Jorge Hinojosa

Jorge Hinojosa

Screenwriter and film director, passionate about telling stories with images

Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Across the Universe
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Into the Wild

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  • West Side Story

    ★★★★½

  • The Stories of West Side Story

    ★★★★½

  • Someday

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • West Side Story

    West Side Story

    ★★★★½

    This is the third time I've seen it, and I'll continue to recommend it whenever I can, because to tell you the truth, it saddens me to see a film of this magnitude go unnoticed by the general public, to remain a simple anecdote because of the Oscar for Ariana DeBose and little else... when in fact we have before us a magnificent exercise in cinema by a veteran with whom, fortunately, I grew up and who has marked my…

  • The Stories of West Side Story

    The Stories of West Side Story

    ★★★★½

    Can a behind-the-scenes feature make you fall more in love with a movie?
    Absolutely.

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    There's so much to see, study, and analyze here that it's hard to do all of that on the first viewing.

    This Nosferatu shows again how much I like Eggers' movies. He's one of the best at creating terrifying and claustrophobic tension without relying on jump scares, which are overused too much in horror movies.

    But the top prize has to go to the stunning cinematography and art design, with a camera that expertly connects each shot to create that…

  • La Chimera

    La Chimera

    ★★★★½

    What a beautiful story that reinterprets the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and also criticises and reflects on so many themes that it would be unfair to choose just one.

    This film is a gem; it has moments of absolute magic that will stay with me forever.