Bitter Cinema

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A sister site, if you will… a bit easier to update and post for the time being. This particular site is not dead by a long shot, but longer form thrills and chills may not be on hand for the foreseeable future, and even then, the subject matter and main thrust of the site may be something completely different than what’s been here for more than eight years. We shall see, won’t we?

But, if you’ve liked the grab-bag aesthetic of pics, movie posters, odd juxtapositions, check out http://bittercinema.tumblr.com. Maybe you’ll even like some of it…

Silvia Pasquel in El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida

The daughter of Silvia Pinal and now an icon of Mexican television, but never lovelier than her turn as Juno in El Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlantida (1969).

Wiki (Silvia)

IMDB (the movie)

Frame Grab: Ensayo de un Crimen

Via Shooting Down Pictures

“I was convinced that it was I who killed her. I assure you that morbid sensation gave me a certain pleasure.”

Miroslava

Via Flickr

Miroslava Stern

via Scrapbook

Nice article about this Czech-Mexican actress at LatinoLa

Ensayo de un Crimen

IMDB

Slant Magazine

Miroslava Stern Wiki

Ernesto Alonso Wiki

Ernesto Alonso NY Times

Ernesto Alonso was a colossal figure in Mexican television, a creator, producer, director, writer, and actor of many Mexican “telenovelas”, a key figure in that national form’s growth as an international phenomenon. I know him mainly as the lead in Buñuel’s Ensayo de un Crimen (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz). He also provided the narration to the very beginning of Los Olvidados, where he stated, very matter-of-factly, that “this film shows the real life… It is not optimistic. The solution of this problem is left to the forces of progress…”

Silvia Pinal in Viridiana

Via Alternative Film Guide

One’s almost tempted to call Pinal the first great Buñuel blonde (the other, of course, being Deneuve), but I don’t think Don Luis was all that enamored by blonde tresses (like that other Catholic director who wouldn’t stop about Tristana’s wooden leg). Indeed, he was more of a leg man. Or a foot man. Or, more properly, a shoe man. Such were the preoccupations of men born at the cusp of the 20th Century.

More of Buñuel legs.

Y mas.

Y encluso mas.

El Rio y la Muerte

IMDB

Yo Soy Mexicano de Jorge Negrete

Gran Casino

Buñuel’s first film in Mexico.

IMDB

Coffee, coffee, and more coffee

Libertad Lamarque Wiki

Libertad Lamarque, la novia de Americá

Jorge Negrete Wiki