Posts Tagged ‘spain’

• Foreign Chops #15: Spain

  by Robert Gannon · Sep 5, 2013 at 15:11 CDT · Chops and Scores, Featured, Features, Foreign Chops · 2 Comments
  

  Robert from Sketchy Details back with another edition of Foreign Chops. This month, we’re exploring the cinema of Spain with a lot of great writing from LAMB members. The most popular film was The Skin I Live In and, unsurprisingly, Pedro Almodóvar was the most popular director (though Luis Buñuel got some love, too). Check out the links and stay tuned for the next Foreign Chops announcement.

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• Announcing Foreign Chops #15: Spain

  by Robert Gannon · Aug 14, 2013 at 0:26 CDT · Chops and Scores, Featured, Features, Foreign Chops · 2 Comments
  

  Robert from Sketchy Details back for another edition of Foreign Chops. This month, we’re focusing on Spain. Spain has racked up a staggering 19 nominations for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, topped only by Italy (27) and France (36).

  The Spanish film industry has been actively producing films for over a century. From the silent films of the pre-Civil War era to the growing influence of Neo-Realism in the 1950s, Spain...

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