Winner of “Best Feature” Prize at Fantastic Fest 2007
Editor's note: I originally called this a Mexican movie, but it is indeed Spanish. The mistake was engendered when I thought the guy in the poster looked like un luchador, and when I saw that the director's name was NACHO. Plus, I assumed Spanish meant Spanish-language. I am, quite obviously, a racist and xenophobic American who couldn't find Spain on a labeled map. But seriously, when was the last time Spain made a decent movie? If they ate dinner earlier than 10 pm, maybe they would find more time in the day to get some decent work done!
TIMECRIMES is the feature film debut from Nacho Vigalongo, who is already an accomplished director of short films—his 2003 short, 7:35 IN THE MORNING, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short. A self professed avid science fiction reader, Vigalongo was inspired to tell the story of a man who travels back in time and runs into himself, setting into motion a disastrous chain of unforeseeable consequences. Though the film’s aesthetic hearkens back to classic American crime films the story is closer in spirit to the science fiction of Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem. A wickedly funny, jigsaw puzzle of a film, TIMECRIMES has excellent potential for an English language remake, and multiple parties are already pursuing the rights.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia’s Senior Vice President Tom Quinn, Director of Acquisitions Dori Begley, and Head of Business Affairs, Jason Janego, along with producer Eduardo Carneros. Magnolia will release the film theatrically in 2008.
fuck you.... mexican ???¡¡¡ you must buy a map, Timecrimes is SPANISH¡¡¡¡¡
ReplyDeleteHaha, Ian I know for fact that you can find Spain in a map, even if it´s not labelled.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you wrote the director´s name wrong. It´s Vigalondo, not Vigalongo.
I know you threw in a good amount of stereotypes on ironic mode (you still let out siesta, paella, flamenco and bullfights), but still your comment about spanish cinema means you haven´t seen or are aware of movies besides the usual Almodovar, Amenabar or Balagueró films. Those may be good, but there are, IMO, a lot of very interesting and highly original spanish films on terror, thriller or fantastic themes (and even more interesting from cult standpoint). Here you go, you absolutely need to see those:
Older films:
Arrebato
¿Quién Puede Matar a un Niño? (Who can kill a child?) I think anchor bay has released that one in the US
La Cabina
El Bosque del Lobo
(the first three are absolute timeless masterpieces of the terror/fantastic genre, disregarding nationality, etc. They are so good everyone should bow when they are mentioned)
More modern ones
Tesis
El Día de la Bestia
La Comunidad
Dagon (based on a Lovecraft tale)
La Madre Muerta
El Habitante Incierto
La Caja 507
Intacto
Pan´s Labrynth (it´s a coproduction, but it´s spanish cast, spanish location, spanish crew, etc.)
The ultrasuperb ones I wrote in bold for ya, but they are all more than good. Drop me a line if you have doubts with titles and the like, you have my mail.
Pablo
It wasn't Ian that posted the article. It was me.
ReplyDeleteI really liked Pan's Labyrinth, but I had thought of it as a Mexican movie, I suppose because of del Toro directing. But yeah, besides Almodovar, I don't think Spanish filmmakers get that much publicity here.