Known For
Directing
Born
Dec 13, 1943
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Credits
70 titles
Arturo Ripstein
Biography
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."
Known For
Filmography
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Narrator (voice)
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
Self
Jugaremos en el bosque
Don Francisco (Patriarca)
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
V.O. Sacerdote
Devil Between the Legs
Director
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Self
The Queen of Spain
Sam Spiegelman
Signos de vida y rebeldía
Producer
Bleak Street
Director
Internet Junkie
Roberto
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Self
The Reasons of the Heart
Director
Crazy Carnival
Director
Los héroes y el tiempo
Director
Mi gran noche
Director
The Virgin of Lust
Director
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Himself
Such is Life
Director
The Ruination of Men
Director
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
No One Writes to the Colonel
Director
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Self
Divine
Director
Deep Crimson
Director
Woman of the Port
Director
The Queen of the Night
Director
The Beginning and the End
Producer
Triángulo
Director
La sonrisa del Diablo
Director
Simplemente Maria
Director
Love Lies
Director
Dulce Desafío
Director
The Realm of Fortune
Director
El otro
Director
The African Lover
The Black Widow
Director
Seduction
Writer
Trail of Death
Aunt Alejandra
Director
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Self
The Flight of the Stork
Cliente banco
Life Sentence
Director
The Illegal
Director
The Place Without Limits
Director
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
Director
Cuartelazo
Embajador
The Drunkard
Director
Foxtrot
Director
The Holy Inquisition
Director
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Writer