EMILIO FERNANDEZ Y LUIS ALCORIZA (GRANDES PERSONAJES A FONDO) DVD [DVD]

Synopsis of EMILIO FERNANDEZ AND LUIS ALCORIZA (GREAT CHARACTERS IN DEPTH) (DV D) This DVD is dedicated to two Hispanic American filmmakers who developed most of their work in Mexico. A legendary character in Mexican cinema, Emilio Fernández (1904-1986), nicknamed “El Indio Fernández”, who joined Pancho Villa at the age of ten. Considers that "the myth of the Mexican charro means manhood and Mexicanness." His image as a violent character and conflictive actor contrasts, in this 1976 program, with the emotion with which he describes his interest in cinema: «I can't find a greater thing to guide, educate. He has an enormous commitment", and with his criticism of Hollywood cinema, in which he participated as the protagonist (with first-person portraits of characters such as Valentino, Dolores del Río, Cugat, Fairbanks and Al Capone) and television: "to the cinema "I consider it like a hippocampus that a girl with very thin hooves had, which is called television, and it has gotten into homes and has degenerated the minds of all the children and the 'moms.'" An interview in which they highlight the desire of their nineteen years: «I don't want to be a lieutenant colonel. "I want my dad to say hello to me." and a persistent memory: «My mother was a pure Indian, kikapú, red skin. "I was in love with my mother." Luis Alcoriza (1921-92), was born in Badajoz but lived in Mexico since 1940, where he went into exile with his parents' theater company at the end of the civil war. Although he is remembered mainly for his close collaboration with Buñuel, whom he considers "a great unknown... of terrible shyness... and a spiritual father" and for whom he wrote such important scripts as Los Olvidados (1950) and El Ángel Exterminador (1962), his own career as a screenplay author is important "before working with Buñuel, I had written 100 scripts" and director "they made me a director. I am a writer who directs