Biography
Alfonso Arau's brilliant and prolific career as actor, dancer, mime, director, producer and screenwriter for cinema and theater has earned him invaluable world - class prestige. His film Como agua para chocolate (Like water for chocolate) opened the gates for Mexican cinema to the international market and is still one of the best selling movies in Spanish language. Alfonso Arau has been awarded with seven Ariels by the Mexican Academy of Science and Cinematographic Art (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y Artes Cinematográficas), as well as numerous cinema and theater international prizes.
As director, Arau has made a series of memorable films such as: Un paseo por las nubes (A walk in the clouds), with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and Picking up the pieces with Woody Allen, among others. As actor, he has participated in more than twenty movies, like Mojado Power, El Rincón de las Vírgenes, Tivoli, Calzonzin Inspector, El Topo, Romancing the Stone, and Three amigos. As entrepreneur, he is the founder and president of the popular cinema-theater's firm Cinelux Digital and the Foundation Cidilux, A.C.Jon Bowman, Executive Director of Santa Fe's International Film Festival in New Mexico, said when he was granting him the "Luminaria" prize: "Arau is truly a Renaissance artist with a profound and innate understanding of all the stages of the cinematographic medium".
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Actor
Movies | |
---|---|
2018 |
Malacopa |
2017 |
Coco |
2012 |
I Heart Shakey |
2007 |
The Dead One |
2000 |
Committed |
Picking Up the Pieces |
|
1991 |
Long way to Tijuana |
1988 |
Stones for Ibarra (TV movie) |
Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (TV movie) |
|
1987 |
Walker |
1986 |
Three Amigos! |
1984 |
Romancing the Stone |
1982 |
El día que murió Pedro Infante |
1980 |
Used Cars |
1979 |
Mojado Power |
1976 |
La palomilla al rescate |
1975 |
Posse |
Tívoli |
|
1973 |
Calzonzin Inspector |
1972 |
Nest of Virgins |
Run, Cougar, Run |
|
1971 |
El jardín de la tía Isabel |
El águila descalza |
|
Scandalous John |
|
1970 |
Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa |
The Mole |
|
Tres amigos |
|
1969 |
El aviso inoportuno |
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez |
|
The Wild Bunch |
|
1967 |
Pedro Páramo |
1965 |
En este pueblo no hay ladrones |
1962 |
...und deine Liebe auch |
1960 |
Los pistolocos |
1958 |
Viaje a la luna |
1957 |
Cien muchachas |
La locura del rock and roll |
|
1956 |
Caras nuevas |
Música en la noche |
|
1954 |
El casto Susano |
Looks that Kill |
Documentaries | |
---|---|
2004 |
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (TV movie) |
1993 |
Memoria del cine mexicano |
Director
Movies | |
---|---|
2010 |
L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo |
2009 |
Little Chicago |
2004 |
Zapata - El sueño del héroe |
2003 |
A Painted House (TV movie) |
2002 |
The Magnificent Ambersons (TV movie) |
2000 |
Catch a Falling Star (TV movie) |
Picking Up the Pieces |
|
1995 |
A Walk in the Clouds |
1992 |
Like Water for Chocolate |
1985 |
Chido Guan, el tacos de oro |
1979 |
Mojado Power |
1973 |
Calzonzin Inspector |
1971 |
El águila descalza |
Documentaries | |
---|---|
1976 |
Caribe, estrella y aguila |
Producer
Movies | |
---|---|
2004 |
Zapata - El sueño del héroe |
1992 |
Like Water for Chocolate |
1979 |
Mojado Power |
1973 |
Calzonzin Inspector |
Short | |
---|---|
1981 |
La virgen robada |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
---|---|
1975 |
Tívoli |
Performer
Shows | |
---|---|
1970 |
Glücksspirale |