Mid-century at the as part of a new partnership with the Locarno Film Festival. Titled Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, the program spans Mexican cinema from the ’40s through the ’60s, featuring works from directors such as Roberto Gavaldón, Emilio Fernández, Julio Bracho, Alejandro Galindo, and Chano Urueta. The 22-film retrospective takes place at FLC from July 26 through August 8.
Los aspectos más destacados incluyen la restauración 4K de "Take Me In Your Arms" de Julio Bracho (1954), "Wetbacks" de Alejandro Galindo (1955), "The Sword of Granada" (1953), que fue la primera película tridimensional producida en México, y Melodrama de trabajo sexual de Matilde Landeta "Streetwalker" (1951). Landeta fue una de las primeras directores femeninas del país.
The features screening as part of Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema have been rarely screened stateside. Some even have never before seen theatrically in the United States, per the official press release.
Spectacle todos los días: el cine popular mexicano está patrocinado por Mubi, el servicio de transmisión global, compañía de producción y distribuidor de películas dedicada a elevar el gran cine. La serie de detección es posible gracias al generoso apoyo de Almudena y Pablo Legorreta; El programa fue organizado por Tyler Wilson y Cecilia Barrionuevo en asociación con el Festival de Cine de Locarno y con el apoyo del cine Tropical.
Las películas fueron seleccionadas de la retrospectiva comisariada por Olaf Möller y Roberto Turigliatto.
Consulte la alineación completa a continuación, con todo el lenguaje proporcionado por FLC y Locarno.
The Unknown Policeman / El gendarme desconocido
Miguel Melitón Delgado, 1941, Mexico, 108m
Español con subtítulos en inglés“Despite the fact that I have directed more than 102 films in which Cantinflas does not appear, people still identify me as his director; all the films I made with him were made with direct sound, because due to his peculiar way of speaking, it was practically impossible for Mario Moreno to do dubbing.” –Miguel M. Delgado
The classic “grotesque farce” that launched a widely adored 33-film collaboration between the legendary Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) and director Miguel Melitón Delgado, _El policía desconocido_ is a marvelously joke-a-minute comedy about mistaken identity. It stars the iconic comic as Chato, a poor chap who, desperate for his wife and mother-in-law’s approval, gets into a scuffle with a gang of thieves and emerges as the heroic Agent 777—a master of disguise and the actor’s most beloved, oft-revisited creation. Hailed by Chaplin himself as the world’s greatest comedian, Cantinflas—with his own ragamuffin tiny mustache, grubby vest, and a rope for a belt—was something like the Tramp by way of Abbott