It’s been 20 years since Alejandro González Iñárritu made his feature film debut with “Amores Perros,” which launched the Mexico City Wfm radio disc jockey onto the global film stage. The movie was produced by Alejandro Soberón, who put up $2 million after reading the 300-page screenplay by rookie screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, which wove three Mexico City stories into a triptych united by a horrific car crash. The film debuted at Cannes, winning the Critics Week Grand Prize, and went on to score foreign-language nominations for the Golden Globes and Oscars and a BAFTA win.
For the October 28 opening of the 2020 Morelia International Film Festival, Oscar-winner Iñárritu (“Birdman”) joined his cast and crew on Zoom to reminisce about the creative event that changed their lives. Morelia debuted his short film “Journeys” in 1996 and went on to play most of the director’s movies, including the 2020 opening night title — a remastered version of “Amores Perros,...
For the October 28 opening of the 2020 Morelia International Film Festival, Oscar-winner Iñárritu (“Birdman”) joined his cast and crew on Zoom to reminisce about the creative event that changed their lives. Morelia debuted his short film “Journeys” in 1996 and went on to play most of the director’s movies, including the 2020 opening night title — a remastered version of “Amores Perros,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
It’s been 20 years since Alejandro González Iñárritu made his feature film debut with “Amores Perros,” which launched the Mexico City Wfm radio disc jockey onto the global film stage. The movie was produced by Alejandro Soberón, who put up $2 million after reading the 300-page screenplay by rookie screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, which wove three Mexico City stories into a triptych united by a horrific car crash. The film debuted at Cannes, winning the Critics Week Grand Prize, and went on to score foreign-language nominations for the Golden Globes and Oscars and a BAFTA win.
For the October 28 opening of the 2020 Morelia International Film Festival, Oscar-winner Iñárritu (“Birdman”) joined his cast and crew on Zoom to reminisce about the creative event that changed their lives. Morelia debuted his short film “Journeys” in 1996 and went on to play most of the director’s movies, including the 2020 opening night title — a remastered version of “Amores Perros,...
For the October 28 opening of the 2020 Morelia International Film Festival, Oscar-winner Iñárritu (“Birdman”) joined his cast and crew on Zoom to reminisce about the creative event that changed their lives. Morelia debuted his short film “Journeys” in 1996 and went on to play most of the director’s movies, including the 2020 opening night title — a remastered version of “Amores Perros,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
A Zoom-facilitated love-in was celebrated by nearly two-dozen cast and crew members of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, which has been given a major technical overhaul on the occasion of its 20th birthday. The director’s first feature, which won the top prize in the Critics Week sidebar at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, has become the beneficiary of a 4K digital restoration and a 5.1 surround DTS-hd remix that Criterion will release in December, as well as a hoped-for public premiere in Morelia.
The Wednesday afternoon event was a relaxed affair that gave many participants the opportunity to thank the director who helped re-energize the Mexican film industry with a vital and edgy drama that told three stories linked to a Mexico City auto accident, one of them notoriously involving fighting dogs and the gambling underworld. The film instantly launched its director into a major international career that saw him...
The Wednesday afternoon event was a relaxed affair that gave many participants the opportunity to thank the director who helped re-energize the Mexican film industry with a vital and edgy drama that told three stories linked to a Mexico City auto accident, one of them notoriously involving fighting dogs and the gambling underworld. The film instantly launched its director into a major international career that saw him...
- 10/29/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
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