Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society 2018 / El Mariachi / USA 1992
Before making box-office smash hits like Sin City and Spy Kids, Robert Rodriguez went to Mexico with $7,000 and a screenplay about a Mariachi singer who gets mistaken for a hitman. The film was bought by Columbia Pictures, screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and set Robert off on his Hollywood trajectory.
Before making box-office smash hits like Sin City, Predators, and the Spy Kids franchise, Austin-based Robert Rodriguez went to Mexico with $7,000 and a screenplay about a Mariachi singer who gets mistaken for a hitman. Unfolding with cinematic precision and tongue-in-cheek humor, El Mariachi’s low budget couldn’t dampen its thrills. The film was bought by Columbia Pictures, screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and set Robert off on his Hollywood trajectory. Along with El Mariachi, his next two feature films, Desperado and Once Upon a Time In Mexico, would form his “Mexico Trilogy.”
Holly Herrick
81 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Robert Rodriguez
/ Screenplay Robert Rodriguez
/ Dir. of Photography Robert Rodriguez
/ Music Eric Guthrie, Chris Knudson, Cecilio Rodríguez, Álvaro Rodríguez, Mark Trujillo
/ Editor Robert Rodriguez
/ Producer Carlos Gallardo, Robert Rodriguez
/ Production Los Hooligans Productions
/ Cast Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez, David Reynoso, María Castillo
/ Sales Park Circus Group
Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968, San Antonio, Texas, USA). Selected filmography: El Mariachi (1992), Desperado (1995), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), The Faculty (1998), Spy Kids (2001), Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002), Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Sin City (2005), Planet Terror (2007), Machete (2010), Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), 100 Years (2016)
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