Canoa
By: Conacine, S.T.P.C de la R. M. presentan ;  argumento y adaptación cinematográfica, Tomás Pérez Turrent ; producción, Roberto Lozoya ; dirección, Felipe Cazals
Contributors: Phillips, Alex, Jr., 1935-2007, director of photography; Ceballos, Rafael, editor of moving image work; Lucero, Enrique, actor; Sánchez, Salvador, actor; Gómez Cruz, Ernesto, actor; Sosa, Roberto, actor; Allegro, Arturo, actor; Chávez, Carlos (Actor), actor; Garza, Jaime, 1954- actor; Vigil, Gerardo, actor; Consejo Nacional de Cinematografía; Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica de la República de México; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Series: Criterion collection -- 862; Criterion collection -- 862.
Published: 2017
Language: spa
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781681432793
Subjects: Communists; Priests; College students; Violence; Corrupt practices; Teatro; Drama; Sacerdotes; Mobs; Estudiantes universitarios
Other titles: Shameful memory; Container of (work): Canoa (Motion picture)
Description: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Director Felipe Cazals adopts a gritty documentary style to narrate the events in Canoa while referencing the climate of political repression that would lead to the massacre of student protesters in Mexico City thereafter. The resulting film is a daring commentary on ideological manipulation, religious fanaticism and mass violence, as well as a visceral expression of horror"--Container.
Notes: Title from title frame.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976.

Widescreen (1.85:1).

Special features: New introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; New conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Cazals; Trailer; An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano.

Director of photography, Álex Phillips, Jr. ; editor, Rafael Ceballos.

Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sanchez, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Roberto Sosa, Arturo Allegro, Carlos Chavez, Jaime Garza, Gerardo Vigil.

Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural.

Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.