THE MEXICAN ART OF LITERATURE AND FILMS

IN THIS PUBLICATION WE ARE GOING TO EXPOSE SOME OF THE FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN BASED ON BOOKS Next we will list 3 of the films that most caught our attention: "Macario" " Macario " is the book written by the author Bruno Traven which this film is based. The book was written in 1950. The name of the movie based on the literary work is the same that the book. This film was directed by Roberto Gavaldón, who had directed other famous mexican films like "El Gallo de Oro", "Flor de Mayo", "El Conde de Montecristo", etc. The movie was filmed in 1959 and protagonized by Ignacio  López Tarso, that film had been nominated for an Oscar for the best foreign film. The main actors for the movie are: Macario. Felipa. God.  Death. Devil. And we present you some actors from the movie. This is Macario... Macario is a poor person who cuts firewood to support his wife and eleven children. His biggest dream is to eat a big turkey by himself. His biggest fear

Pedro Páramo. "I saw the drops illuminated by lightning fall, and every time I breathed I sighed, and every time I thought, I thought of you."-Pedro Páramo. Pedro Páramo is a novel written by Juan Rulfo in 1955.  Juan Rulfo was born in 1917 and grew in Jalisco, Mexico. He was a novelist, storyteller, photographer and editor, recognized for their tales like "El llano en llamas" and his first tale that made him. Juan Rulfo's novels are about war, dispossession and orphanhood in a country setting. There is a film with the same name that the book and it was directed by Carlos Velo in 1967 and he won three Ariel's awards for the best photography, the best scenography and the best environment . Carlos Velo was a spanish filmmaker, excited by the spanish civil war to Mexico, where he become in a famous on the mexican cinema. He has been directed other films like "El pueblo maya", "Los que sí y los que no", "Castillos en castilla", etc.

"Movies and characters" This is a television program where the host present a director invited to talk about his movie based on a novel, and together analyze or discuss about the movie.  In this case the host of the program is Fanny and the mexican director invited is Carlos Carrera, represented by Alex. The film that we talk in the program is "The crime of father Amaro", because it had been the most famous and popular movie at the time it was released.