Arturo Ripstein
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."
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Movies (67)
Memoria de Los Olvidados
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
2025 · Self
Jugaremos en el bosque
2024 · Don Francisco (Patriarca)
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
2020 · V.O. Sacerdote
Devil Between the Legs
2019 · Director
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017 · Self
The Queen of Spain
2016 · Sam Spiegelman
Signos de vida y rebeldía
2016 · Producer
Bleak Street
2015 · Director, Editor
Internet Junkie
2015 · Roberto
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015 · Self
The Reasons of the Heart
2011 · Director
Crazy Carnival
2006 · Director
Los héroes y el tiempo
2005 · Director
Mi gran noche
2004 · Writer, Director
The Virgin of Lust
2002 · Director
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
2002 · Himself
Such is Life
2001 · Director
The Ruination of Men
2000 · Director
Speaking of Buñuel
2000 · Self
No One Writes to the Colonel
1999 · Director
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999 · Self
Divine
1998 · Director
Deep Crimson
1996 · Director
Woman of the Port
1996 · Director
The Queen of the Night
1994 · Director
The Beginning and the End
1994 · Producer, Director
Love Lies
1989 · Director
The Realm of Fortune
1986 · Director
El otro
1986 · Director, Screenplay
The African Lover
1985
The Black Widow
1983 · Director
Seduction
1981 · Director, Writer
Trail of Death
1981 · Story, Director
Aunt Alejandra
1980 · Director, Screenplay
Adriana del Rio, actriz
1979 · Self
The Flight of the Stork
1979 · Cliente banco
Life Sentence
1979 · Director, Screenplay
The Illegal
1979 · Director
The Place Without Limits
1978 · Director, Screenplay
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
1977 · Director, Writer
Cuartelazo
1977 · Embajador
The Drunkard
1976 · Director, Writer
Foxtrot
1976 · Director, Screenplay
The Holy Inquisition
1974 · Director, Writer
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
1974 · Writer
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
1974 · Director
Castle of Purity
1973 · Director, Writer
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
1971 · Director
Whoever is Responsible
1971 · Writer
La belleza
1970 · Director, Writer
Crimen
1970 · Director
Autobiografía
1970 · Director
Exorcismos
1970 · Director
Memories of the Future
1969 · Director, Writer
The Children's Hour
1969 · Director, Writer
Familiarities
1969
Mariana
1968
The Specter's Road
1967 · Matilde's Son
Dangerous Game
1967 · Director
H.O.
1967 · Director
Time to Die
1966 · Director
There Are No Thieves in This Village
1965
Los novios de mis hijas
1964
Dile que la quiero
1963
The Exterminating Angel
1962 · Assistant Director
Tiempo de Correr
· Director
