Spanish Cinema Now 2012
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One of the Film Society’s longest-running and most popular programs returns with another comprehensive look at the best from the past year in new Spanish cinema, including Blancanieves, Spain’s official Foreign Language Oscar submission, Sons of the Clouds, the latest from Javier Bardem, and a special sidebar devoted to the surrealist master Luis Buñuel.
Buñuel in Spain
Don't miss this special retrospective devoted to master filmmaker Luís Buñuel's work as director, producer, and screenwriter in his native Spain! Additional screenings will be held at the Instituto Cervantes.
Blancanieves
Opening Night! Director Pablo Berger in person!
An extraordinary re-reading of the classic Grimm Brothers tale as a lush silent melodrama, complete with a wicked stepmother and a traveling troupe of bullfighting dwarves.
Sons of the Clouds
Closing Night!
Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem takes us on a journey to the Western Sahara, where the Sahawai people wait for permission to return to their ancestral lands.
Animals
Pol is a seemingly normal teenager with a family, homework, and a stuffed bear who speaks English named Deerhoof; all is well until he starts to get drawn into the dark world of a new classmate.
The Body
When the body of a murdered woman disappears from the morgue, an unlikely partnership develops between a police inspector and the victim’s husband.
Carmina or Blow Up
Parly a hilarious picaresque comedy, partly a love letter to his mother, Paco León’s impressive debut establishes its young director as a real talent to watch.
Chrysalis
Director Paula Ortiz in person at both screenings!
The wonderful Maribel Verdu co-stars in this chronicle of three generations of women each trying to control their own destinies against the background of a rapidly changing Spain.
The Cold Call
Forced to get a new contract signed or else lose his job, a businessman prepares for a meeting at a trade fair with a big American magnate (Nick Nolte).
The Daughter of Juan Simón
Screening as part of our Luís Buñuel retrospective, Buñuel in Spain.
A shameless melodrama about betrayal and redemption made even more outrageous under producer Buñuel’s surreal eye. With Carmen Amaya.
Don Quintin the Bitter
Screening as part of our Luís Buñuel retrospective, Buñuel in Spain. Screening introduced by Jose Maria Prado, Director of the Filmoteca Española.
Buñuel served as producer and uncredited screenwriter for this tale of a cuckolded businessman who, on his deathbed, meets the child he abandoned years before.
Dream and Silence
One of Spain’s most provocative filmmakers, Rosales (La soledad, Bullet in the Head) offers an unsettling tale of a man who, following her death in a car accident while he was driving, forgets he ever had a daughter.
The End
Director Jorge Torregrossa in person at December 8 screening!
An already tension-filled reunion among old friends turns terrifying when it seems as if some inexplicable, apocalyptic catastrophe has taken over the planet.
Frozen Silence
A group of Spaniards in the notorious "Blue Division"--both volunteers and conscripts sent by Franco to fight alongside the Germans on the Russian front--fear they have a serial killer in their midst.
Ghost Graduation
Teacher and psychic Modesto (Raul Arevalo) gets a new assignment: to help a group of teenage ghosts graduate from the high school they’ve been haunting.
Iceberg
Join New Wave, Film Society's young patron group for film lovers in their 20s and 30s, in celebrating Spanish Cinema Now's 21st birthday with a happy hour before the screening featuring a collection of Spanish wines, tapas and live music!
Beautifully shot in Salamanca, this deceptively tranquil look at three teenagers who try to drop out from the world masks the enormous tensions and contradictory emotions lurking just below the surface.
Land Without Bread
Part of our Luís Buñuel retrospective, Buñuel in Spain!
Two documentaries, the first a remarkable portrait of one of the poorest regions of Spain, the second an early chronicle of the Civil War produced and scripted by Buñuel. Screening with España 1936 (Jean-Paul Le Chanois, 1937).
Orange Honey
Actress Blanca Suarez in person for December 12 screening!
Stationed in his girlfriend’s hometown, a young solider in ‘50s Spain discovers the brutal truth of the Franco regime.
Painless
A taut, provocative thriller that spirals between the Thirties and the present as it recounts the terrible story of a Civil-War era clinic and its experiments with children naturally immune to pain.
ShortMetraje: New Spanish Shorts
Screening introduced by Martín Rosete, director of Voice Over.
ShortMetraje comes back full force, this time celebrating its 10-year anniversary. This edition's fantastic line-up includes a wide array of formats, genres, and styles by a group of emerging filmmakers whose talents will shape the future of Spanish cinema.
Tristana
Given charge of a young orphan, Don Lope eventually turns her into his lover in this beautiful meditation on guilt and forgiveness. With Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey.
The Sleeping Voice
Dulce Chacon’s bestselling novel about female prisoners in the early years of the Franco regime is brilliantly adapted to the screen.
Viridiana
Screening as part of our Luís Buñuel retrospective, Buñuel in Spain.
One of Bunuel’s unquestionable masterpieces, the story of a young woman’s attempt to create a kingdom of virtue among the poor and desperate. With Silvia Pinal.
Wilaya
After living for years in Spain, a young woman is forced to rejoin her family in a massive refugee camp in the Western Sahara.
Winning Streak
Actors Miguel Angel Silvestre and Blanca Suarez in person!
In this fast-paced comedy, casino gambler Gonzalo finally figures out a way to beat the odds, drafting his somewhat reluctant family into a scheme to make a killing at the roulette table.
Wrinkles
A beautifully animated tale of resistance, friendship and life set among the inhabitants of an elderly care facility.
