La emotiva película se llevó el Premio del Público en el Festival de Málaga. © A Contracorriente Films
Ya se ha publicado el tráiler de “La Casa”, el nuevo largometraje de Álex Montoya triunfador en el Festival de Málaga después de haber ganado seis premios en el festival: Biznagas de Plata a Mejor Guión, Mejor Música y la del premio del público junto al Premio Feroz Cámara Oscura, el Premio Jurado Joven y también una Mención Especial del Premio Signis.
Basada en el famoso cómic homónimo de Paco Roca, tras la muerte de su padre, tres hermanos se reúnen en la casa familiar donde pasaron los veranos de su infancia. Tienen que decidir qué hacer con la casa, lo que resultará más difícil de lo esperado. Con un tono agridulce salpicado de humor, la película habla de la familia, la herencia y el inexorable paso del tiempo.
La película está protagonizada...
Ya se ha publicado el tráiler de “La Casa”, el nuevo largometraje de Álex Montoya triunfador en el Festival de Málaga después de haber ganado seis premios en el festival: Biznagas de Plata a Mejor Guión, Mejor Música y la del premio del público junto al Premio Feroz Cámara Oscura, el Premio Jurado Joven y también una Mención Especial del Premio Signis.
Basada en el famoso cómic homónimo de Paco Roca, tras la muerte de su padre, tres hermanos se reúnen en la casa familiar donde pasaron los veranos de su infancia. Tienen que decidir qué hacer con la casa, lo que resultará más difícil de lo esperado. Con un tono agridulce salpicado de humor, la película habla de la familia, la herencia y el inexorable paso del tiempo.
La película está protagonizada...
- 4/10/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez’s,Saturn Return was the big winner at the Malaga Film Festival on March 9, taking home the awards for Golden Biznaga for best Spanish film, best director and best editing.
Other top prizes went to Celia Rico’s Little Loves, Álex Monoya’s La Casa, Pau Durá’s Birds Flying East (Pájaros) and Mexican drama Radical, by Christopher Zalla.
Saturn Return, a drama inspired by iconic indie rock band Los Planetas, is set in the late 1990s in Granada. It is produced by La Terraza Films, Áralan Films, Ikiru Films, Bteam Prods, Sideral Cinema and Los Ilusos Films.
Other top prizes went to Celia Rico’s Little Loves, Álex Monoya’s La Casa, Pau Durá’s Birds Flying East (Pájaros) and Mexican drama Radical, by Christopher Zalla.
Saturn Return, a drama inspired by iconic indie rock band Los Planetas, is set in the late 1990s in Granada. It is produced by La Terraza Films, Áralan Films, Ikiru Films, Bteam Prods, Sideral Cinema and Los Ilusos Films.
- 3/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
A myriad of sentiments converge when estranged siblings meet to unpack the weight of their father’s recent death in Spain’s Álex Montoya’s third feature “La Casa,” adapted from the Eisner-winning graphic novel by Paco Roca and sold by Latido Films.
The film, which bowed last night, figures in the official competition selection at this year’s Málaga Film Festival, his project “Lucas” having previously swept the fest’s Zonazine sidebar in 2020 – snagging best film, actor (Jorge Motos) and Audience Award plaudits.
Written by Montoya and Joana M. Ortueta, the project serves as a bittersweet rumination on regret, duty and the ties that bind us, proving a reflective journey through collective consciousness that’s held to task as the three work to rekindle a semblance of affection while sifting through hefty and lingering recollections.
“I’ve been a comic reader for as long as I can remember and,...
The film, which bowed last night, figures in the official competition selection at this year’s Málaga Film Festival, his project “Lucas” having previously swept the fest’s Zonazine sidebar in 2020 – snagging best film, actor (Jorge Motos) and Audience Award plaudits.
Written by Montoya and Joana M. Ortueta, the project serves as a bittersweet rumination on regret, duty and the ties that bind us, proving a reflective journey through collective consciousness that’s held to task as the three work to rekindle a semblance of affection while sifting through hefty and lingering recollections.
“I’ve been a comic reader for as long as I can remember and,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Malaga — Opening last Friday with “Dragonkeeper,” also in competition, Spain’s Malaga Festival, its biggest dedicated event for movies from Spain and Latin America, is studded by latest films by Isaki Lacuesta – “Saturn Return,” reportedly fun, broad audience and radical – David Trueba – “The Good Man,” small scale but almost certainly ingratiating – and Antonio Chavarrías’ “Holy Mother,” about an extraordinary real life female figure in Spain’s 9th century Reconquista.
Also in the running is “Rest in Peace,” from notable Argentine writer-director Sebastián Borensztein (“Chinese Takeaway”).
All are front-runners for some kind of award next Saturday. Prominent also is a bevy of first or second features, featuring from Spain three titles from women directors – gender abuse drama “The Snows,” “Nina,” reportedly a Western set in a northern Spanish town, and tragi-comedy “We Treat Women Too Well” – plus a clutch of debuts from Latin America.
This year’s Competition may, in the final analysis,...
Also in the running is “Rest in Peace,” from notable Argentine writer-director Sebastián Borensztein (“Chinese Takeaway”).
All are front-runners for some kind of award next Saturday. Prominent also is a bevy of first or second features, featuring from Spain three titles from women directors – gender abuse drama “The Snows,” “Nina,” reportedly a Western set in a northern Spanish town, and tragi-comedy “We Treat Women Too Well” – plus a clutch of debuts from Latin America.
This year’s Competition may, in the final analysis,...
