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Alberto Rodríguez – La isla mínima AKA Marshland (2014)
Quote: With Unit 7, Alberto Rodriguez paid homage to his native Seville whilst producing a fine urban thriller. Now he does the same for rural Spain, moving an hour south to the marshlands of...
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Tom Kalin – Savage Grace (2007)
Synopsis: “Savage Grace,” based on the award winning book, is the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune....
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Carlos Saura – Mamá cumple 100 años AKA Mama Turns 100 (1979)
Quote: Returning to the dysfunctional family dynamic and generational saga of Anna and the Wolves in its psychological exposition into the root of ingrained human cruelty and repression, Mama Turns...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La flor de mi secreto AKA The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Quote: Marisa Paredes is Leocadia (“Leo”) Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Hable con ella AKA Talk to Her (2002)
Quote: The closing act of the New York Film Festival, and one of the season’s most rewarding films, Talk to Her strikes a variety of chords: It’s uproarious, whimsical, sad, preposterous–sometimes...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La mala educación AKA Bad Education (2004)
Quote: The wag who first suggested running the trailer for Bad Education before screenings of The Passion of the Christ in southern France deserves a rosette for provocation beyond the call of duty....
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Pedro Almodóvar – Carne trémula AKA Live Flesh (1997)
Quote: Curious, seeing this after the smash hits of “Todo Sobre Mi Madre” and “Hable con Ella”, because this movie sort of prepared the viewers to what was coming. Grabbing a solid and original story,...
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Narciso Ibáñez Serrador – La residencia AKA The House That Screamed (1969)
PLOT Welcome to La Residencia, a borderline reform school packed with over-blossoming maidens and presided over by a whacked-out head-mistress played to the hilt by Lili Palmer. It’s true that the...
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José Luis Borau – Furtivos aka Poachers (1975)
Synopsis: Furtivos (Poachers) is a 1975 Spanish film directed by José Luis Borau. It stars Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor and Alicia Sánchez. The script was written by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and José Luis...
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José Luis Guerín – Tren de sombras AKA Train of Shadows (1997)
Quote: Ostensibly framed as a restoration of a degraded found film recovered some 70 years after the sudden and unexplained death of its creator, a Parisian attorney and amateur filmmaker named Gérard...
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José Luis Guerín – La academia de las musas AKA The Academy of Muses (2015)
After his classes, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who mistrusted the academic project is plotting her husband. The teacher’s intention is to create a “school of the Muses” inspired by the...
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Isabel Coixet – Nadie Quiere La Noche AKA Nobody Wants the Night (2015)
Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS Greenland, 1909. Josephine Peary is a mature, proud, determined and naive woman, in love with celebrated Arctic adventurer Robert Peary, a man who prefers glory and...
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Fernando Fernán Gómez – La vida por delante (1958)
Review “La Vida por Delante” is the second film of Fernan Gomez, one of the most complete Spanish Cinema artists. After his debut in “Manicomio” (1954) as co-director, the turbulent career as a...
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Carlos Saura – Cría cuervos AKA Raise Ravens (1976)
Quote: An inquisitive, cherubic girl named Ana (Ana Torrent) overhears a tender exchange between her father, a military officer named Anselmo (Héctor Alterio) and his mistress, Amelia (Mirta Miller),...
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Sergio Oksman – O futebol AKA On Football (2015)
Synopsis: Filmmaker Sergio Oksman hasn’t seen his father Simão for 20 years. On the eve of the World Cup in Brazil, Oksman returns to his birth city of São Paolo, intending to watch the tournament...
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Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón – Sin Dios ni Santa María AKA Neither God Nor...
“Part ethnography, part mystic cinematic mirage, this beautiful and evocative portrait of Yé, a remote village on the island of Lanzarote, is a paradoxically opaque work of tactile pleasures. Shot on...
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Carlos Saura – El jardín de las delicias AKA The Garden of Delights (1970)
Review Summary Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars as a millionaire industrialist who is involved in an auto accident. When he comes to, Vasquez has completely forgotten who he is and how much money he has....
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Pedro Almodóvar – Julieta (2016)
Quote: Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter...
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Andrés Duque – Oleg y las raras artes AKA Oleg and the Rare Arts (2016)
Several biographical facts: Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk (1927) played the piano for Stalin as a child prodigy, attended the Leningrad Conservatory and in the course of his career primarily wrote...
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Eloy de la Iglesia – El techo de cristal aka The Glass Ceiling (1971)
“This is the second Eloy de la Iglesia film I have seen (the first being CANNIBAL MAN) and I found it to be an excellent thriller. Lonely housewife Carmen Sevilla begins to let her imagination get the...
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