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THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN Volume 19 Number 3 (May-June 2013) The mexican Film bulletin Luis Rodríguez for Los mejores temas Volume 19 number 3 MayMay----junejune 2013 Ariel Awards 2013 The 55 th Ariel Awards ceremony was held on 28 May Best Original Screenplay 2013 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. El Michel Franco for Después de Lucía premio won Paula Markovitch for El premio 4 prizes, Raúl Fuentes for Todo el mundo tiene a alguien menos yo including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Film, Laura Santullo for La demora while El Diana Cardozo for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas fantástico Israel Cárdenas y Matías Meyer for Los últimos cristeros mundo de Best Photography Juan Orol Carlos Hidalgo for El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol and La vida Wojciech Staron for El premio precoz y María José Secco for La demora breve de Damián García for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas Sabina Rivas received 3 awards each. Lifetime Jerónimo Rodríguez for Todo el mundo tiene a alguien Achievement Arieles de Oro were awarded to actress menos yo Columba Domínguez, actor Mario Almada (shown above), Best Editing and director Rafael Corkidi. Valentina Leduc for Carrière 250 metros Lorena Moriconi, Mariana Rodríguez y Paula 2013 ARIELES (winners in bold ) Markovitch for El premio Best Film León Felipe González for Los últimos cristeros El premio Best Sound La demora Matías Barberis, Jaime Baksht y Pablo Tamez for Los últimos cristeros de Luc, la película Cuates de Australia Best Direction Samuel Larson, Pablo Tamez, Pedro Mejía, Alfredo Paula Markovitch for El premio Loaeza y Miguel Molina Gutiérrez for El sueño de Lú Rodrigo Plá for La demora Fernando Cámara y Martín Hernández for La vida precoz y Luis Mandoki for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas breve de Sabina Rivas Matías Meyer for Los últimos cristeros Alejandro de Icaza y Raúl Locatelli for Los últimos Best Actress cristeros Tessa Ia for Después de Lucía Best Original Music Score Paula Galinelli Hertzog for El premio Leonardo Heiblum y Jacobo Lieberman for Carrière Úrsula Pruneda for El sueño de Lú 250 metros Roxana Blanco for La demora Alejandro Castaños for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Greisy Mena for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas Rivas Best Actor Galo Durán for Los últimos cristeros Hernán Mendoza for Después de Lucía Best Art Direction Roberto Sosa for El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol Salvador Parra for Cristiada Francisco Cruz for Entre la noche y el día Óscar Tello y Bárbara Enríquez for El premio Carlos Vallarino for La demora Antonio Muñohierro for La vida precoz y breve de Best Co-Starring Actress Sabina Rivas Sharon Herrera for El premio [no name? ] for Todo el mundo tiene a alguien menos yo Mari Carmen Farias for El sueño de Lú Best Costumes Angelina Peláez for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Deborah Medina for El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol Rivas Victoria Pugliese y Macarena Pazos for El premio Best Co-Starring Actor Adela Cortázar for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas Daniel Giménez Cacho for Colosio el asesinato Nohemí González for Los últimos cristeros Dagoberto Gama for Colosio el asesinato Best Makeup Gerardo Trejoluna for El sueño de Lú Alfredo Mora for Colosio el asesinato 1 THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN Volume 19 Number 3 (May-June 2013) David Ruiz Gameros for Depositarios professionally in the early 1960s. His distinctive, deep Carla Tinoco y Alfredo García for La vida precoz y breve voice served him well in numerous roles on television— de Sabina Rivas including more than 40 telenovelas , most recently Iñaqui Legaspi for Los últimos cristeros “Mañana es para siempre” in 2009--on the stage, and in the Best Visual Effects cinema. Gabriel Kerlegand for Colosio El asesinato Lizalde’s films include Viento Víctor Velázquez y Alejandro Berea for Depositarios negro , La mentira, El escapulario, Leandro Visconti for Morelos La noche violenta, El monasterio Best Special Effects de los buitres, and Ángela Efeccine Mobile Alejandro Vázquez, Salvador Servin Morante--crimen o suicidio. Casas y Guillermo Jiménez Robles for Depositarios In the late 1970s, Lizalde was Adrián Durán for La vida precoz y breve de Sabina one of a group of actors who Rivas broke away from actors’ union Alejandro Vázquez y Sergio Jara for Morelos ANDA and formed the Sindicato Best First Work de Actores Independientes. The El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol by Sebastián del Amo experiment eventually failed, and a number of the El premio by Paula Markovitch participants were temporarily blacklisted. Todo el mundo tiene a alguien menos yo by Raúl Fuentes Enrique Lizalde is survived by his wife, Tita Greig, Best Feature-Length Documentary four children, and 8 grandchildren. Carrière 250 metros by Juan Carlos Rulfo, co-director: Natalia Gil Torner Cuates de Australia by Everardo González Raúl Padilla “Chóforo” El paciente interno by