Raúl Ruiz
| Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 July 1941 Puerto Montt, Chile |
| Died | 19 August 2011 (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Other names | Raoul Ruiz, Raúl Ruis |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1963–2011 |
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011)[1] was a Chilean filmmaker.
Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. He was something of an outsider among the politically oriented filmmakers of his generation, such as Miguel Littín and Helvio Soto, his work being far more ironic, surrealistic, and experimental. In 1973, after the coup d'état led by the dictator Augusto Pinochet, he left Chile and settled in France. After several years producing and directing low-budget telefilms, he began working with larger budgets and "name" stars in 1996 with Three Lives and Only One Death. The following year he directed Genealogies of a Crime, starring Catherine Deneuve. The film won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] John Malkovich starred in Le temps retrouvé, Les Âmes fortes and Klimt.
He was married to Valeria Sarmiento, who is also a film director and editor.[3]
Ruiz worked as a professor at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) in the Centre for Modern Thought (part of the School of Language and Literature), starting in September 2007.[4] He taught his own brand of film theory based mainly on his two books Poetics of Cinema (1995) and Poetics of Cinema 2 (2007). He also actively engaged in film projects with students.
According to El Repuertero on August 19, 2011 Chile Minister of Culture Luciano Cruz-Coke announced his death on Twitter just after 8:00 a.m.. He posted that Ruiz "just died of a long illness." The city of Paris, confirmed this information. The Church of Saint George-Paul in Paris held a memorial service. His body was returned to Chile to be buried as specified in his will according to the minister.
He left a catalogue of 113 films during his 48-year-long career.[5]
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[edit] Filmography
- La maleta (1963, short)
- Le retour (1964)
- El tango del viudo (1967)
- Tres tristes tigres (1968)
- La catanaria (1969)
- Militarismo y tortura (1969)
- ¡Qué hacer! (1970)
- La colonia penal (1970)
- Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano (1971)
- Nadie dijo nada (1971)
- Los minuteros (1972)
- Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica (1972)
- La expropiación (1972)
- Abastecimiento (1973)
- Palomita blanca (1973)
- El realismo socialista (1973)
- Palomita brava (1973)
- Diálogos de exiliados [Dialogues of Exiles] (1975)
- Sotelo (1976)
- Utopia (1976)
- Colloque de chiens (1977, short)
- Les divisions de la nature (1978)
- La vocation suspendue [The Suspended Vocation] (1978)
- Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979)
- Jeux (1979)
- De grands événements et de gens ordinaires (1979)
- Images de débat (1979)
- L'hypothèse du tableau volé [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting] (1979)
- Zig-Zag - le jeu de l'oie (une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) (1980)
- La ville nouvelle (1980)
- Fahlstrom (1980)
- Musée Dali (1980)
- L'image en silence (1980)
- Le borgne (1980)
- Teletests (1980)
- The Territory (1981)
- Images de sable (1981)
- Ombres chinoises (1982)
- Querelle des jardins (1982)
- Le petit théâtre (1982)
- Het dak van de Walvis [On Top of the Whale] (1982)
- Bérénice (1983)
- La ville de Paris (1983)
- Lettre d'un cinéaste ou Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques (1983)
- Les trois couronnes du matelot [The Three Crowns of the Sailor] (1983)
- La ville des pirates [City of Pirates] (1983)
- Voyages d'une main (1984)
- Régime sans pain (1984)
- Point de fuite (1984)
- Les destins de Manoel (1985)
- L'Île au trésor [Treasure Island] (1985)
- La présence réelle (1985)
- L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma (1985)
- Richard III (1986)
- Mémoire des apparences [Life is a Dream] (1986)
- Dans un miroir (1986)
- Mammame (1986)
- Brise-glace (1987)
- La chouette aveugle (1987)
- Le professeur Taranne (1987)
- Allegoria (1988)
- Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988)
- Il pozzo dei pazzi (1989)
- Derrière le mur (1989)
- Hub (1989)
- The Golden Boat (1990)
- La novela errante (1990)
- L'Oeil qui ment [Dark at Noon] (1993)
- Fado majeur et mineur [Fado, Major and Minor] (1994)
- Three Lives and Only One Death [Trois vies et une seule mort] (1996)
- Généalogies d'un crime [Genealogies of a Crime] (1997)
- Le film à venir (1997)
- Shattered Image (1998)
- Le temps retrouvé [Time Regained] (1999)
- Comédie de l'innocence [Comedy of Innocence] (2000)
- Combat d'amour en songe [Love Torn in a Dream] (2000)
- Les Âmes fortes [Savage Souls] (2001)
- Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena [Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody] (2002)
- Ce jour-là [That Day] (2003)
- Une place parmi les vivants [A Taste for Murder/A Place Among the Living] (2003)
- Vertige de la page blanche [Vertigo of the Blank Page] (2003)
- Días de campo [Days in the Country] (2004)
- Le Domaine perdu [The Lost Domain] (2005)
- Klimt (2006)
- Le Don (2007) - short film
- La Recta Provincia (2007)
- Litoral, cuentos del mar (2008)
- Nucingen Haus (2008)
- Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
- As Linhas de Torres (2012) (conceived by Ruiz, completed by Valeria Sarmiento and Carlos Saboga)
[edit] Bibliography
- Raoul Ruiz (1995). Poétique du cinéma. Dis Voir. ISBN 2-906571-37-7. (French). Translated into English as: Raul Ruiz (1995). Poetics of Cinema. Dis Voir. ISBN 2-906571-38-5.
- Raoul Ruiz; Benoît Peeters (2002). Le Transpatagonien. Impressions nouvelles. ISBN 2-906131-55-5. (French).
- Raoul Ruiz (2006). Poétique du cinéma 2. Dis Voir. ISBN 978-2-914563-27-7. (French). Translated into English as: Raul Ruiz (2007). Poetics of Cinema 2. Dis Voir. ISBN 978-2-914563-25-3.
- Raoul Ruiz (2008). A la poursuite de l'île au trésor. Dis Voir. ISBN 978-2-914563-39-0. (French). Translated into English as: Raul Ruiz (2008). In Pursuit of Treasure Island. Dis Voir. ISBN 978-2-914563-41-3.
[edit] References
- ^ "R.I.P. Raoul Ruiz, prolific and enigmatic director". avclub.com. http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-raoul-ruiz-prolific-and-enigmatic-director,60665/. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1997/03_preistr_ger_1997/03_Preistraeger_1997.html. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "Passings: Raul Ruiz". Los Angeles Times. August 20, 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/20/local/la-me-passings-20110820.
- ^ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/directorscut/media/Gaudie_Ruiz.pdf
- ^ "Beloved Chilean Filmmaker Raúl Ruiz Dies at 70". elrepuertero.cl. http://www.elrepuertero.cl/noticia/cultura/beloved-chilean-filmmaker-raul-ruiz-dies-70. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
[edit] External links
- Raoul Ruiz at the Internet Movie Database
- Raúl Ruiz, l'enfant terrible de la vanguardia parisina
- Complete annotated Ruiz filmography (up to 2005) at Rouge online film magazine
- Raúl Ruiz photograph by photographer/filmmaker Clay Walker
- [1] official online release of the TV short film "Lettre d'un cinéaste ou Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques" (1983)
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