Arturo Ripstein
Directing
1943-12-13 · Mexico City, Mexico
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."
Filmography
Memoria de Los Olvidados
2025 · Movie
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
2025 · Movie
Jugaremos en el bosque
2024 · Movie
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
2020 · Movie
Devil Between the Legs
2019 · Movie
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017 · Movie
The Queen of Spain
2016 · Movie
Signos de vida y rebeldía
2016 · Movie
Bleak Street
2015 · Movie
Internet Junkie
2015 · Movie
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015 · Movie
The Reasons of the Heart
2011 · Movie
Crazy Carnival
2006 · Movie
Los héroes y el tiempo
2005 · Movie
Mi gran noche
2004 · Movie
The Virgin of Lust
2002 · Movie
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
2002 · Movie
Such is Life
2001 · Movie
The Ruination of Men
2000 · Movie
Speaking of Buñuel
2000 · Movie
No One Writes to the Colonel
1999 · Movie
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999 · Movie
Divine
1998 · Movie
Deep Crimson
1996 · Movie
Woman of the Port
1996 · Movie
The Queen of the Night
1994 · Movie
The Beginning and the End
1994 · Movie
Triángulo
1992 · Series
La sonrisa del Diablo
1992 · Series
Simplemente Maria
1989 · Series
Love Lies
1989 · Movie
Dulce Desafío
1988 · Series
The Realm of Fortune
1986 · Movie
El otro
1986 · Movie
The African Lover
1985 · Movie
The Black Widow
1983 · Movie
Seduction
1981 · Movie
Trail of Death
1981 · Movie
Aunt Alejandra
1980 · Movie
Adriana del Rio, actriz
1979 · Movie
The Flight of the Stork
1979 · Movie
Life Sentence
1979 · Movie
The Illegal
1979 · Movie
The Place Without Limits
1978 · Movie
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
1977 · Movie
Cuartelazo
1977 · Movie
The Drunkard
1976 · Movie
Foxtrot
1976 · Movie
The Holy Inquisition
1974 · Movie
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
1974 · Movie
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
1974 · Movie
Castle of Purity
1973 · Movie
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
1971 · Movie
Whoever is Responsible
1971 · Movie
Exorcismos
1970 · Movie
La belleza
1970 · Movie
Crimen
1970 · Movie
Autobiografía
1970 · Movie
Memories of the Future
1969 · Movie
The Children's Hour
1969 · Movie
Familiarities
1969 · Movie
Mariana
1968 · Movie
The Specter's Road
1967 · Movie
Dangerous Game
1967 · Movie
H.O.
1967 · Movie
Time to Die
1966 · Movie
There Are No Thieves in This Village
1965 · Movie
Los novios de mis hijas
1964 · Movie
The Exterminating Angel
1962 · Movie
Tiempo de Correr
Movie