- 3/4/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
So the book today is all kinds of things – source of an animated romantic comedy , compared to Seinfeld, a new 2023 collection of the work of the cartoonist behind Wrinkles and The House . What it isn’t, though, is a single thing.
Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas doesn’t explain itself. But it collects Paco Roca comics in three sections and has three copyright dates – 2011, 2014, 2017 – which three sections are somewhat different in style and format and concerns. And it says, here and there, that these comics originally appeared in Spanish publications, I think always weekly, at those times.
I’ll note, here, that all of the reviews I’ve seen of it focus most tightly on that first section, making me wonder if Publishers Weekly and all the rest only flipped through the back half of the book.
The strips here feature a cartoonist, happy with his life as he...
Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas doesn’t explain itself. But it collects Paco Roca comics in three sections and has three copyright dates – 2011, 2014, 2017 – which three sections are somewhat different in style and format and concerns. And it says, here and there, that these comics originally appeared in Spanish publications, I think always weekly, at those times.
I’ll note, here, that all of the reviews I’ve seen of it focus most tightly on that first section, making me wonder if Publishers Weekly and all the rest only flipped through the back half of the book.
The strips here feature a cartoonist, happy with his life as he...
- 1/26/2024
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
This is a 2004 graphic novel – should I say bande dessinée? Roca is Spanish, but my sense is the term is used generally across Europe – that the creator’s afterword notes was tweaked a bit for subsequent publications, finalized in 2009. This English translation – which Roca might have kibitzed on, as his afterword talks a lot about kibitzing on the French and Spanish and other editions in the first years – was done by Jeff Whitman for a 2017 American publication.
So it’s older that it might look, but maybe not entirely so. The original work is about two decades ago now, but I’m not sure Roca didn’t touch it, one last time, before this edition.
The Lighthouse is one of Paco Roca’s earliest works, I think, but that picture is muddy. He’s been translated out of sequence here in North America, with The House from 2005 only arriving in...
So it’s older that it might look, but maybe not entirely so. The original work is about two decades ago now, but I’m not sure Roca didn’t touch it, one last time, before this edition.
The Lighthouse is one of Paco Roca’s earliest works, I think, but that picture is muddy. He’s been translated out of sequence here in North America, with The House from 2005 only arriving in...
- 9/29/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Some books have things that are easy to write about; some don’t. The more naturalistic a book is, the harder I find it to dig into – the more it’s just people living their lives, and the point of the book is seeing them, feeling some comparison to your own life, and making larger connections in your head.
A review can’t do any of that work for the reader. At best, it can point in interesting directions. At worst, it can short-circuit that process, making the book look facile and cheap and dull. Let’s see if I can find some interesting things to point towards, and avoid making vague windy claims.
The House is a low-key graphic novel, by Spanish illustrator and cartoonist Paco Roca, about three grown siblings – two brothers and their sister – over the course of a few weekends, maybe two or three months – which they spend,...
A review can’t do any of that work for the reader. At best, it can point in interesting directions. At worst, it can short-circuit that process, making the book look facile and cheap and dull. Let’s see if I can find some interesting things to point towards, and avoid making vague windy claims.
The House is a low-key graphic novel, by Spanish illustrator and cartoonist Paco Roca, about three grown siblings – two brothers and their sister – over the course of a few weekends, maybe two or three months – which they spend,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
AMC+ and Movistar+ launched the miniseries La Fortuna to widespread acclaim in September last year. The show, a Spanish-American adventure drama television miniseries, is written by the Goya Award-winning Alejandro Amenabar based on the graphic novel El tesoro del Cisne Negro by Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral. The show tells the story of Alex Ventura, a young diplomat who finds himself involved in an expedition to recover an underwater shipwreck. Wall Street Journal wrote that the series’ storyline was intelligent, writing: “It’s a very topical, hot-button issue that the series addresses, intelligently and not without acknowledging that its central controversy
Meet The Cast Of “La Fortuna”...
Meet The Cast Of “La Fortuna”...
- 4/21/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Few high-end series say as much about their producers’ ambitions as Movistar Plus’ “La Fortuna,” starring Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters, one of nine market screenings at this year’s Mipcom trade fair.
“La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming Spain’s Movistar Plus, the pay TV-svod unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, and AMC Studios.
It has the Spanish media company’s biggest stars to date. Tucci, a 2021 Emmy winner for “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” plays Frank Wild, owner of Atlantis Underwater Searching, the world’s biggest American deep-sea discovery company. Peters (“The Wire”) takes on the role of Jonas Pierce, the world’s best maritime rights lawyer.
The AMC deal delivers, moreover, the most far-reaching distribution deal for any Movistar series to date with AMC Plus releasing the series in the U.S. and Canada this winter and Latin...
“La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming Spain’s Movistar Plus, the pay TV-svod unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, and AMC Studios.
It has the Spanish media company’s biggest stars to date. Tucci, a 2021 Emmy winner for “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” plays Frank Wild, owner of Atlantis Underwater Searching, the world’s biggest American deep-sea discovery company. Peters (“The Wire”) takes on the role of Jonas Pierce, the world’s best maritime rights lawyer.
The AMC deal delivers, moreover, the most far-reaching distribution deal for any Movistar series to date with AMC Plus releasing the series in the U.S. and Canada this winter and Latin...
- 10/8/2021
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
AMC has released the first stills from Oscar-winner Alejandro Amenábar’s first TV series La Fortuna, which is in the final stages of production in Spain and the U.S.
Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
Stanley Tucci plays Wild, while Spanish actor Álvaro Mel features as Ventura. Spain’s Ana Polvorosa stars as Ventura’s colleague in work and adventure, Lucia. Rounding out the cast are Clarke Peters as attorney Jonas Pierce, and British actress T’Nia Miller, who plays attorney Susan McLean. Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo and Pedro Casablanc also feature.
The six-part Mod Pictures...
Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
Stanley Tucci plays Wild, while Spanish actor Álvaro Mel features as Ventura. Spain’s Ana Polvorosa stars as Ventura’s colleague in work and adventure, Lucia. Rounding out the cast are Clarke Peters as attorney Jonas Pierce, and British actress T’Nia Miller, who plays attorney Susan McLean. Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo and Pedro Casablanc also feature.
The six-part Mod Pictures...
- 2/25/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
After the pandemic brought the industry to a standstill, shoots have now returned to Madrid, including this adventure series starring Stanley Tucci, Blanca Portillo, Ana Polvorosa and Álvaro Mel. “Filming is an immense challenge that our entire team is taking on with a huge amount of excitement and responsibility. La Fortuna is about optimism and the will to fight,” stated Alejandro Amenábar about this project based on the graphic novel El tesoro del Cisne Negro by Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral, which was interrupted by the start of the pandemic in March 2020, like so many others. However, once the state of emergency had been lifted in Spain, its shoot resumed in Madrid. Its six episodes are being produced by Movistar + and AMC Studios, in conjunction with Mod Producciones, and it stars Stanley Tucci, Blanca Portillo, Manolo Solo, Karra Elejalde, Ana Polvorosa and Álvaro Mel. The synopsis introduces us...
Black Beauty is galloping onto Disney+: A new adaptation of Anna Sewell’s classic novel, which was originally eyed for a 2020 theatrical release, will now debut on the streaming service later this year.
The movie centers around the titular wild mustang, “born free in the American west. When she is captured and taken away from family, her story intertwines with that of 17-year-old Jo Green, similarly grieving over the loss of her parents,” per the official synopsis. “The two slowly develop a bond that is built on love, respect and mutual healing.”
More from TVLineTV Ratings: United We Fall Tops Wednesday,...
The movie centers around the titular wild mustang, “born free in the American west. When she is captured and taken away from family, her story intertwines with that of 17-year-old Jo Green, similarly grieving over the loss of her parents,” per the official synopsis. “The two slowly develop a bond that is built on love, respect and mutual healing.”
More from TVLineTV Ratings: United We Fall Tops Wednesday,...
- 7/29/2020
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
The Hunger Games and Fortitude actor Stanley Tucci is to star in Oscar-winner Alejandro Amenábar’s first TV series La Fortuna, which is a co-production between AMC and Spain’s pay-tv broadcaster Movistar+.
Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
Tucci will play Wild, while Spanish actor Álvaro Mel features as Ventura. Spain’s Ana Polvorosa stars as Ventura’s colleague in work and adventure, Lucia. Rounding out the cast are Clarke Peters as attorney Jonas Pierce, and British actress T’Nia Miller, who plays attorney Susan McLean. Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo and Pedro Casablanc also feature.
Amenábar...
Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
Tucci will play Wild, while Spanish actor Álvaro Mel features as Ventura. Spain’s Ana Polvorosa stars as Ventura’s colleague in work and adventure, Lucia. Rounding out the cast are Clarke Peters as attorney Jonas Pierce, and British actress T’Nia Miller, who plays attorney Susan McLean. Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo and Pedro Casablanc also feature.
Amenábar...
- 7/29/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci is set to star as a buccaneering treasure hunter in “La Fortuna,” a modern-day six-part adventure thriller from AMC Studios and Spain’s Movistar Plus, representing one of the most ambitious drama series to come out of Spain to date.
Linking AMC Studios to Spain’s biggest content investor, Movistar Plus, the pay TV division of telecom Telefonica, “La Fortuna” also marks the drama series directorial debut of “The Others” helmer Alejandro Amenábar, who won an Academy Award for “The Sea Inside.”
Now sporting an official title, and produced in collaboration with Mod Pictures, the thriller also stars Spanish actors Álvaro Mel, who has appeared in several TV series such as Spanish public broadcaster Rtve’s “A Different View,” and Ana Polvorosa, star of Netflix Spanish hit “Cable Girls,” where she plays cross dresser Sara Millán.
“La Fortuna” will see Tucci take on the role of adventurer Frank Wild,...
Linking AMC Studios to Spain’s biggest content investor, Movistar Plus, the pay TV division of telecom Telefonica, “La Fortuna” also marks the drama series directorial debut of “The Others” helmer Alejandro Amenábar, who won an Academy Award for “The Sea Inside.”
Now sporting an official title, and produced in collaboration with Mod Pictures, the thriller also stars Spanish actors Álvaro Mel, who has appeared in several TV series such as Spanish public broadcaster Rtve’s “A Different View,” and Ana Polvorosa, star of Netflix Spanish hit “Cable Girls,” where she plays cross dresser Sara Millán.
“La Fortuna” will see Tucci take on the role of adventurer Frank Wild,...
- 7/29/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The 2020 Eisner Awards were presented by Phil Lamarr as part of Comic-Con At Home, the digital remote replacement for this year’s pandemic-canceled San Diego Comic-Con.
The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-o’Connell took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, and Best Penciller/Inker. Invisible Kingdom from G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; Lynda Barry’s Making Comics; Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai; and the juggernaut that is Raina Telgelmeier each took home two awards. Other notable wins included David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root’s Best Continuing Series; Best Limited Series to Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertrom for Little Bird; Emma Rios for Best Cover Artist for her work on Pretty Deadly; and...
The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-o’Connell took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, and Best Penciller/Inker. Invisible Kingdom from G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; Lynda Barry’s Making Comics; Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai; and the juggernaut that is Raina Telgelmeier each took home two awards. Other notable wins included David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root’s Best Continuing Series; Best Limited Series to Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertrom for Little Bird; Emma Rios for Best Cover Artist for her work on Pretty Deadly; and...
- 7/26/2020
- by Jim Dandy
- Den of Geek
The creatures who survived their time with the Tiger King will be the focus of the Animal Planet documentary Surviving Joe Exotic, airing Saturday, July 25 at 10/9c.
“Viewers will follow the emotional stories of animals that made it out of the zoo for a second chance at life, and hear from ex-employees, including Saff Saffery — who lost an arm to one of Joe’s tigers — rescue leaders, exotic animal experts, and others with firsthand knowledge of the animal trafficking and breeding that fueled Joe Exotic’s empire,” reads the official release. “Paired with never-before-seen footage of Joe filmed for Animal Planet...
“Viewers will follow the emotional stories of animals that made it out of the zoo for a second chance at life, and hear from ex-employees, including Saff Saffery — who lost an arm to one of Joe’s tigers — rescue leaders, exotic animal experts, and others with firsthand knowledge of the animal trafficking and breeding that fueled Joe Exotic’s empire,” reads the official release. “Paired with never-before-seen footage of Joe filmed for Animal Planet...
- 7/16/2020
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Alejandro Amenábar, the Oscar-winning director behind The Others and The Sea Inside, is to make his first-ever television drama for AMC and Spain’s pay-tv broadcaster Movistar+.
AMC Studios and Movistar+ will work with Amenábar and Mod Pictures to adapt Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan).
The story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
The yet-to-be-titled six-part series goes into production this summer and will premiere in 2021 on AMC in the United States, Canada, UK, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Movistar+ in Spain.
Ed Carroll, COO at AMC Networks, said: “This project is uniquely a Spanish/American story inspired by real life events that at...
AMC Studios and Movistar+ will work with Amenábar and Mod Pictures to adapt Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan).
The story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
The yet-to-be-titled six-part series goes into production this summer and will premiere in 2021 on AMC in the United States, Canada, UK, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Movistar+ in Spain.
Ed Carroll, COO at AMC Networks, said: “This project is uniquely a Spanish/American story inspired by real life events that at...
- 7/16/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Madrid — Rolling off their partnership on “While at War,” one of the biggest and highest-profile Spanish movies of 2019, Academy Award winning director Alejandro Amenábar is now teaming with Movistar +, the pay TV division of Spain’s Telefonica, on the development of a drama series, inspired by the Spanish graphic novel “El tesoro del Cisne Negro.”
Created by comic book artist Paco Roca and Spanish diplomat Guillermo Corral, the six part series will turn on the the Black Swan Project: the Odyssey Marine Exploration’s discovery and recovery and transport to Florida of 17.1 tons of coins from the wreckage of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a 30-gun Spanish frigate sunk by the British Navy off the Portuguese coast in 1804. Beginning in 1807, the Spanish government fought a legal battle through U.S. courts to claim the treasure. claimed to be the biggest shipwreck booty in history, as its own.
An adventure...
Created by comic book artist Paco Roca and Spanish diplomat Guillermo Corral, the six part series will turn on the the Black Swan Project: the Odyssey Marine Exploration’s discovery and recovery and transport to Florida of 17.1 tons of coins from the wreckage of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a 30-gun Spanish frigate sunk by the British Navy off the Portuguese coast in 1804. Beginning in 1807, the Spanish government fought a legal battle through U.S. courts to claim the treasure. claimed to be the biggest shipwreck booty in history, as its own.
An adventure...
- 7/26/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“I am so happy,” said Guillermo del Toro as he left the Academy Governors Ball clutching his Oscar, accepting hug after hug. The warmth in the room at Hollywood & Highland was palpable as he won the Oscar for Best Director, the fifth Latin American to do so, and celebrated four Oscar wins for the outsider fairy tale, the first fantasy film to win the Best Picture Oscar since “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” in 2004.
In 2007, Academy recognized the artistry and craftsmanship of the beloved Mexican transplant’s Spanish-language nominee “Pan’s Labyrinth” with six nominations and three wins. This year, voters responded to his English-language masterwork “The Shape of Water” with 13 nominations, leading the field, and four Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Production Design and Score.
It also helps that Fox Searchlight knows how to win Oscars. “Shape” marks their fourth Best Picture, including “Slumdog Millionaire,...
In 2007, Academy recognized the artistry and craftsmanship of the beloved Mexican transplant’s Spanish-language nominee “Pan’s Labyrinth” with six nominations and three wins. This year, voters responded to his English-language masterwork “The Shape of Water” with 13 nominations, leading the field, and four Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Production Design and Score.
It also helps that Fox Searchlight knows how to win Oscars. “Shape” marks their fourth Best Picture, including “Slumdog Millionaire,...
- 3/5/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
“I am so happy,” said Guillermo del Toro as he left the Academy Governors Ball clutching his Oscar, accepting hug after hug. The warmth in the room at Hollywood & Highland was palpable as he won the Oscar for Best Director, the fifth Latin American to do so, and celebrated four Oscar wins for the outsider fairy tale, the first fantasy film to win the Best Picture Oscar since “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” in 2004.
In 2007, Academy recognized the artistry and craftsmanship of the beloved Mexican transplant’s Spanish-language nominee “Pan’s Labyrinth” with six nominations and three wins. This year, voters responded to his English-language masterwork “The Shape of Water” with 13 nominations, leading the field, and four Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Production Design and Score.
Read More:It’s ‘The Shape of Water’ vs. ‘Get Out’ for Three Top Oscars, and Jordan Peele Will Win...
In 2007, Academy recognized the artistry and craftsmanship of the beloved Mexican transplant’s Spanish-language nominee “Pan’s Labyrinth” with six nominations and three wins. This year, voters responded to his English-language masterwork “The Shape of Water” with 13 nominations, leading the field, and four Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Production Design and Score.
Read More:It’s ‘The Shape of Water’ vs. ‘Get Out’ for Three Top Oscars, and Jordan Peele Will Win...
- 3/5/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
France animation event eyes permanent home in Bordeaux.
Madrid-based sales company Latido Films is looking to ramp up its animation offering.
Speaking to Screen during last week’s Cartoon Movie co-production forum in Bordeaux, Latido’s managing director and founding partner Antonio Saura explained: “I felt that there was something missing in our animation line-up until now, something that corresponded with the other types of movies we were carrying and which involved more adult, entertaining, intelligent movies with a niche quality.”
Latido Films’ sales roster to date has included animation titles Pacific Pirates, Birds Of Paradise, and A Valiant Rooster.
The company will now be handling sales on Salvador Simó Busom’s Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles which the director pitched in Bordeaux as a project in development with Manuel Cristóbal’s Sygnatia Films and their joint company The Glow Animation Studio .
The adaptation of the graphic novel by Fermin Solis centres on a chapter...
Madrid-based sales company Latido Films is looking to ramp up its animation offering.
Speaking to Screen during last week’s Cartoon Movie co-production forum in Bordeaux, Latido’s managing director and founding partner Antonio Saura explained: “I felt that there was something missing in our animation line-up until now, something that corresponded with the other types of movies we were carrying and which involved more adult, entertaining, intelligent movies with a niche quality.”
Latido Films’ sales roster to date has included animation titles Pacific Pirates, Birds Of Paradise, and A Valiant Rooster.
The company will now be handling sales on Salvador Simó Busom’s Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles which the director pitched in Bordeaux as a project in development with Manuel Cristóbal’s Sygnatia Films and their joint company The Glow Animation Studio .
The adaptation of the graphic novel by Fermin Solis centres on a chapter...
- 3/13/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Former bank manager Emilio (Martin Sheen) is none too happy when his family ships him off to a retirement home in the emotional but quick-witted animated film Wrinkles. But then he meets his scheming, know-it-all roommate Miguel (George Coe), and this new chapter begins to take on a life and an energy all its own as they navigate the tricky waters of life in the home.
Described as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in an old folks home, Wrinkles is based on Paco Roca’s popular graphic novel. Director Ignacio Ferreras released the hand-drawn animated pic in Spanish in 2011 to great acclaim,...
Described as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in an old folks home, Wrinkles is based on Paco Roca’s popular graphic novel. Director Ignacio Ferreras released the hand-drawn animated pic in Spanish in 2011 to great acclaim,...
- 6/30/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
★★★☆☆Personal battles against mental illness have long been the mainstay of cinematic drama, with countless deserving Oscar winners (and an even greater number of less-deserving awards fodder) exploring the effects of autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's upon the most beautiful of minds. The latter is dealt with in novel form in Spanish animator and director Ignacio Ferreras' Wrinkles (2011). A touching and often funny portrayal of one man's upheaval after his son and his son's wife move him into a retirement home, and based on the Paco Roca graphic novel, Wrinkles' irreverence is commendable, even if its integrity does now feel somewhat compromised by a dull, lifeless English-language dub.
- 4/20/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
This Spanish animation, with voices from Martin Sheen and Matthew Modine, is intelligent and entertaining
Adapted from a comic strip by Paco Roca, this traditional cel animation from Spain is a surprising thing indeed an intelligent, entertaining, altogether unsentimental evocation of the experience of old age. With its crisply drawn, unfussy visuals, Wrinkles is about Emilio, an elderly ex-bank manager who reluctantly enters a retirement home and tries to hide the onset of Alzheimer's. Oh yes, all the joyous things are here dementia, incontinence, callous adult offspring and yet Wrinkles is a tender, life-affirming piece, mischievous although it never tries to package its theme in a falsely cheery Last of the Summer Wine fashion. The American dubbing is done by Martin Sheen, as sobersided Emilio, and Matthew Modine as his son but the winning turn is by veteran George Coe, as charismatic and often downright obnoxious old cynic Miguel.
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Adapted from a comic strip by Paco Roca, this traditional cel animation from Spain is a surprising thing indeed an intelligent, entertaining, altogether unsentimental evocation of the experience of old age. With its crisply drawn, unfussy visuals, Wrinkles is about Emilio, an elderly ex-bank manager who reluctantly enters a retirement home and tries to hide the onset of Alzheimer's. Oh yes, all the joyous things are here dementia, incontinence, callous adult offspring and yet Wrinkles is a tender, life-affirming piece, mischievous although it never tries to package its theme in a falsely cheery Last of the Summer Wine fashion. The American dubbing is done by Martin Sheen, as sobersided Emilio, and Matthew Modine as his son but the winning turn is by veteran George Coe, as charismatic and often downright obnoxious old cynic Miguel.
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- 4/19/2014
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
If there's one thing the internet needs more of - apart from kittens dressed as Marvel villains - it's the opening ten minutes of a new movie for people to enjoy in their lunch breaks. And by powerful serendipity and possibly voodoo magic, we have summoned up the first ten minutes of Spanish animation Wrinkles to get that particular ball rolling. brightcove.createExperiences();Like an Iberian Carl Fredricksen with a more Earthbound existence and voiced by Josiah Bartlet, its hero Emilio (Martin Sheen), is facing up to old age with at much dignity as his new surroundings will allow him. He's been put in a care home by his impatient son. There he finds a partner in crime in the energetic Miguel (George Coe) and jinks, both high and low, ensue.Adapted from a graphic novel by Valencian writer Paco Roca, Wrinkles has been acclaimed as a grown-up, level-headed look...
- 4/3/2014
- EmpireOnline
Transformers 4
Popular Chinese singer and actor Han Geng has joined the cast of Michael Bay's "Transformers 4".
Bay says: "He's one of Asia's top stars in the worlds of music, television and movies and has become one of the most influential entertainers in China. Now he'll also be known for 'Transformers 4.'" [Source: MichaelBay.com]
Kill the Messenger
Barry Pepper has signed on for Michael Cuesta's fact-based thriller "Kill The Messenger" at Focus Features. Jeremy Renner plays Pulitzer-winning journalist Gary Webb in the film which begins shooting today in Atlanta.
Pepper will play federal prosecutor Russell Dodson, tasked with keeping a lid on the agency’s connection to the massive influx of cocaine into the U.S. by Nicaraguan contras. Dodson tries to prevent Webb from running a series of articles about the case. [Source: Deadline]
Black and White
Jennifer Ehle, Andre Holland and Bill Burr have joined the cast...
Popular Chinese singer and actor Han Geng has joined the cast of Michael Bay's "Transformers 4".
Bay says: "He's one of Asia's top stars in the worlds of music, television and movies and has become one of the most influential entertainers in China. Now he'll also be known for 'Transformers 4.'" [Source: MichaelBay.com]
Kill the Messenger
Barry Pepper has signed on for Michael Cuesta's fact-based thriller "Kill The Messenger" at Focus Features. Jeremy Renner plays Pulitzer-winning journalist Gary Webb in the film which begins shooting today in Atlanta.
Pepper will play federal prosecutor Russell Dodson, tasked with keeping a lid on the agency’s connection to the massive influx of cocaine into the U.S. by Nicaraguan contras. Dodson tries to prevent Webb from running a series of articles about the case. [Source: Deadline]
Black and White
Jennifer Ehle, Andre Holland and Bill Burr have joined the cast...
- 7/15/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Day five of the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival promises a smorgasbord of great films and there are still 6 days to go!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Monday, November 12th
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Doc Shorts – Longevity plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
A quintet of shorts exploring issues of aging and persistence.
Free To Attendees 50 And Older
Bo (Kelly McCoy & Dave Schwep, U.S., 2012, 22 min.): When attorney and Playboy photographer Bo Hitchcock is diagnosed with cancer, he decides to forgo chemo and Western...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Monday, November 12th
–
Doc Shorts – Longevity plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
A quintet of shorts exploring issues of aging and persistence.
Free To Attendees 50 And Older
Bo (Kelly McCoy & Dave Schwep, U.S., 2012, 22 min.): When attorney and Playboy photographer Bo Hitchcock is diagnosed with cancer, he decides to forgo chemo and Western...
- 11/12/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Spanish Institute for Film and Audiovisual Arts (Icaa) a part of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, together with the American Cinematheque and Egeda (Audio-Visual Producers’ Rights Management Association) announce the 18th edition of Recent Spanish Cinema series that will showcase the most outstanding recent Spanish films at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, October 11 – 14, 2012.
This 2012 series will be kicked off with the special opening premiere of the official Spanish Entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards 2013, Blancanieves (Snow White) directed by Pablo Berger and starring Maribel Verdú, Inma Cuesta & Macarena García.
This edition is honored with the attendance of directors Pablo Berger (Blancanieves), Benito Zambrano (The Sleeping Voice) and Patricia Ferreira (The Wild Ones).
Join us for our 18th annual showcase of the wildest, sexiest new films from Spain - on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Included in this year's lineup are the 2012 Goya Best Film winner No Rest For The Wicked, a searing neo-noir from director Enrique Urbizu, starring Jose Coronado; Alberto Rodriguez's crime drama Unit 7 and Fernando Gonzalez Molina's coming of age drama and romance I Want You (the sequel to Three Steps Above Heaven, a selection from last year's Recent Spanish Cinema), both starring Spanish star Mario Casas. Also included are Ignacio Ferreras' stunning animated feature Wrinkles, based on Paco Roca’s comic of the same title; The Wild Ones, an elegant triptych of coming-of-age tales and winner of four awards at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival; and 2011’s much-lauded, multiple-Goya winner The Sleeping Voice, starring Maria Leon, Inma Cuesta, from director Benito Zambrano.
In addition to the lineup, the series will screen the short film Wings by José Villalobos, the winning entry from the New Filmmakers from Spain short film contest, a competition for Spanish film students living in USA.
For further details on the schedule, please check the Recent Spanish Cinema website
Venue: 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Tickets: www.Fandango.com
Blancanieves (Snow White)
2012| Mama Films, Arcadia Motion Pictures, Motion Investment Group, Noodles Production|104 min.
Dir. Pablo Berger.
Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Inma Cuesta, Macarena García.
The Sleeping Voice (La Voz Dormida)
2011|Maestranza Films, Mirada Sur|128 min.
Dir. Benito Zambrano.
Cast: Inma Cuesta, María Leon, Marc Clotet, Daniel Holguín.
Unit 7 (Grupo 7)
2012|Atípica films, La Zanfoña Producciones, Sacromonte Films|96 min.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez.
Cast: Mario Casas, Antonio de la Torre, Inma Cuesta.
Wrinkles (Arrugas)
2011|Perro Verde Films, Cromosoma |89 min.
Dir. Ignacio Ferreras
I Want You (Tengo Ganas De Ti)
2012|Zeta Audiovisual, Antena 3 Films|124 min.
Dir. Fernando González Molina.
Cast: Mario Casas, Clara Lago, María Valverde.
The Wild Ones (Els Nens Salvatges)
2012| Distinto Films, Aralan Films, La Femme Endormie Sarl |100 min.
Dir. Patricia Ferreira.
Cast: Marina Comas, Álex Monner, Albert Baró.
This 2012 series will be kicked off with the special opening premiere of the official Spanish Entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards 2013, Blancanieves (Snow White) directed by Pablo Berger and starring Maribel Verdú, Inma Cuesta & Macarena García.
This edition is honored with the attendance of directors Pablo Berger (Blancanieves), Benito Zambrano (The Sleeping Voice) and Patricia Ferreira (The Wild Ones).
Join us for our 18th annual showcase of the wildest, sexiest new films from Spain - on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Included in this year's lineup are the 2012 Goya Best Film winner No Rest For The Wicked, a searing neo-noir from director Enrique Urbizu, starring Jose Coronado; Alberto Rodriguez's crime drama Unit 7 and Fernando Gonzalez Molina's coming of age drama and romance I Want You (the sequel to Three Steps Above Heaven, a selection from last year's Recent Spanish Cinema), both starring Spanish star Mario Casas. Also included are Ignacio Ferreras' stunning animated feature Wrinkles, based on Paco Roca’s comic of the same title; The Wild Ones, an elegant triptych of coming-of-age tales and winner of four awards at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival; and 2011’s much-lauded, multiple-Goya winner The Sleeping Voice, starring Maria Leon, Inma Cuesta, from director Benito Zambrano.
In addition to the lineup, the series will screen the short film Wings by José Villalobos, the winning entry from the New Filmmakers from Spain short film contest, a competition for Spanish film students living in USA.
For further details on the schedule, please check the Recent Spanish Cinema website
Venue: 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Tickets: www.Fandango.com
Blancanieves (Snow White)
2012| Mama Films, Arcadia Motion Pictures, Motion Investment Group, Noodles Production|104 min.
Dir. Pablo Berger.
Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Inma Cuesta, Macarena García.
The Sleeping Voice (La Voz Dormida)
2011|Maestranza Films, Mirada Sur|128 min.
Dir. Benito Zambrano.
Cast: Inma Cuesta, María Leon, Marc Clotet, Daniel Holguín.
Unit 7 (Grupo 7)
2012|Atípica films, La Zanfoña Producciones, Sacromonte Films|96 min.
Dir. Alberto Rodríguez.
Cast: Mario Casas, Antonio de la Torre, Inma Cuesta.
Wrinkles (Arrugas)
2011|Perro Verde Films, Cromosoma |89 min.
Dir. Ignacio Ferreras
I Want You (Tengo Ganas De Ti)
2012|Zeta Audiovisual, Antena 3 Films|124 min.
Dir. Fernando González Molina.
Cast: Mario Casas, Clara Lago, María Valverde.
The Wild Ones (Els Nens Salvatges)
2012| Distinto Films, Aralan Films, La Femme Endormie Sarl |100 min.
Dir. Patricia Ferreira.
Cast: Marina Comas, Álex Monner, Albert Baró.
- 10/3/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The July 19th start of Montreal's 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is drawing closer (it runs through August 7th), and the powers-that-be have announced the second wave of films along with a few selections from the new Axis section of the event.
Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements
The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...
Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements
The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...
- 7/6/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
No Rest for the Wicked (No habrá paz para los malvados) and the other winners for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.”
The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) winners is below.
Film
No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu
Director
Enrique Urbizu, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)
New Director
Kike Maillo, Eva
Original Screenplay
Enrique Urbizu and Michel Gaztambide, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)
Adapted Screenplay
Angel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras, Paco Roca and Rosanna Cecchini,...
The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) winners is below.
Film
No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu
Director
Enrique Urbizu, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)
New Director
Kike Maillo, Eva
Original Screenplay
Enrique Urbizu and Michel Gaztambide, No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked)
Adapted Screenplay
Angel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras, Paco Roca and Rosanna Cecchini,...
- 2/20/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
José Coronado, No Rest for the Wicked Pedro Almodóvar didn't have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goya Awards this evening in Madrid: Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In won a total of four Goyas, but none for its director/writer. Starring Antonio Banderas as a plastic surgeon, Elena Anaya as his captive woman, and Jan Cornet as the good-looking young man whom the doctor blames for the death of his daughter, the sex-bending mystery melodrama won Goyas for Best Actress (Anaya), Best New Actor (Cornet), Best Original Music (Alberto Iglesias, his tenth Goya win), and Best Makeup/Hair. [Full list of Premios Goya winners/nominations.] Instead of the internationally renowned (and BAFTA winner) The Skin I Live In, the 2012 Goyas' big winner was Enrique Urbizu's No habrá paz para los malvados / No Rest for the Wicked, the story of a murderous, corrupt cop. No Rest for the Wicked won Goyas for Best Picture,...
