Mexico’s Film CultureLilliana Mougel

The Golden Age

1940s & 1950s

Maria Candelaria(1944) by EmilooFernandez

Luis Bunuel: Los olivdados (1949), Viridiana (1961), El angel exterminador(1963)

Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete in Dos Tipos de Cuidado (1952)

Famous Actors and Actress

Maria Felix (La Dona)

◦ Mare Nostrum, Sonata, Meslina, La Escondida, La Cucaracha

Pedro Infante

Jorge Negrete

◦ Dos Tipos de Cuidado

Dolores del Rio

Cantinflas

◦ El gendarme desonocido

A Mexican Director

Alfonso Cuarón

Orozco

Academy Award

nominated Mexican

filmmaker

A Little Princess, Y

tu mama

tambien, Harry

Potter and the

Prisoner of

Azkaban, Childern

of Men

Pan’s Labyrinth

El laberinto del

dauno

“The Faun’s

Labyrinth”

Mexican filmmaker

Gullermo del Toro

Esperanto Films

Represented the

country in the

Oscars

Spain 1944: after

Spanish Civil War/

Franquist repression

Source Slide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico#Ci

nema

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%27s_

Labyrinth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Cu

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