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Roberto Carlos Ortiz
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cinéfilo / independent scholar / cine clásico (mexicano) / star studies 🇵🇷⚜️🇲🇽
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A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) is now streaming on the NFPF site with new music by Michael Mortilla. Starring Corinne Griffith, this snowbound tale was preserved photochemically by @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social and is available for home viewing for the first time.

www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-fi...
October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
isabella rossellini en mr. scorsese, ep. 3 (2025)
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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As the French social study The Taste of Others turns 25, Manuela Lazić revisits Agnès Jaoui’s clear-eyed directorial debut and the decades-long impact of her collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bacri. boxd.it/2IW
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
isabelle adjani as the matriarch béatrice in the netflix french series soleil noir: well-made escapism full of suspenseful plot twists, soapy family drama & good acting 🇫🇷📺🌹
July 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
the diva-centric edition 😁
June 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
hoy publicaron en línea el nuevo número de la revista imagofagia, que incluye mi artículo sobre algo flota sobre el agua (alfredo b. crevenna, 1948), con arturo de córdova & elsa aguirre 🇲🇽🎦🌼
May 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
recent (re)watches 🇺🇸🎦
May 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
¡feliz día de las madres! / happy mother's day! 💐
soledad (1947, con/with libertad lamarque & marga lópez) 🇲🇽🎦🥹
May 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
consuelo guerrero de luna en la revista española popular film, 02/1935 (6 años antes de su debut en el cine mexicano) 🇪🇸🤩
May 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
work-related recent watches (one a re-watch) 🇮🇪🇲🇽🇨🇱
May 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
the room next door (la habitación de al lado), de almodóvar, me decepcionó, pero me conmovió cuando ellas ven the dead, de john huston, que es una mejor película 🇪🇸🎦
April 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
María Félix & Pedro Armendáriz in Enamorada (Beloved, Emilio Fernández, 1946) 🇲🇽🎦
April 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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A propósito de que hoy se conmemora el nacimiento, muerte y resurrección de María Félix, escribí sobre su cine, en especial de Enamorada y de esos ojos que la volvieron legendaria.

De nuevo agradezco a @vekaduncan.bsky.social y Horacio por el espacio (1/2)

www.vekaduncan.com/post/el-eter...
El eterno esplendor de María Félix
“Es la mujer más linda que yo he visto y su cara es un sueño, los ojos, los ojos son dos almendras de sombra y de cielo y cuando te mira te olvidas de todo hasta de ella misma para ver esos ojos, los ...
https://www.vekaduncan.com/post/el-eterno-esplendor-de-maría-félix
April 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I wrote my latest piece for Anthropology News to not only draw attention to the fragility of digital data, but highlight the work being done by those at The Internet Archive (@archive.org) and independent archivist like Jason Scott (@textfiles.com).

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/bit...
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A propósito de los últimos días de la exposición "De Imagen y Palabra: Dolores del Río y Salvador Novo a 120 años de sus natalicios" escribí este texto a modo de guía. (1/2)

Gracias @vekaduncan.bsky.social y Horacio
www.vekaduncan.com/post/dolores...
Dolores del Río y Salvador Novo a 120 años
“Infinidad de veces he dicho en el escenario las palabras que tú has escrito. Ahora me toca a mí misma escribir mis líneas… Y no te las puedo consultar, porque son la sorpresa y el regalo de cumpleaño...
https://www.vekaduncan.com/post/dolores-del-río-y-salvador-novo-a-120-años
March 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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‘Powell called Pressburger the “wizard”, “because of the wonderful things he does“ (“The Wizard of Oz” came out in 1939); their relationship was, he said, a “marriage without sex”.’

Alex Harvey on the films of Powell and Pressburger: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alex Harvey · Heaven’s Waiting Room: When Powell met Pressburger
Pressburger described their collaboration as a great romance: ‘Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Isabella Rossellini in a BLUE VELVET dress. We see you. #DavidLynch #Oscars
March 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
recent watches (as usual, a mix of research & pleasure) 👹🎹🏝️🧜‍♀️
February 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
asura, la serie de netflix de hirokazu kore-eda (7 episodios), es excelente: las escenas de las dinámicas entre hermanas son muy acertadas 🇯🇵📺👏
February 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
capturas de pantalla que quedaron fuera de la revisión final: algo flota sobre el agua (1944 & 1948) 🇭🇺🇲🇽🎦
February 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Wim Wenders speaks to the new audiences who have found Paris, Texas, 40 years after its initial release. 🎬 Plus, watch him break down the ending of the film: boxd.it/8wu
January 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
andrea palma & lilia del valle en siete pecados (1959) 🇲🇽🎦☠️
January 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
screenshots of novarromantic, my modest contribution to the 2025 public domain day remix contest, which pays tribute to mexican star ramon novarro - available at the internet archive 🇲🇽🤩
January 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
recent watches (half research-related, half random picks) 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇬🇧
January 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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New Orleans has contended with hurricanes, heat waves and the occasional ice storm. But snow? Not so much. The city went 15 years without measurable snow until Tuesday morning. nyti.ms/40q7Kzx
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM