Film

Mexican film. The Golden Age of the 1930s to 1950s and its stars, Buñuel's Mexican period, the studios and the picture palaces, the posters and lobby cards which are separate works from the films and often outlive them, and the modern directors who took five Best Director Oscars in six years.

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185 moments in this segment.

1. 1933 - El Prisionero 13 - Cine en línea. Filmoteca UNAM presents El Prisionero 13. The film belongs to Fernando de Fuentes' Revolution trilogy, made in the early 1930s.
2. 1934 - Inauguración del Palacio de Bellas Artes - Archivo Vivo Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes footage of the Palacio de Bellas Artes inauguration in its Archivo Vivo series. The building opened in 1934 after decades of interrupted construction.
3. 1934 - Dos monjes, 1934 (versión restaurada) - Cine en línea. Filmoteca UNAM presents its restoration of Dos monjes from 1934. The film predates the Golden Age proper and uses expressionist lighting rarely seen in Mexican production.
4. 1936 - Películas mexicanas | 🤠 Allá en el RANCHO GRANDE (1936) | Tito Guízar | Película Completa. Allá en el Rancho Grande from 1936, presented complete. The film opened the Golden Age and created the singing charro genre.
5. 1936 - Archive footage of Sights Around Mexico in 1936. Archive footage of Mexico filmed in 1936. Foreign actuality material of the period sits alongside the domestic newsreel record.
6. 1940 - Cantinflas "Ahí está el detalle" Película Completa. Ahí está el detalle presented complete. Cantinflas built the film on verbal misdirection rather than on plot.
7. 1940 - Cantinflas Ahí está el detalle 1940 colorized remastered 4k version 2. A colourised restoration of Ahí está el detalle. Mario Moreno invented the name Cantinflas so his parents would not learn he was in show business, a story he confirmed himself in 1992.
8. 1940 - "Ahí está el detalle" 1940 - Cantinflas. The 1940 feature Ahí está el detalle in full. The Real Academia Española admitted cantinflear to the dictionary in 1992, in his lifetime.
9. 1940 - Cantinflas Mario Moreno 1940 Ahí está el Detalle remastered 4k. A remastered extract from Cantinflas in Ahí está el detalle, 1940. The film was his breakthrough and established the character nationally.
10. 1942 - Historia de un Gran Amor (1942) (película completa) Jorge Negrete. Historia de un Gran Amor from 1942 with Jorge Negrete. Wartime supply advantages let Mexico produce at volume while other industries could not.
11. 1943 - México de Mis Recuerdos 1943 PELÍCULA COMPLETA Joaquín Pardavé y Fernando Soler. México de Mis Recuerdos from 1943 with Joaquín Pardavé. The film looks back nostalgically to the Porfirian era from within the war years.
12. 1943 - El Jorobado Año 1943 Jorge Negrete Cine mexicano época de oro. El Jorobado from 1943 with Jorge Negrete. Mexico joined the Allies in 1942 and gained most favoured nation status, which secured film stock.
13. 1943 - El Rebelde Romance de Antaño (1943) - Jorge Negrete A COLOR. El Rebelde from 1943 with Jorge Negrete, presented in colour. Colourisation is a modern addition; the film was shot in black and white.
14. 1944 - María Candelaria 1944. A note on María Candelaria from 1944. The film is set among the chinampas of Xochimilco.
15. 1944 - María Candelaria Xochimilco 1944 Película Completa. María Candelaria presented complete. Emilio Fernández directed and Gabriel Figueroa photographed it, the partnership that defined the period's look.
16. 1945 - Hasta que Perdió Jalisco (1945) Película completa con Jorge Negrete | Canela.TV. Hasta que Perdió Jalisco from 1945 with Jorge Negrete. Jalisco supplied both the setting and the musical idiom for much of the period.
17. 1945 - Canaima El Dios del Mal / Película Completa. Canaima presented complete. María Félix made 47 films between 1942 and 1978 across five countries.
18. 1945 - La Selva de Fuego (1945) con Dolores del Río y Arturo de Córdova | Película Completa | Canela.TV. La Selva de Fuego from 1945 with Dolores del Río. She won three Silver Ariel awards for Best Actress.
19. 1945 - Bugambilia - Película Completa. Bugambilia presented complete, with Dolores del Río. Emilio Fernández directed her in a sequence of films through the 1940s.
20. 1947 - Me He De Comer Esa Tuna (1947) | Película Completa | Canela.TV. Me He De Comer Esa Tuna from 1947, complete. The Golden Age produced well over a hundred features a year at its peak.
21. 1949 - Allá En El Rancho Grande (1949) | Película Completa con Jorge Negrete | Canela.TV. Allá en el Rancho Grande from 1949 in full. Jorge Negrete died in December 1953, eleven months after marrying María Félix.
22. 1949 - Dos Pesos Dejada (1949) | Tele N | Película Completa. Dos Pesos Dejada from 1949. Urban comedy formed a counterweight to the rural ranchera pictures.
23. 1949 - Allá En El Rancho Grande (1949) con Jorge Negrete | Película Completa | Canela.TV. The 1949 remake of Allá en el Rancho Grande with Jorge Negrete. Remaking the founding hit thirteen years later shows how fixed the formula had become.
24. 1950 - Clásicos latinoamericanos - Luis Buñuel - 1950 - Los olvidados - Canal Encuentro. Los Olvidados from 1950, presented complete. The film's brutal view of Mexico City street children caused an outcry on release.
25. 1950 - La Posesión (1950) - Con Jorge Negrete A COLOR. La Posesión from 1950 with Jorge Negrete. The star system carried the industry as much as any director did.
26. 1950 - Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Buñuel) / Película Completa (Full HD). Buñuel's Los Olvidados presented in full. It was the film that re-established his international reputation after years of obscurity.
27. 1951 - Deseada - Dolores del Rio & Jorge Mistral - 1951 - Película completa color. Deseada from 1951 with Dolores del Río and Jorge Mistral. Melodrama was the dominant register of the period.
28. 1951 - El Guardia de Barrio (1951) Joaquín Pardavé y Mauricio Garcés | Película Completa | Tele N. El Guardia de Barrio from 1951 with Joaquín Pardavé and Mauricio Garcés. Neighbourhood comedy was a staple format of the period.
29. 1951 - Una Carta De Amor (película completa) Jorge Negrete. Una Carta de Amor with Jorge Negrete, complete. Negrete led the actors' union as well as topping the box office.
30. 1951 - Doña Perfecta 1951 Pelicula En HD Dolores del Rio720P HD #cinedeoromexicano. Doña Perfecta from 1951 with Dolores del Río. In 1954 the United States denied her a work permit over suspected communist sympathies, resolved by 1956.
31. 1952 - Los Hijos de María Morales (1952) Película completa con Pedro Infante | Canela.TV. Los Hijos de María Morales from 1952 with Pedro Infante. Family melodrama and comedy were often combined in the same picture.
32. 1952 - Jorge Negrete | Un Gallo En Corral Ajeno | Tele N | Película Completa. Un Gallo en Corral Ajeno with Jorge Negrete. The ranchera comedy was among the most reliably profitable formats.
33. 1952 - Ahora soy rico (1952) Película Mexicana completa de Pedro infante. Ahora soy rico from 1952 with Pedro Infante. His screen persona was working class and unfailingly decent.
34. 1952 - ⭐ La Noche Avanza (1952) | Cine Clásico Mexicano Completo en HD 🎥✨. La Noche Avanza from 1952, directed by Roberto Gavaldón. The film is one of the strongest Mexican entries in the film noir register.
35. 1954 - Contigo Hasta el Final (1954) | Ninón Sevilla | Película Completa | Tele N. Contigo Hasta el Final from 1954 with Ninón Sevilla. The cabaretera films built a genre around nightclub dancers and were enormously popular.
36. 1955 - La ciudad de México (1955) - Cine en línea Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes La ciudad de México from 1955. Documentary shorts of the capital were made for cinema programmes rather than television.
37. 1955 - La Vida No Vale Nada | Pedro Infante (1955) | Tele N | Película Completa |. La Vida No Vale Nada from 1955 with Pedro Infante. The film is among the darker roles he took near the end of his career.
38. 1955 - Escuela de vagabundos (1955) Película completa con Pedro Infante y Miroslava | Canela.TV. Escuela de vagabundos from 1955 with Pedro Infante. Infante made roughly sixty films in fifteen years.
39. 1957 - Señora Ama (1957) - PELÍCULA COMPLETA con Dolores del Río | Cine de Oro | Canela.TV. Señora Ama from 1957 with Dolores del Río. Her Mexican career lasted far longer than her Hollywood one.
40. 1959 - Nazarín, 1959. -Película completa- Francisco Rabal, Marga López y Rita Macedo.. Nazarín from 1959, complete. Buñuel adapted the Galdós novel while working within the Mexican industry.
41. 1961 - La Buena Suerte (1961) | Miguel Aceves Mejía y Sara García | Película Completa. La Buena Suerte from 1961 with Miguel Aceves Mejía and Sara García. The ranchera musical outlasted the Golden Age proper by several years.
42. 1962 - El ángel Exterminador (VERSIÓN SIN CORTES). El ángel exterminador presented uncut. The 1962 film traps its guests in a drawing room they cannot leave, with no explanation offered.
43. 1968 - El Grito - Cine en línea. Filmoteca UNAM publishes El Grito, the film record of the 1968 student movement. Tlatelolco happened on 2 October 1968, ten days before the Olympics opened.
