Maître du Réel
In 1931, Sergei Eisenstein travelled to Guanajuato in Mexico to shoot a film. Building on the huge success of his masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (1925), he had previously been invited to the...
Regard Neuf
In his previous short film, Flexing Muscles (VdR 2012), Charles Fairbanks took a trenchant and disillusioned look at the Mexican ‘luchadores', commodified poor imitators aping the popular heroes...