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Sombra verde (Untouched)
Fri, Jan 21 | 9:15pm | TMT
The pearly bones of Shakespeare’s The Tempest are just visible in this romance set in the jungle around Veracruz, where a research scientist (Ricardo Montalbán, taking some time out from MGM to return to his native country) has gone in search of barbasco roots, used in the production of synthetic hormones. Lost deep in the interior, he encounters a mysterious, machete-wielding stranger and his beautiful daughter—played by Mexico’s national scream queen, Ariadna Welter ( El vampiro ).
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Ricardo Montalbán, Ariadna Welter, Víctor Parra.
1954. 85 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. DCP.
Digitally remastered by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Permanencia Voluntaria.
Macario
Sat, Jan 22 | 7:30pm | TMT
Aimed at an international audience—and indeed, it was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award, as well as Mexico’s entry in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival— Macario takes the form of a macabre fable about an impoverished peasant (Ignacio López Tarso) who is kind to a mysterious stranger on Día de los Muertos, and is rewarded with the power to heal the sick. Drawing on a novella by B. Traven ( The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ), Gavaldón and his cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa create a rich pageant of folkloric imagery.
DIRECTOR: Roberto Gavaldón.
CAST: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer. 1960. 90 min. Mexico. B&W. Spanish. 35mm. New print made by Filmoteca de la UNAM for the Academy Film Archive. Screening courtesy of Fundación Televisa.
ROBERTO GAVALDÓN
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