Raul Ruiz Biography (1941-)

Born July 25, 1941, in Puerto Montt, Chile; naturalized French citizen, 1996;father, a ship's captain; married Valeria Sarmiento (a filmmaker and editor).

Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, writer, editor, production designer, actor
Birth Details: July 25, 1941; Puerto Montt, Chile

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
La maleta, 1960
Le retour, 1964
El tango del viudo, 1967
Tres tristes tigres (also known as Three Sad Tigers and Three Trapped Tigers), 1968
Militarismo y tortura, 1969
La catanaria, 1969
Que hacer? (also known as What Is to Be Done?), 1970
La colonia penal (also known as The Penal Colony), 1970
Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano, 1971
La teoria y la practica, 1972
Poesia popular, 1972
Los minuteros, 1972
La expropriacion (also known as The Exproporation), 1972
El realismo socialista (also known as Socialist Realism), 1973
Palomita brava, 1973
Palomita blanca (also known as White Dove), 1973
Abastecimiento (also known as Supply), 1973
Dialogo de exilados (also known as Dialogue of Exiles and Dialogue d'exiles), 1974
Sotelo, 1976
La vocation suspendue (also known as The Suspended Vocation), 1977
Colloque de chiens (also known as Dog's Dialogue), 1977
L'hypothese du tableau vole (also known as The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting), 1978
Les divisions de la nature, 1978
Jeux, 1979
Images de debat, 1979
La ville nouvelle, 1980
Teletests, 1980
Musee Dali, 1980
Fahlstrom, 1980
Le borgne, 1980
The Territory (also known as Le territoire and O territorio), 1981
Images de sable, 1981
Las tres coronas del marinero (also known as Three Crowns of the Sailor and Les trois couronnes du matelot), 1982
Querelle des jardins (also known as Gardens Quarrels and War of the Gardens), 1982
Le petit theatre, 1982
Ombres chinoises, 1982
Het dak van de walvis (also known as On Top of the Whale and Le toit de la baleine), International Film Circuit, 1982
La ville des pirates (also known as City of Pirates, A cidade dos piratas, and Ville des pirates), 1983
La ville de Paris, 1983
Point de fuite (also known as Vanishing Point and Pontode fuga), 1983
Berenice, 1984
L'eveille du pont de l'Alma, 1985
Treasure Island (also known as L'ile au tresor), 1985
La presence reelle (also known as The Real Presence), 1985
Les destins de Manoel, 1985
Richard III, 1986
(And editor) Memoire des apparences (also known as Life Is a Dream, Memory of Appearances, La vida es sueo, and La vieest un songe), International Film Circuit, 1986
Dans un miroir, 1986
Regime sans pain, 1986
(And production designer) Mammame, 1986
Le professeur Taranne, 1987
La chouette aveugle (also known as The Blind Owl), 1987
"Histoires de glace," Brise-glace, 1987
Tous les nuages sont des horloges (also known as All the CloudsAre Clocks), 1988
Allegoria, 1988
Il pozzo dei pazzi, 1989

