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...festival, "Images in the Shadows: A History of Spanish Cinema," documents the progression of Spanish film from the late 1920's through the years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship up to the modern...
Directors like Berlanga, Saura, and Aragon were able to produce monumental works despite the constraints of censorship during the Franco...
...most of the voices raised against the film belong to people who have not yet seen it. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli called the movie "damaging to the image of Christ. He cannot be made the object of low fantasies." Fundamentalist Leader Jerry Falwell called for a boycott against MCA, Universal's parent company; all MCA products, which include Grosset & Dunlap publishers, Spencer Gifts and Motown Records; and any theater that shows the film. Said Falwell: "Neither the label 'fiction' nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...
Describing himself as "a son of a dictatorship born out of the Spanish Civil War," Gonzalez, a leader of the Spanish Socialist Party, said his nation is still working to recover from the "repression of creativity and imagination" under General Francisco Franco...
...Spanish president said Franco's regime could not have produced such advances because it discouraged innovation. Seeing this, said Gonzalez, the Spanish people have come to realize that the Spanish nation-state of the nineteenth century was inept at confronting twentieth century international political problems and the future...