7 April 2015 (Series 30:10) Gregory Nava, EL NORTE (1983, 141 minutes) National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, 1995 Directed by Gregory Nava Written by Gregory Nava (story) and Anna Thomas Produced by Trevor Black, Bertha Navarro, Anna Thomas Music by The Folkloristas, Malecio Martinez, Linda O'Brien, and Emil Richards Cinematography by James Glennon Film Editing by Betsy Blankett Milicevic Costume Design by Hilary Wright Art Design by David Wasco and Gregg Barbanell Sound Design by Michael C. Moore and Marshall Winn Ernesto Gómez Cruz ... Arturo David Villalpando ... Enrique Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez ... Rosa Alicia del Lago ... Lupe Mike Gomez ... Informer Jose Martin Ruano ... Foreman Stella Quan ... Josefita Heraclio Zepeda ... Pedro Fools Fall in Love, 1997 Selena, 1995 My Family, 1988 A Time Emilio Gomez Ozuna ... Luis of Destiny, 1983 El Norte, 1976 The Confessions of Amans, and Daniel Lemus Valenzuela ... Encarnacion 1972 The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva (Short). He also Rodrigo Puebla ... El Puma the Soldier wrote 9 films and television shows: 2006 Bordertown, 2002 Yosahandi Navarrete Quan ... Josefita's Daughter Frida, 2002 American Family (TV Series), 1997 Selena, 1995 Rodolfo De Alexandre ... Ramon My Family, 1988 A Time of Destiny, 1983 El Norte, 1982 The Emilio Del Haro ... Truck Driver End of August, and 1976 The Confessions of Amans. Jorge Moreno ... Old Man on Bus Palomo Garcia ... Coyote at Bus Station James Glennon (cinematographer) (b. James Michael Diane Cary ... Alice Harper Glennon, August 29, 1942 in Los Angeles, California—d. October 19, 2006 (age 64) in Los Angeles, California) was the Gregory Nava (director, writer) (b. Gregory James Nava, April cinematographer for 61 films and television shows, among them 10, 1949 in San Diego, California) directed 11 films and 2006-2007 “Big Love” (TV Series, 8 episodes), 2004-2006 television shows, which are 2007 “Making of Selena: 10 Years “Deadwood” (TV Series, 19 episodes), 2005 The Big White, Later” (Video documentary short), 2006 Bordertown, 2002 2005 Madison, 2003 “Carnivàle” (TV Series, 6 episodes), 2003 American Family (TV Series), 1999 “The 20th Century: Good Boy!, 2003 The United States of Leland, 2002 About American Tapestry” (TV Movie documentary), 1998 Why Do Schmidt, 2002 Local Boys, 2002 Life Without Dick, 2002 “The Nava—EL NORTE—2 West Wing” (TV Series), 2001 Viva Las Nowhere, 2000 Playing David Villalpando ... Enrique (b. January 2, 1959 in Mexico Mona Lisa, 2000 South of Heaven, West of Hell, 1999 The City, Distrito Federal, Mexico) appeared in 21 films and TV Runner, 1999 Election, 1997 “Two Voices” (TV Movie), 1997 shows, which are 2008 “La rosa de Guadalupe” (TV Series), “L.A. Johns” (TV Movie), 1996 Mojave Moon, 1996 Invader, 2004 “La escuelita VIP” (TV Series, 45 episodes), 2003 “La casa 1996 “Co-ed Call Girl” (TV Movie), 1996 Citizen Ruth, 1994 de la risa” (TV Series), 1999 “Acapulco H.E.A.T.” (TV Series), Judicial Consent, 1993 “Angel Falls” (TV Series), 1993 “The 1998 The Mask of Zorro, 1998 “Cero en conducta” (TV Series), Disappearance of Nora” (TV Movie), 1992 The Lounge People, 1997 Dance with the Devil, 1997 Men with Guns, 1997 Por si no 1992 “In the Deep Woods” (TV Movie), 1991 December, 1991 te vuelvo a ver, 1996 The Arrival, 1994 La hija del Puma, 1993 “Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story” “Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7” (TV Movie), 1992 (TV Movie), 1990 A Show of Force, 1988 Lemon Sky, 1986 The Harvest, 1991 Retorno a Aztlán, 1990 “Nazca” (TV Series), Flight of the Navigator, 1985 Smooth Talk, 1985 “My Wicked, 1989 No se asombre sargento (Short), 1989 Goitia, un dios para Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn” (TV Movie), 1984 sí mismo, 1987 The Delos Adventure, 1987 Y yo que la quiero Up the Creekz, 1984 “Last of the Great Survivors” (TV Movie), tanto (Short), and 1983 El Norte. 1983 El Norte, 1981 Prisoners, and 1977 Jaws of Death (Documentary). Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez ... Rosa (b. November 2, 1959 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico) appeared in 71 films and Betsy Blankett Milicevic (editor) edited 7 films and TV shows: television shows, among them 2015 “Que te perdone Dios” (TV 1997 “Dead by Midnight” (TV Movie), 1988 Riding Fast, 1988 Series, 37 episodes), 2013-2014 “Qué pobres tan ricos” (TV A Time of Destiny, 1985 “The Blue Yonder” (TV Movie), 1983 Series, 167 episodes), 2013 Actores S.A., 2012 “A Shelter for El Norte, 1981 “The Sophisticated Gents” (TV Movie), and 1979 Love” (TV Series, 159 episodes), 2010-2011 “Para volver a Penitentiary. amar” (TV Series, 146 episodes), 2010 El Narco, 2008 Enemigos íntimos, 2008 “La rosa de Guadalupe” (TV Series), 2007 Niñas Mal, 2006 “Duel of Passions” (TV Series), 1996- 2006 “Mujer, casos de la vida real” (TV Series, 19 episodes), 2003 Zurdo, 2002 Dark Cities, 1996 Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda, 1992 Wild Blue Moon, 1991 Highway Patrolman, 1991 City of the Blind, 1987 Gaby: A True Story, 1986 Firewalker, 1986 Miracles, 1985 Viaje al paraíso, 1983 El Norte, and 1975 La lucha con la pantera. Alicia del Lago ... Lupe (b. January 11, 1935 in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico) appeared in 73 films and television shows, some of which are 2006 “Heridas de amor” (TV Series), 2006 The Girl on the Stone, 2003 “Real Love” (TV Series), 2001 Green Stones, 1997 “Gente bien” (TV Series, 87 episodes), 1997 “Madame le consul” (TV Series), 1996 “Marisol” (TV Series), 1995 La revancha, 1995 My Family, 1992 Gertrudis, 1989 Old Gringo, 1983 El Norte, 1978 The Children of Sanchez, 1978 Cananea, 1977 The Chosen One, 1975 The House in the South, 1975 El valle de los miserables, 1971 Mama Dolores, 1969 Ernesto Gómez Cruz ... Arturo (b. November 7, 1933 in Memories of the Future, 1967 The Female Soldier, 1963 The Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico) appeared in 178 films and Paper Man, 1959 The Soldiers of Pancho Villa, 1958 Sierra television shows, including 2014 “El Mariachi” (TV Series), Baron, 1958 The Bravados, 1958 Los salvajes, 1956 The Hidden 2013 Las Armas del Alba, 2012 “Capadocia” (TV Series, 10 One, and 1954 Roots. episodes), 2012 The Fifth Commandment, 2010 El Narco, 2010 On Childhood, 2008 Teo's Journey, 2007 El guapo, 2002 El crimen del padre Amaro, 2001 The Mexican, 1999 Herod's Law, 1998 Fraude en el sexenio, 1996 Los vuelcos del corazón, 1994 Tramp, 1993 Santo: The Legend of the Man in the Silver Mask, 1992 Mister barrio, 1991 Highway Patrolman, 1991 Latino Bar, 1990 Sandino, 1987 Zapata en Chinameca, 1985 Dos pistoleros violentos, 1984 Arizona, 1984 The Evil That Men Do, 1983 El Norte, 1983 Eréndira, 1983 El guerrillero del norte, 1982 La combi asesina, 1982 Días de combate, 1982 A Married Woman, 1979 Life Sentence, 1978 Roots of Blood, 1977 The Rattlesnake, 1975 Tívoli, 1975 The One Who Came from Heaven, 1974 La muerte de Pancho Villa, 1972 Tacos al carbón, 1971 No Exit, 1970 Zapata, and 1967 The Outsiders. Nava—EL NORTE—3 Héctor Tobar: “Promised Land: El Norte” (Criterion notes) fought in the Western Hemisphere. Nava filmed much of his movie in Mexico because Guatemala was then ruled by the In the 1980s, with the wounds of the Vietnam War still fresh in military dictatorship placed in power by a CIA-orchestrated coup the collective American memory, Hollywood took up the themes d’état in 1954. In the 1980s, in response to growing militancy of empire, democracy, and war. A series of films transported among Mayan Indians, the Guatemalan army launched a Americans to distant countries and exotic locales where small scorched-earth policy in the country’s Mayan-speaking regions. and bloody conflicts of the cold war were being fought. Ronald Entire villages were wiped off the map: it was the closest thing to Reagan had called the Soviet Union the “Evil Empire.” The genocide in Latin America since the Spanish conquest. These focus of U.S. foreign policy had turned to a handful of Latin acts of rebellion and repression are the backdrop of the events American countries where right-wing dictators waged war depicted in El Norte, which is the family drama of Enrique and against leftist rebels. In response, filmmakers raided studio Rosa Xuncax, the earnest brother and sister whose flight from wardrobe closets for the uniforms of foreign armies and their Guatemala’s violence becomes a grand, cross-border epic. gold-braided epaulets; and they lined up Latino actors to play There isn’t a word of English spoken for almost the banana republic strongmen and right-wing hit men. entire first hour of El Norte. Instead, Nava’s fine ensemble of For Salvador (1986), dozens of actors were hired to Mexican, Central American, and U.S. Latino actors speak the portray the tortured corpses of El Salvador’s recent history, and K’iche’ Mayan language and Spanish with well-practiced Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman paired up to tell a story about the Guatemalan and Mexican idioms and accents. Even the beer revolution against Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in served at the table of Rosa and Enrique’s village home is a real Under Fire (1983). These films borrowed heavily from the Guatemalan brand, as Nava brings to El Norte a unique blend of narrative formula mastered decades earlier by British writer authenticity and dream realism. Graham Greene. In novels such as The Quiet American, Our Man Nava’s dreamlike imagery, though, is grounded by a in Havana, and The Comedians, Greene tossed idealistic and realistic brutality. The violence that falls upon the family after cynical Westerners into the absurd theater of third world political the act of defiance by Rosa and Enrique’s father, Arturo, rings conflict and imperial intrigue.