Sara Montiel Sara Montiel: Legendary Spanish movie and recording superstar Sara Montiel, a.k.a. Sarita Montiel a.k.a. Saritisima, one of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest film and recording stars, died yesterday, April…
Spanish Cinema
Jesus Franco a.k.a. Jess Franco: Cult sex & horror filmmaker. Jesús Franco a.k.a. Jess Franco: Cult sex & horror Spanish filmmaker dead at 82 “I think I was born because…
Dead Man Down with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace. ‘Dead Man Down’: Colin Farrell latest box office bomb Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, whose Swedish-made The Girl with the Dragon…
I’m So Excited 2013 with Miguel Ángel Silvestre. ‘I’m So Excited’: Flamboyant Pedro Almodóvar trailer just can’t hide it Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming movie, I’m So Excited / Los amantes pasajeros…
Fernando Guillen. Fernando Guillén: Pedro Almodóvar actor & ‘Don Juan in Hell’ Goya winner Fernando Guillén, a Spanish acting legend whose film, stage, and television career spanned close to six…
On the Road with Kristen Stewart. Shot in late 2010, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in spring 2012, and re-edited for the American market a few months later, Walter…
Lina Romay, a pretty brunette who starred in numerous risqué features for longtime companion Jesus Franco (a.k.a. Jess Franco), has died. According to online reports, Romay died of cancer on…
Sergi López in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth “If you expect to get laid after this screening,” Guillermo del Toro told the midnight (actually, closer to 1 a.m.) audience at…
Alex de la Iglesia: Premios Goya ceremony. A Goya Awards ceremony to remember: Anti-piracy law controversy, party crasher Unlike the staid Bafta ceremony held in London earlier this evening, Feb.…
Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads…
Viridiana with Silvia Pinal. Viridiana, Luis Buñuel’s provocative 1961 Palme d’Or-winning classic proving that life is a bitch and then you play cards, will run at New York City’s Film…
Camino with Carmen Elias: Controversial Opus Dei drama. Goya Award winners Written and directed by Javier Fesser, the controversial drama Camino – described by Screen Daily‘s Lee Marshall as a…
“How to make-up” at the movies? Make-up artist Conor O’Sullivan shows how it was done in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Dark Knight. John Caglione Jr. was Heath Ledger’s make-up artist;…
Gay wedding: Queens with Hugo Silva and Raúl Jiménez. In Manuel Gómez Pereira’s fluffy 2005 Spanish comedy Queens, a group of gay men and their mothers get ready for Spain’s…
Before the Fall movie. F. Javier Gutiérrez’s 3 Días / Before the Fall, the filmmaker’s feature-film debut (co-produced by Antonio Banderas), has an unlikely premise: as a giant meteorite is…
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