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Monobloc (film)
''Monobloc'' (Monoblock) is a 2005 Argentine film, directed by Luis Ortega, his second feature, and written by Ortega and Carolina Fal. The film stars Graciela Borges, Rita Cortese, Carolina Fal, and Evangelina Salazar, the filmmaker's own mother. Plot The film tells of three women who live a nondescript apartment block in a chaotic world. Perla, her disabled daughter, Nena, and their next-door neighbor, Madrina spend their days engaged in unrealistic conversations. For example, Perla dreams of resuming her study of the French language although she is in constant need of blood transfusions to delay her imminent death. The transfusions are performed by a mysterious female staff member in a surreal stark-white hospital room, and provide rare glimpses of the world outside the block. Cast * Graciela Borges as Perla * Rita Cortese as Madrina * Carolina Fal as Nena * Evangelina Salazar * Silvia Süller Distribution The film opened wide in Argentina on June 9, 2005. The film was sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Ortega (film Director)
Luis Ortega (born 12 July 1980) is an Argentine screenwriter, film director and television director. Biography Ortega attended film school at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. Career He wrote the screenplay for his feature film ''Black Box'' when he was 19 years old. His cinema work has been well received by film critics. Diana Sanchez said, "With only two feature films... Luis Ortega is already considered one of Argentina's more impressive and original directorial voices. His first feature, ''Black Box'', stood apart from the social critiques that characterized the films of his Argentine contemporaries."Sanchez, Diana. Ibid. In 2015, he directed the successful television series ''Historia de un clan'' related the history of Clan Puccio. In 2016, he directed the successful television series '' El marginal'', that was released in October 2016 by Netflix and in January 2018 by Universal Channel. In 2018, he directed the movie '' El ángel''. Filmography Director and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Sebastián International Film Festival
The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; es, Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, eu, Donostia Zinemaldia) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in the Basque Country. Since its creation in 1953 it has established itself as one of the 14 "A" category competitive festivals accredited by the FIAPF, of which it has one of the lowest budgets. It has hosted several important events of the history of cinema, such as the international premieres of ''Vertigo'', by Alfred Hitchcock (who attended the Festival) and the European premiere of ''Star Wars''. It was the first festival attended by Roman Polanski and has helped advance the professional careers of filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Bong Joon-ho and Pedro Almodóvar. José Luis Rebordinos has served as the director of the festival since 2011. History The festival was founded in 1953 with the first festival starting on September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Drama Films
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Argentine''. Argentina is a multiethnic society, multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various Ethnicity, ethnic, Religion, religious, and Nationality, national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Spanish-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Independent Films
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Argentine''. Argentina is a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to the United States (27 million), and ahead of other immigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Drama Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Nación (Buenos Aires)
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina. Its motto is: "''La Nación'' will be a tribune of doctrine." It is the second most read newspaper in print, behind ''Clarín'', and the third in digital format, behind '' Infobae'' and ''Clarín''. In addition, it has an application for Android and iOS phones. The newspaper's printing plant is in the City of Buenos Aires and its newsroom is in Vicente López, Province of Buenos Aires. The newsroom also acts as a studio for the newspaper's TV channel, LN+. Overview The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publication ''Nación Argentina''), by former Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was José Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinenacional
Cinenacional.com is a web portal and web-based database about Argentine cinema. It is the most comprehensive site for information about the Argentine film industry, with a vast array of information on films, television programs, directors, actors, cinematographers, film editors, production designers, and film viewing figures. As of July 2022 it has 53,567 articles on films in its database, 11,074 technical data sheets, and 25,478 photos. The site receives an average of 18,000 views a day. History The management team was organized in August 2000, and went on-line on June 9, 2001. The founding directors were Diego Papic and Pablo Wittner. Jorge C. Bernárdez, coauthor of ''#ElFinDelPeriodismo'' (2017), was among the critics. The site claims that the website was labelled of ''cultural interest'' by the Buenos Aires government resolution # 136 in 2006 and that since 2007 it has been supported by the Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), the official governmenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards
The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina) is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor de Plata'') honoring achievements in Argentine cinema. The awards are considered Argentina's equivalent of the Academy Awards. The association was organized on July 10, 1942, and the annual awards have been given since 1943, with breaks in between.IMDb film data base, awards section. The Argentine Film Critics Association is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics, also known as . Silver Con ...
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Havana Film Festival
The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Latin American filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as ''Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana,'' and in English as International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana. It takes place every year during December in the city of Havana, Cuba. History The inaugural International Festival of New Latin American Cinema was held on December 3, 1979, and more than 600 film directors of Latin America responded to the first call made by the Cuban Institute of the Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). Its founders included ICAIC president Alfredo Guevara, and the filmmakers Julio García Espinosa and Pastor Vega. As expressed in its founding convocation, the festival aimed to "promote the regular meeting of Latin American filmmakers who with their work enrich the artistic culture of our countries (…); ensure the joint presentation of fiction films, documentaries, car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graciela Borges
Graciela Borges (; born Graciela Noemí Zabala, June 10, 1941) is an Argentine television and film actress. Borges was born in Dolores. Having made her film debut at 14, she has acted in over fifty films and was featured in 2006 in ''Vogue Paris'' as "the great actress of Argentine cinema". In 2002, Borges received her first Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her role in Lucrecia Martel's highly acclaimed '' La ciénaga''. In 2015, the Argentine Film Critics Association recognized her with a lifetime achievement Silver Condor Award. Filmography (partial) * '' Sugar Harvest'' (1958) * '' The Party Is Over'' (1960) * '' Summer Skin'' (1961) * ''The Terrace'' (1963) * ''Circe'' (1964) * ''Traitors of San Angel'' (1967) * ''Monday's Child'' (1967) * ''El dependiente'' (1969) * '' Heroína'' (1972) * ''Poor Butterfly'' (1986) * ''Kindergarten'' (1989) * '' Funes, un Gran Amor'' (1993) * ''Sobre la Tierra'' (1998) * '' La Ciénaga'' (2001), a.k.a. ''The Swamp'' * ''Merca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
