Rafa Ayuso y Virginia Pablos Recientemente se han dado a conocer los premios Goya. Como es habitual, y no por demérito de las películas aunque aquí cabría el debate, nombres habituales copan las nominaciones/premios: Trueba, Querejeta, de la Iglesia, Sánchez Arévalo más las raciones de noveles/sorpresas...
Dir Jonás Trueba Review by Jack Wormell YOU ARE IN A ROOM WATCHING A FILM. THAT IS ALL. Los Ilusos trailer The cutting room floor. Celluloid detritus repurposed as cinema fetishism. Black and white off cuts. Sound pick-ups. Flash frames. Boom in shot. Discussion behind camera. This strange, self-reflexive, black and...
DVD is made of rust, film of silver (S8) Peripheral Film Festival (A Coruña, Spain) reaches the fourth edition of an amazing adventure which defends the small gauge film preservation. The (S8) Peripheral Film Festival A Coruña reaches its fourth edition, establishing itself as a unique event...
by MARUXA RUIZ DEL ÁRBOL Translation by Ana Penades At the end of February, I saw for the first time real cinema, in 16mm and with two intervals to change-over to the next reel. Like every last Thursday of the month, Ümit Mesut’s hands were in charge of...
A review of ‘The Plague’ by Jack Wormell Some summers ago I was stuck in an interminable traffic jam going from the French Pyrenees into Spain to board a plane back to London. The grating slowness of this particular jam (we were stuck on that road...
Adventures and misadventures of a naïf character inside a suffocating atmosphere Interview by Cecilia Díaz Let’s thank that nowadays there is a program such as DO (Denominació d’Origen, Guarantee of Origin), inside the Tv Locals’ Xarxa, that has as a goal and challenge to become a platform...
Review by Jack Wormell Dir: Sean Durkin UK Release: 3rd February Just released this weekend is Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene and I’ve been unable to banish the rhythmic staccato of the title from my mind ever since I saw the trailer back at the end of...
Article by João Serejo, SFFL Festival Programmer. www.sfflondon.org This year we will be hosting the first Student Film Festival London (SSFL 3-5th Feb) and our goal is to fill in the gap between student filmmakers and the industry. As a just graduated Film Curator, I feel that there...
Review by Jack Wormell Playing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts until the 9th February is The Nine Muses, the new film by John Akomfrah, he of Handsworth Songs (1986)fame, which detailed the effect of the Handsworth riots in Birmingham in the 1980’s, and founding member...
Review by Fernando Muñoz Next January 16th the BFI will be showing one of Luis Buñuel’s masterpieces: The Exterminating Angel (1962). This film plays a key work in the heterodox Spanish filmmaker’s filmography. And that is really saying something because Buñuel is one of the most...