02 · 16 · 17 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is going to screen a cycle dedicated to Julio Bracho Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard New York´s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will screen the program Between Twilight and Dawn: Julio Bracho and the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, from March 1st - 9th, 2017. The program was curated by FICM as part of a retrospective dedicated to Bracho, with the support of the Cineteca Nacional, Filmoteca UNAM and Fundación Televisa, and formed a part of the festival´s 14th edition in 2016. This marks the second time that FICM has presented a program of films at MoMA - in 2015 the series Mexico at Midnight, a selection of Mexican film noir, was screened to great acclaim. Between Twilight and Dawn is made up of seven films, which seen together offer a broad vision of the career of one of the most prolific and important filmmakers from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema: ¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón! (1941) Historia de un gran amor (1942) Distinto amanecer (1943) La corte de Faraón (1944) Crepúsculo (1945) Rosenda (1948) La sombra del caudillo (1960) The program demonstrates Bracho´s incredible cinematic range, from his first feature film ¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón! to the melodrama Historia de un gran amor, the comedy La corte de Faraón, films noirs Distinto amanecer (Another Dawn) and Crepúsculo (Twilight), the social drama Rosenda and his adaptation of Martín Luis Guzmán´s political novel La sombra del caudillo, which was censured in Mexico for thirty years. Julio Bracho was born in Durango, in the state of Durango, on July 17th 1909. He began his artistic career in the 1930s working as a playwright in the theater, before making ¡Ay, qué tiempos señor don Simón!, whose box-office success paved the way for the director. He went on to make Historia de un gran amor and La Virgen que forjó una patria in 1942, but it was with Distinto amanecer (Another Dawn) in 1943 that the director consolidated his distinctive style, confirming him as an auteur. In his following film Crepúsculo (Twilight, 1945) Bracho became one of the most eponymous directors of Mexico´s Golden Age, later reaching the climax of his career with Rosenda (1948), widely regarded as his masterpiece. In 1960 he adapted La sombra del caudillo, a master work of Mexican cinema. Bracho died on the April 26th, 1978 in Mexico City. His films are still regarded as some of the most important in the history of Mexican and world cinema. It is a great honor for FICM that this program will screen in one of the most important contemporary art institutions in the world. For more information about the program, visit:
