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La diosa arrodillada (The Kneeling Goddess)
Sat, Jan 8 | 9:30pm | TMT
The miraculous María Félix is the artist model who leads the ever-hapless Arturo de Córdova away from the arms of his innocent, blue-eyed wife and down, down, down into the ecstatic depths of degradation—which include a stop at a memorably seedy Panamanian nightclub.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: María Félix, Arturo de Córdova, Rosario Granados. 1947. 107 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. Cineteca Nacional México, Laboratorio de Restauración Digital Elena Sánchez Valenzuela. Screening courtesy of Fundación Televisa.
En la palma de tu mano (In the Palm of Your Hand)
Mon, Jan 10 | 7:30pm | TMT
With the slightly frayed good looks of an aging matinee idol, Arturo de Córdova became Mexican noir’s perfect patsy, helplessly in thrall to his erotic obsessions. The film’s title cuts two ways: as the fraudulent fortune teller Professor Karin, Córdova uses the secrets of his female clientele to blackmail them, while at the same time he is a pawn in the higher game being played by a treacherous widow (Leticia Palma). The memorable score is by Gavaldón’s regular collaborator Raúl Lavista.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Arturo de Córdova, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay.
1951. 113 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP. Cineteca Nacional México, Laboratorio de Restauración Digital Elena Sánchez Valenzuela. Screening courtesy of Fundación Televisa.
ROBERTO GAVALDÓN
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