Indie 90s: El Mariachi (1992)
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Director: Robert Rodriguez Run Time: 81 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1993
Starring: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez
Country: United States
Language: Spanish
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About the film:
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
About the filmmaker:
Robert Rodriguez is a visionary filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, composer, and visual artist whose boundary-pushing work has helped redefine independent and genre cinema. His internationally acclaimed debut feature, El Mariachi (1992), a remarkably low-budget action film (made for $7,000), won the Audience Award at Sundance and became a landmark of independent filmmaking. He continued to craft stories in a distinctive, high-energy style, including Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) – completing his Mexico Trilogy – as well as From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), The Faculty (1998), the Spy Kids franchise, Sin City (2005), Machete (2010), and Alita: Battle Angel (2019). His work in television includes From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series as well as directing episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. Rodriguez’s recent feature Hypnotic (2023) was selected to screen in the Midnight program of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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