Hub, 1989
Derriere le mur (also known as Behind-the-Wall), 1989
La novela errante, 1990
Le livre de Christophe Colombe, 1990
The Golden Boat, 1990
Lexot, 1991
Basta la palabra, 1991
Visione e meraviglia della religione cristiana, 1992
Les solidades (short film), 1992
L'oeil qui ment (also known as Dark at Noon, or Eyes and Lies), 1992
Miroirs de Tunisie, 1993
(And producer) Capitolo 66, 1993
Il viaggio clandestino (also known as The Secret Journey, Viaggio clandestino--Vite di santi e di peccatori, and The Secret Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners), 1994
Fado, majeur et mineur (also known as Fado, Major and Minor), 1994
"Promenade," A propos de Nice, la suite, 1995
Trois vies et une seule mort (also known as Three Lives and Only One Death and Tres vidas e uma so morte), Laurenfilm, 1996
Genealogies d'un crime (also known as Genealogies of a Crime and Genealogias de um crime), Strand Releasing, 1997
Shattered Image, Lions Gate Films, 1998
Le temps retrouve (also known as Il tempo ritrovato, O tempo reencontrado, and Time Regained), 1999
Combat d'amour en songe (also known as Love Torn in Dream),2000
Comedie de l'innocence (also known as Comedy of Innocence and Son of Two Mothers or The Comedy of Innocence), 2000
Les ames fortes (also known as Savage Souls), 2001
Also directed The Expulsion of the Moors.
Film Work
Production associate, Berlin Jerusalem (also known as Berlin--Yerushalaim), Atara Releasing, 1989
(As Raul Ruis) Producer, El arte de ponor los cuernos, 1991
Film Appearances
Chilean refugee, Les apprentis sorciers (also known as The Sorcerer's Apprentice), 1977
"1982," Cinematon, 1984
Midshipman, Los naufragos del liguria, 1985
Brise-glace, 1987
Palombella rossa (also known as The Red Dove and Red Wood Pigeon), 1989
Television Director
Movies
Nadie dijo nada (also known as Nobody Said Anything), 1971
Utopia (also known as The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down, El cuerpo departido y el mundo al reves, and Mensch Zerstreut und Welt Verkehrt), 1975
De grands evenements et des gens ordinaires (also known as Of Great Events and Ordinary People), 1978
Petit manuel d'histoire de France, 1979
La jeu de l'oie (also known as Snakes and Ladders), 1980
Television Appearances
Episodic
(Uncredited) Senales de ruta, 2000
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Tres tristes tigres (also known as Three Sad Tigers and Three Trapped Tigers), 1968
La colonia penal (also known as The Penal Colony), 1970
Dora et la lanterne magique (also known as Dora and the Magic Lantern), 1977
La vocation suspendue (also known as The Suspended Vocation; based on a novel by Pierre Klossowski), 1977
Colloque de chiens (also known as Dog's Dialogue), 1977
L'hypothese du tableau vole (also known as The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting), 1978
The Territory (also known as Le territoire and O territorio), 1981
Las tres coronas del marinero (also known as Three Crowns of the Sailor and Les trois couronnes du matelot), 1982
Het dak van de walvis (also known as On Top of the Whale and Le toit de la Baleine), International Film Circuit, 1982
La ville des pirates (also known as City of Pirates, A cidade dos piratas, and Ville des pirates), 1983
Notre mariage, 1984
L'eveille du pont de l'Alma, 1985
Treasure Island (also known as L'ile au tresor), 1985
La presence reelle (also known as The Real Presence), 1985
Les destins de Manoel, 1985
Richard III, 1986
Memoire des apparences (also known as Life Is a Dream, Memory of Appearances, La vida es sueo, and La vie est un songe; based on his stage play Life Is a Dream), International Film Circuit, 1986
Regime sans pain, 1986
Mammame, 1986
Le professeur Taranne, 1987
The Golden Boat, 1990
Amelia Lopez O'Neill, 1991
L'oeil qui ment (also known as Dark at Noon, or Eyes and Lies), 1992
Capitolo 66, 1993
Il viaggio clandestino (also known as The Secret Journey, Viaggio clandestino--Vite di santi e di peccatori, and The Secret Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners), 1994
Fado, majeur et mineur (also known as Fado, Major and Minor), 1994
Trois vies et une seule mort (also known as Three Lives and Only One Death and Tres vidas e uma so morte), Laurenfilm, 1996
Elle, 1996
Genealogies d'un crime (also known as Genealogies of a Crime and Genealogias de um crime), Strand Releasing, 1997
L'inconnu de Strasbourg, Gemini Films, 1998
Le temps retrouve (also known as O tempo reencontrado, Il tempo ritrovato, and Time Regained), 1999
Combat d'amour en songe (also known as Love Torn in Dream),2000
Comedi de l'innocence (also known as Comedy of Innocence and Son of Two Mothers or The Comedy of Innocence), 2000
Television Movies
De grands evenements et des gens ordinaires (also known as Of Great Events and Ordinary People), 1978
La jeu de l'oie (also known as Snakes and Ladders), 1980
Other television movies include the adaptation A TV Dante, Channel4.
Plays
Author of more than 100 stage plays, including an adaptation of Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
Books
Poetics of Cinema, Dis Voir (Paris, France), 1995
Author of The Book of Disappearances/The Book of Tractations.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, and Fabrice Revault d'Allonnes, Raoul Ruiz, 1987
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 2: Directors, St. James Press, 1996
Rosenbaum, Jonathan, Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1995

Periodicals

Film Comment, January/February, 1997, p. 15
New York Times, October 6, 1996

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