VIE/FRI 11 MAY 6:30PM

THE SPANISH EARTH, de/by Joris Ivens; EE.UU./USA 1937; 52 min; Documental/Documentary.
GUERNICA, de/by Alexis Peña, Adrián Sevillano, Miguel Ángel Fernández y Pablo Piñeiro; España/Spain 2009; 1:47 min; Documental/Documentary.

Seguido de un coloquio con/Followed by a panel discussion with Paul Preston & Peter Anderson

Organizado por/Organised by Sin Fin Cinema
en colaboración con/in collaboration with Tate Britain, Barbican, Institut Français e Instituto Cervantes de Londres
Información sobre la programación completa del ciclo, horarios y precios/More information about the full programme of this serie, times and prices can be found on: http://www.sinfincinema.com/portfolio/going-back-to-reality-portraying-pablo-picasso-on-the-canvas-in-motion/

Ciclo de cine “Going back to reality. Picasso on the canvas in motion”/Film Series

CINE/FILM

Como complemento de la importante exposición Picasso y el arte moderno británico organizada por la Tate Britain, SinFinCinema presenta Going back to reality. Portraying Pablo Picasso on the canvas in motion, un conjunto de películas cuidadosamente seleccionadas, que abarcan desde lo documental a lo experimental, desde el cortometraje al vídeo arte. Este programa descubre los aspectos menos conocidos de la vida del artista español y pone de relieve todos aquellos elementos que, una vez destilados de sus obras, han influido en artistas plásticos de generaciones posteriores, como los británicos David Hockey y Henry Moore/To complement the major exhibition at Tate Britain ‘Picasso & Modern British Art’, SinFinCinema presents Going back to reality. Portraying Pablo Picasso on the canvas in motion, a carefully selected body of films, ranging from documentary to experimental, from short film to video art. This programme reveals the lesser known aspects of the Spanish artist’s life and highlights all those essential elements that have been distilled from his works, influencing later generations of visual artists, such as the Britons David Hockey and Henry Moore.

 

The Spanish Civil War part 1

VIE/FRI 4 MAY 6:30PM

TIERRA SIN PAN/LAND WITHOUT BREAD, de/by Luis Buñuel; España/Spain 1933-36; 35 min. Reparto/Cast: Abel Jacquin & Alexandre O’Neill; Documental/Documentary.

Seguido de un coloquio con/Followed by a panel discussion with Peter Evans & Sarah Wright.

VIE/FRI 11 MAY 6:30PM

THE SPANISH EARTH, de/by Joris Ivens; EE.UU./USA 1937; 52 min; Documental/Documentary.

GUERNICA, de/by Alexis Peña, Adrián Sevillano, Miguel Ángel Fernández y Pablo Piñeiro; España/Spain 2009; 1:47 min; Documental/Documentary.

Seguido de un coloquio con/Followed by a panel discussion with Paul Preston & Peter Anderson

VIE/FRI 18 MAY 6:30PM

CANCIONES PARA DESPUÉS DE UNA GUERRA/SONGS FOR AFTER THE WAR, de/by Basilio Martín Patino; España/Spain 1971; 115 min.; Documental/Documentary.

Seguido de un coloquio con/Followed by a panel discussion with  Peter Anderson

LUGAR/VENUE Instituto Cervantes Londres, 102 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AN

VO en español con subtítulos en inglés/In Spanish with English subtitles

Organizado por/Organised by Sin Fin Cinema, en colaboración con/in collaboration with Tate Britain, Barbican, Institut Français e Instituto Cervantes de Londres

Información sobre la programación completa del ciclo, horarios y precios/More information about the full programme of this serie, times and prices can be found on: http://www.sinfincinema.com/portfolio/going-back-to-reality-portraying-pablo-picasso-on-the-canvas-in-motion/

 

The London Spanish Film Festival Spring Weekend

Before celebrating the 8th edition of the London Spanish Film Festival in September, we once again bring to London audiences a Spring Weekend packed with recent Spanish productions, including Alex de la Iglesia’s latest film La chispa de la vida, the winner of the Goya Award for Best Animation Arrugas, the timely and poignant Cinco metros cuadrados, and a preview screening of Dominik Moll’s The Monk featuring a Franco-Spanish cast. David Trueba will visit us to present Madrid, 1987.

