Carlos Aguilar (born 1958) is a Spanish

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and

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Early life and education

Carlos Aguilar was born in Madrid in 1958 and in 1979 started to write

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s, among them one about fantasy cinema, ''Morpho'', and in the meantime he studied

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at the

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, and then

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in the Imaginary Arts Workshop.

Career

Aguilar made his professional debut in 1982 and since then, as well as other cinema related activities (such as collaboration in the organization of festivals and the

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), he has participated in many Spanish and foreign magazines (such as French ''Mad Movies'', German ''Schnitt'', Italian ''Nocturno'' and in Spain ''Nosferatu'', ''Quatermass'', ''

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'', ''Casablanca'', ''Nickel Odeon'' and ''Cuadernos de la Academia'').

Publications

In addition to these collaborations in magazines, Carlos Aguilar has published over fifty books on cinema, counting individual and collective works, in Spain, Italy and Germany, both for commercial publishers and festivals sponsored by various institutions (Deputation of

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, Festival Board of San Sebastian, etc.). Among the works of individual authorship, can be highlighted ''Joaquín Romero Marchent. La firmeza del profesional'' (1999), ''Ricardo Palacios. Actor, director, observador'' (2003), ''Giuliano Gemma. El factor romano'' (2003), ''La espada mágica. El cine fantástico de aventuras'' (2006), ''Sergio Leone'', ''Guía del cine'', ''Guía del cine español'' and ''Clint Eastwood'' in Spain, as well as ''Jess Franco. El sexo del horror'' (1999) and ''FantaEspaña'' (2002), in

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. He has also participated as editor and advisor in the documentary ''Sergio Leone. Cinema, cinema'' (2000) and the series ''Érase una vez en Europa'' (2001) about the European fantastic cinema of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, presented by

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aguilar, Carlos 1958 births Living people Film historians Spanish film critics National Society of Film Critics Members 20th-century Spanish writers 20th-century Spanish male writers 21st-century Spanish writers 21st-century Spanish male writers Autonomous University of Madrid alumni