Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Cinemania, the long-established Bulgarian film festival, will open on Friday evening with a showing of Spanish director Carlos Saura’s “I, Don Giovanni”. Actor Lorenzo Balducci, the star of the film, will be a special guest at the opening night, which is to be held at the Bulgarian National Palace of Culture (NDK). Between November 13 and December 3, the festival, now in its 23rd...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Spanish everyman actor who flourished in the country's post-Franco renaissance The Spanish actor José Luis López Vázquez, who has died aged 87, was so much a part of Spanish cinema for six decades, appearing in almost 250 films between 1948 and 2007, that it seems inconceivable without him. Short and bald, with a little moustache, bearing a certain resemblance to Groucho Marx,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
International News: Pic is first feature film venture of Seville's GDP -- Seville-based General de Producciones y Diseno, one of Spain's top museum, events and exhibition designers, has entered feature film production, fully financing and producing Carlos Saura's "Flamenco, Flamenco."
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Film Reviews: The Madonna-whore complex of an entire Spanish village is explored, "Rashomon"-style, in Dutch documaker Ramon Gieling's fascinating but uneven fiction feature.
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): ****� Fados shouldn't have worked; veteran Spanish director Carlos Saura ( Cría cuervos , Tango ) assembles a collection of fado singers and films them singing in front of colored backdrops. Sometimes the backdrops become more elaborate (such as a nightclub) and sometimes dancers accompany the music. These famous Portuguese ballads (currently...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Fest Traveler: Valladolid: Fest offers up past winners, homages -- Carlos Saura fans are in for a treat, with a 40-film retro accompanied by a lush book penned by Diego Galan, the El Pais film columnist.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Saturday, October 17th at 5 p.m. at Barbes: FADOS. 2007. Spain & Portugal. 92 min. A fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, FADOS contains homages to such legends as Maria Severa and Amália Rodrigues, as well as stunning turns by modern stars like Mariza and Camané. FADOS completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Spanish director Carlos Saura’s Flamenco...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Rent It THE MOVIE: Judging Carlos Saura's 2007 performance film Fados is not as straightforward as simple ratings like "Rent It" and "Recommended" would suggest. To propose one should rent this title, as I do in the sidebar over there, is perhaps good advice from a consumer point of view, but it may not really do justice to the film, which is a well-made piece of cinema. It just...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
"The Burning Plain" tracks three generations of broken relationships through a fractured timeline. The multinarrative film is equal parts family drama and romantic mystery, shuttling between disparate protagonists in rainy Oregon and the arid Southwest.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
A theme I've heard consistently this year from fellow press members in line is this: It's increasingly difficult to see everything you want to see at TIFF. Presumably for budget reasons, the number of press screenings has been cut down (there are far fewer in the evenings, for example, than in previous years), so more films screen on top of each other. And, if you're doing interviews, that's more movies...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Hilltop High School will host a banquet Thursday night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chula Vista campus.
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
15 Favorite Dancers Meme By Marilyn Ferdinand It’s time for Ferdy on Films to send a meme out into the world and watch it grow! Everyone knows how much I love dance. I’m here to tell you who my...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
by Colin Marshall Where Apurba Kumar Roy goes, so goes death. As well as we know the events of the films that chronicle his life, what mid-1950s viewer could have predicted that the wide-eyed, bobble-headed tot introduced in the first...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
New films from Alejandro Amenábar, Carlos Saura, Werner Herzog and (boo) Don Roos have been added to the slate. The concrete line-up will come sometime next week. Gala - Agora - d. Alejandro Amenábar - Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky - d. Jan Kounen - I, Don Giovanni [ Io, Don Giovanni ] - d. Carlos Saura - Love & Other Impossible Pursuits - d. Don Roos - w. Natalie Portman, Lisa...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
New films from Alejandro Amenábar, Carlos Saura, Werner Herzog and (boo) Don Roos have been added to the slate. The concrete line-up will come sometime next week Gala Agora - d. Alejandro...
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