To Jon Nealon, seeking information on Raul Ruiz's films:  Richard Pen~a, head
   of the New York Film Festival (c/o Lincoln Film Society in NYC), is some-
thing of a Ruiz expert.  You might try to contact him there for guidance, if
your library resources are proving inadequate.  Pen~a (the tilde should obvi-
ously go over the "n"-- this is the best I can do on this computer; the name
is pronouced "Penya," ) anyway, Pen~a programmed a number of Ruiz's films at
the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago when he directed
that facility in the early to mid 1980s.  If you're unable to reach him in
New York, you could contact the Chicago institution for background material
from the notes for those programs.
 
Film Centers and archives (and indices of  *articles*, not always books) are
generally useful sources for detailed information on particular filmmakers and
the personnel at those are, I've found, often willing to help in a research
project to the extent they have time and are convinced that the person making
the inquiry has exhausted more readily available sources in libraries.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Ramona Curry
University of Illinois  [log in to unmask]