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...desire to demonstrate the glories of their national cuisine (to say nothing of their own creativity) and the wish to please a jury that tends to favor the classic French style is precisely the challenge. "If you're playing soccer, you can't use your hands," says Antonio Saura, a Spanish filmmaker whose 2007 documentary El Pollo, el Pez, y el Cangrejo Real featured the competition. "The Bocuse is the same way: you have to play by their rules...
...19—yes, the day after The Game—a pair of Spanish films will alternate twice throughout the day. They are “Death of a Cyclist” by Juan Antonio Bardem and “Cría Cuervos” by Carlos Saura, both musings on death and guilt.It’s not exactly a heartwarming way to ease yourself into the Thanksgiving spirit, but it’ll get your brain working again after the previous day’s bacchanalian festivities.The Brattle ends its celebration of Janus Films with...
...Considered Spain's best dancer of his era, he helped popularize flamenco, lacking Gypsy fire but more than compensating with power and elegance. The artistic director of the National Ballet of Spain, he also made 10 films that brought him an international audience, notably Blood Wedding, Spanish director Carlos Saura's vibrant dance version of the Garcia Lorca play. Gades was an ardent communist who spent several years in Cuba. Fidel Castro was the best man at his wedding...
Like their male counterparts, the freshmen continued to shine this weekend. Jennifer Saura led the first-year runners with a time...
...appropriately named Tango is one of a long line of credits acquired by prominent Spanish director-writer Carlos Saura (Carmen, Flamenco), who in this film views the tango through a dance and image-intensive, minimalist action approach. Mario Suarez, played by award-winning Argentine actor Miguel Angel Sola, is creating a tango movie to be filmed in a studio in Buenos Aires. He incorporates into his work aspects of his own life, including the pain of his recent marital separation from the talented dancer Laura Fuentes, as well as his growing passion for the ingenue Elena--a role played with...