Tag: Cinema of Spain
The Room Next Door | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in...
Vital Vigo: Newcomers Llúcia Garcia & Mitch Topline Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’
Last September, we had the first details on what Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winning Alcarràs (read review) filmmaker Carla Simón was cooking up...
Salve Maria | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Good Mother: Coll Examines Motherhood as Psychological Trauma
Seeing as director Mar Coll punctuates her third feature Salve Maria with chapters utilizing quotes from...
20,000 Species of Bees | Review
The Secret Life of Bees: Solaguren’s Warm Debut Explores the Communal Dictation of Gender Identity
Our relationship to our gender and sexual identities is...
The Other Way Around | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Trueba Reinvents Couple Goals
Gloriously reminding us that we are doomed to repeat the same existential mundane experiences, in...
Toque in Trilogy: Carla Simon Dances with Producer María Zamora for “Romería”
Golden Bear winner Carla Simon has reteamed with her Alcarràs (read review) producer Elástica Films' Maria Zamora for what is coined as neo-realist flamenco...
Sobre todo la noche (Foremost the Night) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Other Mothers: Iriarte’s Debut a Murky Mix of Neo Noir and Melodrama
For his film debut Foremost the Night, Víctor Iriarte frames his peculiarly staged...
Rebel Rodríguez: Paula Ortiz Traces Footsteps of Spanish Pioneer “Hildegart”
The other day Variety provided an update on Amazon’s Prime Video film items in the works for the Spanish market and one project that...
First Aid: Carlos Marques-Marcet Setting Up “They Will Be Dust”
Filmmaker Clara Roquet is a lucky star for several of her Spain filmmaker contemporaries as we just learned that she has contributed to one...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #18. Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life
Strange Way of Life
Pedro Almodóvar has been challenging himself as of late moving away from what could be repetitiveness and a certain complacency by...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #54. Laura Ferrés’ The Permanent Picture
The Permanent Picture
Another directorial debut we are big on is from a Catalan filmmaker who first got noticed with her short The Disinherited -...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #76. Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Que nadie duerma
Que nadie duerma
Settling into his fourth feature film (and third fiction following 2020's Courtroom 3H) in February of last year, Spaniard Antonio Mendez Esparza...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #114. Elena Martín’s Creatura
Creatura
Barcelonian actress turned filmmaker Elena Martín (who was among the Spain Stars of Tomorrow 2022) brought her sophomore film project to San Sebastian Film...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #115. Victor Erice’s Cerrar los ojos
Cerrar los ojos
After a three-decade-long absence from filmmaking, Victor Erice returns to cinema with what is only his fourth feature. Cerrar los ojos reunites...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #136. Carlota Pereda’s La ermita
La ermita
Not too many filmmakers on our list will have three film outputs in just as many years but this appears to be the...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #144. Àlex Lora’s Unicornios
Unicornios
After working in the short and feature docus (2017's Thy Father’s Chair), Spanish filmmaker Àlex Lora moved into fiction feature for the first time...
Alcarràs | Review
Peach Be With You: Simon Harvests Bitter Reality in Solid, Steady Family Drama
Returning to the rural experiences which defined her 2017 debut Summer of...
Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) | Review
The Lives of Mothers: Almodovar’s Melodrama Mines the Personal and Political
Coincidences abound in Parallel Mothers, the latest soap dish from Spain’s perennial auteur, Pedro...
Another Old Dark House: Larraz Gets Derivative with Final English Language Title Deadly Manor (1990) | Blu-ray Review
Arrow Video continues to reconstitute the filmography of Spanish genre filmmaker Jose Ramon Larraz with his final English language thriller, Deadly Manor (originally released...
Video Interview: Luis López Carrasco – The Year of the Discovery | 2020 Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam
Pervasive use of split screen, a sprawling, relaxed approach to time and a carefully recreated period look - both in costumes and image quality...
Criterion Collection: All About My Mother (1999) | Blu-ray Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s most exquisitely dramatic and compassionate film All About My Mother arrived in the final year of the last century, a supercharged queer...
The Days to Come | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival Review
Becoming a We: Marques-Marcet Keeps it Real with a Micro-Drama of Love & Pregnancy
Completing a trilogy of sorts about life getting in the way...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory
Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory becomes the auteur's eighth trip to the Competition and already, comes positive buzz from way back in March having...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #4. Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) – Pedro Almodóvar
Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)
One of the most influential Spanish auteurs of all time, Pedro Almodóvar will be set to unveil his 21st...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #81. As Long as the War Lasts (Mientras dure la guerra) – Alejandro Amenabar
As Long as the War Lasts (Mientras dure la guerra)
Alejandro Amenabar makes his first Spanish language film since 2004’s The Sea Inside with seventh...
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