Time to Die (Tiempo De Morir), Arturo Ripstein, 1966 (1hr 30 mins). Screenplay by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. Restoration Company: Alameda Films.
After serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans. Time to Die is shot in crisp black-and-white, reveling in bleak long shots as much as thrillingly nervous camera movement. It is an actively intelligent, darkly funny, and suspenseful rumination that feels its moral quandaries deeply. This vintage Mexican Western excitingly transcends and stretches its genre.
Speaker: Bruce Jackson, Buffalo Film Seminars/SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture, English, UB
The riverrun Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world. The riverrun Global Film Series is produced by riverrun, Patrick Martin President; with support from the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the UB Department of English, the UB Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and James Agee Chair in American Culture, SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson.
Further information about the riverrun Global Film Series at: globalfilmseries.wordpress.com