#192 - The Phantasmagorias of Raúl Ruiz

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We discuss the hallucinatory career of Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and his filmography of 100+ films! In an attempt to keep a few shreds of our sanity intact, we limit ourselves to discussing his mind benders CITY OF PIRATES, THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING and TIME REGAINED. This week on the Patreon episode we pick our FIVE FAVOURITE MARTIAL ARTS FILMS. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week! www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:07.8	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.
0:09.7	And today, we're talking about Raoul Ruiz.
0:12.9	One of the most impossible filmmakers we've ever tackled.
0:16.0	An impossible horror, if you will, available at impossiblehorror.com.
0:19.2	Yes, when I think, when I think
0:20.8	filmmakers influenced by Raoul
0:22.6	Ruiz, I think of Justin Declues.
0:24.7	Yep, Impossible Horror.
0:26.0	Impossible Horror.
0:26.9	But I say he's an impossible filmmaker
0:29.0	in the sort of Jess Franco sets.
0:30.8	Yes.
0:31.3	A hundred movies, spanning the globe.
0:34.3	So like 100 feature films, but he has like
0:36.5	shorts, he has documentaries,
0:38.0	he's done everything. Lost films, unfinished films. There's films that are still being made
0:42.7	or trying to be finished that he worked on right now, and he passed away in 2011. And he's an
0:48.1	impossible filmmaker in other sense, the fact that he spent so many years in exile from his native
0:54.0	Chile. In fact, he made the bulk of
0:55.8	his work. He made about, I think, three or four features in Chile before Pinochet came in as a
1:02.4	dictator, and then he was out of there, and he mostly spent his time in France, because his films
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