- 2/20/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Elena Anaya, Antonio Banderas, The Skin I Live In No Rest For The Wicked Tops, Pedro Almodóvar Empty-Handed: Goyas 2012 Winners Best Film La Piel que habito / The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar * No habrá paz para los malvados / No Rest for the Wicked, Enrique Urbizu La Voz dormida / The Sleeping Voice, Benito Zambrano Blackthorn. Sin destino / Blackthorn, Mateo Gil Best Foreign Film in the Spanish Language Boleto al paraíso (Cuba), Gerardo Chijona Miss Bala (Mexico), Gerardo Naranjo * Un cuento chino / Chinese Take-Away (Argentina), Sebastián Borensztein Violeta se fue a los cielos (Chile), Andrés Wood Best European Film Jane Eyre (United Kingdom), Cary Fukunaga Melancholia (Germany / Denmark / France), Lars von Trier * The Artist (France), Michel Hazanavicius Carnage (France), Roman Polanski Best Director Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In Benito Zambrano, The Sleeping Voice * Enrique Urbizu, No Rest for the Wicked Mateo Gil, Blackthorn Best New Director Paula Ortiz, De tu ventana a la mía...
- 2/20/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) and the other nominations for the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) have been announced. The 26th Annual Goya Awards (Premios Goyas), presented by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences), is “Spain’s main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards.” The awards will be handed out on February 19, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.
The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) nominations is below.
Film
La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodovar
No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu
La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), Benito Zambrano
Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn), Mateo Gil
Director
Pedro Almodovar, La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)
Benito Zambrano, La voz dormida...
The full listing of the 2012 Goya Awards (Premios Goyas) nominations is below.
Film
La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodovar
No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked), Enrique Urbizu
La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), Benito Zambrano
Blackthorn. Sin destino (Blackthorn), Mateo Gil
Director
Pedro Almodovar, La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)
Benito Zambrano, La voz dormida...
- 1/11/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Let's be honest, the Best Animated Feature Film category is impossible to predict at this moment. Yes, a lot of critics enjoyed Rango, Rio and Puss in Boots and The Adventures of Tintin has already amassed $125.3 million overseas. They are definite contenders. Then you have those in-betweeners such as Winnie the Pooh and Kung Fu Panda 2. One notch lower and you have Cars 2. Even further down you have Gnomeo and Juliet, The Smurfs, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil and Mars Needs Moms!. But with all these films do we really have a film we can consider a front-runner? One that stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of the Oscar race? We must also consider we have the upcoming Aardman animated feature Arthur Christmas, Happy Feet Two, which is a sequel to a previous Best Animated Oscar winner and then the complete unknowns in foreign language contenders Alois Nebel,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
We recently showed you a list of eighteen films that were submitted for consideration for the 84th Academy Awards in the Animated Feature Film category. One of the films was "Wrinkles." Today, we have a teaser trailer and plot synopsis for the movie. Check everything out below. Plot: "Wrinkles" portrays the friendship between Emilio and Miguel, two aged gentlemen shut away in a care home. Recent arrival Emilio, in the early stages of Alzheimer, is helped by Miguel and colleagues to avoid ending up on the feared top floor of the care home, also known as the lost causes or "assisted" floor. Their wild plan infuses their otherwise tedious day-to-day with humor and tenderness, because although for some their lives is coming to an end, for them it is just beginning. The new Spanish movie is based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title and is directed by Ignacio Ferreras.
- 11/8/2011
- WorstPreviews.com
At the end of last week we got the list of eighteen films that are eligible for consideration in the Best Animated Film category [1] at next year's Oscars. Many films on the list were expected entries, but there were a couple unknowns. One of those is Ignacio Ferreras' film Wrinkles, which adapts the graphic novel of the same name by Paco Rosa. In the event you haven't seen the book, we present below a teaser for the animated film adaptation. There's not much to this teaser, but it will give you a brief idea of the look of the movie, and a suggestion of the storyline. We don't have any info on Us distribution for Wrinkles at this point, but that could change very quickly in the event the film does get an Oscar nod when the nominations are announced on January 24, 2012. Given the crowded field that seems like a longshot,...
- 11/7/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
The big question was whether or not Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, Happy Feet Two and Mars Needs Moms were going to be accepted by the Academy for Best Animated Feature film contention considering all three are motion capture titles, and today that question has been answered as all three are among the eighteen features submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 84th Academy Awards.
The list is exactly as I currently have laid out in my Best Animated Feature predictions with the one exception being the previously unknown addition of a film titled Wrinkles (Arrugas), a Spanish-language animated film directed by Ignacio Ferreras and based on Paco Roca's name-sake graphic novel, published by Editions Delcourt. The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film earlier this year at the San Sebastian Film Festival and opened their review saying it "imaginatively and sensitively explore one of...
The list is exactly as I currently have laid out in my Best Animated Feature predictions with the one exception being the previously unknown addition of a film titled Wrinkles (Arrugas), a Spanish-language animated film directed by Ignacio Ferreras and based on Paco Roca's name-sake graphic novel, published by Editions Delcourt. The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the film earlier this year at the San Sebastian Film Festival and opened their review saying it "imaginatively and sensitively explore one of...
- 11/4/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Last week we broke out news about the international lineup for the official section of the 59th San Sebastian Film Festival. Today we receive word on the Spanish titles that would be showcased at this year's edition including the latest from Enrique Urbizu, Isaki Lacuesta and Nacho Vigalondo (see pic). Competing for the Golden Shell award at the official section we find: “No HABRÁ Paz Para Los Malvados (No Rest For The Wicked)” from Enrique Urbizu, starring José Coronado, Rodolfo Sancho, Helena Miquel and Juanjo Artero. The comeback of one of the most gripping Spanish film noir directors after an eight year absence.“Los Pasos Dobles (The Double Steps)” from Isaki Lacuesta, a fictional documentary taking its inspiration from the biography of French artist and author François Augiéras. The artist painted every inch of the walls of a military bunker in the desert and let it sink into the sand...
- 8/5/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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