FILMS:
MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATAQUE DE NERVIOS, by Pedro Almodóvar
►Awards:
- Best Film, Script, Actress, Supporting Actress, Editing - Goya Awards, Spain
- Orson Welles award - Best Author (Foreign Language Film)
- Nastro d’Argento - (Italian Critics Award) - Best Director
- David de Donatello (ItalianAcademy) - Best Director
- “Ciak Award“ - Best Actress - Venice Film Festival
- Felix Award (EuropeanFilmAcademy)- Best Young Film - Best Actress
- “D.W. Griffith“ Award - National Board of Review
- Best Foreign Film - New YorkCritics Circle
- Nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar® and Golden Globe
BELLE EPOQUE, by Fernando Trueba
One of our best well-known actress appears here: Penelope Cruz. Fernando Fernan Gomez (one of the best actors in Spain at this moment, and since long ago, appears too).
►Awards:
-Winner of 9 Goyas (Spanish Academy Awards) for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Ariadna Gil), Best Supporting Actor (Fernando Fernán Gómez), Best Supporting Actress (Chus Lampreave), Best Cinematographer, Best Art Direction, and Best Editing.
-Won 3 Silver Fotogramas (Spanish Film Critics Awards) for Best Film, Best Actor (Jorge Sanz) and Best Actress (Ariadna Gil).
-Other awards the film won were: Saint Jordi, Calabuch (Peñiscola Comedy Film Festival), Aescan (Andalusian Critics Awards), Reseña, Ojo Critico, Cartelera Turia, and Festival de Huesca.
The film was also nominated for Best European Film at the Felix Awards (European Film Awards).
-The film won prizes or appeared at the following festivals in 1993: Gramado Film Festival (Brazil); Berlin Film Festival; Festival of Festivals, Toronto; Boston Film Festival; Hamptons International Film Festival.
-It was the 1993 Spanish entry to the Academy Awards. It won the Oscar to the Best Foreign Language Film.
BOCA A BOCA, by Manuel Gomez Pereira
Javier Bardem won the “Goya” –a kind of Spanish Oscar- to the Best Actor in 1996 for his role in Boca a boca. Here we can see two of our most international actors: Javier Bardem (was nominated to an Oscar to the Best Actor for the movie Before Night Falls) and Aitana Sanchez Gijon (she was in the film Walking the Clouds, with Keanu Reeves).
JAMÓN JAMÓN, by Bigas Luna (Comedy-Drama)
Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Anna Galiena
Silvia, a village girl pregnant with Jose Luis' baby, plans to marry but Jose's mother has other ideas. She hires the talents of the local hunk Raul to win Silvia away.
►Awards
This film won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Javier Bardem gained his first international attention for his work in this movie,1992, a film that landed him awards from the Spanish Actors Union, Fotogramas, and Saint Jordi.
ÁTAME, by Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: With Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril (a well-know actress in French movies, too). Francisco Rabal, who died recently, plays and small role. He is one of the best actors in Spain in the last decades (he worked with Buñuel, too, and by the 1950s was a leading man who worked not only in Spain, but also in Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and France. Among other awards he got in 1984 the Prix d’interprétation masculine du Festival International de Cannes)
The music is by Ennio Morricone (that made the music in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns).
Plot: Banderas is a man who kidnaps a porn star to "make her fall in love with him."
►Awards:
- National Board of Review
- Nominated for Best Foreign Film - César awards, France
ABRE LOS OJOS, by Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri, Gérard Barray
If Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch had collaborated on a project, the
result might have been something like Open Your Eyes. Kubrick's most
common themes -- imaginary worlds, sexual and social obsessions,
distrust of emotion, human depravity, and a journey towards freedom and
self-knowledge -- present themselves here. Lynch's usual themes --
dreams and illusion vs. reality, persuasion, fear, self-submission,
murder, and curiosity -- also sprinkle themselves into this movie's
stirring, complex recipe.
From the moment the movie opens, it's unclear of what is real and what
is not. We meet a handsome, young, successful businessman named César
(Eduardo Noriega), who drives expensive cars, resides in a classy
residence, and enjoys an endless supply of beautiful women.
But his latest female bed-buddy, Nuria (Najwa Nimri), gets a little too
close for César's comfort. When she invades his birthday party, César
uses his best friend's gorgeous romantic interest, Sofia (Penélope
Cruz), as a means to rid himself of her.
The film's protagonist, César (Eduardo Noriega), is charged with murder, and confined to an asylum. Is César insane? Has he been falsely accused? Both?
►Awards:
Winner of seven Goya Awards (Spanish Oscars).
1998 / C.I.C.A.E. Award - Honorable Mention / Berlin International Film Festival / Panorama / Alejandro Amenábar1999 / Canal22 Best Ibero-American Film Award / Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival / Alejandro Amenábar
1998 / Tokyo Grand Prix / Tokyo International Film Festival / Alejandro Amenábar