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The Beginning And The End (1993 Film)
''The Beginning and the End'' ( es, Principio y fin) is a 1993 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences This film is an adaptation of the 1960 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz. Cast * Ernesto Laguardia as Gabriel Botero * Julieta Egurrola as Ignacia Botero * Blanca Guerra as Julia * Verónica Merchant as Natalia * Bruno Bichir as Nicolás Botero * Alberto Estrella as Guama Botero * Alonso Echánove as Cariñoso * Lucía Muñoz as Mireya Botero * Luis Felipe Tovar as César * Julián Pastor as Luján * as Isabel See also * List of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created i ...
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Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Considered the "Godfather of independent Mexican cinema", Ripstein's work is generally characterized by "somber, slow-paced, macabre melodramas tackling existential loneliness", often with a grotesque-like edge. He is a nine-time Ariel Award winner, including five for Best Picture and two for Best Director. Three of his films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1997, he received the prestigious National Prize for Arts and Sciences for his contributions to Mexican cinema. He was the second filmmaker (after Luis Buñuel) to receive that honour. Early life Of Polish Jewish descent, Ripstein was born in Mexico City on 13 December 1943, to producer Alfredo Ripstein. He developed an interest in filmmaking from a young age due to his family's proximity, and made short films as a teenager. He met Luis Buñuel after seeing ''Nazarín'', and they developed a c ...
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Bruno Bichir
Bruno Bichir Nájera (born 6 October 1967) is a Mexican actor and one of the members of the Bichir family. Biography Bichir was born in Mexico City. He started his acting career at the age of five in several theater, film and television series. He made his film debut in a minor role for '' Under Fire''. In 1986, he obtained a role in ''Frida, naturaleza viva'', a film about the life of Frida Kahlo, he studied at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica ("Center of Film Training") in Mexico City. On television, he acted on three telenovelas with Televisa, before starring in ''Háblame de amor'' ("Talk to me about love"). In 1999, he produced and starred in Benjamin Cann's ''A Breakfast Chronicle'', in which he was nominated for the Ariel Award for ''Best Actor''. In 2001, he and Demián Bichir starred in the Spanish co-production of ''Don't Tempt Me'', and they were nominated for the ''Best Bichir in a Film'' at the MTV Movie Awards-Mexico. Bichir made a 2018 guest appearance ...
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Mexican Drama Films
Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico ** Being related to the State of Mexico, one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico ** Culture of Mexico *** Mexican cuisine *** historical synonym of Nahuatl, language of the Nahua people (including the Mexica) Arts and entertainment * "The Mexican" (short story), by Jack London * "The Mexican" (song), by the band Babe Ruth * Regional Mexican, a Latin music radio format Films * ''The Mexican'' (1918 film), a German silent film * ''The Mexican'' (1955 film), a Soviet film by Vladimir Kaplunovsky based on the Jack London story, starring Georgy Vitsin * ''The Mexican'', a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts Other uses * USS ''Mexican'' (ID-1655), United Stat ...
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1990s Spanish-language Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as th ...
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1993 Drama Films
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1993 Films
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits '' Jurassic Park'', '' The Fugitive'' and '' The Firm''. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.) Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1993 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * January 1 – China Film Import & Export Corporation ends its 40-year monopoly distributing all films in China, with 16 other Chinese film studios now responsible for distributing their own films. * January 29 – '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' opens in the United Kingdom setting an opening weekend record of £2,633,635 million. * March 31 – Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of ''The Crow''. * May 27 – Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge initially orders her to pay $8.9 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film ''Boxing Helena''. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purc ...
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List Of Mexican Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Mexico has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1957. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The award was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. Mexico has submitted fifty-four films for Oscar consideration over the years, and nine Mexican films have been nominated by the Academy for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Arturo Ripstein has represented Mexico five times—more than any other Mexican director—although he has never received an Oscar nomination. ''Roma'' became the first Mexican film to win. The Mexican nominee is selected annually by the Academia Mexicana de Art ...
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List Of Submissions To The 67th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 67th Academy Awards, forty-six films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1994. Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Guatemala, Macedonia and Serbia submitted films to the competition for the first time. Also for the first time, films from both the Czech Republic and Slovakia competed against ea ...
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Julián Pastor
Julián Pastor (18 October 1943 - 24 August 2015) was a Mexican actor and film director. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1973 to 2008. Filmography References External links * 1943 births 2015 deaths Mexican male film actors Mexican film directors Male actors from Mexico City {{Mexico-actor-stub ...
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Luis Felipe Tovar
Luis Felipe Tovar (born December 2, 1959, in Puebla) is a Mexican performance teacher and actor. He studied in the Theatre Fine Arts School of Mexico and in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de La Habana in Cuba. He has been awarded three times with the Ariel Award: 1993, ''Principio y Fin'', 1995, ''El Callejón de los Milagros'' and 1997, ''Sin remitente''. In 2003 he left his old school of performance to open the bar Muxe, whose clients are mainly homosexuals. He has a son named Timoteo and a daughter named Maria Fernanda. He played in telenovela Por Ti. Films * ''Mi secreto'' (2022) * '' Malverde: El Santo Patrón'' (2021) .... TBA * ''El carnaval de Sodoma'' (2006) * ''patrulla 81 the movie'' (2005) * ''El bulto para presidente'' (2005) * ''Gente común'' (2006) * ''Una de balazos'' (2005) .... El Carnal * ''Isy'' (2005) * ''Ver, oir y callar'' (2005) * ''De ángeles, flores y fuentes'' (2005) .... Joel Villaseñor * ''Superhéroe'' (2004) * ''7 mujeres, un ...
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Lucía Muñoz
Las Ketchup is a Spanish girl group founded by flamenco record producer Manuel "Queco" Ruiz. The group, which consists of sisters Lucía, Lola, and Pilar Muñoz (later to be joined by a fourth sister Rocío), is best known for the 2002 hit single, " The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)", a single that sold over seven million copies worldwide. The group's debut studio album, '' Hijas del Tomate'', has sold over two million copies worldwide, but the second did not achieve the same success. They represented Spain at Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with the song " Un Blodymary". The group has not released any singles since 2006, but still performs together publicly around Spain and other countries. History 2001–02: Formation All members of the group are daughters of flamenco musician Juan Manuel Muñoz Expósito, best known by his stage name, El Tomate (Spanish for "The Tomato"). Las Ketchup were originally discovered by the flamenco record producer Manuel "Queco" Ruiz, who sign ...
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Alberto Estrella
Alberto Estrella (born Alberto Rodríguez Estrella, 23 September 1962) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in more than 90 films and television shows since 1986. Biography Estrella was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He starred in the film '' The Queen of the Night'', which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. His famous telenovela role was that of Marcial Andrade in '' Between Love and Hatred''. He is also known for playing Emiliano Zapata Emiliano Zapata Salazar (; August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the ins ... in the film ''Santos Peregrinos''. His brother is Ricardo Rodríguez Estrella. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Estrella, Alberto 1962 births Living people Mexican male film actors Mexican male television actors Male actors from Mexico C ...
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