Thanks to his Thesis , the despised genre cinema experienced an unprecedented boom in Spain. An admirer of Stanley Kubrick’s meticulousness, Alejandro Amenábar would evolve towards stories with his...
If anything characterizes Jaime Rosales’ cinema, it is his ethical perspective. Movies with characters whose actions have consequences and for which they are responsible. Even behind ETA’s “animals”...
“It is probable that the family is my great theme”, admits Gracia Querejeta about her cinema. Indeed, film after film addresses family conflicts of characters who are...
His face is quite familiar, because throughout his life he had leading roles in successful productions. He worked in numerous movies, series and plays, almost always playing...
He knew how to make an important decision at a key moment in his life. As an actor, he didn’t have much of a chance to make...
First he wrote about cinema, then he wrote cinema, and finally he directed cinema. Daniel Monzón is passionate about genre cinema, and his cinephilia has been able...
He surprised even strangers with his debut, The Orphanage , and since then he has headed with the speed of a bullet towards international consecration. He has not finished...
Of Gloria Stuart it can well be said that she has died cinematically with her boots on. She had just turned 100, but the last survivor of...
More than the divided heart, he has it enlarged. He lives halfway between France and Spain, his two homes. He considers himself a lucky guy and wanted in...
In his days as a short filmmaker he was already attracting the attention of Hollywood. From the first moment it has been clear that Fresnadillo had come...
He is not a very prolific director, but he takes this cinema thing very seriously. From his first feature film, he became one of the most prestigious...
The Spanish directors who have won an Oscar can be counted on the fingers of one hand. One of them is Fernando Trueba: critic, screenwriter, director, producer,...
At the end of the 60s he was one of the directors who most influenced the radical transformation of Hollywood cinema, and in making the films...
Although at first he was considered a ‘handsome’ without much talent, little by little he improved until he became a quite acceptable actor. His career is quite...
Fiction, documentary, what difference does it make? For José Luis Guerín, cinema is art, and he is an artist who filters the world through the very personal...
He was a tireless character actor who has more than 70 films in his filmography. Joe Mantell died Wednesday, September 29, at Providence Tarzana Medical Center, in...