44. 1970 - Entrevista al actor mexicano Mario Moreno Cantinflas 1970. A 1970 interview with Cantinflas. He won a Golden Globe for Around the World in 80 Days in 1956.
45. 1971 - Doña Macabra (1971) Dir. Roberto Gavaldón Película Completa. Doña Macabra from 1971, directed by Roberto Gavaldón. Gavaldón worked steadily from the Golden Age into the 1970s.
46. 1976 - Canoa - El fanatismo del pueblo. An examination of Canoa and popular fanaticism. The events depicted took place in 1968, the same year as Tlatelolco.
47. 1980 - Archivo TelevisaNews Cumpleaños de María Félix 1980 Facebook. Television archive footage of María Félix on her birthday in 1980. Félix died on 8 April 2002, her 88th birthday.
48. 1982 - Entrevista a Silvia Pinal, en 1982 #JoyasDeTV - Expreso de la Mañana. A 1982 television interview with Silvia Pinal. Broadcast archives hold interviews the film industry never preserved.
49. 1985 - Entrevista a Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”, Actor (1985) | Ricardo Rocha. A 1985 interview with Mario Moreno. He came out of the carpa tent circuit by 1930 before entering film.
50. 1997 - 1997 Un Bunuel Mexicano emilio maillé documentary. Emilio Maillé's 1997 documentary on Buñuel in Mexico. The film treats the Mexican years as central rather than peripheral.
51. 2006 - El laberinto del fauno 2006- película completa español latino. El laberinto del fauno from 2006, presented complete. Del Toro's film took three Oscars from six nominations.
52. 2006 - Ver El laberinto del fauno 2006 Película Completa Online. Pan's Labyrinth in full. The film sets a child's fantasy against the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
53. 2007-06-07 - Documental Arturo Ripstein. A documentary on Arturo Ripstein. He has directed steadily since the mid 1960s.
54. 2008 - Entrevista a Silvia Pinal (2008). A 2008 Canal 22 interview with Silvia Pinal. She produced Viridiana herself, which won the Palme d'Or in 1961.
55. 2009 - The Copper Canyon. The Barrancas del Cobre in the Sierra Tarahumara. Chihuahua, 2009. The canyons and the Chihuahua al Pacífico railway have been used as locations since the studio era.
56. 2013-04-12 - La Ciudad de México en el Tiempo: Luis Buñuel. Canal Once places Buñuel in the history of Mexico City. He lived and worked in the capital for the rest of his life after 1946.
57. 2013 - Ambulantito in San Cristóbal. A screening for children in the Alberto Domínguez Borrás hall. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, 28 April 2013. Ambulante is a travelling documentary festival founded in 2005.
58. 2013 - A screening at the law faculty. The film Que descansen en rebelión shown in the Manuel de Rojas auditorium at UNACH. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, 28 April 2013. Ambulante takes documentaries to places without a cinema.
59. 2013 - Flowers by the Cantinflas statue. Pink and yellow flowers in front of the statue of Cantinflas at the Álvaro Obregón hospital in colonia Roma. Mexico City, 2013. Mario Moreno made about fifty films and died in 1993.
60. 2013-08-11 - DOCUMENTAL Cine de Oro Mexicano. A documentary on Golden Age Mexican cinema. The era ended under television, union bureaucracy and Hollywood's wide screen and colour.
61. 2013-09-05 - Casa Luis Buñuel. Canal Once visits the Casa Luis Buñuel. The house in Mexico City is where he wrote most of his later scripts.
62. 2014-01-24 - Quebranto de Roberto Fiesco. IMCINE presents Roberto Fiesco's Quebranto. The national film institute funds documentary work outside the commercial sector.
63. 2014-02-04 - La Historia detrás del Mito - Cantinflas. A biographical programme on Cantinflas. He died on 20 April 1993 in Mexico City.
64. 2014-02-21 - Laboratorio de Restauración de la Cineteca Nacional. Canal Once visits the Cineteca Nacional restoration laboratory. Nitrate and acetate decay make the work a race against the material itself.
65. 2014-05-02 - Historias de vida - Luis Buñuel. Canal Once's Historias de vida covers Luis Buñuel. Buñuel arrived in Mexico in 1946, naturalised in 1949 and directed 21 films there over eighteen years.
66. 2014-06-03 - 56 entrega de los Premios Ariel, a lo mejor del cine mexicano. The culture ministry covers the 56th Ariel awards. The prize has been given since 1947 with interruptions.
67. 2014 - On the set of Clases de Historia. Marcelino Islas directing Verónica Langer during filming. Photographed 2014. Islas won a Mexican Academy award for the film in 2015.