Alejandro Solar Luna Comic actor Raúl Padilla “Chóforo” died of a heart La revolución de los alcatraces by Luciana Kaplan attack in Mexico City on 24 May Palabras mágicas (para romper un encantamiento) by 2013; he was 73 years old. Felipe Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez Raúl Padilla Inclán was born in Best Fictional Short 1940, the son of actor Raúl La tiricia o cómo curar la tristeza by Ángeles Cruz “Chato” Padilla” and actress Lili Lucy contra los límites de la voz by Mónica Herrera Inclán. Although it’s said his first Para armar un helicóptero by Izabel Acevedo “acting” performance came at the Best Documentary Short age of 6 months—playing the baby Jesus in a stage La herida se mantiene abierta by Alberto Cortés performance—Padilla began to work regularly on TV and Las montañas invisibles by Ángel Linares in films in the 1970s, becoming a popular performer in Mitote by Eugenio Polgovsky sexy-comedies of the 1980s. He also worked on the stage Paal by Christoph Müller y Víctor Vargas Villafuerte and in numerous TV series and telenovelas : at the time of Best Animated Short his death, Padilla was appearing in one of the latter, “Qué Como perros y gatos by Armando Vega- Gil bonito amor.” Dame posada by Cecilio Vargas Torres La noria by Karla Castañeda Un ojo by Lorenza Manrique Alfredo Landa Best Ibero-American Film Spanish actor Alfredo Landa, whose frequent roles as Blancanieves by Pablo Berger (Spain) the sad-sack protagonist of 1970s comedies gave rise to the No by Pablo Larraín (Chile) term landismo , died on 9 May Pescador by Sebastián Cordero (Ecuador) 2013. He was 80 years old. Lifetime Achievement Ariel de Oro A former law student, Landa Mario Almada turned to acting in the late 1950s. Columba Domínguez After making his name in comedy, Rafael Corkidi Landa proved he was an excellent dramatic actor as well, winning two Best Actor Goyas (Spain’s Obituaries equivalent of the Oscar and Ariel) and receiving 5 additional nominations in the 1998-2008 Enrique LLizaldeizalde period. His most notable films include El crack (1981), Enrique Lizalde, whose 50-year career as an actor Los santos inocentes (1984), and El bosque animado encompassed numerous films, telenovelas , and plays, died (1987). He retired in 2007 and received a lifetime on 3 June 2013 of liver cancer. Enrique Lizalde Chávez achievement Goya. was born in the state of Nayarit in 1937 and began acting 2 THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN Volume 19 Number 3 (May-June 2013) Alfredo Landa appeared in various Spanish-Mexican Espinosa ( cowboy ), José Antonio Marroz ( himself—ANDA co-productions during his career, including El representative ), Marcelo Villamil & Mirón Levine ( men at rediezcubrimiento de México, Amigo, Piernas cruzadas film screening ); Tomás Pérez Turrent, Fernando Gou, and El profesor eróticus. Francisco Sánchez, Jorge Cantú ( themselves—panelists on He is survived by his wife and 3 children. TV show ) Notes: tragic tales of film actresses have been popular in Hollywood, Mexico, and (one assumes) elsewhere for Steve Forrest many years. In Mexico, Ambiciosa (1952), and La estrella Steve Forrest, a familiar face in Hollywood films and vacía (1958) are two notable, early examples. Two more television shows from the 1950s through the 1990s, died examinations of the topic, Ángela Morante--crimen o on 18 May 2013 in California; he was 87 years old. suicidio and Adriana del Río, actriz , were produced in William Forrest Andrews was 1978. born in Texas in 1925. After serving Ángela Morante--crimen o suicidio is formally quite in the Army during WWII, Andrews interesting. Told Citizen Kane-style (a reporter moved to Hollywood and began an investigates the life of a recently-deceased celebrity, acting career. His much older (16 interviewing years) brother Dana Andrews was people who knew already a leading man, which may them), it mixes have led to the newcomer taking the current sequences name “Steve Forrest.” He appeared with flashbacks, in numerous films and television shows, including regular generally with no stints on “S.W.A.T.” and “Dallas.” film-grammar Steve Forrest’s Mexican film connection was his “warning signs” appearance in The Living Idol , a U.S.-Mexican (i.e., no dissolve, coproduction shot in Mexico in 1956. fade, or verbal introduction). To complicate matters Enrique Lizalde films further, several scenes are repeated from different points of Ángela Morante--crimen o suicidio [Ángela view. This nonlinear narrative method isn’t confusing or distracting, at least after the first “unannounced” flashback. Morante: Crime or Suicide?]* (CONACITE Dos, [As is our standard practice, the plot synopsis does not 1978) Dir : José attempt to reproduce the order of flashbacks in the film, Estrada; Scr : but merely recounts the basic events covered.] Mauricio Roberto Lobo, a reporter for “La Voz” newspaper, Mondolfi, José learns of the death of actress Ángela Morante, an Estrada; Photo : “accidental suicide.” At her palatial home, the police Miguel Garzón; admit the press—over the objections of a young woman, Music : Héctor apparently a friend or servant—and the photographers take Sánchez; Prod photos of the dead woman’s nude corpse.