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4 reviews
Héctor Alterio, Antonio Grimau

Venevision, 2005

politics as real life
I was writing to say that I've been waiting for this DVD for some years now, and am excited as heck to actually own it... to be able to watch this movie anytime, and share it with my friends who may never have experienced this beautiful story, is a delight which is so difficult to communicate! BUY IT! Technical details (besides the ones amazon lists): this DVD has optional english ...

The Devil's Backbone

109 reviews
Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega (II)

Sony Pictures, 2002

An insect trapped in amber
Guillermo del Toro is currently known as the guy who made the Oscar-winning "Pan's Labyrinth," the "Hellboy" movies, and is going to direct "The Hobbit." But way back in in 2001, del Toro made a movie that serves as a sport of ghost-story prequel to "Pan's Labyrinth." With its mysterious specter, innocent hero and a story set during a bloody civil war, "The Devil's Backbone" is a unique kind ...

The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)

109 reviews
Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega

Sony Pictures, 2004

An insect trapped in amber
Guillermo del Toro is currently known as the guy who made the Oscar-winning "Pan's Labyrinth," the "Hellboy" movies, and is going to direct "The Hobbit." But way back in in 2001, del Toro made a movie that serves as a sport of ghost-story prequel to "Pan's Labyrinth." With its mysterious specter, innocent hero and a story set during a bloody civil war, "The Devil's Backbone" is a unique kind ...

Martin (Hache)

3 reviews
Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto

Strand Releasing, 2006

Ensemble Filmmaking at its Finest
Adolfo Aristarain is one of those rare filmmakers who defines his own world in cinema by writing and directing terrific stories with brilliant dialogue and using a familiar cadre of actors who give the finished product an ensemble effort. He is one of Argentina's finest artists and couples frequently with writer Kathy Saavedra (Roma, Un lugar en el mundo, Lugares communes, Martín (Hache), etc) ...

Extasis
Javier Bardem, Federico Luppi

Lions Gate, 2008

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 07/29/2008 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Nr

Common Ground

6 reviews
Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro

Fox Lorber, 2004

Aristarain & Luppi: what a pair!!
Filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain and actor Federico Luppi have collaborated quite a few times over the years. Always wonderful movies, always superb acting. Lugares Comunes is precisely that: a wonderful movie with superb acting. The usual Aristarain/Luppi fare. It is a quiet movie, a movie for those who like ideas, a movie to be watched and watched over and over again. A true masterpiece. Let us hope ...

Cronos

35 reviews
Claudio Brook, Daniel Jiménez Cacho

Lions Gate, 2003

Guillermo Del Toro Redefines the Vampire Myth
How my ratings work: 5 - I really liked/loved it 4 - I liked it 3 - Could've been better/worth a look 2 - Just didn't live up to the potential 1 - Simply aweful Reworking the vampire myth is no easy task, but writer/direcor Guillermo Del Toro pulls it off in this creepy, darkly funny, and surprisingly touching tale of a man trying to gain back his humanity (literally). The work that ...

El Ultimo Tren

2 reviews
Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi

Maverick, 2003

A Moving Film With a Message
El Ultimo Tren is a great film - a moving story, with excellent directing and acting. After viewing so much Hollywood thoroughfare, it was uplifting to see a film with a real human and social message, yet not delivered in a heavy-handed, ideological fashion. At one level, it is a deeply moving story of friends venturing on a risky journey together to protest the intended sale of a national ...

The Lost Steps (Los Pasos Perdidos)
Irene Visedo, Luis Brandoni

Agua Verde Audio, 2007

The Argentine military governments (the Juntas) of the 1970s and early 1980s left a terrible legacy. Not only "Los Desaparecidos" (thousands of "disappeared" political prisoners) but also babies taken from their parents at birth and relocated with families sympathetic to the Regime often families of the leaders and cronies.The Lost Steps (Los Pasos Perdidos) is the story twenty years later of Argentine-born Monica (Irene Visedo) apparently ...

Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray]

683 reviews
Doug Jones, Eusebio Lazaro

New Line, 2007

Better Than Hellboy, And I Do Love Hellboy
Fairies, an evil step-father, a faun, guns, explosions, Fascists vs. the resistance, torture Forbidden fruit, eternal life, blood atonement, sacrifice: the makings of a fairy tale, a war movie and a Christian parable, all to be found in Guillermo del Toro's Spanish language film -- elements that will certainly attract and repel viewers in equal numbers. Lovers of fantasy may be lost when they ...

Machuca

5 reviews
Matías Quer, Cynthia Choukair

Cameo Media

Unbeleivable
For americans or europeans this is the movie to see if you want to understand the Chilean process, and all the damage done by the CIA helping the right wing and the military. Is exactly the moment when everything broke, when nothing could be fixed and when the terror started to spread on the surface of the earth.

Autumn Sun

3 reviews
Norma Aleandro, Federico Luppi

Capitol Entertainment, 2000

Autumn Sun
This is an exquisite movie -- funny, heartwarming, and truthful. I saw it at the Jewish Movie Festival in San Francisco 4 years ago and have been looking to own it ever since. Hurray! Now I can. Despite the Jewish flavor, those who are not Jewish will appreciate the humor and humanness of the movie. We have all been there! The extent to which we will go to create the illusion of doing ...

Pan's Labyrinth

2 reviews
Doug Jones, Eusebio Lazaro

New Line Home Video, 2009

In your hands is your destiny
Director Guillermo del Toro out did himself and created a film beyond any previous presentation. Although he purposely applied many layers both technologically and psychologically, the actual finished product is deeper and has many more facets. This could be the results of leaving loose ends and just implications. What looks like two stories is really one story where one reality intertwines with ...

No Habra Mas Penas Ni Olvido
Julio de Grazia, Ulises Dumont

Vanguard Cinema, 2004

The Stone Raft

1 review
Federico Luppi, Icíar Bollaín

Image Entertainment, 2005

Atlantis Sinking?
Note: Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles. Something strange and unprecendented is happening on the European continent, more specifically in the region of the Pyrenees Mountains bordering Spain and Portugal. An immense fissure has opened up in the earth, a crack that continues to widened until the two countries detachment themselves from each other and the Iberian Pennisula breaks ...

Lisboa
Federico Luppi, Carmen Maura

Urban Vision, 2005

Men With Guns

24 reviews
Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado

Sony Pictures, 2003

100% Guatemala
The basis of the movie was taken from a secondary character in Francisco Goldman's book "The Long Night of White Chickens", which is about Guatemala during the civil war, also the cover photo is the work of a Guatemalan photographer, Palma. Excellent movie.

Swindled
Ernesto Alterio, Victoria Abril

Tla, 2006

With precision and finesse, director Miguel Bardem delivers a stylish, Grifters-style thriller that would make David Mamet proud. The slick, handsome Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio) has spent a lifetime in crime, working the three-card monte on suckers on the streets of Madrid. His small-time lifestyle changes when he meets the elderly El Manco (Manuel Alexandre), a veteran of the trade with connections to the mysterious Federico (Federico Luppi, The ...

Lugares comunes ( aka Common Places)

6 reviews
Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro

Manga Films

Aristarain & Luppi: what a pair!!
Filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain and actor Federico Luppi have collaborated quite a few times over the years. Always wonderful movies, always superb acting. Lugares Comunes is precisely that: a wonderful movie with superb acting. The usual Aristarain/Luppi fare. It is a quiet movie, a movie for those who like ideas, a movie to be watched and watched over and over again. A true masterpiece. Let us hope ...

Lisboa

2 reviews
Juanjo Bermúdez de Castro, María Bermúdez de Castro

Vanguard Cinema, 2002

THANK GOD for a DVD publisher with taste
When I saw this as part of a Lincoln Center festival of films from Spain, I was convinced I would never see it again and focussed on the acting of the players with whom I was familiar, Carmen Maura and Federico Luppi giving a staggeringly menacing preformance. I also loved the intricate plot and clean, but involving visuals. And, there was Laia Marull. With no other evidence, I cannot make my ...

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