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In this interview, Arturo Ripstein ruminates on his early career in filmmaking. Specifically, Ripstein discusses his relationship with the legendary film director Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), his experience directing his first movies, including Tiempo de morir/Time to die (1966) and El castillo de la pureza/The Castle of Purity (1972), and his collaboration with the well-known Latin American novelists Gabriel García Márquez (1927–1914), Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012), and José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014).
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The three interviews with Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego included in this book were conducted by Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez Silva over three days in the fall of 2013 at Rice University. The excerpts presented here have been edited, lightly annotated and condensed by Manuel Gutiérrez Silva.
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Alfredo Ripstein was a Mexican film producer who began his career during the Golden Age (1933–1964) of Mexico’s film industry. With over 120 films to his credit, including Arturo Ripstein’s earliest films, Alfredo Ripstein helped shape Mexico’s film industry.
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Carlos Savage (1919–2000) edited over five hundred and twenty films in Mexico, including all of Luis Buñuel’s films and Tiempo de morir, Arturo Ripstein’s first film.
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According to Garcia Márquez’ biographer Gerald Martin, that first director was José Luis González de León. See Gerald Martin, Gabriel Garcia Márquez : A Life (New York: Alfred A. Knop, 2009), 280.
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Duno Gottberg, L., Gutiérrez Silva, M. (2019). Fifty Years in Film I: Ripstein’s Early Years and His Place in Mexican Cinema. In: Gutiérrez Silva, M., Duno Gottberg, L. (eds) The Films of Arturo Ripstein. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22956-6_2
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