Fernando De Fuentes

10/19/03 to 10/29/03

  • Over on the Big Ranch, October 26

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  • La Zandunga

    • Wednesday, October 29 7:00

    Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Vélez goes native for de Fuentes, who allows her a great deal more authenticity, in this delightful musical set amid the people and customs of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec.

  • Jalisco Sings in Seville

    • Wednesday, October 29 9:05

    De Fuentes invented the comedia ranchera genre in the 1930s, and a decade later reinvented it with this fulsome film featuring legendary singer Jorge Negrete. Here the Spanish and the Mexicans are reintroduced-through the protective screen of cinema.

  • Let's Go with Pancho Villa!

    • Sunday, October 26 5:30

    In the definitive film on the Mexican Revolution, "de Fuentes makes a strong plea for peace on the personal level every bit as effectively as did Jean Renoir in Grand Illusion."-UCLA Film Archive

  • Over on the Big Ranch

    • Sunday, October 26 7:20

    This charming rural comedy put Mexican cinema on the map of the Americas.

  • Prisoner Number 13

    • Sunday, October 19 5:30

    The first in de Fuentes's famed trilogy on the Mexican Revolution is a devastating portrait of mendacity among the military pointing to the very human side of this and every revolution.

  • El Compadre Mendoza

    • Sunday, October 19 7:05

    A Mexican classic wittily and intelligently dissects the ambivalence of revolutionary values in a Zapatista idealist and his loyalty to an opportunistic landowner.