FILM DIRECTOR

Raúl Ruiz

1941 - 2011

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Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (French: Raoul Ruiz; 25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raúl Ruiz has received more than 24,040 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Raúl Ruiz is the 303rd most popular film director (up from 335th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Chile and the most popular Chilean Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Raúl Ruiz ranks 303 out of 2,041. Before him are Márta Mészáros, Shin Sang-ok, Ousmane Sembène, Mamoru Oshii, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Satoshi Kon. After him are John Boorman, Philippe de Broca, Jim Henson, Paul Schrader, Krzysztof Zanussi, and Gaspar Noé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Raúl Ruiz ranks 127. Before him are Barbet Schroeder, Barbara Brylska, Stacy Keach, Ahmed Shafik, Gunpei Yokoi, and Florinda Bolkan. After him are Martha Stewart, Otto Sander, Akiko Wakabayashi, David Crosby, Mirosław Hermaszewski, and Paul Bremer. Among people deceased in 2011, Raúl Ruiz ranks 81. Before him are Paul Baran, Vasily Alekseyev, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Michael Cacoyannis, Sergei Bagapsh, and Ali Saibou. After him are Jimmy Savile, Archduke Felix of Austria, Pinetop Perkins, Warren Christopher, Lyudmila Gurchenko, and Farley Granger.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Raúl Ruiz ranks 26 out of 321. Before him are Iván Zamorano (1967), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), Leonel Sánchez (1936), Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901), Luis Corvalán (1916), and Roberto Matta (1911). After him are Jorge Alessandri (1896), Alexis Sánchez (1988), Orlando Letelier (1932), Francisco Varela (1946), Humberto Maturana (1928), and Arturo Vidal (1987).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Chile

Among film directors born in Chile, Raúl Ruiz ranks 1. After him are Patricio Guzmán (1941), Alejandro Amenábar (1972), Pablo Larraín (1976), and Claudio Miranda (1972).

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Filmography

To Each His Own Cinema
Director
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Oct 31o 20076.473 / 10
Mysteries of Lisbon
Director
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Oct 20o 20106.973 / 10
Klimt
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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Mar 3o 20065.037 / 10