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Calle Mayor (film)
''Main Street'' ( es, Calle Mayor) is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem starring Betsy Blair and José Suárez. It is based on a Carlos Arniches play titled '' La señorita de Trévelez''. Shooting locations were Palencia, Cuenca and Logroño. The film won the FIPRESCI Award at the Venice Film Festival. Plot Isabel is a good-natured and sensible unmarried woman who lives in a small town with her widowed mother. At the age of 35, she is losing all hope of getting married and having children. A group of bored middle-aged friends decides to play a trick on Isabel: Juan, the youngest and most handsome of them, will pretend to fall in love with her. As Isabel lives the courtship, full of hope and joy, Juan realizes too late the cruelty of the situation, but, pushed by his buddies, doesn't dare tell Isabel the truth. When the day of the gala dance at the town's club comes, Isabel is still living her dream of love. She expects her engagement to be publicly an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Antonio Bardem
Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screen writer, born in Madrid. He was a member of the Communist Party. Bardem was best known for ''Muerte de un ciclista'' (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and '' El puente'' (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1979 film ''Seven Days in January'' won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1953 he and Luis GarcÃa Berlanga founded a film magazine, '' Objetivo'', which existed until 1956. Bardem is the father of director Miguel Bardem and uncle of actor Javier Bardem. Bardem died in Madrid in 2002, at age 80. Filmography Director *'' Esa pareja feliz'' (1951, co-directed with Luis GarcÃa Berlanga) *'' Cà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Peña (actor)
Luis Peña MartÃnez-Illescas (20 June 1918, in Santander – 29 March 1977, in Madrid) was a Spanish actor. Peña came from a family of actors and performed in films and theater. His sister was the actress Pastora Peña. In 1946, he married Luchy Soto; the two formed a stage company. He worked on filmed plays for television which were shown on Televisión Española in the 1960s. At the end of his career, he acted for Carlos Saura. Selected filmography * ''Follow the Legion'' (1942) * ''Ella, él y sus millones'' (1944) * ''Bamboo'' (1945) * ''The Holy Queen'' (1947) * '' The Maragatan Sphinx'' (1950) * '' Surcos'' (1951) * ''Calle mayor'' (1956) * ''Amanecer en puerta oscura'' (1957) * ''Back to the Door'' (1959) * '' The Red Rose'' (1960) * ''Z7 Operation Rembrandt ''Z7 Operation Rembrandt'' (german: Rembrandt 7 antwortet nicht..., it, Mark Donen - Agente Zeta 7, es, Z-7, operación Rembrandt) is a 1966 German-Italian-Spanish Eurospy film written and directed by Gianca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 30th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 30th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 30th Academy Awards, twelve films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Documentary ''Torero'', which represented Mexico, failed to get an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Language Film category, but was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Denmark's Annelise Hovmand became the first female director to have a film in the running at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady From Trévelez (film)
''The Lady from Trévelez'' (Spanish: ''La señorita de Trévelez'') is a 1936 Spanish drama film directed by Edgar Neville and starring Edmundo Barbero, Antoñita Colomé and Fernando Freyre de Andrade. The film is based on the play of the same name by Carlos Arniches.Labanyi & Pavlović p.154 It was remade in 1956 as ''Calle Mayor ''Main Street'' ( es, Calle Mayor) is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem starring Betsy Blair and José Suárez. It is based on a Carlos Arniches play titled '' La señorita de Trévelez''. Shooting locations were Palenci ...''. Cast In alphabetical order * Edmundo Barbero * Antoñita Colomé * Fernando Freyre de Andrade * MarÃa Gámez * Luis Heredia * MarÃa Luisa Moneró * Nicolás RodrÃguez * Alberto Romea * Juan Torres Roca References Bibliography * Labanyi, Jo & Pavlović, Tatjana. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. John Wiley & Sons, 2012. External links * 1936 films Spanish drama films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunca Pasa Nada
''Nunca pasa nada'' or ''Nothing Ever Happens'' is a 1963 Spanish-French drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. Starring a mixed cast of French and Spanish actors it was shot both in Spanish and French. It was a commercial flop at the time of its release. The film was entered into the Venice Film Festival. Julia Gutiérrez Caba was named Best Actress in Spain by the Cinema Writers Circle, and received the ''Fotogramas de Plata'' prize. ''Nunca pasa nada'' depicts an environment and characters similar to the ones appearing in Bardem's great success, ''Calle Mayor'' (''Main Street''), to the point that some critics nicknamed it disdainfully ''Calle Menor'' (''Minor Street''). However, current evaluation of Bardem's works consider ''Nunca pasa nada'' a very appreciable film. Plot A French variety company travels across Spain, coming back to France. Their bus stops when damaged in a small town in Castile, called Medina del Zarzal. The vedette star (showgirl) Jacqueline (Corinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30th Academy Awards
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957. The Oscar for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'', despite the fact that he did not know English. The actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit for their work. Foreman and Wilson have since been acknowledged by the Academy for their contributions. '' Peyton Place'' tied the record for the most nominations without a win (9) set by ''The Little Foxes'' (1941). This record would stand until 1977 when '' The Turning Point'' received 11 nominations without a win, which is the record to date (''The Color Purple'' tied the record in 1985). ''Peyton Place'' also set the record for most unsuccessful acting nominations with five; this record has been tied once, by '' Tom Jones'' at the 36th Academy Awards. This was the first time all five Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Spain (main)
The Communist Party of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos. It currently has two of its politicians serving as government ministers in the Spanish government, in the roles of Minister of Labour and Social Economy and Minister of Consumer Affairs respectively. The PCE was founded by 1921, after a split in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE). The PCE was founded by those who opposed the social democratic wing of the PSOE, because the social democrat wing did not support the PSOE's integration in the Communist International founded by Vladimir Lenin two years prior. The PCE was a merger of the Spanish Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Español) and the Spanish Communist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Comunista Obrero Español). The PCE was first legalized after the proclamation of the Second Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Semprún
Jorge Semprún Maura (; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991. He was a screenwriter for two successive films by the Greek director Costa-Gavras, '' Z'' (1969) and '' The Confession'' (1970), which dealt with the theme of persecution by governments. For his work on the films '' The War Is Over'' (1966) and '' Z'' (1969) Semprún was nominated for the Academy Award. In 1996, he became the first non-French author elected to the ''Académie Goncourt'', which awards an annual literary prize. He won the 1997 Jerusalem Prize, and the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's own. Many pseudonym holders use pseudonyms because they wish to remain anonymous, but anonymity is difficult to achieve and often fraught with legal issues. Scope Pseudonyms include stage names, user names, ring names, pen names, aliases, superhero or villain identities and code names, gamer identifications, and regnal names of emperors, popes, and other monarchs. In some cases, it may also include nicknames. Historically, they have sometimes taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms, and Latinisations. Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones and become the individual's full-time name. Pseudonyms are "part-time" names, used only in certain contexts – to provide a more clear-cut separation between o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Vitelloni
''I vitelloni'' (, literally "The bullocks" - Romagnol slang for "The slackers" or "The layabouts") is a 1953 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay written by himself, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. It stars Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, and Riccardo Fellini (the director's brother) as five young Italian men at crucial turning points in their small town lives. Recognized as a pivotal work in the director's artistic evolution, the film has distinct autobiographical elements that mirror important societal changes in 1950s Italy.Kezich, 130 Recipient of both the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion in 1953, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing in 1958, the film's success restored Fellini's reputation after the commercial failure of ''The White Sheik'' (1952). It also launched the career of its star Alberto Sordi, one of post-war Italy's most significant and popular comedians. Plot As summer draws to a cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' and ''Sight & Sound'', which lists his 1963 film '' '' as the 10th-greatest film. Fellini's best-known films include ''La Strada'' (1954), ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960), ''8½'' (1963), ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965), the "Toby Dammit" segment of ''Spirits of the Dead'' (1968), ''Fellini Satyricon'' (1969), ''Roma'' (1972), '' Amarcord'' (1973), and ''Fellini's Casanova'' (1976). Fellini was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of his career, winning a total of four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film (the most for any director in the history of the award). He received an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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