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Maribel Verdú
María Isabel Verdú Rollán (; born 2 October 1970) is a Spanish actress. Some of her film credits include performances in '' Lovers'', ''Belle Époque'', ''Y tu mamá también'', ''Pan's Labyrinth'', '' The Blind Sunflowers'' and ''Snow White''. Early life Verdú was born in Madrid, Spain. She began acting at 13, appearing in various commercials. She left school at the age of 15, so that she could fully devote herself to her acting career. Verdú has appeared in more than 60 movies, since 1984, the majority of them in Spanish. She has also been in numerous TV shows. Career Her first work experience was as a model in ''spots'' and fashion magazines by known commercial firms. Her first television opportunity was given to her at the age of 13, featuring in the anthology series ', directed by Vicente Aranda in the episode "Captain Sánchez's Crime". She made her feature film debut in ''El sueño de Tánger'' at age 14, starring alongside Fabio Testi. Shot in 1985, the film u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd Goya Awards
The 32nd Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 3 February 2018, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2017. Joaquín Reyes (actor), Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla hosted the awards ceremony. Nominations were announced on 13 December 2017 by David Verdaguer and Bárbara Lennie. ''Giant (2017 film), Giant'' received the most nominations with thirteen, followed by ''The Bookshop (film), The Bookshop'' with twelve nominations. ''The Bookshop (film), The Bookshop'' won Best Film, as well as Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, but ''Giant (2017 film), Giant'' won the most awards, with ten awards, including Best Original Screenplay. Winners and nominees The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Major awards Other award nominees Honorary Goya *Marisa Paredes Films by number of nominations and awards Controversy The fashion designer David Delfín, who died on 3 June 2017, and the actress Amparo Pacheco, who died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montxo Armendáriz
Montxo Armendariz (born as Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain)Torres, '' ''Diccionario Espasa Cine Español'' p. 83 is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''Las cartas de Alou'' won at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His next film, ''Historias del Kronen'', was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. '' Secretos del corazón'' won several Goya Awards, the Blue Angel Award at the Berlin Film Festival and received the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Early life and work Born on 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra.D’Lugo, ''Guide to the Cinema of Spain'', p. 120 He was the last hope for his parents, who had already lost three baby sons.Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 142 His father was a farmhand and blacksmith and Armendáriz spent his first year in rural Basque Country, a landscape that would reappear repeatedly in his filmography.Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 142 He was six years old when, in 1955, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. His films have won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He quickly gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura quickly switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film ''La Caza'' won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carreteras Secundarias
''Backroads'' ( es, Carreteras secundarias, links=no) is a 1997 road movie directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and written by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, adapting the latter's novel ''Carreteras secundarias''. It stars Antonio Resines, Fernando Ramallo, Maribel Verdú and Miriam Díaz Aroca. Plot Set in 1974, during the last rales of the Francoist dictatorship, the plot follows the journey of salesman Lozano and his son Felipe driving a Citroën DS along the Spanish coast. Cast Production Penned by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, the screenplay is an adaptation of Martínez de Pisón's 1996 novel ''Carreteras secundarias''. The films is a Olmo Films, Sogecine, Kaplan and Fernando Trueba PC production, with the participation of Sogepaq and Canal+. Release The film screened out of competition at the 42nd Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in 1997. Distributed by United International Pictures, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 28 November 1997. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Martínez-Lázaro
Emilio Martínez-Lázaro Torre (born 1945) is a Spanish filmmaker known for directing box office hits such as '' The Other Side of the Bed'' (2002) and '' Spanish Affair'' (2014). Biography Emilio Martínez-Lázaro was born in Madrid in 1945. He studied in a Jesuit school and later began studies in Industrial Engineering and then in Physical Sciences in Madrid. Spanish filmmaker Emilio Martínez-Lázaro's first association with cinema came when he joined the Escuela de Argüelles, a group of independent filmmakers. He made his first short film, ''Circunstancias del Milagro''/''The Circumstances of the Miracle'', in 1968; re-edited in 1972 and retitled ''El Camino del Cielo''/''The Road to Heaven'', it was shown at several international film festivals. He made his first feature, ''Pastel de Sangre''/''Blood Cake'', in 1971. Martínez-Lázaro entered the television industry in 1974, directing episodes of numerous television series, and since then has continued to work in both ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Époque (1992 Film)
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque (; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and European history, usually considered to begin around 1871–1880 and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Occurring during the era of the Third French Republic, it was a period characterised by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations. In this era of France's cultural and artistic climate (particularly within Paris), the arts markedly flourished, and numerous masterpieces of literature, music, theatre, and visual art gained extensive recognition. The Belle Époque was so named in retrospect, when it began to be considered a continental European "Golden Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. The Belle Époque was a period in which, according to historian R. R. Palmer: " European civilisation achieved its greatest power in global politics, and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Balls (film)
''Golden Balls'' ( es, Huevos de oro, links=no) is a 1993 film directed by Bigas Luna which stars Javier Bardem. Plot Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let nothing get in his way. He marries the daughter of a billionaire, intending to use her father's money to realise his project. Benito waltzes his way through a career of excess, fetishes and deceptions, but the personal conflicts he unleashes ultimately send his life spiraling down to disaster. The film makes direct and symbolic references to the work of Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. Cast See also * List of Spanish films of 1993 References ;Citations ;Bibliography * External links * * * 1993 films 1990s Spanish-language films 1993 drama films Films shot in Madrid Films directed by Bigas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigas Luna
José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion. His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had an international career and has made films in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English. Biography Early career Luna was born on March 19, 1946 in Barcelona. He began his professional career working in interior and industrial design, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in 1969. His designs during the 1960s showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. He won the Gold Delta Award ADI/FAD 1970. He moved into movie making in the 1970s, making low-budget shorts with erotic themes. In 1976 he shot his first feature film, ''Tattoo'', achieving notoriety in 1978 with the sexually explicit ''Bilbao'', which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cradle Song (1994 Film)
''Cradle Song'' ( es, Canción de cuna) is a 1994 Spanish drama film directed by José Luis Garci. The film was selected as the Spanish entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Fiorella Faltoyano as Madre Teresa * Alfredo Landa as Don José * María Massip as Madre Vicaria * Diana Peñalver as Madre Juana de la Cruz * Maribel Verdú as Teresa See also * List of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Spain has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the conception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion p ... References External links * 1994 films 1994 drama films 1990s Spanish-language films Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Garci
José Luis García Muñoz (born 20 January 1944), known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish film director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for '' Begin the Beguine'' (1982). Four of his films, including also '' Sesión continua'' (1984), ''Asignatura aprobada'' (1987) and '' El abuelo'' (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots. Early life and work Born in 1944 in a humble family from Asturias. After completing a pre-university course, Garci began working as an administrative assistant in a bank. His love for cinema from an early age led him to pursue filmmaking as a career. At age twenty he began writing reviews for a number of film magazines such as: ''Signos'', ''Cinestudio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Trueba
Fernando Rodríguez Trueba (born 18 January 1955), known as Fernando Trueba, is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer. Between 1974 and 1979, he worked as a film critic for Spain's leading daily newspaper ''El País''. In 1980, he founded the monthly film magazine ''Casablanca'', which he edited and directed during its first two years. He is the author of ''Diccionario'' (Planeta 1997, Plot 2004, Galaxia Guttenberg 2006) and the editor of ''Diccionario del Jazz Latino'' (SGAE, 1998). Among other awards, he has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with ''Belle Époque'' in 1994, the Goya Award as Best Director three times and a Silver Bear for '' Year of Enlightment'' at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. ''Miracle of Candeal'' won the Goya for Best Documentary, and '' Chico and Rita'' won the Goya for Best Feature Animation. In 1999, '' The Girl of Your Dreams'' was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Enlightment
''Year of Enlightment'' ( es, El año de las luces, and also released as ''The Year of the Awakening'') is a 1986 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba, starring Jorge Sanz and Maribel Verdú. The film is a coming of age story of a sixteen-year-old boy finding love and sex in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. The film was awarded the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In the spring of 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil war, two sons of a fallen soldier, Manolo, a sixteen-year-old boy, and his eight-year-old little brother Jesús are suffering from symptoms of tuberculosis. Their much older brother, Pepe, takes them to a rural sanatorium in Sierra de Gata near the border with Portugal. They stay there to recover their health under the watch of Irene, the director. Manolo is the only adolescent, all the others are children. Starting his sexual awakening, he is smitten with Vicenta, the attractive woman in charge of the care of the child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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