Lately we've seen cinematic apocalypses from a wide array of intelligent people: the Spanish import The Returned dealt with zombies in a low-key and tragic fashion; Soderbergh's Contagion went with the biological angle; Alfonso Cuaron imagined a newly sterile world in Children of Men; and you can probably guess what happens to half the world in Fernando Meirelles' underrated Blindness from a few years back.
Feel free to add another very interesting Spanish import to the "erudite apocalypse" sub-genre: David and Alex Pastor's The Last Days poses an odd question: what if people started to simply fear the outdoors? "Fear" is putting it lightly. The Last Days blows way past simple agoraphobia; this is more like a virus that strikes if you go outside, and it simply fries your brain. The epidemic starts casually enough: a few bizarre deaths hit the news, and then our hero notices that...
Feel free to add another very interesting Spanish import to the "erudite apocalypse" sub-genre: David and Alex Pastor's The Last Days poses an odd question: what if people started to simply fear the outdoors? "Fear" is putting it lightly. The Last Days blows way past simple agoraphobia; this is more like a virus that strikes if you go outside, and it simply fries your brain. The epidemic starts casually enough: a few bizarre deaths hit the news, and then our hero notices that...
- 2/17/2014
- by Scott Weinberg
- FEARnet
Elena Anaya, Antonio Banderas, The Skin I Live In No Rest For The Wicked Tops, Pedro Almodóvar Empty-Handed: Goyas 2012 Winners Best Film La Piel que habito / The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar * No habrá paz para los malvados / No Rest for the Wicked, Enrique Urbizu La Voz dormida / The Sleeping Voice, Benito Zambrano Blackthorn. Sin destino / Blackthorn, Mateo Gil Best Foreign Film in the Spanish Language Boleto al paraíso (Cuba), Gerardo Chijona Miss Bala (Mexico), Gerardo Naranjo * Un cuento chino / Chinese Take-Away (Argentina), Sebastián Borensztein Violeta se fue a los cielos (Chile), Andrés Wood Best European Film Jane Eyre (United Kingdom), Cary Fukunaga Melancholia (Germany / Denmark / France), Lars von Trier * The Artist (France), Michel Hazanavicius Carnage (France), Roman Polanski Best Director Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In Benito Zambrano, The Sleeping Voice * Enrique Urbizu, No Rest for the Wicked Mateo Gil, Blackthorn Best New Director Paula Ortiz, De tu ventana a la mía...
- 2/20/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) and the other nominations for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.” The awards will be handed out on February 19, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.
The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) nominations is below.
Film
La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodovar
No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu
La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), Benito Zambrano
Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn), Mateo Gil
Director
Pedro Almodovar, La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)
Benito Zambrano, La voz dormida...
The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) nominations is below.
Film
La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodovar
No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu
La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), Benito Zambrano
Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn), Mateo Gil
Director
Pedro Almodovar, La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)
Benito Zambrano, La voz dormida...
- 1/11/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
We were asked just two days ago to remove the embeds of the promo teaser from our article. The promo showed a robotic girl being taught at a kitchen table, along with some great future tech which included a robotic cat and looked utterly stunning. Now, word comes via Variety that Daniel Bruehl (Inglorious Basterds) will be headlining with the script written by Sergi Belbel, Maillo, Marti Roca and Aintza Serra. This will be Kike's first feature length film, and it has a big budget for a Spanish film: 6million Euros. Production will start in December in Switzerland with sales being repped by Wild Bunch.
Synopsis:
A meller with futuristic overtones, "Eva" sees a shy young genius (Bruehl) employed by his former university to design robot software. Action unfolds in a mountainous region, which could be the Pyrenees, given that characters speak in Catalan and Spanish.
More as it comes!
Synopsis:
A meller with futuristic overtones, "Eva" sees a shy young genius (Bruehl) employed by his former university to design robot software. Action unfolds in a mountainous region, which could be the Pyrenees, given that characters speak in Catalan and Spanish.
More as it comes!
- 9/24/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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