68. 2014 - Iñárritu and Tom Shoval. The Mexican director as mentor with his protégé. Los Angeles, 2014. The pairing was arranged through the Rolex mentor and protégé programme.
69. 2015-02-22 - “Birdman” gana Óscar a mejor película. AFP reports Birdman winning Best Picture. Iñárritu took Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 2015 ceremony.
70. 2015-07-03 - Ismael Rodríguez. The culture ministry profiles Ismael Rodríguez. Rodríguez directed Pedro Infante in the Nosotros los pobres films that defined his image.
71. 2015-08-14 - Exposición Cineteca Nacional: 40 años de Historia (1974-2014). An exhibition marking forty years of the Cineteca Nacional from 1974. The anniversary show drew on material recovered after the 1982 fire.
72. 2015-08-28 - Inaguración La Galería Cineteca Nacional. The culture ministry inaugurates the Cineteca Nacional gallery. Exhibition space allows the archive to show posters and stills alongside films.
73. 2016-03-06 - Introducción a ÉL - Filmoteca de Sant Joan d'Alacant - "BUÑUEL EN MÉXICO" - Febrero / Marzo 2016. A Spanish filmoteca introduces Buñuel's Él from 1953. The film was made in Mexico and is among his sharpest studies of jealousy.
74. 2016-04-04 - Restauración de "El automóvil gris". The Cineteca Nacional documents its restoration of El automóvil gris. The 1919 serial is among the most important surviving Mexican silent films.
75. 2016 - Editathon at the film archive. The third Wikipedia loves cinema editing session at the Cineteca Nacional. Mexico City, 2016. The archive holds the largest film collection in Latin America.
76. 2016 - Óscar Chávez on the Zócalo. The composer and singer performing on the main square at a concert marking 81 years of life and 50 of work. Mexico City, 2016. Chávez acted in and scored films as well as singing, and died in 2020.
77. 2016 - The Centro Cultural Bella Época. The facade of the centre in Colonia Condesa. Mexico City, 2016. The building was the Cine Lido, converted in 2006 to a bookshop and cultural centre by Teodoro González de León.
78. 2016 - Seats at the Cine Lido. The auditorium seating in the cinema kept inside the cultural centre. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. One screening room was preserved when the cinema became a bookshop.
79. 2016 - The Cine Lido. The cinema within the Centro Cultural Bella Época. Mexico City, 2016. The Lido opened in the 1940s, in the years the Mexican industry was at its largest.
80. 2016 - The Lido entrance. The main way into the cinema at the cultural centre. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. Condesa was built out in the 1920s and 1930s and is full of art deco.
81. 2016 - Stairs at the Lido. The steps outside the cinema in the Bella Época centre. Mexico City, 2016. The conversion kept the cinema's volume and put a bookshop under it.
82. 2016 - The bookshop at Bella Época. The Rosario Castellanos bookshop in the former cinema. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. It is run by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, the state publishing house founded in 1934.
83. 2016 - Filming El Silencio de Augusto. Adrián Contreras directing Regina Orozco. Photographed 2016. Orozco is an opera singer as well as an actress and has worked with Ripstein.
84. 2016 - Inside the Lido auditorium. The screening room with its black seats and two entrances. Centro Cultural Bella Época, Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. The room is used for repertory programming rather than new releases.
85. 2016 - The Rosario Castellanos bookshop. The bright, high space of the bookshop in the converted cinema. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. Rosario Castellanos was a Chiapas novelist and poet who died in 1974.
86. 2016 - The café at Bella Época. A small café inside the cultural centre on Calle Michoacán. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. The complex was the Mercado Michoacán and the cinema before it was a bookshop.
87. 2016 - Books for sale. A customer among the shelves at the Rosario Castellanos bookshop. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. The Fondo de Cultura Económica keeps its whole back catalogue in print here.
88. 2016 - The bookshop stairs. The wide staircase inside the converted cinema. Centro Cultural Bella Época, Mexico City, 2016. The stairs run where the cinema's rake once was.
89. 2016 - The library interior. The airy bookshop hall in the Bella Época centre on Calle Michoacán. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. The building holds about a quarter of a million volumes.
90. 2016 - Between the shelves. A corridor in the Rosario Castellanos bookshop. Condesa, Mexico City, 2016. The wave-form ceiling is González de León's, added in the 2006 conversion.
91. 2016 - Looking down on the bookshop. The Rosario Castellanos hall seen from the upper level. Centro Cultural Bella Época, Mexico City, 2016. A cinema built for the golden age now holds books instead of an audience.
92. 2017-05-04 - La película - documental / Cine en línea / Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM presents a documentary about film itself. Preservation work is slow and most Mexican silent cinema is already lost.
