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Special Showing: Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks

In cooperation with The Film Foundation, an institution created by Martin Scorsese, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) directed by Marlon Brando, was screened our fourteenth edition of the festival.

This special screening was attended by Margaret Bodde, director of The Film Foundation, and Daniela Michel, director of FICM, who spoke about the importance of the restoration:

"The Film Foundation was created in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and some directors like Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick. The idea was that they would restore projects --no one better to understand what that means and the impact it has."

Margaret Bodde, Daniela Michel Margaret Bodde y Daniela Michel

"When the project started there was so much awareness about the importance of preservation and restoration of films, the studios did not give it importance. Those concerned were non-profit institutions such as this foundation. In the end, The Film Foundation's mission is to obtain more resources for the preservation of something so important to our culture."

"Since 1990, the foundation has raised funds to give to places that make these files and thus achieve the restoration and exhibition at film festivals around the world, such as the Morelia International Film Festival. Today we have more than 700 films restored. "

In addition, Bodde talked about restoring One-Eyed Jacks: "Everything came about because Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg asked, 'What about this movie? Why don't we see? It is a very important film, it's the only one Marlon Brando directed and we all know that he's a giant of the 20th century".

"This film is very interesting for the ideas Marlon Brando recovers from westerns. Specifically, you will witness how the villain is somehow the good guy, on the atmosphere, that it was filmed in northern California and there is much influence of Mexico, and although for the critics it's not the brightest movie filmed at that time, it is important to highlight it for those involved in this project, as well as for its dark and melancholic part," he concluded.

Before the screening, director Martin Scorsese, through a videotape, introduced the film to the public of Morelia and stressed the importance of restoration for world cinema.

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