Álex de la Iglesia Articles

Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein isn't at all happy his film Las razones del corazón / The Reasons of the Heart failed to win the Golden Shell at the 2011 edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival a couple of weeks ago. As quoted in the Mexican publication La Jornada (via the Basque publication Vara), Ripstein has lashed out against the festival and its 2011 jury, [...]

Francesc Colomer in Agustí Villaronga's Black Bread Álex de la Iglesia Speech: Goyas 2011 Whereas Álex de la Iglesia's A Sad Trumpet Ballad won only two — Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup and Hair — of its fifteen Goya 2011 nominations, Agustí Villaronga's Pa negre / Black Bread won nine of its fourteen nods, among them Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (also [...]

Goya Awards 2011: Sinde Law Controversy, Jorge Drexler Sings, Jimmy Jump Crashes Party Below is the English translation of a brief section of Álex de la Iglesia's lengthy — and really, quite beautiful — speech at the 25th Goya Awards ceremony held earlier this evening at the Teatro Real in Madrid. As mentioned in my previous post, de la Iglesia will be stepping down as [...]

Álex de la Iglesia Unlike the staid BAFTA ceremony held in London earlier this evening, the Spanish Academy's 25th Goya Awards ceremony held at Madrid's Teatro Real was anything but staid. In fact, the excitement began days before the ceremony, when Spanish Academy president Álex de la Iglesia, whose A Sad Trumpet Ballad was in the running with fifteen nominations, including Best Film and Best [...]