![]() ![]() La aldea maldita was made in 1930, the year after talkies first appeared in Spain. ![]() As an interesting aside, the filmmaker Kamus is played by Ricardo Baroja, brother of Pío, in one of the four films in which he acted. Nemesio Soldevila was a contemporary of Buñuel, though here he and Fernández Ardavín create something wholly unique in the same year that Un Chien andalou was first screened. But it’s when Carlos sends his friend León to see the filmmaker Kamus that the film shifts into essentially postmodern territory, as Kamus claims that cinema can reveal the sixth sense of Truth, though his camera, and what it captures, presents a questionable reality. The primary plot is simple enough, as Carmen, a stage dancer, is given a ring by her fiancé Carlos, but she is forced to sell it to support her alcoholic (and bullfighting-obsessed) father, though he almost immediately regrets making her do so upon seeing how she is treated at work. Sobrevila.Įl sexto sentido, largely unknown, is a gem, beautifully shot and providing a clear example of how well-developed cinema was by the late 1920s. The descriptions for El verdugo, Los motivos de Berta, and Aita are hopefully coming soon I just need to rewatch those films.įilms that need to be given pages on the site:Ĭlick the pictures to jump to the film’s page.Įl sexto sentido (1929), dir. Some of the films left out for this reason include: El sur and La morte rouge (Erice), Umbracle (Portabella), Cría cuervos (Saura), and En la ciudad de Silvia (Guerín). I limited this to two films per director to keep the list as diverse as possible. I’m hoping to see more films from the 30s and 40s, so things might skew earlier as time goes by. It’s heavily focused on the 60s and 70s, which are the most interesting decades of Spanish cinema for me, with the output of the Barcelona School, and the emergence of directors like Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Víctor Erice, and Basilio Martín Patino. This tends toward films that have a strong political content, are experimental in nature, or that concern Spanish identity in spatial and geographic terms, along with some very good popular films. This is a chronological list of some of my favorite Spanish films. ![]()
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