93. 2017-05-10 - Alfonso Cuarón entrevista a Felipe Cazals a propósito de Canoa (1976). Alfonso Cuarón interviews Felipe Cazals about Canoa. Cazals' 1976 film reconstructs a lynching and is among the strongest Mexican political films.
94. 2017 - At the Luis Buñuel film school. A talk on the Sundance Documentary Fund during the Ambulante festival, 24 May 2017. Escuela Veracruzana de Cine Luis Buñuel. Buñuel made twenty films in Mexico between 1946 and 1965 and took Mexican citizenship.
95. 2017 - La libertad del diablo screened. A showing at Cinépolis Plaza Río, 26 April 2017. Everardo González's film interviews victims and perpetrators of violence, all wearing the same mask.
96. 2017 - Lucía Gajá and Batallas íntimas. The documentary maker photographed for the Ambulante festival. 2017. Batallas íntimas follows five women across five countries who survived domestic violence.
97. 2017-10-12 - CINEMA 20.1 CINE DE TERROR, CON ROBERTO FIESCO. TV UNAM's Cinema 20.1 covers horror cinema with Roberto Fiesco. Mexican horror ran parallel to the wrestling film cycle.
98. 2017-12-12 - LA HISTORIA DETRÁS DE LA CINETECA NACIONAL | Documental. A second documentary account of the Cineteca Nacional's history. The institution rebuilt its collection substantially after the fire.
99. 2017-12-14 - La historia detrás de la cineteca | Documental. A documentary on the history behind the Cineteca. The 1982 fire destroyed thousands of prints and killed several people.
100. 2017-12-31 - Luis Buñuel documentary. A documentary on Luis Buñuel. His Mexican output is often treated as a commercial interlude, which underrates it substantially.
101. 2018-02-07 - El reportaje: Luis Buñuel. The Chamber of Deputies broadcasts a report on Luis Buñuel. Los Olvidados was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2003.
102. 2018-03-12 - FILMOTECA UNAM. TV UNAM introduces the Filmoteca. Film preservation in Mexico is largely a university responsibility rather than a commercial one.
103. 2018-08-16 - ESPECIAL CINEMATECA CINE MEXICANO. ENTREVISTA CON ARTURO RIPSTEIN. TV UNAM interviews Arturo Ripstein at length. His work marks the shift from studio melodrama to auteur cinema.
104. 2018-09-27 - LOS ROLLOS PERDIDOS DOCUMENTAL(2018). Los Rollos Perdidos, a 2018 documentary. The film pursues footage of the 1968 student movement that was seized and hidden.
105. 2019-05-23 - Malú Huacuja del Toro: escritura crítica para el cine. Cinema 20.1 con Roberto Fiesco. TV UNAM hosts Malú Huacuja del Toro on critical writing for cinema. Film criticism in Mexico developed largely through university and cultural supplements.
106. 2019-06-12 - Exposición Gaumont en la Cineteca Nacional (Documental). A Gaumont exhibition at the Cineteca Nacional. French production companies distributed in Mexico from the silent era.
107. 2019 - The roof of the Cineteca. The structure of the national film archive seen from below. Mexico City, 2019. The Cineteca lost around 6,500 films and its building in a fire in March 1982 and was rebuilt.
108. 2019 - The tunnel. The passage connecting the shops and the screening rooms at the Cineteca. Mexico City, 2019. The 2012 remodelling added an open-air forum and a shaded plaza.
109. 2019 - An entrance to the screens. The side of one of the eleven auditoria of the Cineteca Nacional. Mexico City, 2019. The complex also programmes free open-air screenings.
110. 2019 - The Cineteca Nacional. The front of the film archive on Avenida México Coyoacán 389. Mexico City, 2019. The rebuilt Cineteca was inaugurated on 27 January 1984, two years after the fire.
111. 2019 - A Roma location, in black and white. One of the Mexico City streets used in Alfonso Cuarón's film, photographed in monochrome. 2019. Cuarón shot Roma in the colonia where he grew up, and it won him a second directing Oscar in 2019.
112. 2019 - Another Roma location. A filming location for Roma in the capital, in black and white. Mexico City, 2019. The film was shot in 65mm black and white by Cuarón himself after Lubezki became unavailable.
113. 2019 - Where Roma was filmed. A street used in the 2018 film. Mexico City, 2019. The Corpus Christi massacre of June 1971, staged in the film, happened in these streets.
114. 2019 - The location in monochrome. The same Roma filming location rendered in black and white. Mexico City, 2019. Roma was the first Netflix film to win the Academy Award for best foreign language film.
115. 2019 - Ambulante panel, 2019. Senator Emilio Álvarez Icaza with María Inés Roqué of Ambulante and Ignacio Jovtis of Amnesty International. Photographed 2019. Roqué's own documentary Familia tortuga dealt with her father's disappearance in the 1970s.
