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Asier Etxeandia
Asier Gómez Etxeandía (born 27 June 1975) is a Spanish film actor and singer, whose career includes television, theater and film performances. He is best known for his character as Raúl de la Riva in ''Velvet'' and ''Velvet Colección'' and for ''Pain and Glory'' (2019), for which he was nominated for Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor. Biography Asier Etxeandía studied acting at a Biscayan school, of which he only keeps fond memories of two teachers, Eguzki Zubia and Juan Carlos Garaizabal. He recently commented on its beginnings, noting that "when you are 19 years old, you trust your teachers to the end and sometimes they are not qualified, but in need of your admiration. I believed in them and they almost drove me crazy. They play with personal things, it is dangerous. I learned a lot about what not to do, how not to behave in this profession. The actor complained about the teachers who criticized the students who appeared on TV. He remembers a teacher who cut a boy's h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
31st Goya Awards
The 31st Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 4 February 2017 to honour the best in Spanish films of 2016. Actor and comedian Dani Rovira was the master of ceremonies for the third time in a row. Nominations were announced on 14 December 2016 by Javier Cámara and Natalia de Molina. ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' received the most nominations with twelve, followed by ''Smoke & Mirrors (2016 film), Smoke & Mirrors'' and ''The Fury of a Patient Man'' with eleven nominations each. ''The Fury of a Patient Man'' won Best Film, as well as Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best New Director, but ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' won the most awards, with nine awards, including Best Director. Actress Emma Suárez won two awards on the same night: Best Actress for ''Julieta (film), Julieta'' and Best Supporting Actress for ''La próxima piel''. Winners and nominees Major awards Other award nominees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex, Party And Lies
''Sex, Party & Lies'' ( es, Mentiras y gordas, links=no, lit=Lies and Big Fat ies}) is a 2009 Spanish coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, starring Mario Casas, Yon González, Ana Polvorosa, Ana de Armas, Hugo Silva, Maxi Iglesias and Alejo Sauras. Cast Production ''Sex, Party and Lies'' is a Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production. In December 2010, the Ministry of Culture of Spain—then led by Ángeles González Sinde, who had been one of the co-screenwriters of the film five years before becoming minister—granted the film's producing companies €1 million, thus sparking a row of public strutiny and examination. Release The film premiered at the Las Palmas Film Festival in March 2009. Distributed by Sony Pictures, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 27 March 2009. It opened with a box office gross of €1,813,000 in its debut weekend. See also * List of Spanish films of 2009 A list of Spanish-produced and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plats Bruts
Plats bruts ({{IPA-ca, ˈpladz ˈβɾuts, literally "Dirty Dishes") was a sitcom broadcast by TV3 (Catalonia), TV3. The show follows the life of Josep Lopes and David Güell. The show was co-produced by Kràmpack, El Terrat and Televisió de Catalunya and directed by Oriol Grau, Lluís Manyoses and Joel Joan. The series, which ran for 73 episodes of between 25 and 30 minutes over six seasons, was broadcast between April 19, 1999 and April 15, 2002. Plats Bruts enjoyed very good ratings from the beginning, reaching up to a million viewers in the second episode broadcast, and achieved an average of over 35% share and 900,000 viewers in Catalonia. Afterwards the series was broadcast on Canal 300 and 3XL and dubbed into Spanish so it could be aired on ''Vía Digital'', a digital platform which a predecessor of Movistar Plus and ETB 2, a channel broadcasting in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. The series generally contained self-contained stories, with no con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolor Y Gloria
''Pain and Glory'' ( es, Dolor y gloria) is a 2019 Spanish drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. It stars Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, and Penélope Cruz. The film was released in Spain on 22 March 2019 to positive reviews. It made its international debut at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won two awards: Banderas for Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and Alberto Iglesias for Cannes Soundtrack Award, Best Soundtrack. At the 92nd Academy Awards, ''Pain and Glory'' was nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film, and Banderas was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor. Time (magazine), ''Time'' magazine chose the film as the best movie of 2019. Plot Cinema of Spain, Spanish film director Salvador Mallo is in decline, both physically and mentally, which has m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent War (2019 Film)
