Óscar Aibar is not as well known outside of Spain as he should be. His films have that strange and wonderful blending of genres, such as comedy and sci-fi in Platillos Volantes (about textile workers obsessed with UFO's), sci-fi and western in Atolladero (set in a lawless hinterland with Iggy Pop as a psychopathic killer), and even a bit of history in the story of 1960s Spanish comic writer El Gran Vázquez, starring Santiago Segura. Aibar combines the great Spanish absurd and grotesque tradition into postmodern myth. He's just begun shooting his sixth feature film, El Bosc, starring Tom Sizemore.Based upon a short story from spanish author Albert Sanchez Piñol set during the Spanish Civil War, El Bosc tells the story of a family from Matarraña (low Aragón, Spain) that hide an ancient secret: next...
- 5/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The 58th edition of the San Sebastián Int. Film Festival got its start this past Saturday with a inaugural ceremony in which an absent Roman Polanski was awarded the 2010 Fipresci award from the international critics for The Ghost Writer. Olivia Williams, one of the actresses from the film, received the award on his behalf from the hands of the president of the international federation of cinema critics, Jan Lumholdt. The festival's opening film was Chicogrande from director Felipe Cazals, a veteran filmmaker who was already awarded at the festival for Los Motivos de Luz. The film, which has been well received, is a recreation of the Mexican revolution through the eyes of a man that saved the life of a wounded Pancho Villa in the year 1916. The film stars Damián Alcázar, Daniel Mártinez and Juan Manuel Bernal.Abel, Diego Luna's directing debut which was previously shown in Sundance and Cannes,...
- 9/22/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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