Tag: Arturo Ripstein
The Conversation: Top 10 Films of the 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival
Surprises were few and far between at a relatively reserved 2019 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Sans a rather intense interest in...
Devil Between the Legs | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
If Bleak Street Could Talk: Ripstein’s Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf in Sordid Marital Melodrama
Arturo Ripstein, one of Mexico’s most enduring and influential auteurs,...
The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – TIFF 2019
Despite its various programming cutbacks over the past several years, TIFF remains an overwhelming buffet of juxtapositions. A marvelous chance to catch up on...
The Conversation: Leaping to Locarno’s Leopard
Arriving August 7th and extending through August 17th, the Locarno Film Festival and its leaping Leopard is the final stepping stone before the grand...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #7. The Devil Between the Legs (El diablo entre las piernas) – Arturo Ripstein
The Devil Between the Legs (El diablo entre las piernas)
Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein breaks a three year hiatus with his twenty-ninth feature, The Devil...
Bleak Street | DVD Review
“Let’s drink and hate everything and everyone,” mutters one bedraggled prostitute to another in Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein’s latest masterpiece, Bleak Street, a tale...
The Conversation: The Totality of Toronto (Plus 2015 TIFF Top Ten)
In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of...
2015 TIFF: Venice Preems from Masters Skolimowski, Bellocchio & Sokurov Among 13
As usual, the Masters programme is cholk-full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes)...