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María Félix, Marlon Brando, Wallace Beery: 100 Years of the Mexican Revolution on TCM
26 September 2010 7:41 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! Ramon Novarro in Scaramouche on TCM Following Scaramouche, Turner Classic Movies will show a Mexican feature set during the Revolution, Roberto Rodríguez's La Bandida (1963), starring Mexican legend María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, actor-filmmaker Emilio Fernández, and Lola Beltrán. And prior to Scaramouche, TCM is showing two Mexican Revolution films made in Hollywood: Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), with Marlon Brando (wasn't Katy Jurado or perhaps Sarita Montiel available?) as revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and Jack Conway's Viva Villa! (1934), with a surprisingly effective Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa. The beautifully shot Viva Villa! (cinematography by Charles G. Clarke and James Wong Howe) is perhaps best known for what's not seen on screen: Lee Tracy, one of the stars of MGM's Dinner at 8, getting drunk and pissing on a military parade passing below his Mexico City hotel balcony, being arrested »
- Andre Soares
Frida: raises an eyebrow | Reel History
17 June 2010 2:08 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
There's a lot of painting by numbers in Julie Taymor's 2002 biopic of the radical Mexican Frida Kahlo, starring Salma Hayek. But when the facts are this colourful, why take artistic licence?
Director: Julie Taymor
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: C
Frida Kahlo was one of Mexico's best-known 20th-century artists. Her painting reflected her tumultuous personal life, including her two high-profile marriages to fellow artist and communist Diego Rivera.
Childhood
Young Frida (Salma Hayek) is on a bus to Coyoacán, fighting with her boyfriend about Marx and Hegel. The bus crashes into a tram. Frida is crushed and knocked unconscious, covered in blood and gold dust spraying out from a cone carried by another passenger. It's an arresting setpiece, and, though it looks like a heavy-handed piece of artistic licence, it's accurate. Frida did indeed get covered in gold dust during this crash, and was very nearly killed. Afterwards, »
- Alex von Tunzelmann
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