Chile’s Cineteca Nacional, established in 2006, is working on a new restoration of Pedro Sienna’s “El húsar de la muerte” (1925), considered the most important silent feature film in Chilean history, the portrait of Chilean freedom fighter Manuel Rodríguez (1785-1818), a key figure in Chile’s War of Independence against the Spanish crown.
First restored by Sienna himself, when a copy turned up in a deplorable condition in 1959, the new restoration of the silent chime jewel will be ready from October, said Macarena Bello Martínez, the Cineteca’s mediation and audiences coordinator. The Cineteca, meanwhile, is printing its current line-up at the Locarno Film Festival’s Heritage Online, a new data base for film classics.
The Cineteca has continued its ambitious drive into heritage film this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Boasting an archive of some 5,000 titles, it focuses on the conservation and restoration of Chilean cinematic works and making them widely accessible.
First restored by Sienna himself, when a copy turned up in a deplorable condition in 1959, the new restoration of the silent chime jewel will be ready from October, said Macarena Bello Martínez, the Cineteca’s mediation and audiences coordinator. The Cineteca, meanwhile, is printing its current line-up at the Locarno Film Festival’s Heritage Online, a new data base for film classics.
The Cineteca has continued its ambitious drive into heritage film this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Boasting an archive of some 5,000 titles, it focuses on the conservation and restoration of Chilean cinematic works and making them widely accessible.
- 8/14/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Lupita Tovar turns 103: Actress starred in Spanish-language ‘Dracula’ and in the first Mexican talkie, ‘Santa’ (photo: Lupita Tovar in ‘Santa’) Mexican actress Lupita Tovar, best remembered for the Spanish-language version of Dracula and for starring in the first Mexican talkie, Santa, turned 103 years old on Sunday, July 27, 2013. Tovar was born in 1910 in the city of Oaxaca, the capital of the Mexican state of the same name. In an interview with author Michael G. Ankerich (Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips) published on Ankerich’s site Close-ups and Long Shots, Tovar recalled her brief foray as a silent film actress at Fox (several years before it became 20th Century Fox): "Silent films were wonderful because you didn’t have to worry about your dialogue. You could say whatever you felt. We had music on the set all the time. It was absolutely wonderful." Unfortunately for Tovar, whose English was quite poor,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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