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21/05/2009
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Making a list with the best movies of the Spanish cinema it is not an easy task. For sure, each film fan could make his or her own list and they would be all different. It has been more than a century since the famous scene of no more than a minute: “Salida de la misa de doce de la Iglesia del Pilar de Zaragoza”, meant the opening of the Spanish cinematographic era. Now than Almodóvar, eternal enfant terrible of the Spanish scream scene, is praised everywhere, and when actors such as Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz or Antonio Banderas have gained a popularity in Hollywood, it is time to look back towards a cinema that created itself during the hard times of the Franco years. As the Spanish say: ”Hunger sharpens one’s wits”. So did the hazardous, and convulse years of the last century in Spain, that developed an outstanding, creative and original cinema, that nowadays can be analyzed, together with each director language, as a significant part of the Spanish History.
1. “Viridiana”, Luís Buñuel (1961)
2. “Amantes”, Vicente Aranda (1991)
3. “Arrebato”, Iván Zulueta (1979)
4. “El desencanto”, Jaime Chavarri (1976)
5. “El verdugo”, Luís García Berlanga (1965)
6. “No desearás al vecino del quinto”, Ramón Fernández (1970)
7. “El cebo”, Ladislao Vajda (1958)
8. “El espíritu de la colmena”, Víctor Erice (1973)
9. “Furtivos”, José Luís Borau (1975)
10. “¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?”, Pedro Almodóvar (1984)
11. “Campanadas a medianoche”, Orson Welles (1967)
12. “Plácido” Luís García Berlanga (1961)
13. “Las Hurdes (Tierra sin pan)”, Luís Buñuel (1932)
14. “Tríptico elemental de España”, José Val del Omar (1953-1961)
15. “Amanece, que no es poco”, José Luís Cuerda (1988)
16. “El corazón del bosque”, Manuel Gutierrez Aragón (1979)
17. “El extraño viaje”, Fernando Fernán-Gómez (1967)
18. “La escopeta nacional”, Luís García Berlanga (1978)
19. “Atraco a las tres”, José María Forqué (1962)
20. “El sur”, Víctor Erice (1983)
21. “Mar adentro”, Alejandro Amenábar (2004)
22. “Todo sobre mi madre”, Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
23. “Los Tarantos”, Francisco Rovira Beleta (1964)
24. “La buena estrella”. Ricardo Franco (1997)
25. “Solas”, Benito Zambrano (1999)
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