International Congress of Hispanism and Cinema
VI TECMERIN academic meeting at UC3M
The International Congress of Hispanism and Cinema – VI TECMERIN academic meeting will take place from 2nd to 5th of July at the University Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The coordinator of the Audiovisual Studies Research Group, Margarita Ledo Andión, will screen her film Santa Liberdade (2004) on Friday 5th…
“Devuélvanme lo que me han quitado”. Entrevista con Gemma Cuervo
In a few days Gemma Cuervo is going tobe 80 years old and we want to discuss a job that she carried out more than 50 years ago. Alongside the interview, we not only go deep in the knowledge about her work with Fernán-Gómez in this film, but, through the…
Mesa redonda: El reestreno de “El mundo sigue”
In the framework of the congress “El mundo sigue, redescubrimiento de un clásico”, Juan Estelrich, fil director, restorer of El mundo sigue and godson of Fernando Fernán-Gómez, José Luis Castro de Paz (University of Santiago de Compostela), film historian and specialist in the film work of Fernán-Gómez, Cristina Ros Berenguer…
O Cine de Fernando Rey. Azar, dor, tenacidade e talento
Voces sobre películas: Los últimos de Filipinas
La culminación de la mirada crispada, violenta y popular de Fernando Rey: «El mundo sigue» (1963)
Fernán-Gómez’s work as director has a wide variety of influences: the literary tradition of the sainete and the costumbrismo of authors such as Arniches or Fernández Flórez, Spanish filmmakers he worked with such as Neville, Serrano de Osma or Saenz de Heredia, and last but not least Italian Neorealism, which…
Vida en sombras
El cine español en el laberinto (1939-1953)
The book, born from the homonymous season of Reina Sofía's Museum, seeks to give light to one of the darkest times of the Spanish film history. An age marked by the organization imposed by the dictatorial regime, that has arrived to our days with the heavy charge of clichés that…