MEXICO IN FOCUS | PARIS CINEMA IFF 2011

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Mexico/USA : The frontier of western

Filmothèque du Quartier Latin (5^e)

The Films

Apportez-moi la tête d’Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah
Desperado, Roberto Rodriguez
A Fistful of Dynamite, Sergio Leone
La Horde sauvage, Sam Peckinpah
La Nuit de l’Iguane, John Huston
La Soif du mal, Orson Welles
Le Signe de Zorro, Rouben Mamoulian
Les Professionnels, Richard Brooks
Les Sept Mercenaires, John Sturges
No Country for Old Men, Joel et Ethan Coen
Super Nacho, Jared Hess
Traffic, Steven Soderbergh
Trois enterrements, Tommy Lee Jones
Viva Zapata !, Elia Kazan

Hollywood seizes this frontier very early on and depicts film after film Mexico as a land of myths and adventures, irrigating among others the western genre, in its more classical shape as in contemporary versions.

Some 15 US films, playing with the genre conventions, while playing with its frontiers, and that stage this country close and fantasied.

© DR

Mexico/USA : The frontier of western

Filmothèque du Quartier Latin (5e)

The Films

Filmothèque du Quartier Latin (5^e)