Víctor Erice

The Spirit of the Beehive (Spanish: El espiritu de la colmena) (1973 ) is a Spanish drama film directed by Victor Erice. The film was Erice's debut and is considered a masterpiece of Spanish cinema. Made during the last few years of...

In this article: Ana Torrent, The Spirit of the Beehive, Spain, Summons, Association of Latin Entertainment Critics, Rotten Tomatoes, and A.O. Scott

Victor Erice Aras (born 30 June 1940 in Karrantza in Biscay Spain) is a Spanish film director. He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to...

In this article: The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, Jury Prize, University of Madrid, Caravaggio, Cannes Film Festival, and Spain

Dream of Light is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Victor Erice. Its Spanish title is El Sol del Membrillo, which translates directly to the English "The Sun of the Quince"; it was released in Hong Kong as The Sun of the Quince Tree, and...

In this article: Dream of Light, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival, and Hong Kong

The South (), is a 1983 drama film , the second film of the perfectionist Spanish auteur Victor Erice. It was voted the sixth best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary. It is based on an Adelaida Garcia...

In this article: Cannes Film Festival, Aurore Clement, Omero Antonutti, and Spain

...member of the Academia Espanola de Cinematografia. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films. Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you...

In this article: Iciar Bollain, Goya Awards, El Sur, and Madrid

...video store. (The latter allows Kore-eda to indulge in many cinephillic jokes and opinions, including homages to Kinji Fukasaku and Victor Erice.) When Nozomi falls in love with a fellow worker who also claims to be an air doll (Kore-eda...

In this article: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gasper Noe, Inglorious Basterds, John Keats, Tokyo, Isabel Coixet, Jane Campion, and Suicide

...to learn what it means to be human, which for some reason involves taking a part-time job at a video store and learning that Victor Erice's Dream of Light can only be purchased, not rented. Not sure how this goofy but ambitious film wound...

In this article: Park Chan-wook, Andrea Arnold, Red Road, Thirst, Cannes Film Festival, Dog, and Taking Woodstock

...the piano player for a past offense. •"Spirit of the Beehive" (April 30): Regarded as the greatest Spanish movie of the 1970s, Victor Erice's visually arresting drama unfolds in a small village just after the Spanish Civil War. A girl...

In this article: Charles Aznavour, George Lucas, David Lean, Rossano Brazzi, Katharine Hepburn, Spanish Civil War, Kansas City, Lars Ekborg, Summertime, and Christy Turlington Burns

...us in the movie theater, it's a magical feat. Latin filmmakers seem to be especially deft at pulling a rabbit out of that hat - Victor Erice's "The Spirit of the Beehive," Alfonso Cuaron's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," Lucrecia...

In this article: Hamburger, Ideology, World Cup, Pele, and Lucrecia Martel

...Chaplin. Distributor: Picturehouse. Runtime: 105 min. Rating: R. Year: 2007. hen in Spain, do as Guillermo del Toro does. Or Victor Erice. Or Alejandro Amenabar. That is the modus operandi of the fetid The Orphanage, a haunted-house...

In this article: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage, Carlos Saura, Suspiria, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Alejandro Amenabar, and Belen Rueda