Interviews, Reviews, and Festival Reports

At some point last year, WordPress removed the ability have lists of links in the side bar (at least with the blog design I’m using – I don’t know if it’s possible with a different template, and tbh can’t be bothered to faff around finding out). It used to be possible to add a list widget and set it to a category of links already saved in the back end. I can see that lists can be added but, as far as I can tell, you have to add each thing individually rather using a dropdown to apply a group of links in one go. So, if I have to add stuff individually, I think it’s better to do it in a post (so it can’t disappear in its entirety again) and then see if I can just add a link to this post of links in the side bar.

I added the main links to my writing elsewhere to the About page at the end of 2024 – those links should take you to all of my writing on the named sites. However, I also want individual links to pieces, mainly because I find it easier to find stuff when I’ve saved a direct link. I’m going to use some of the same categories I previously had in the side bar to divide things up – interviews, festival reports, reviews – but instead of grouping the reviews by the year they were written, I’m going to divide them into some sub-categories where there are multiple pieces that could be grouped together (e.g. reviews of documentaries, Spanish films, films relating to ‘el otro cine español’). Some may appear in more than one sub-category.

I’m also going to link to pieces written either here or on the old blog where I’ve focussed on a single film (excluding the Carlos Saura Challenge because that’s a series of linked posts) – they’re not really ‘reviews’ per se (they tend to be more expansive, and sometimes relate to films that I’ve reviewed but had more to say than would be appropriate in review format, but sometimes it’s just something I wrote after watching). I’ll put blog posts in with the reviews but mark them with *.

Interviews:

Festival Reports:

2014: Bradford (Un ramo de cactus, El Futuro, and Costa da morte)
2015: Berwick (an overview of the ‘Fact or Fiction’ programme)
2015: Curtocircuíto (a focus on innovative Galician short films)
2015: D’A Festival (Barcelona) (Sueñan los androides, Crumbs, and more)
2015: Gijón – Asturian Shorts
2015: Gijón – Convergencias
2015: Gijón – Experimental
2016: AV Festival (Newcastle) (an overview of the ‘Meanwhile, what about socialism?’ edition)

Reviews:

Documentaries / Essay Films:

A Dream from the Bath (Marc Karlin, 1985)
Abdul & Hamza (Marko Grba Singh, 2015)
Algorithms (Geetha J, Ian McDonald, 2013)
Baratometrajes 2.0 (Daniel San Román, Hugo Serra, 2014)
Becoming Anita Ekberg (Mark Rappaport, 2014)
Bertsolari (Asier Altuna, 2011)
Ciutat Morta / Dead City (Xavier Artigas and Xapo Ortega, 2014)*
Con la pata quebrada / Barefoot and in the Kitchen (Diego Galán, 2013)
Costa da Morte / Coast of Death (Lois Patiño, 2013)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce, 2015)
Eastern Valley (Donald Alexander, Paul Rotha, 1937)
Edificio España / The Building (Victor Moreno, 2013)*
El somni / The Dream (Franc Aleu, 2014)
En tierra extraña / In a Foreign Land (Iciar Bollaín, 2014)
En tierra extraña / In a Foreign Land (Icíar Bollaín, 2014)* [expanded]
Forbidden Voices (Barbara Miller, 2012)
Hamada (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2018)
Housing Problems (Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, 1935)
Il gesto delle mani / Hand Gestures (Francesco Clerici, 2015)
La Danza del Hipocampo / The Dance of the Memory (Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba, 2014)*
La pantalla herida (Luis María Ferrández, 2014)*
Land of Promise (Paul Rotha, 1946)
Las maestras de la República / The Female Teachers of the Republic (Pilar Pérez Solano, 2013)
Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister, 1942)
Llévate Mis Amores / All of Me (Arturo González Villaseñor, 2014)
My Name is Salt (Farida Pacha, 2013)
N-VI Vanishing Roadsides (Pela del Álamo, 2012)
Nightcleaners (Berwick Street Collective, 1975)
No Cow on the Ice / Ingen Ko På Isen (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2015)
No Land’s Song (Ayat Najafi, 2014)
No me contéis entre vosotros / Don’t Include Me Among You (Isidro Sánchez, 2015)
O Futebol / On Football (Sergio Oksman, 2015)
Precinct Seven Five (Tiller Russell, 2014)
Prophet’s Prey (Amy Berg, 2014)
Refuge England (Robert Vas, 1959)
Revue (Sergei Loznitsa, 2008)
Rocío (Fernando Ruiz Vergara, 1980)*
Serra Pelada – The Legend of the Gold Mountain (Victor Lopes, 2013)
Sin Dios ni Santa María / Neither God nor Santa María (Samuel M Delgado, Helena Girón, 2015)
Sobre la marxa / The Creator of the Jungle (Jordi Morató, 2014)
Spare Time (Humphrey Jennings, 1939)
Terra de Ninguém / No Man’s Land (Salomé Lamas, 2012)
The Green Prince (Nadav Schirman, 2013)
The Iron Ministry (J P Sniadecki, 2014)
Today We Live (Ralph Bond, Ruby Grierson, 1937)
Utopias (Marc Karlin, 1989)
Vikingland (Xurxo Chirro, 2011)
Words for Battle (Humphrey Jennings, 1941)

El otro cine español / The Other Spanish Cinema:

10,000 Km (Carlos Marques-Marcet, 2014)
Aita (José María de Orbe, 2010)*
Arraianos (Eloy Enciso, 2012)
Avant pétalos grillados (Velasco Broca, 2007)
Baratometrajes 2.0 (Daniel San Román, Hugo Serra, 2014)
Chigger Ale (Miguel Llansó, 2013)
Costa da Morte / Coast of Death (Lois Patiño, 2013)
Crumbs (Miguel Llansó, 2015)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce, 2015)
Edificio España / The Building (Victor Moreno, 2013)*
El arca de Noé / Noah’s Ark (Adán Aliaga, David Valero, 2014)
Hermosa juventud / Beautiful Youth (Jaime Rosales, 2014)
No Cow on the Ice / Ingen Ko På Isen (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2015)
Noite sem distância / Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño, 2015)
O Futebol / On Football (Sergio Oksman, 2015)
Sin Dios ni Santa María / Neither God nor Santa María (Samuel M Delgado, Helena Girón, 2015)
Sobre la marxa / The Creator of the Jungle (Jordi Morató, 2014)
Stella cadente / Falling Star (Luis Miñarro, 2014)
Sueñan los androides / Androids Dream (Ion de Sosa, 2014)
Tots volem el millor per a ella / We All Want What’s Best for Her (Mar Coll, 2013)
Tots volem el millor per a ella / We All Want What’s Best for Her (Mar Coll, 2013) [reviewed twice]
Vikingland (Xurxo Chirro, 2011)

Novo cinema galego / New Galician Cinema:

Arraianos (Eloy Enciso, 2012)
Costa da Morte / Coast of Death (Lois Patiño, 2013)
Hamada (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2018)
N-VI Vanishing Roadsides (Pela del Álamo, 2012)
No Cow on the Ice / Ingen Ko På Isen (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2015)
Noite sem distância / Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño, 2015)
Vikingland (Xurxo Chirro, 2011)

Spanish cinema:

Amantes / Lovers (Vicente Aranda, 1991)
Arrebato / Rapture (Iván Zulueta, 1979)
Arrebato / Rapture (Iván Zulueta, 1979)* [expanded]
Balada triste de trompeta / The Last Circus (Álex de la Iglesia, 2010)
Bertsolari (Asier Altuna, 2011)
Bienvenido Mister Marshall! / Welcome Mr Marshall! (Luis García Berlanga, 1953)
Blackthorn (Mateo Gil, 2011)*
Carmen (Vicente Aranda, 2003)
Con la pata quebrada / Barefoot and in the Kitchen (Diego Galán, 2013)
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976)
Crimen ferpecto / Ferpect Crime (Álex de la Iglesia, 2004)
El día de la Bestia / The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995)
El día de la Bestia / The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995) [reviewed twice]
El espíritu de la colmena / The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
El somni / The Dream (Franc Aleu, 2014)
El verdugo / The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga, 1963)
En tierra extraña / In a Foreign Land (Iciar Bollaín, 2014)
Entre tinieblas / Dark Habits (Pedro Almodóvar, 1983)
Esa pareja feliz / That Happy Couple (Juan Antonio Bardem & Luis García Berlanga, 1953)
Ficción / Fiction (Cesc Gay, 2006)
Insensibles / Painless (Juan Carlos Medina, 2012)
Jamón, jamón (Bigas Luna, 1992)*
La madre muerta / The Dead Mother (Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1993)*
La pantalla herida (Luis María Ferrández, 2014)*
Las brujas de Zugarramurdi / Witching and Bitching (Álex de la Iglesia, 2013)
Las maestras de la República / The Female Teachers of the Republic (Pilar Pérez Solano, 2013)
Libertarias / Freedom Fighters (Vicente Aranda, 1996)
Libertarias / Freedom Fighters (Vicente Aranda, 1996) [written about twice]
Los golfos / The Delinquents (Carlos Saura, 1960)
Los lunes al sol / Mondays in the Sun (Fernando León de Aranoa, 2002)*
Mataharis (Iciar Bollaín, 2007)
Muerte de un ciclista / Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)
Nadie conoce a nadie / Nobody Knows Anybody (Mateo Gil, 1999)*
Ocho apellidos vascos / Spanish Affair (Emilio Martínez-Lazaro, 2014)
Os Fenómenos / Aces (Alfonso Zarauza, 2014)
Pa negre / Black Bread (Agustí Villaronga, 2010)*
Petit Indi / Little Indi (Marc Recha, 2009)
Plácido (Luis García Berlanga, 1961)
¡Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? / What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodóvar, 1984)
Tasting Menu (Roger Gual, 2013)
Todas las mujeres / All the Women (Mariano Barroso, 2013)
Tren de sombras / Train of Shadows (José Luis Guerin, 1997)*
Vampir-Cuadecuc (Pere Portabella, 1971)

Everything else:

At’ Zije Republika! / Long Live the Republic! (Karel Kachyňa, 1965)
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi, 2013)
Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015)
El abrazo de la serpiente / Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)
Fidelio, Alice’s Odyssey (Lucie Borleteau, 2014)
Giraffada (Rani Massalha, 2013)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
Ixcanul / Volcano (Jayro Bustamante, 2015)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)
Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, 1960)
María Candelaria (Emilio Fernández, 1944)
Obra (Gregorio Graziosi, 2014)
Overlord (Stuart Cooper, 1975)
Refugiado (Diego Lerman, 2014)
Silence (Pat Collins, 2012)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (Frank Launder, 1950)
The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings, 1943)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)

I think this is now most of what I wanted to add. If I remember anything else, I’ll amend the post at a later date.