It’s Mexican day over at Marginal Revolution, where Tyler Cowen muses over his favorite bits of Mexican culture, including its cinema:
You probably already know Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, and El Mariachi. So I’ll recommend Luis Bunuel’s old version of Wuthering Heights, a truly strange adaptation that captures the spirit of the original novel remarkably well. You do not have to buy into Bunuel’s later, more pretentious work to like this one.
I’ll second the superiority of Bunuel’s Mexican years to his later European art films. And I’ll add my own favorite that I’ve seen from Mexico: Maria Candelaria, a 1943 melodrama that’s one of the most lyrical films I’ve seen, with beautiful cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa. It’s definitely made me eager to see more films from Mexico’s Golden Age… any chance that a local cinema could bring Film Forum’s recent Cine Mexico series? For that matter, any chance the likes of Beacon Cinema Group could bring any retrospective series that Film Forum puts together?
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