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Out With the Old
As we're faced with these times of turmoil and the introduction of a new administration, take a look at what other countries have had to deal in terms of government power. |
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The Spirit of the Beehive
(1973) |
| 99 min |
| Perhaps the most artistically important film inspired by “Frankenstein” is Víctor Erice’s Spanish feature of 1973, “The Spirit of the Beehive.” An introductory title places the action “Somewhere on the Castilian plain, around 1940” — that is to say, around the end of the Spanish Civil War. Mr. Erice, who was born that year, imagines Franco’s reformed and repressed Spain as a quiet landscape of superficial tranquillity, crossed by a few human figures whose eccentric and unexplained behavior seems to be a response to the devastation of the war.
click here to read the rest of the New York Times review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/movies/26dvd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |
| Featuring: Ana Torrent |
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Cria Cuervos
(1976) |
| 109 min |
| Marking a turning point in Spain's fall of fascism (the film was shot as Franco was on his deathbed), the story of a young girl in Madrid dealing with the death of her mother and attempting to understand the world is finally getting its just due thirty after its initial release. |
| Featuring: Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin |
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Love and Anarchy
(1973) |
| 129 min |
| Academy Award-nominated director Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties, Swept Away, Ciao, Professore!), explores the angst of the Fascist 30s in Italy as she tells the story of a peasant who vows to murder Mussolini after the death of his friend, only to move into a brothel and fall in love with a prostitute, which, of course, leads to his downfall. |
| Featuring: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato |
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