El País

Nov 05 2009

Nueva York recupera el cine español “de guerrilla”

Hubo un tiempo en España en que no todo el cine era apto para mostrarse en las salas. Y mucho menos para pasar la censura franquista. Era un cine de tipo documental, bastante experimental, subversivo, hecho de forma underground, sin apenas presupuesto, y obviamente sin cartón (la imprescindible aprobación que el gobierno debía darle a toda película antes de ser filmada) (…)

Miami New Times

Oct 30 2009

A Festival for Subtitle Lovers

Spanish films often include plots involving young, struggling artists sleeping with older women; funerals that turn into occasions for lovemaking, and scenes in kitchens where people are cooking naked (…)

The Sunbreak

Oct 15 2009

New Spanish Film Festival Starts up at SIFF

Tonight’s opening night fiesta kicks off with Desperate Women (Enloquecidas), directed by Juan Luis Iborra. It’s a “hilarious and outrageous thriller” in which a young woman meets the man of her dreams, only to discover that he’s supposed to be dead. Ha! Spanish women don’t let a little thing like death stop them (…)

The Examiner

Oct 09 2009

A Conversation with Spanish Filmmaker Irene Cardona

For Spanish filmmaker, Irene Cardona, her recent film represents several firsts. It’s the first feature film for Cardona. It’s the first time she has made the trip to the U.S. and it’s the first time that Cardona has experienced the Fall/Winter rain that is so common in Seattle.
Cardona’s first feature film, A Fiance for Jasmina has been described as a romantic comedy. But it can also be considered a sociodrama as it deftly explores the relationship of a group of misfit characters in the south of Spain dealing with love, lust and friendship under a socio-economic backdrop (…)

El País

Jun 27 2009

Marta Sánchez Interview at El País by Isabel Lafont

No se puede hablar de Pragda sin comentar el desarrollo del género del corto en España en la última década. Del mismo modo que, casi con total seguridad, se mencione Pragda y su programa decano, Shortmetraje, cada vez que se hable de la promoción exterior…

The New Yorker

May 11 2009

El Sopar Review

Pace Mao, the revolution is, in fact, a dinner party, and the Catalan director Pere Portabella organized and filmed it in 1974. He gathered, at a rural villa, four men and a woman who had served jail terms, as political prisoners under the Franco regime, ranging from three to twenty-four years. The venue and the participants were unnamed, due to ongoing repression (the dinner took place the night of another political prisoner’s execution), which lends the clandestine meeting an intrinsic edge of drama. The evening begins with their review of a previously recorded debate about communes (which they endorse with a hedged, humane realism), but soon moves to the heart of the matter: table talk about incarceration and the forms of resistance it invokes. Portabella, a master of dark irony, catches the sombre activists reflecting on the efficacy of a hunger strike in fighting “the enemy” (they’re utterly aware that its sole value is the scandal that outside supporters can make of it). (…)

Diari de Girona

May 10 2009

El Lincoln Center acull durant cinc dies el cicle «Clandestí» , dedicat als films catalans censurats

La Societat Cinematogràfica del Lincoln Center presenta des d’ahir a Nova York el cicle de cine Clandestí centrat en les pel lícules clandestines realitzades a Catalunya durant els últims anys del franquisme (…)

(Article wrote in catalan)

El Periódico

May 02 2009

Nueva York Proyecta el cine catalán que prohibió Franco by Idoia Noain

Como bien saben los lectores de David Foster Wallace, no conviene despreciar las notas a pie de página, un mundo a menudo marginal en la literatura donde yacen tesoros. En el cine ocurre algo similar y en el Lincoln Center de Nueva York, desde ayer y hasta el martes, la pantalla se llena con Clandestí (…)

Houston Press

Jan 22 2009

Se habla Español

The films in festival of New Spanish Cinema take a unblinking look at the lives of today’s Spaniards, complete with terrorist attacks, isolation, violence, love and humor. In Jose Luis Guerin’s In Sylvia’s city, it’s desire vs. reality (…)

The Seattle Times

Nov 02 2008

Film from Spain highlighted at Festival

Spain has been honored repeatedly at the Oscars recently, with pedro Almodóvar collecting a couple of Academy Awards (one for best original screenplay for Talk to Her); the Spanish -Mexican Pan’s Labyrinth earning three Oscars © (…)