116. 2019-08-02 - Arturo Ripstein, orígenes. Cinema 20.1 con Roberto Fiesco. TV UNAM covers the origins of Arturo Ripstein with Roberto Fiesco. Ripstein began as an assistant to Buñuel.
117. 2019-10-07 - Cantinflas trabaja en el Archivo, Homenaje a los Archivistas. Cantinflas appears in a piece honouring archivists. His films are now among the most requested holdings in Mexican archives.
118. 2019-12-03 - Documental de Alfonso Cuarón. A documentary on Alfonso Cuarón. Cuarón won Best Director in 2014 for Gravity, the first Latin American to take the award, and again in 2019 for Roma.
119. 2020-01-31 - Itinerario - Buñuel en México. Canal Once's Itinerario covers Buñuel in Mexico. His Mexican period is the longest and most productive of his career.
120. 2020-02-20 - Los Titanes del Cine. Ismael Rodríguez – Frank Capra – Roberto Gavaldón.. A museum programme setting Ismael Rodríguez beside Frank Capra. Mexican popular cinema is rarely compared to Hollywood on equal terms.
121. 2020-03-05 - D Todo - Luis Buñuel (26/02/2020). Canal Once's D Todo devotes an episode to Buñuel. Los Olvidados won him Best Director at Cannes in 1951.
122. 2020-04-05 - Ora sí ¡Tenemos que ganar! - Cine en línea. Filmoteca UNAM presents Ora sí ¡Tenemos que ganar! Documentary production at the university covered labour and land struggles the commercial industry ignored.
123. 2020-04-10 - Jueves de cine en Casa Buñuel. Roberto Fiesco conversa con Arturo Ripstein. Cultura UNAM hosts a film evening at Casa Buñuel with Roberto Fiesco. The house now functions as a venue for film discussion.
124. 2020-04-19 - El Cambio - Cine en línea - Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes El Cambio. Mexican cinema after the Golden Age turned toward social realism and away from the studio genres.
125. 2020-04-30 - Los Confines - Cine en línea. Filmoteca UNAM publishes Los Confines. The archive's Cine en línea programme puts restored features online without charge.
126. 2020-05-03 - De todos modos Juan te llamas - Cine en línea. Filmoteca UNAM presents De todos modos Juan te llamas. Political cinema of the 1970s was largely made through state or university funding.
127. 2020-06-04 - Mimi Derba - Miradas al cine mexicano / Cine en Línea - Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM devotes a programme to Mimi Derba. Derba was among the first women to direct and produce films in Mexico, working from 1917.
128. 2020-09-14 - Servicios Cineteca. The Cineteca Nacional sets out the services it offers. Access to the collection is part of the archive's public remit.
129. 2021-01-08 - Documental "Historia del cine mexicano". A documentary on the history of Mexican cinema. The industry has moved through several distinct commercial eras.
130. 2021-01-18 - SALA 0 | Historia de la Cineteca. The Cineteca Nacional tells its own history in SALA 0. The Cineteca opened in 1974 and lost much of its collection in a fire in 1982.
131. 2021-04-30 - La Historia del Cine Mexicano (1896 - actualidad) | Documental. A documentary history of Mexican cinema from 1896 to the present. Film arrived in Mexico within months of the Lumière premiere.
132. 2021-06-11 - Curso Historia del cine de terror: desde el silente hasta nuestros días. The Cineteca Nacional offers a course on the history of horror cinema. Mexican horror developed its own tradition through the wrestling films and the gothic melodramas.
133. 2021 - The old Cine Monterrey. The former cinema in the middle of Monterrey, now a popular market. Nuevo León, 2021. Hundreds of Mexican cinemas were converted to markets, churches and car parks after the 1990s.
134. 2021-07-16 - Itinerario - El cine mexicano en el cartel extranjero. Canal Once examines Mexican cinema in foreign poster design. Posters are separate works from the films and often survive when prints do not.
135. 2022-03-12 - Documental Cambio de mando presidencial - Cineteca Nacional. A Cineteca Nacional documentary on a presidential handover. Newsreel of political ritual forms a substantial part of the national collection.
136. 2022 - Iñárritu speaking. The director at BFI Southbank, October 2022. Bardo, his return to shooting in Mexico, screened that year.
137. 2022 - The director in London. Iñárritu at BFI Southbank, 9 October 2022. Amores perros was shot in Mexico City on a small budget and changed what the industry thought was possible.
138. 2022 - At the BFI, October 2022. Alejandro González Iñárritu during his appearance in London. He is one of the three directors the press called the amigos, with Cuarón and del Toro.
139. 2022 - At Southbank. Alejandro González Iñárritu during the BFI event. October 2022. He was the first Mexican to win the directing Oscar in consecutive years.
