The earthquake caused severe damage to the building that houses the archive and put all the material it shelters at risk. According to, the material damages left by the devastating September 19 earthquake include those of the Permanencia Voluntaria film archive, the only independent film archive in Mexico that specializes in the collection and preservation of popular Mexican cinema movies, as well as other unique materials such as posters, documents and promotional items. Restored by Nicolas Winding, Academy Film Archive, Cinema Preservation Alliance-and Permanencia Voluntaria-which is still recovering after the September earthquake. This # RoxCine screening benefits the Mexican Archive Permanencia Voluntaria.ĬEREBRO DEL MAL is one of the first of its genre made in 4K. It’s one of two Mexico-Cuba productions debuting El Santo, which eventually sparked a 52 film series. In this case we are already in this field that developed in an incredible way because this is the seed of Santo against Frankenstein, against The Martians, against The Invading Women, against Dracula, against all.July 14 we celebrate the centennial of the birth of El Santo, the most iconic Mexican luchador, by co-presenting a new digital restoration of SANTO CONTRA EL CEREBRO DEL MAL– a 1961 horror-action film that was produced in Cuba during the revolution. The previous film has nothing of science fiction, is totally attached to reality. It's the begining of science fiction for wrestlers movies. A wrestler wrote the script for this movie! "Incógnito" is a bit like the hero of the film, because it's him who rescues El Santo who acts like a zombie, because the evil doctor has stolen his identity and has put him to work at his service. VGB: El Santo is a total zombie! First, they do not even call him Santo, they call him the "Enmascarado de Plata" and there is also a wrestler called "Incógnito", who actually wrote the script. Santo contra hombres infernales y Santo contra Cerebro del Mal have exactly the same ending in the two films.ĬR: In this movie, what happens to El Santo? They are films that were not finished so they had to share scenes. The films had their difficulty because they already had a degree of vinegar syndrome, some rolls had already shrunk and the sound was mistreated. It was an incredible collaboration in which top-level people worked and made an impeccable restoration. Then, Winding Refn and the Academy got together. Two weeks after he said "we do it", The Academy of Los Angeles wrote me to ask how I was doing with the restoration project, and they told me that they thought it was possible to collaborate. I told him that I had this project, these restorations and got him on board, which I thought was incredible because it happened very shortly before the centenary of El Santo. VGB: I managed to contact Nicolas Winding Refn, and he loves classic cinema, cult cinema, but also strange things, things that are going to be revalued in some way. Viviana Garcia Besne presents Santo contra Cerebro del Mal at the Berlinale.ĬR: Tell us a little about this restoration
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