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Javier Navarrete
Javier Navarrete (born May 9, 1956) is a Spanish film score composer.Scott, A.O. (November 21, 2001). ''The New York Times''The Devil's Backbone (review overview)./ref> His best known score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being ''The Devil's Backbone''). Navarrete was born in Teruel. His scores include ''Whore'', '' Tras el cristal'', '' Dot the i'', and other Spanish films. In addition, he scored 2009's '' Cracks'' (directed by Jordan Scott), 2012's '' Byzantium'' (directed by Neil Jordan) and the U.S. productions, ''Mirrors'', ''Wrath of the Titans'' and ''Inkheart.'' His score for the HBO film '' Hemingway & Gellhorn'' won him an Emmy Award. He also produced in 2015 the soundtrack for the Hong Kong-based film '' Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal''. Works 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Awards and nominations Won * Emmy Award 2012 Outstanding Music Compositi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teruel
Teruel () is a city in Aragon, located in eastern Spain, and is also the capital of Teruel Province. It has a population of 35,675 in 2014 making it the least populated provincial capital in the country. It is noted for its harsh climate, with a wide daily variation on temperatures and its renowned ''jamón serrano'' (cured ham), its pottery, its surrounding archaeological sites, rock outcrops containing some of the oldest dinosaur remains of the Iberian Peninsula, and its famous events: '' La Vaquilla del Ángel'' during the weekend (Friday to Monday) closest to 10 July and "Bodas de Isabel de Segura" around the third weekend of February. Teruel is regarded as the "town of mudéjar" (Moorish-influenced architecture) due to numerous buildings designed in this style. All of them are comprised in the Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon which is a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. Teruel's remote and mountainous location above sea level and its low population has led to relative iso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemingway & Gellhorn
''Hemingway & Gellhorn'' is a 2012 television film directed by Philip Kaufman about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway. The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and aired on HBO on May 28, 2012. Plot This drama tells the story of one of America’s most famous literary couples. The film begins in 1936, when the pair meet for the first time in a chance encounter in a Key West bar in Florida. They encounter one another once again a year later in Spain, while both are covering the Spanish Civil War, and staying in the same hotel on the same floor. Initially, Gellhorn resists romantic advances made by the famous Hemingway, but during a bombing raid, the two find themselves trapped alone in the same room, and they are overcome by lust. They become lovers, and stay in Spain until 1939. Hemingway collaborates with Joris Ivens to produce '' The Spanish Earth''. In 1940 Hemingway divorces his second wife so that he and Gellhorn ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Majesty Minor
''His Majesty Minor'' (french: Sa majesté Minor) is a French-Spanish feature film by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is his third film shot entirely in his native language of French since his 1976 Oscar-winning debut ''Black and White in Color'' and his 1978 film ''Coup de tête'' featuring Patrick Dewaere. It is a mythical comedy taking place on an island in the Aegean Sea before the founding of Ancient Greece. It was filmed in 2006 in Benitatxell and Benigembla, basically in the district of the Marina Alta, which is located in the Valencian Community. The film was produced by French companies StudioCanal and Pathé in partnership with Malvarrosa Media and Mediapro in Spain. Despite its originality, the movie was poorly received, both by critics and the audience.Thomas Baurez, « Jean-Jacques Annaud : Sur le gril », dans ''Studio'', n°239 (octobre 2007), p. 68-72 Plot Minor (Garcia) was abandoned by his parents as a child and was raised by a pack of pigs; he speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Zero
''Moscow Zero'' is a 2006 film directed by María Lidón. Plot An anthropologist called Sergei goes missing after researching a legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to Hell beneath Moscow. A rescue team led by his friend Owen, an American priest, searches for Sergei in the caves and catacombs beneath the city of Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ... which are inhabited by demons. Cast References External links * * * 2006 films American supernatural horror films British supernatural horror films Films scored by Javier Navarrete Films set in Moscow Films shot in Russia Films shot in Spain American independent films Spanish supernatural horror films 2000s Russian-language films British independent films Spanish independent films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Nieto (composer)
José Nieto (born March 1, 1942) is a Spanish composer, orchestrator, songwriter, conductor and drum player. He is best known for writing films scores, such as Mad Love (2001), El bosque animado (1987), The Fencing Master (1992), Carmen (2003), The Turkish Passion (1994) or I Know Who You Are (2000). For television he has composed music for the BBC in series like Crusades(1995) oFrom the Heart of the World(1990), and other international and Spanish series such as Captain James Cook (1988), Armada (1988), Teresa de Jesús (1984) or Los jinetes del alba. He has collaborated in theater with Miguel Narros in "El burlador de Sevilla" and "Salomé", with María Ruiz in the "Serrana de la Vera" and "The portrait of Dorian Gray", with José Luis Gómez in "Bodas que fueron famosas del Pingajo y la Fandanga" and in "Life is a Dream", with Adolfo Marsillach in "Los locos de Valencia" and with Josefina Molina in "No se ser ...", among others. He also has worked in the field of ballet. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impatient Alchemist
''The Impatient Alchemist'' ( es, El alquimista impaciente, links=no) is a 2002 Spanish–Argentine film directed by which adapts the novel ' by Lorenzo Silva. It stars Ingrid Rubio, Roberto Enríquez and Chete Lera, also featuring Adriana Ozores and Miguel Ángel Solá Miguel Ángel Solá Vehil (born May 14, 1950) is an Argentine actor who has made over 60 film appearances in film and TV in Argentina since 1973. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Solá belongs to the Vehil's dynasty of actors, eight generations .... Cast Release It was theatrically released in Spain on 15 May 2002. See also * List of Spanish films of 2002 References ;Citations ;Bibliography * External links * *El Alquimista impaciente' at the Metropoliglobal.com 2002 films Spanish thriller films Argentine thriller films 2000s Spanish-language films 2000s mystery films Police detective films 2000s crime thriller films Films based on Spanish novels Films scored by Javier Navarrete 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranded (2001 Film)
''Stranded'' is a 2001 English-language Spanish science fiction film about a fictional first crewed mission to Mars. It stars Vincent Gallo and Maria de Medeiros, and was directed by Spanish filmmaker and actress María Lidón (credited in the English version of the movie as "Luna"), with screenplay by Spanish science fiction author Juan Miguel Aguilera. Lidón won the "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver", and Gallo and de Medeiros were named best actors at the 2002 Fantafestival in Rome. Plot The film is set in 2020 and begins as the Ares spacecraft enters orbit around Mars. Andre Vishniac commands an international crew of seven astronauts. They try to land, but the small landing craft crashes as a result of an altimeter error. Vishniac is immediately killed, and five other crew members are stranded inside the toppled landing craft, unable to return to the waiting Ares mothercraft. With no spare landing craft, Lowell, the pilot of the Ares, returns to Earth with it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea (2000 Film)
''The Sea'' ( ca, El mar) is a 2000 Spanish film directed by Agustí Villaronga, starring Roger Casamayor. It is based on a novel by Blai Bonet. The plot, set in Mallorca, follows the fates of three childhood friends traumatized by the violence they witnessed during the Spanish Civil War. Ten years later, they are reunited as young adults in a sanatorium for TB patients. The film won the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In the summer of 1936, the violence of the Spanish Civil war reaches a small village in Mallorca. Four children: Andreu Ramallo, Manuel Tur, Pau Inglada and a girl, Francisca, are witness to the execution of leftists at the hands of pro-Franco villagers. In a desperate act of revenge, Pau, whose father has been killed the previous day by the lead executioner, plans to avenge his father's murder torturing Julià Ballester, the son of his father's killer. His idea is to force the boy to drink castor oil. However, things go wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Chavarrías
Antonio Chavarrías (Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1956) is a Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Some of his most recognised films are ''Childish Games'' (2012), showed at the 2012 Berlinale (2012), ''Celia's Lives'' (2006), exhibited at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and '' You'll Be Back'' (2002), which earned him a nomination for the Goya Awards for the Best Adapted Screenplay in 2002. Chavarrías has produced several films some of which have been exhibited and received award nominations at world-renowned festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlinale. In 1990, he founded his film production company, Oberon Cinematográfica. As screenwriter and director Antonio Chavarrías is the scriptwriter and director of ''Childish Games'' (2012), a movie which was exhibited in the Official Section of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. The film stars Juan Diego Botto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort (; 4 March 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film '' Moon Child'' was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. In 2011 he won the Goya Award for Best Director for ''Black Bread''. The Catalan-language film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Life and career Agustí Villaronga was born on 4 March 1953 in Palma, his grandparents had been itinerant puppeteers and his father was a child of the Spanish Civil War, a fact that would resurface repeatedly in the director's filmography. Since childhood, his father encouraged his love for films and from early in his life he wanted to become a film director. He worked as an actor and made some shorts. Villaronga made his directorial debut in 1986 with the film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
