Raoul Ruiz, the celebrated, prolific, Chilean-born filmmaker has died. He was 70.
Ruiz, not known for a specific standout film, was rather known for his vast catalog of more than 100 innovative, experimental works, which shirked cinematic conventions in favor of the surreal, the satirical and the strange.
Ruiz died Friday in Paris from complications from a pulmonary infection.
Ruiz had called Paris his home since fleeing Chile to escape the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1973. It was there he enjoyed the freedom to indulge his varied, curious cinematic whims. Among his filmography are a number of literary adaptations, including the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Three Lives and Only One Death,” 1996), Franz Kafka (“The Penal Colony,” 1970), Marcel Proust (“Time Regained,” 1999) and Shakespeare (“Richard III,” 1986).
Born July 25, 1941, in Puerto Montt, Chile, Ruiz displayed a talent for writing at an early age. After studying law and theology at the University of Chile, he received...
Ruiz, not known for a specific standout film, was rather known for his vast catalog of more than 100 innovative, experimental works, which shirked cinematic conventions in favor of the surreal, the satirical and the strange.
Ruiz died Friday in Paris from complications from a pulmonary infection.
Ruiz had called Paris his home since fleeing Chile to escape the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1973. It was there he enjoyed the freedom to indulge his varied, curious cinematic whims. Among his filmography are a number of literary adaptations, including the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Three Lives and Only One Death,” 1996), Franz Kafka (“The Penal Colony,” 1970), Marcel Proust (“Time Regained,” 1999) and Shakespeare (“Richard III,” 1986).
Born July 25, 1941, in Puerto Montt, Chile, Ruiz displayed a talent for writing at an early age. After studying law and theology at the University of Chile, he received...
- 8/20/2011
- by Eric M. Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
Chilean-born film-maker who became the darling of the French avant garde
Raúl Ruiz, the Chilean-born film director who has died aged 70 after suffering a lung infection, held audiences with his glittering eye for more than 40 years. Baroque imagery, bizarre humour and labyrinthine plots made his elusive and allusive oeuvre unlike anything else in contemporary cinema.
Although most of his films were made while he was an exile in France, his work was part of the fabulist tradition that runs through much Latin American literature, such as the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Alfonso Reyes. Ruiz liked to quote the Cuban surrealist writer José Lezama Lima, who stated that the task of the poet is "to go into a dark room and build a waterfall there".
Born in Puerto Montt, in southern Chile, Ruiz studied law, theology and theatre before becoming a prolific avant-garde playwright. His first feature,...
Raúl Ruiz, the Chilean-born film director who has died aged 70 after suffering a lung infection, held audiences with his glittering eye for more than 40 years. Baroque imagery, bizarre humour and labyrinthine plots made his elusive and allusive oeuvre unlike anything else in contemporary cinema.
Although most of his films were made while he was an exile in France, his work was part of the fabulist tradition that runs through much Latin American literature, such as the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Alfonso Reyes. Ruiz liked to quote the Cuban surrealist writer José Lezama Lima, who stated that the task of the poet is "to go into a dark room and build a waterfall there".
Born in Puerto Montt, in southern Chile, Ruiz studied law, theology and theatre before becoming a prolific avant-garde playwright. His first feature,...
- 8/19/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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