''The Silent War'' ( es, Sordo, links=no; ) is a 2019 Spanish war film written and directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas. The cast is led by Asier Etxeandia, Marian Álvarez, Hugo Silva, Aitor Luna, Olimpia Melinte and Imanol Arias. Plot Set in 1944 Spain, the plot features a guerrilla fighter (''maquis'') who becomes deaf and has to survive a manhunt. Cast Production It consists of an adaptation of the graphic novel ''Sordo'' by David Múñoz and Rayco Pulido. The film was written by the director alongside Juan Carlos Díaz Martín. Release ''The Silent War'' was presented at the 22nd Málaga Film Festival (FCME) on March 22, 2019, as part of the festival's official selection. Distributed by Filmax, the film was theatrically released in Spain on September 13, 2019. Netflix released the film on its streaming service on February 3, 2020. See also * List of Spanish films of 2019 * List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing There is a body of films that fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Open Door (2016 Film)
''The Open Door'' ( es, La puerta abierta, links=no) is a 2016 Spanish tragicomedy film written and directed by Marina Seresesky which stars Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez and Asier Etxeandia. Plot Rosa (a prostitute), lives with her mother (a former prostitute which whom she does not get along) in a flat in Madrid. They are torn about adopting the daughter of another prostitute who died because of an overdose. Cast Production Written and directed by Marina Seresesky, ''The Open Door'' is her feature film's directorial debut. The film was produced by Meridional Producciones and Chester Media Producciones alongside Stop&Play, Babilonia Films and MilCiclos, with the participation of Telemadrid. Shooting took place in Madrid, specifically in a '' corrala'' in the from December 2014 to February 2015. Release Prior to its theatrical release, the film screened at the Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG), the Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) and the Transilvania Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bride (2015 Film)
''The Bride'' ( es, La novia, links=no) is a 2015 drama film directed by Paula Ortiz which stars Inma Cuesta, Álex García and Asier Etxeandia. The screenplay is based on ''Blood Wedding'', the 1933 tragedy by Federico García Lorca. It was screened in the Zabaltegi section of the 2015 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also named as one of three films that could be chosen as the Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected. Plot Leonardo, The Groom and The Bride have been an inseparable triangle since they were children, but Leonardo and The Bride possess an invisible, ferocious, unbreakable thread. The years go by and she, in anguish, is getting prepared for her wedding with The Groom in the middle of the white desert where she lives with her father. The day before the ceremony, a beggar knocks on her door and offers her a present and a piece of advice: "Don't get married if you don't love him", whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Medem
Julio Medem Lafont (born 21 October 1958) is a Basque film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter. Biography Medem was born on 21 October 1958 in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full-length feature, ''Vacas'' ('Cows') for which he won a Goya Award. After this film he directed ''The Red Squirrel'' and ''Earth'', both receiving good reviews at Cannes. His next film, '' Lovers of the Arctic Circle'', has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski. In 2002 was released his following film, ''Sex and Lucia''. Medem explored the documentary format with his next production '' La pelota vasca'' ('The Basque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrew's Nest
''Shrew's Nest'' ( es, Musarañas, links=no) is a 2014 horror thriller film directed by Juanfer Andrés and Esteban Roel, and starring Macarena Gómez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva and Luis Tosar. It earned three nominations to the 29th Goya Awards, including Gómez for Best Actress. Plot The plot is set in the 1950s in an apartment in Madrid. Montse earns her living by working as a seamstress in her apartment. She has lost her youth taking care of her younger sister (referred to as "the girl"), who bring some additional earnings to the household by working at a store outside. Montse is at odds with the prospect of her sister establishing intimate relationships with males, despite the girl actually coming of age. Their mother died during the girl's birth and their father ran away during the War, unable to handle the situation. And so, forced to act as father, mother and older sister, Montse hides from reality, feeding an obsessive, unhinged temperament, likewise experiencing vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Días No Vividos
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance * Line-of-sight (other) * LineageOS, a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers * Loss of signal ** Fading **End of pass (spaceflight) * Loss of significance, undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic Medicine and biology * Lipooligosaccharide, a bacterial lipopolysaccharide with a low-molecular-weight * Lower oesophageal sphincter Arts and entertainment * ''The Land of Stories'', a series of children's novels by Chris Colfer * Los, or the Crimson King, a character in Stephen King's novels * Los (band), a British indie rock band from 2008 to 2011 * Los (Blake), a character in William Blake's poetry * Los (rapper) (born 1982), stage name of American rapper Carlos Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |