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| 16/8 - | The first screening takes place at the Castle of Chapultepec for President Porfirio Diaz on the 6th August 1896. The first public screening is held 10 days later at 9 Plateros Street, Mexico City. [MORE] | |||
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| Fatal Orgullo (Mexico Lux Films) (Feature) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1929 | ||||
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The government passes a decree that all foreign films must be subtitled in Spanish, despite the fact that its largely illiterate population want integral dubbing. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1932 | ||||
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| 16/3 - | Following the withdrawal of finance for Que Viva Mexico!, Sergei Eisenstein and his colleagues, Edouard Tisse and Grigori Alexandrov, are forced to abandon the project and return to the Soviet Union. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Santa, Mexico’s first sound film, is released. It is directed by actor Antonio Moreno. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| 31/5 - | Fernando de Fuentes El Prisionero trece is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 28/11 - | Juan Bustillo Oro’s Dos monjes is released. It uses a narrative technique that will later be used in Kurosawa’s Rashomon – that of the conflicting flashback. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1935 | ||||
| 28/9 - | Carlos Navarro’s Janitzio is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Redes (The Wave) is released. It is co-directed by Paul Strand and Fred Zinnemann. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Fernando de Fuentes’ Alla en Rancho Grande is released. In 1938 it will receive a special recommendation at the Venice Film Festival for its overall artistic contribution. It is also the first Mexican film to be released with English subtitles in the US. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Fernando de Fuentes’ Vamonos con Pancho Villa, about a group of men from a small village who join Pancho Villa’s revolution, is released. It is considered by many to be the best Mexican film ever made. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1937 | ||||
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– Ranchero films, a mixture of rural and folklore tales, become popular, accounting for more than half of the 38 films produced in 1937. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1942 | ||||
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– President Manuel Avila Camacho declares Mexico allies of the British and Americans, thereby earning Mexico the status of favoured nation. This ensures the country a continued supply of film stock unavailable to ostensibly neutral countries such as Spain and Argentina, who are considered to have ties with Nazi Germany. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1943 | ||||
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Flor Silvestre (Emilio Fernandez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1944 | ||||
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Emilio Fernandez’s Maria Candelaria, starring Dolores Del Rio as an Indian peasant, is released. Pedro Armendariz also stars as her tough but loving poverty-stricken fiancé in a damning indictment of the injustices suffered by the poor. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Los Abandonadas (Emilio Fernandez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Bugambilia (Emilio Fernandez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Enamorada (Emilio Fernandez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1947 | ||||
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Gran Casino, Luis Bunuel’s first Mexican film, is released. Produced by Oscar Dancigers, it stars Jorge Negrete and the Argentinian Libertad Lamarque. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Cinematographic National Bank is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Los Tres Garcia (Ismael Rodriguez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1948 | ||||
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Ismael Rodriguez' Nosotros los pobres is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 27/3 - |
John Ford’s The Fugitive is released in Mexico, the country in which it is set. Based on Graham Greene’s novel The Power and the Glory, the film, which takes place during the rule of Francisco Madero, stars Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Los tres huastecos (Ismael Rodriguez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ustedes los ricos (Ismael Rodriguez) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1949 | ||||
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| 25/11 - |
Luis Bunuel’s second Mexican film, El Gran Calavera, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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A law is introduced to protect the domestic cinema industry by limiting the number of films imported into the country. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 9/12 - |
The release of Luis Bunuel’s Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned), a study of the lives of Mexico’s orphaned street children causes controversy. Press and politicians denounce it as an insult to the Mexican nation, and call for Bunuel to be expelled from the country. [MORE] [ADD] |