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 | "Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity In Spain" [1993] by Marsha Kinder Univ CA Press 8¾x6 pb [12/93] for $27.95 Univ CA Press 10x6¼ hardcover [12/93] out of print/used |
 | "Contemporary Spanish Cinema" [1998] by Barry Jordan & Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas Manchester Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [7/98] for $21.95 Manchester Univ Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [7/98] out of print/used |
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"Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition" [2000] Edited by Peter Evans
Oxford Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [3/2000] for $75.00 Oxford Univ Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [3/2000] for $127.74 chapters/subjects include "Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall!" [1952]; "Calle Mayor" [1956] by Bardem; "Los Golfos" [1962] by Carlos Saura; "Del Rosa ... al Amarillo" [1963] by Manuel Summers; "Tristana" [1970] by Luis Buñuel; "El Espiritu de la Colmena" [1973] by Victor Erice; "Furtivos" [1975] by Borau; "Cambio de Sexo" [1977] by Aranda & Abril; "Mi Hija Hildegart" [1977] by Fernan Gomez; "El Corazon del Bosque" [1979] by Gutierrez Aragon; "Gary Cooper que Estas en los Cielos" [1980] by Miro; "La Muerte de Mikel" [1983] by Imanol Uribe; "Epilogo" [1984] by Suarez; "Que he Hecho yo Para Merecer Esto?" [1984] by Pedro Almodó-var; "La Vida Alegre" [1986] by Colomo; "Las Cosas del Querer" [1989] by Chavarri; "Jamon, Jamon" [1992] by Bigas Luna; "Belle Epoque" [1992] by Fernando Trueba; "Vacas" [1991] by Julio Medem; and "Nadie Hablara de Nosotras Cuando Hayamos Muerto" [1995] by Diaz Yanes |
 | "Spanish National Cinema" [2003] by Nuria Triana-Toribio Routledge 9x6½ pb [1/2003] for $31.95 Routledge 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2003] for $125.00 |
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"The Cinema of Spain & Portugal" [24 essays 2005] Edited by Alberto Mira, Preface by Román Gubern Wallflower Press 9¼x7¼ pb [5/2005] for $29.50 Wallflower Press 9¼x7¼ hardcover [5/2005] for $80.00 |
 | "Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema" [2008] Edited by Joan Ramon Resina & Andrés Lema-Hincapié S.U.N.Y. Press pb [7/2009] for $27.95 S.U.N.Y. Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2008] for $75.00 |
 | "Spain On Screen: Developments In Contemporary Spanish Cinema" [2011] Edited by Ann Davies Palgrave Macmillan 8¾x5½ hardcover [1/2011] for $40.00 |
http://www.amazon.com/Years-Spanish-Cinema-Tatjana-Pavlovi/dp/1405184205/
http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Cinema-Peter-William-Evans/dp/019818414X/
http://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Contradiction-Spanish-Film-1960s/dp/0748621601/
http://www.amazon.com/Remapping-Postfranco-Cinema-M-Kinder/dp/3718605449/
http://www.amazon.com/Spain-Screen-Developments-Contemporary-Spanish/dp/0230236200/
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![won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "All About My Mother" [1999]](images/oscar_sm.gif) | Pedro Almodóvar [Spain]
IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia awarded French Legion of Honor in 1997 |
"Almodóvar On Almodóvar" [2/2007] /0571231926/
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"Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar" [1994] by Paul Julian Smith Verso 2nd edition 8½x7¾ pb [10/2000] for $22.00 Verso 2nd edition 9x8 hardcover [10/2000] for $60.00 |
 | "Viva Pedro: The Almodóvar Collection [2007]
Sony color DVD [1/2007] 9 disks for $87.99 includes "Matador" [1986], "Law of Desire" [1987], "Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown" [1988], "The Flower of My Secret" [1995], "Live Flesh" [1997], "All About My Mother" [1999], "Talk To Her" [2002], and "Bad Education" [2004] |
"Law of Desire" [1987]
"Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown" [1988]
a musical stageplay version of "Verge" opened on Broadway in 2010
"Kika" comedy [1993]
"The Flower of My Secret" [1995]
"Live Flesh" [1997]
"All About My Mother" [1999]
"Talk To Her" [2002]
"Bad Education" [2004]
"Volver"
"Broken Embraces" [Spain March 2009, USA Nov 2009]
"The Skin That I Inhabit" [2010[ starring Antonio Banderas
"The first real bummer from Almodóvar." -- David Denby, New Yorker Magazine film critic
"The Brief Lovers" comedy [2012?] possibly starring Javier Camara
Alejandro Amenábar [Spain]
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"Agora" [Spain Oct 2009, USA May 2010]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(film) /tt1186830/
http://www.agorathemovie.com/ + 13 Goya Award noms, won 7
Vicente Aranda [b. 1926; Spain]
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award-winning "Amantes" [1991]
 | "Carmen" [Spain Oct 2003]
An author from France observes the passionate love affairs of Spanish beauty Carmen, including a tragic one with the Basque soldier José. Co-written & directed by Vicente Aranda; co-written by Joaquim Jordà, based on the Prosper Mérimée novella of 1847 (before Bizet); starring Paz Vega, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Antonio Dechent, Joan Crosas & Jay Benedict; 7 Goya noms, won one LionsGate Spanish-language {English subtitles} widescreen color DVD [8/2008] for $15.49 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $14.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • official movie site |
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Buñuel was praised by Alfred Hitchcock as the best director ever.
León Klimovsky [1906-96; Argentina/Spain]
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Carlos Saura [Spain]
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 | "The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing" [1991] by Marvin D'Lugo Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [4/91] for $33.95 Princeton Univ Press 10x6¾ hardcover [4/91] out of print/used |
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screenwriter Rafael Azcona [1926-2008; Spain]
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won Oscar for 1992 "Belle Epoque"
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Javier Bardem [Spain]
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Penélope Cruz [Spain]
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author Federico García Lorca [1898-1936; Spain]
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"Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding)" [1981]
"Yerma" [1998]
"La Casa de Bernarda Alba" [1987]
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Fernando Rey [1917-94; Spain]
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actress Emma Suárez [Spain]
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José Luis López Vázquez [Spain]
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Selected Movies of Spain
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Spain's films have received 4 Best Foreign Language Oscar® wins,
among 19 Best Foreign Film nominations.
list of Spain's submissions for Oscar consideration
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"All About My Mother (Todo Sobre mi Madre)"
[Spain 1999]
Written & directed by Pedro Almodóvar; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
full credits from IMDb
"Belle Époque" [Spain 1993] Fernando Trueba WON BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR
"Blancanieves" [Spain Sept 2012?] /tt1854513/ 
Announced 5/2012: Spanish director Pablo Berger ia making silent film version of the Snow White story, retold as a
Gothic melodrama in glorious black and white set in 1930s Madrid, starring Maribel Verdú & Macarena García
"Carmen" [Spain 1983] Carlos Saura BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Course Completed (Asignatura Aprobada)" [Spain 1987] BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Double Feature (Sesión Continua)" [Spain 1984] José Luis Garci BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"El Amor Brujo" [Spain 1967] Francisco Rovira Beleta BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Grandfather (El Abuelo)" [Spain 1998] José Luis Garci BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"La Casa de Mi Padre (My Father's House)" aka "Black Listed"
[Spain April 2009]
 | Filmed in Spain's Pais Vasco (Basque Country); a businessman returns to Spain to reconcile with a dying brother; he and his wife and daughter lived in exile for eight years in Argentina to avoid terrorist threats by the Basque separatist group E.T.A. Directed by Gorka Merchán; written by Iñaki Mendiguren; starring Carmelo Gómez, Verónica Echegui, Juan José Ballesta, Emma Suárez, Álex Angulo, Mikel Aramburu, Irene Bau, Aitor Beltrán & Iñaki Font
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"La Venganza" [Spain 1958] BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Los Tarantos" [Spain 1963] BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Mama Turns A Hundred)" [Spain 1979] Carlos Saura BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Matador" [2008] /tt1186238/
"My Dearest Señorita" [Spain 1972] Jaime de Armiñán BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Nest (El Nido)" [Spain 1980] Jaime de Armiñán BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Pan's Labyrinth"
aka "El Laberinto del Fauno" [Spain 2006
full credits from IMDb
"Plácido" [Spain 1961] Luis García Berlanga BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)" [Spain 2004]
Alejandro Amenábar WON BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR
"Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del Corazón)" [Spain 1997]
Montxo Armendáriz BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"The Spirit of The Beehive" [] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Beehive
"Talk To Her" aka "Hable Con Ella" [Spain 2002]
Written & directed by Pedro Almodóvar;
full credits from IMDb
"That Obscure Object of Desire" [Spain 1977]
Luis Buñuel BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Tristana" [Spain 1970] Luis Buñuel BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
"Volver" [Spain 2006]
Written & directed by Pedro Almodóvar;
full credits from IMDb
"Volver a Empezar (To Begin Again)" [Spain 1982]
José Luis Garci WON BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR
"Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown)" [Spain 1988]
Pedro Almodóvar BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR NOM
Spain Cinema Links
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