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Dec 31 2011
SCN finale: the Shortmetraje program, plus a round-up & wrap-up for this year’s series
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Instituto Cervantes’ annual event Spanish Cinema Now came to an end over a week ago, but TrustMovies is still trying to catch up and juggle postings covering new films opening here in New York City with this tasty series that combined new movies from Spain and a retrospective of films (one of which is below, and yes, that’s our own Edmund Gwenn in The Rocket from Calabuch) by the late Luis García Berlanga. At the press conference at Instituto Cervantes that opened the series this year, one of the most memorable comments from the podium was this: “Spain has no oil; culture is our oil.” Indeed.
ADN Lleida
Dec 19 2011
Antoni Padrós: “quemé mi juventud con el cine”
El director catalán Antoni Padrós, que hoy presenta su filme Lock out (1973) en la apertura del ciclo “Clandestí” sobre cine prohibido durante el franquismo en la Cinemateca Francesa, ha explicado a Efe que quemó su juventud con el cine, entonces una pasión peligrosa.(…)
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Dec 17 2011
El mejor cine clandestino catalán regresa a París
La Cinemateca Francesa de París, con apoyo del Institut Ramon Llull, acoge desde ayer y hasta finales de febrero una muy afinada retrospectiva del cine clandestino catalán de los años sesenta y setenta cuando, bajo la dictadura, muchos artistas prefirieron directamente la ilegalidad en vez de un juego constante con la censura dentro del sistema. (…)
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Nov 02 2011
Interview with Jonás Trueba
AFI’s Silver Theatre is definitely the place to be this November… cinematically speaking, of course. Not one, but two European film festivals are featured this month (with a couple of overlaps) highlighted by the fourth annual Festival of New Spanish Cinema beginning Friday night and running through the first of December (…)
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Sep 30 2011
Para todos los gustos by Sarah Moreno
El cine español ya no tiene esa deliciosa locura de los años 80, época del esplendor almodovariano. En estas tres décadas, han surgido cineastas jóvenes que, en tono más serio y reflexivo, tratan de definir, cada uno a su manera, qué es el cine español. Ofrecer una panorámica de las producciones más recientes en España es la misión del Festival de Nuevo Cine Español 2011, que desde hoy hasta el martes presenta en Miami Beach Cinematheque cuatro películas de ficción y un documental, todas del 2010 (…)
Willamette Week
Sep 28 2011
Review about “Kidnapped” and “Who Can Kill A Child?”
Michael Haneke’s Funny Games was just a bit too touchy feely, don’t you think? And Gaspar Noé’s excruciating long takes in Irreversible were not quite excruciating and long enough, am I right? Didn’t the soul-crushing violence in the last few minutes of the devastating The Strangers leave your soul in a coma not quite deep enough to finally drown idiotic invented concepts like “hope” and “beauty”? And that hunger for more grisly head-bashing that has been nagging at you since you saw Drive is only growing stronger, isn’t it? (…)
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Sep 24 2011
Festival of New Spanish Cinema
The energy of Almódovar. The risk-taking of Amenabar. The unadulterated exhilaration of Buñuel. SIFF celebrates the return of the Festival of New Spanish Cinema, unveiling the next generation of Spanish film legends. Featuring first-time filmmakers and established masters alike, the very best in contemporary Spanish cinema comes to SIFF Cinema. Join us for award-winning comedies, romances and dramatic masterpieces, and the special unveiling of a horror classic.
View ArticleThe Seattle Times
Sep 23 2011
A Theater Near You
SIFF presents two mini-festivals this weekend. The Festival of New Spanish Cinema, screening at SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall, offers a selection of eight films Friday through Sunday, ranging from the musical comedy With or Without Love to the horror-cult film Who Can Kill a Child? to the closing-night film The Great Vázquez, a biopic about ’60s Barcelona cartoonist Manuel Vázquez Gallego.
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Sep 21 2011
4TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA IN SEATTLE
The energy of Almodóvar. The risk-taking of Amenábar. The unadulterated exhilaration of Buñuel. The fourth annual Festival of New Spanish Cinema, our biggest and riskiest yet, unveils the next generation of Spanish film legends.
View ArticleThe Stranger
Sep 21 2011
Kidnapped is the Best Movie of SIFF Cinema’s FNSC by Charles Mudede
This week’s column is entirely devoted to one of the 10 films in this year’s Festival of New Spanish Cinema. The other films are not bad or anything like that (indeed, I quite enjoyed the comedy The Great Vazquez ), but they are not exceptional. Kidnapped is an important work of contemporary European cinema, which is why it deserves our full attention. The core of this film? It’s high on craft and low on intelligence. This is what makes it so dark and difficult. Kidnapped begins with an upper-middle-class family moving into a new home. Later that night, masked burglars break into the house, tie the family up, and begin a journey to hell, a journey to “the night when all cows are black.” (…)
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