#golden age of Mexican cinema

[marzimar]

María Félix in Río Escondido (Hidden River) directed by Emilio Fernández (1948)

[hibiscusbabyboy]

Ximena Romo in "María Félix: La Doña" (2022)

She reminds me of Monica Bellucci here, I love ❤️

[citizenscreen]

Katy Jurado, a Force in Two Languages

[soffij]

"Doctor, ¿a usted nunca lo ha besado un hombre en la boca?"

"Decir que a uno le satisface todo es tanto como decir que a uno no le interesa nada. Así se explica que en este rincón del mundo sea yo el hombre más feliz de a tierra."

This may sound ridiculous, but I ship them 🤭

even want to write a fanfic about them, but oh boy, they'll have to wait.

Update: I already wrote a short work on ao3 (I want to write more though, much more), here it is.

[breserker]

so for the books (and my own benefit) i need to watch a lot of golden age of mexican cinema films, of that which i'm the most familiar with Pedro Infante's stuff. it's been slow going because none of this shit is very accessible and at this point in my life I understand Japanese wayyyy the hell better than whatever Spanish I left behind but it'll have to do when there are films that have no subtitles, english, spanish, or otherwise (weeps)

anyway one film i grew up with was La Tercera Palabra (1955) which is not dissimilar to My Fair Lady in some regards. unfortunately while this film was uploaded to youtube about 2 years ago and has nearly a million views, the most recent printing of the film is a 2003 DVD and the criterion collection has like. 1, soon 2 films from this era of Mexican history (for a total of 12 Mexican films at least one if not two of which are del toro's which, don't get me wrong dude. favorite living director. BUT, you feel me. when their French and Japanese and Italian lists sprawl for 90, 100, 200 entries and then there's this wholeeee classical era of a neighboring country's films not--ok rant for a different time)

point being, i THOUGHT the dvd i grew up with, that 2003 printing, had subtitles, if not in english then in spanish. probably not in english. i put in a request at my library like "hey can you find this film with english subs for me please bc it's not just me but my roommate wants to watch it after i hyped it up and the criterion collection--okay RANT FOR ANOTHER TIME". this occurred at 2am. 2 hours later i realize in despair no that 2003 dvd doesn't have eng subs, no release of the film has eng subs anywhere and i'm suddenly struck with the horror that i've only ever seen the film in pure spanish when i thought i had a guideline. so i send another despairing letter to the library like "please disregard that. i'm not drunk but i'm in despair."

well they got it for me anyway, same DVD from my childhood. i tottered home with it yesterday and popped it in and watched it and reader there were no spanish subs either. PURE 1955 audio quality spanish. how did i watch this as a kid.

it was extremely painful to watch as an adult. film is a visual medium so i did understand a lot of story beats, like, you know, i know they're falling in love in this scene. i have no idea why though. some jokes i got. but they were also easy to get. i understood the gist of the plot because i had seen it before (and no thanks to wikipedia, look at this awful stub of an english page. it lists only Sara Garcia as starring, but she's not EITHER of the two main roles, one of which is Marga Lopez (the protagonist) the other of which is Pedro Fucking Infante. yes i have plans to dress up that page at some point because christ this is bad)

either way it's still a fantastic film imo. you can watch it here if you like. the benefit to my viewing is that it's almost 1:1 how Vel watches the film on his tia's massive VHS collection of pedro infante movies, complete with "i get the film and some of the spanish but i can't quote anything nor truly understand the artistry of the dialogue".

[theaskew]

[nathancone]

Finally, a film from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema enters the Criterion Collection!

[seagiri]

i made myself a tf2 oc to ship with demo. say hi to jaimito.

hes a milkman hired by tf industries to deliver imported milk specifically to the red/blu base because local milk is radioactive (he has his own logo!! hes important)

[frostedmagnolias]

Lupe Vélez

[bashed-r4t]

Serenata / Ojos tapatíos As sung by Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante in Dos tipos de cuidado (1953) dir. Ismael Rodríguez

[fantasyonfilm]

When the luteal phase dysmorphia starts to sunset.

🌅🌅🌅

Lorena Velazquez

El Santo V the Vampire Women 1962

[belalugosiseyebrows]

Happy (late) New Year!

Drawings I made while watching the best new years movie ever made.

[fisarmonical]

Ramon Novarro, MGM

[soffij]

My first published fic!

Rating: Not Rated

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: F/M

Fandoms: Me ha besado un hombre (1944), Cine de Oro Mexicano

Relationship: Luisa/El doctor

Characters: Luisa/Luis, El doctor

Additional Tags: Age Difference, personaje travesti, Crossdressing, época de oro cine mexicano, Period-Typical Homophobia, no beta we die like the real Luis, no beteado aquí se muere como el auténtico Luis

Language: Español

[hycinthrt]

eurydice and persephone from a hadestown au thats been in my mind for a while, set in in the first half of 20th century mexico, and if that sounds vague its because it is. im still not sure which decade exactly, i was thinking mexican revolution first but i love the aesthetic of the golden age of mexican cinema so much

i wanted to guide myself by 'times being what they are, hard and getting harder all the time' but that could literally be all of them

[lelouch]

Silvia Pinal (1931-2024) One of the greatest actresses from the golden age of Mexican cinema