140. 2022 - Iñárritu at the BFI. Alejandro González Iñárritu at BFI Southbank on 9 October 2022. He won the directing Oscar twice running, for Birdman in 2015 and The Revenant in 2016.
141. 2022 - The Cine Coliseo. The front of the cinema on 2 Poniente 304, a meeting point for several generations. Puebla, 2022. Single-screen neighbourhood cinemas were the standard form in Mexico until the multiplex arrived in the 1990s.
142. 2022 - The last of the BFI series. Iñárritu photographed at the London event. 9 October 2022. Mexican directors took five best director Oscars in six years between 2014 and 2019.
143. 2022 - Iñárritu in conversation. The director at the BFI, 9 October 2022. He began in radio in Mexico City before making Amores perros in 2000.
144. 2022-09-02 - Las Calles Negras - Miradas al cine mexicano / Cine en Línea - Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM presents Las Calles Negras in its Miradas al cine mexicano series. The strand pairs restored films with critical introductions.
145. 2022-11-29 - M5P3 Encuentros entre un cine político y un teatro épico: Canoa (1976) de Felipe Cazals y sus.... A UNAM history seminar on political cinema and epic theatre. Academic film study in Mexico is centred on the national university.
146. 2023-01-16 - Sara García: Entrevista inédita de Abraham Zabludovsky en 1976 - Expreso de la Mañana. An unreleased interview with Sara García by Abraham Zabludovsky. García played the archetypal grandmother in scores of Mexican films.
147. 2023-03-08 - Rita, el documental | Promo. Canal 22 promotes Rita, el documental. The public culture channel commissions documentary on Mexican cultural figures.
148. 2023-05-09 - Contribuye con la película biográfica de Lupe Vélez, el Archivo histórico potosino. A report on a biographical film about Lupe Vélez. Vélez worked in Hollywood from the 1920s and died in 1944.
149. 2023-06-01 - las 35 Mujeres mas bellas de la Época de Oro | Documental. A survey of leading actresses of the Golden Age. The star system was built around a small number of contracted performers.
150. 2023 - Jaime Baksht on sound. The Mexican audio engineer at a press conference on sound in cinema. Mexico City, 2023. Baksht shared the Academy Award for sound for Sound of Metal in 2021.
151. 2023 - Lila Avilés at Berlin. The director at the premiere of Tótem at the Berlinale in 2023. Avilés made La camarista, her first feature, in 2018.
152. 2023 - Paula Astorga teaching. A master class, Cinema in your hands, given by Paula Astorga on 9 November 2023. Astorga directed the Cineteca Nacional from 2009 to 2013.
153. 2023-06-30 - A 50 años del fallecimiento de Tin Tan. The Fonoteca Nacional marks fifty years since the death of Tin Tan. Germán Valdés built a pachuco character out of border culture and bilingual wordplay.
154. 2023-10-18 - El lado oscuro de la época de oro del Cine Mexicano | Documental. A documentary on the darker side of the Golden Age. Studio contracts and union structures constrained performers severely.
155. 2024-04-30 - Entrevista a Guillermo del Toro: contar historias como hacen los niños (2006). Canal 22 interviews Guillermo del Toro on storytelling. Del Toro won Best Director in 2018 for The Shape of Water, which also took Best Picture.
156. 2024 - Cuarón at Venice, 2024. Alfonso Cuarón with Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen at the Disclaimer premiere at the 81st Venice film festival. Cuarón won the Academy Award for directing in 2014 for Gravity, the first of five Mexican wins in six years.
157. 2024 - Daniela Rojas at Toronto. The set decorator at the 2024 Toronto film festival for Pedro Páramo. The Rulfo novel of 1955 had been filmed several times before this version.
158. 2024 - Cuarón at Telluride. Alfonso Cuarón during the closing seminar at the 2024 Telluride film festival. He shot Y tu mamá también in Mexico in 2001 between English-language films.
159. 2024-09-25 - Datos pocos conocidos de María Candelaria - Sin conservadores. Cultura UNAM offers little known facts about María Candelaria. The 1943 film was the first Mexican film screened at Cannes and won the Golden Palm in 1946.
160. 2024-10-13 - Chepo y Meléndez capturan a Santos | Capítulo 70 | Doña Bárbara. An episode from a Doña Bárbara adaptation. Félix took the nickname La Doña from the 1943 film of that title.
161. 2024-10-31 - El Origen del Cine Mexicano - Bully Magnets - Historia Documental. A documentary on the origin of Mexican cinema. Early production was heavily documentary, recording the Revolution as it happened.
162. 2024-11-18 - Pedro Infante - Archivo Vivo Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes archive footage of Pedro Infante. Infante died on 15 April 1957, at the peak of his popularity.
163. 2024-11-29 - Entrevista a Silvia Pinal sobre su niñez, su vida y los inicios de su carrera (1997). Canal 22 interviews Silvia Pinal about her childhood and her beginnings. Pinal crossed from Mexican commercial cinema into Buñuel's late work.
164. 2024-12-04 - Silvia Pinal - Archivo Vivo Filmoteca UNAM. Archive footage of Silvia Pinal from the Filmoteca UNAM collection. Pinal starred in three Buñuel features including Viridiana.
165. 2025-01-28 - Especiales del Once - Cineteca Nacional, su nuevo rostro (28/01/2025). Canal Once reports on the Cineteca Nacional's new face. The institution expanded into a second site in the capital.
166. 2025-01-30 - Cine en la Ciudad | Ep. 10 Cine documental. Canal 22 examines documentary cinema in its Cine en la Ciudad series. Mexican documentary has a separate lineage from the studio features.
167. 2025-02-20 - Documental (A Propósito de Buñuel). A documentary made about Buñuel. He directed in Spain, France and Mexico across five decades.
168. 2025-02-22 - Luis Buñuel, director mexicano. The culture ministry presents Buñuel as a Mexican director. He took Mexican nationality in 1949 and made most of his films under it.
169. 2025-04-03 - 6- La época de oro del cine mexicano / El cine del tiempo / Cine en línea - Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM devotes an episode of El cine del tiempo to the Golden Age. The period ran roughly from 1936 to 1956, opening with Allá en el Rancho Grande.
170. 2025-06-04 - Documental: El legado de Alfonso Cuarón. A documentary on the legacy of Alfonso Cuarón. Five Best Director statuettes went to three Mexican men in six years, with a gap only in 2017.
171. 2025 - Paz Alicia Garcíadiego. The screenwriter photographed in Mexico City. 2024. She wrote every Arturo Ripstein film from El imperio de la fortuna in 1986 onwards.
172. 2025 - Luis Alberti at Málaga. The Mexican actor on the red carpet at the 2025 festival. Alberti has worked with Amat Escalante and Carlos Reygadas.
173. 2025 - David Pablos at Valladolid. The Mexican director during the Seminci festival in 2025. Pablos directed Las elegidas and El baile de los 41.
174. 2025-09-16 - Ariel de Oro - Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica. Canal Once covers the Ariel de Oro and the film production workers' union. The Ariel is the Mexican industry's principal award.
175. 2025-10-14 - Master class. Sueño perro. Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Alejandro González Iñárritu gives a master class at the Cineteca Nacional. He won Best Director in 2015 for Birdman and again in 2016 for The Revenant, the first back to back win in 65 years.
176. 2025-10-20 - Sargazo / Cine en línea - Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes Sargazo. The archive continues to distribute contemporary independent work alongside its historical holdings.
177. 2025-10-23 - Tesoros del cine mexicano, resguardados por la Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM presents the treasures of Mexican cinema it holds. The university archive is the principal repository for surviving Mexican film.
178. 2025-11-20 - ISMAEL RODRÍGUEZ | Entrevista Rara sobre "No Desearás la Mujer de Tu Hijo" 🎬 Archivo Cine de Oro. A rare interview with Ismael Rodríguez. He was among the most commercially successful directors of the period.
179. 2026-01-30 - "Maratón de Casas de los Artistas de la Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano | Historia Completa". A tour of the houses of Golden Age performers. Much of the period's material culture survives only in private hands.
180. 2026-02-14 - Hagamos que Suceda - Estudios Churubusco Azteca 80 años (14/02/2026). Canal Once marks eighty years of Estudios Churubusco Azteca. Churubusco was among the principal plants of the Golden Age industry.
181. 2026-06-01 - Entrevista MÍTICA (COMPLETA) de José María Íñigo a Mario Moreno ‘Cantinflas’ #interview #entrevista. A full interview with Mario Moreno by José María Íñigo. His speech style became a Spanish verb, which no other comedian has achieved.
182. 2026 - The Tijuana cultural centre. CECUT on the border, founded on 20 October 1982. Tijuana, Baja California, 2026. Its spherical Omnimax theatre is the building the city is known by.
183. 2026-08-15 - Hagamos que Suceda - Cineteca Nacional (15/08/2026). Canal Once devotes an episode to the Cineteca Nacional in 2026. Public film archives in Mexico carry both exhibition and preservation duties.
184. 2026-08-18 - Estudios Churubusco: 80 años de ser la casa del cine mexicano | Reportaje. Culturas Veintidós marks eighty years of Estudios Churubusco. The studio system gave Mexican cinema the capacity to serve Latin American markets.
185. 2026-08-23 - #MujeresEnLaHistoria | Dolores del Río, símbolo del cine mexicano. The federal government profiles Dolores del Río as a symbol of Mexican cinema. She worked in Hollywood from 1925, crossed from silent to sound, and returned to Mexico in the early 1940s.