AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Bandera Negra (1956)
A Latin teacher named Valentín Mosquera (José María Seoane) wanders through the night, stalking the streets of Madrid and trying to come to terms with the fact that his son Mario will be executed at dawn. This is an indictment of the death penalty as well as the debut of director Amando de Ossorio, this was […]
AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Pasto de fieras (1969)
Tino (Ángel Luis Nolías) is an orphan who lives with his uncle Quico (Xan Das Bolas) and works as a shepherd, but one night everything goes wrong. His dog gets killed by a car and his sheep are stolen by a circus who wants to use them for tiger food, so he decides to run […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Ghostkeeper (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I wanted to have a New Year’s movie to end 2022, but how many times can I repost New Year’s Evil and Bloody New Year? This one which was originally posted on October 24, 2019. Filmed in Banff, Alberta and using the Canadian tax shelter rules that have produced so many of our favorite films, Ghostkeeper […]
AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Pasión prohibida (1980)
Teresa (Susana Estrada) is an exotic dancer who leaves her work to go back to her small town fpr the funeral of her father. Once there, she meets Miguel (Emilio Álvarez), the younger brother she never watched grow up — as she escaped to the big city — and falls in lust with him. He […]
AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Las alimañas (1977)
When two bandits steal gems and other valuable pieces of fine art from a museum in the Dominican Republic, they don’t even get a moment to moment to celebrate their ill-gained treasures. Instead, their American partner Todd (Paul Benson) who is hiding at the home of his girlfriend Margaret (Rosa Valenti) and her girlfriend Jacqueline […]
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