In parallel to the Festival’s Spring Weekend we’ll be hosting a very special event about filmmaker Carlos Saura, director of so many key Spanish films, and his passion for music, especially flamenco. He will join us for a cinema masterclass and one of his flamenco films will be screened, the superb and fascinating Carmen, which he will introduce.

Full programme

Good Morning Freedom! Spanish Cinema 1975-1989

Good Morning Freedom! celebra el período del cine español influenciado, de una parte, por “La Movida Madrileña” -movimiento cultural que tuvo lugar, aunque no exclusivamente, en Madrid cuando, tras la muerte de Franco en 1975, España abandonaba la dictadura- y que se prolongó hasta finales de la década de los ochenta, con la denominada “Comedia Madrileña” y con aquellas películas que reflejaban, sin miedo a las represalias por parte de los militares o la policía, un período oscuro de la historia de España. Todo ello, en un contexto y crecimiento económico y surgimiento de una nueva identidad española. El movimiento se caracterizaba por la libertad de expresión y la transgresión de los tabúes impuestos por la dictadura. / Good Morning Freedom! celebrates a period of film-making in Spain which was influenced by “La Movida Madrileña” -the cultural movement based predominantly, though not solely, in Madrid during Spain’s emergence from dictatorship following Franco’s death in 1975 and which lasted until the end of the 1980s with the so-called “Comedia Madrileña” and with films which reflected, without fear of military or police reprisals, a dark period in Spain’s history. All this coincided with economic growth and the emergence of a new Spanish identity. The movement was characterised by freedom of expression and transgression from the taboos imposed by the dictatorship.

Muestra comisariada por / Curated by Joana Granero.

MIE / WED 1 – JUE/THU 30 JUNIO / JUNE. BFI SOUTH BANK, London SE1 8XT

–>Descargue el pdf con toda la información sobre horarios y precios / Download a pdf with all the information about timetables and prices: GOOD_MORNING_FREEDOM.pdf

Muestra de cine / Film Series

The Celluloid Curtain – Europe’s Cold War in film: Comando de Asesinos / High Seasons For Spies

The Celluloid Curtain, muestra cinematográfica comisariada por Oliver Baumgarten y Nikolaj Nikitin, conmemora el 50º Aniversario de la construcción del Muro de Berlín a través de algunas de las mejores películas de espías que se rodaron entre 1960 y 1974 a ambos lados del Telón de Acero. Estas películas extraordinarias arrojan luz sobre el género popular del cine de espías, que tenía como objetivo no sólo la diversión, sino también la consolidación de las divisiones de la Guerra Fría. / The Celluloid Curtain festival marks the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. Curated jointly by Oliver Baumgarten and Nikolaj Nikitin, it shows spy films made between 1960 and 1974 on both sides of the Iron Curtain. These remarkable films shed light on the popular spy genre, aimed both at entertainment and at cementing the divisions of the Cold War.

7 Sáb/Sat, 9.20pm Comando de Asesinos / High Season for Spies, Julio Coll, España-Portugal-RFA / Spain/Portugal/FG (1966, 89 min.), precedida por una presentación a cargo de/With an introduction by Oliver Baumgarten, uno de los comisarios de la muestra/curator.

Para más información sobre el programa completo del ciclo / For more information about full programme of the series: www.celluloid-curtain.eu

Novedades de Cine en la biblioteca

¡NOVEDADES EN LA BIBLIOTECA!

Consulta nuestro Catálogo de Cine para descubrir las nuevas películas que hemos incorporado a la colección de la biblioteca

A homage to Britain’s flamenco pioneers

Spanish Steps

PASSION and flamenco go together like pan con tomate, so it’s no surprise to hear producer-director Anna Holmes describe her film Spanish Steps: Flamenco in a Foreign Land as “a passion project”.

The making of this documentary has been a labour of love for the past 18 months or so after Anna was unable to secure funding from production companies. But thanks to a lifelong love of dance, plus the support of friends and family and her assistant producer Victor, Anna has succeeded in making her first film.

Her other reason for wanting to make this documentary was to capture a slice of social history before it’s too late – many of these flamenco pioneers are now in their 80s and sadly may not be with us for much longer.

London in the 1950s, what with post-war austerity and the notorious smog, must have been a pretty bleak place at times. But this was also an era of great social change, with many exciting, exotic new trends and tastes arriving from overseas.

Read more… LondonSpanish