Arturo Ripstein
Born: 1943-12-13 in Mexico City, Mexico
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2025
- Where Is Juan Moctezuma? as Self
- Memoria de Los Olvidados as Narrator (voice)
2024
- Jugaremos en el bosque as Don Francisco (Patriarca)
2020
- Recuerdo De Mi Presentación as V.O. Sacerdote
2019
- Devil Between the Legs ... (Director)
2017
2016
- The Queen of Spain as Sam Spiegelman
- Signos de vida y rebeldía ... (Producer)
2015
- Internet Junkie as Roberto
- Bleak Street ... (Director)
- Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin as Self
2011
- The Reasons of the Heart ... (Director)
2006
- Crazy Carnival ... (Director)
2005
- Los héroes y el tiempo ... (Director)
2004
- Mi gran noche ... (Writer)
2002
- The Virgin of Lust ... (Director)
- Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel as Himself
2001
- Such is Life ... (Director)
2000
- Speaking of Buñuel as Self
- The Ruination of Men ... (Director)
1999
- Kurosawa: The Last Emperor as Self
- No One Writes to the Colonel ... (Director)
1998
- Divine ... (Director)
1996
- Deep Crimson ... (Director)
- La mujer del puerto ... (Director)
1994
- The Queen of the Night ... (Director)
- The Beginning and the End ... (Producer)
1992
- Triángulo ... (Director)
- La sonrisa del Diablo ... (Director)
1989
- Simplemente Maria ... (Director)
- Love Lies ... (Director)
1988
- Dulce Desafío ... (Director)
1986
- The Realm of Fortune ... (Director)
- El otro ... (Director)
1985
1983
- The Black Widow ... (Director)
1981
- Trail of Death
- Seduction ... (Director)
1980
- Aunt Alejandra ... (Director)
1979
- Life Sentence ... (Director)
- The Illegal ... (Director)
- The Flight of the Stork as Cliente banco
- Adriana del Rio, actriz as Self
1978
- The Place Without Limits ... (Director)
1977
- Lecumberri, the Dark Palace ... (Director)
- Cuartelazo as Embajador
1976
- Foxtrot ... (Director)
- The Drunkard ... (Director)
1974
- The Holy Inquisition ... (Director)
- Cinco mil dolares de recompensa ... (Writer)
- La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez) ... (Director)
1973
- Castle of Purity ... (Director)
1971
- Whoever is Responsible ... (Writer)
- The Castaway on the Street of Providence ... (Director)
1970
- La belleza ... (Director)
- Crimen ... (Director)
- Exorcismos ... (Director)
- Autobiografía ... (Director)
1969
- Familiarities
- The Children's Hour ... (Director)
- Memories of the Future ... (Director)
1968
1967
- H.O. ... (Director)
- Dangerous Game ... (Director)
- The Specter's Road as Matilde's Son
1966
- Time to Die ... (Director)
1962
- The Exterminating Angel ... (Assistant Director)