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Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director. Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 film Seduction was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1989 film Love Lies was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Some of Ripstein's films, especially the earlier ones, "highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape [their]destinies". Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity. Asi Es la Vida, according to Jonathan Crow, "boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices". Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times, is "a ferociously anti-romantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy small-time gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree."
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2025
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2025
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
Movie Self
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2024
Jugaremos en el bosque
Movie Don Francisco (Patriarca)
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2020
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
Movie V.O. Sacerdote
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2019
Devil Between the Legs
Movie Director
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2017
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Movie Self
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2016
The Queen of Spain
Movie Sam Spiegelman
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2016
Signos de vida y rebeldía
Movie Producer
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2015
Bleak Street
Movie Director
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2015
Internet Junkie
Movie Roberto
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2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Movie Self
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2011
The Reasons of the Heart
Movie Director
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2006
Crazy Carnival
Movie Director
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2005
Los héroes y el tiempo
Movie Director
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2004
Mi gran noche
Movie Director
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2002
The Virgin of Lust
Movie Director
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2002
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Movie Himself
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2001
Such is Life
Movie Director
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2000
The Ruination of Men
Movie Director
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2000
Speaking of Buñuel
Movie Self
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1999
No One Writes to the Colonel
Movie Director
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1999
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Movie Self
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1998
Divine
Movie Director
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1996
Deep Crimson
Movie Director
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1996
Woman of the Port
Movie Director
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1994
The Queen of the Night
Movie Director
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1994
The Beginning and the End
Movie Producer
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1992
Triángulo
TV show Director
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1992
La sonrisa del Diablo
TV show Director
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1989
Simplemente Maria
TV show Director
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1989
Love Lies
Movie Director
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1988
Dulce Desafío
TV show Director
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1986
The Realm of Fortune
Movie Director
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1986
El otro
Movie Director
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1985
The African Lover
Movie
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1983
The Black Widow
Movie Director
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1981
Seduction
Movie Director
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1981
Trail of Death
Movie
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1980
Aunt Alejandra
Movie Director
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1979
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Movie Self
