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The devil never sleeps = El diablo nunca duerme / producer/director, Lourdes Portillo ; co-producer, Michelle Valladares ; narration writen by Olivia Crawford, Laura del Fuego.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 035 029
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Portillo, Lourdes--Homes and haunts--Mexico--Chihuahua (Chihuahua).
- Portillo, Lourdes.
- Ruiz Almeida, Oscar.
- Ruiz Almeida, Oscar--Death and burial.
- Suicide.
- Suicide victims--Family relationships.
- Suicide victims.
- Bereavement--Psychological aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Mexican American families.
- Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico).
- suicides.
- Homes.
- Manners and customs.
- Mexico--Chihuahua (Chihuahua).
- Genre:
- Autobiographical films -- Mexico.
- Biographical films -- Mexico.
- Experimental films.
- Independent films -- Mexico.
- Documentary films.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, Mexican.
- Spanish language films.
- Feature films -- United States.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Autobiographical films.
- Biographical films.
- Independent films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. burning
- Edition:
- English version.
- Other Title:
- Diablo nunca duerme
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [2012?]
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish; with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; stereo.
- digital
- NTSC
- video file region 1
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo mines the complicated intersections of analysis and autobiography, evidence and hypothesis, even melodrama and police procedure in this documentary. Early one Sunday morning, the filmmaker receives a phone call informing her that her beloved Uncle Oscar Ruiz Almeida has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in Chihuahua, Mexico. His widow declares his death a suicide. Most of his family, however, cry murder and point to a number of suspects that include the widow herself. Portillo returns to the land of her birth to investigate her uncle's identity and death. Finding clues in old tales of betrayal, lust, and supernatural visitation, Portillo blends traditional and experimental techniques to capture the nuances of Mexican social and family order. Poetic and tragic, humorous and mythic, this film crosses the borders of personal values, cultural mores, and the discipline of filmmaking in a fascinating look at family mysteries. Film contains English and Spanish dialogue with forced English subtitles.
- Credits:
- Camera, Kyle Kibbe ; editor, Vivien Hillgrove ; music, Mark Adler.
- Notes:
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
- Produced in 1996. Originally broadcast on television on Sept. 30, 1997.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 818755004
- Publisher Number:
- W99577 Women Make Movies
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