“Undercover radio” directed by Richard Curtis [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp2iGAMiHdM] “England, 60s. Given the lack of rock on official stations, citizens spend the day hooked to pirate radios to listen to the best music. One of them, Radio Rock, broadcasts from a ship in the North Sea under the direction of Quentin and the
“Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí: an Andalusian dog eighty years later” “Aims to reflect the social climate and cultural circumstances that led to the creation of this work: an atmosphere in which games of complicity and shared learning were fundamental in the Residence of Students of Madrid between Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca
“Cenizas en el cielo” directed by José Antonio Quirós [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwa4EGpR00] “A place where most of its inhabitants live almost attached to a thermal power plant. Pol Ferguson arrives there by chance, a Scot who writes tourist guides, interested in the excellence of a region in the north of Spain about which he has media references (a
“Stories(s) of North American cinema” by Hilario J. Rodríguez “On September 11, 2001, when two planes hit the Twin Towers, something only conceivable in the fantasy of cinematographic narration became a reality. A feeling of vulnerability and the idea that nothing would ever be the same settled throughout the
“Lázaro de Tormes” directed by Fernando Fernán-Gómez and José Luis García Sánchez [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMLc9PDLr8] “Transposition to the big screen of the theatrical monologue written by Fernando Fernán Gómez based on in the classic “Lazarillo de Tormes”. A mature Lázaro de Tormes is forced to prove to the courts that his way of life, throughout
“Revolutionary road” directed by Sam Mendes [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpra9OEw6nQ] “Adapted from the visionary novel by Richard Yates, it is an incisive portrait of an American married couple seen through the eyes of Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet). Yates's account of 50s America raises a question that he has
“The Good Name” directed by Mira Nair [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOaA-4Y8tI] “The film tells the story of the Ganguli family, whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a perpetual balance to join a new world without forgetting the old. Although the parents, Ashoke (Irfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu), yearn for the family and culture they
“Contestant” directed by Rodrigo Cortés [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H22OCZGXzo] “Martín Circo Martín, a young associate professor of History of Economics, has just become the winner of the largest prize ever awarded in the History of Television, valued at 500 million pesetas, more than 3 million euros in prizes of all kinds. However, he soon discovers
“Few biographies like that of King Vidor (1894-1982) provide such a hopeful teaching about loyalty to the artistic vocation. A member of a wealthy clan from Galveston (Texas), Vidor rebelled against his father's plans, which planned for him a splendid future at the head of the family industries, and decided as a child to earn a living
“Let Me In” directed by Tomas Alfredson [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYYyv8FZaYM] “Låt den rätte komma in (Let Me In, and advertised as “Creature of the Night” in English-speaking countries). Hispanic) is a Swedish horror-romance film directed by Tomas Alfredson. It is based on the novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay.