#basque cinema

[celluloidrainbow]

80 EGUNEAN (2010) dir. Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga Axun and Maite met at secondary school during a repressive era that never allowed their relationship to go beyond friendship. Later on, their paths led them apart: Axun got married and moved out to the country to live on a farm, while Maite traveled the world, clarified her sexual orientation in her own mind, and now, having had a successful career as a piano teacher, she has returned to San Sebastian to take up her retirement. Fifty years on, Axun and Maite, now both seventy, meet up by chance while visiting patients in hospital. At first, they don't recognize one another, but soon long- suppressed feelings begin to emerge once more with the same intensity. (link in title)

[beautiful-basque-country]

Aupi, ikusi duzue Negu Hurbilak? Hala bada, zer iruditu zaizue? Niri pixka bat too arty-farty baina orokorrean gustatu zait. Bestalde, Robot Dreams oso polita baina ai ama zelako amaiera, super deprimentea !

Kaixo anon!

Ez, ez dut ikusi! Negu Hurbilak nire zerrendara gehituko dut. Robot Dreams-en trailerra asko asko gustatu zitzaidan, baina hain deprimentea baldin bada agian ez dut ikusiko! 😅

[docpiplup]

Irati will be screened in Brazil in the International Fantasy Cinema Gestival of Porto Alegre!

[filmap]

Cinco lobitos / Lullaby Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. 2022

Bench Portu Kalea, 48360 Mundaka, Bizkaia, Spain See in map

See in imdb

[leo-fie]

I hope none of you are sleeping on this movie on Netflix: Akelarre, also called Coven. It's a basque film from 2020 about a group of teenage girls being accused of being witches in 1609. Don't worry, it's actually pretty good. None of that American puritan influence, this is a European catholic witch hunt.

[gregor-samsung]

Loreak [Flowers] (Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga - 2014)

[ordosmarkzero]

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil

[2t2r]

l'île de Gaztelugatxe et ses 241 marches au dessus de l'océan

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/lile-de-gaztelugatxe-241-marches/

l'île de Gaztelugatxe et ses 241 marches au dessus de l'océan

[victusinveritas]

1937 - Frederick Seidel

It’s always about to rain except When it’s already raining, like now. They go from the pub to the cinema through the rain, To the newsreel and the Disney cartoon, With tickets that are half-price

One day a week in the afternoon. It was the Basque city of Guernica last week, Weeping under airplanes dropping bombs. Walt Disney is not Picasso, But his art is gloriously sunny,

But Mickey Mouse has already said The poems of Lorca will never be funny. Disney, the century’s genius, makes amends. Only he can make butterflies And hurricanes make friends.

D. H. Lawrence is a kamikaze Burning up the sky On his way to bite England explosively and die. He has bad English teeth

That are sharp as a shark And a burning brain That sings like a lark. Silkworms eat mulberry leaves to feed Rainer Maria Rilke the silk he needs

To address the angelic orders. Even the enormous angels Dismount from the sublime, dismount From Pegasus, the horse with wings, And instead of wine, sip brine.

The nostrils of the T. S. Eliot crocodile Lurk just above the surface of the river Nile. His periscope is two nostrils that watch like eyes. His snout stays submerged In water bitter as bile.

Kisses of passion grunt like electroshock And cause convulsions and rigor mortis And sexually join together Two hard-shelled hunchbacks, Each shaped like a tortoise.

They’re Eliot, they’re Lawrence, Each honking on and on, on his moral high horse. If Lawrence caught her, Lawrence would slaughter Emily Dickinson, Eliot’s daughter. Some will get sick and some will die But that is not the reason why A small plane Tows an advertisement For a nearby bar and restaurant

Through the sky Above the beach at Gibson Lane. It is the opposite of insane. Everybody knows Pete the pilot. It’s his plane,

Which he crashes without harm now and again. Black marvelous waves, white August, Is the summer song of Gibson Beach. There’s a skywriting plane crossing the sun With a marriage proposal from someone for someone.

[ukulelegodparent]

I watched a great movie today! It's a Basque movie called 20 000 species of bees. It's about a trans girl having her awakening and coming out. 10/10 can recommend. In Germany the release date is June 29th, I can recommend looking up when it comes out where you live and finding a cinema that shows it :)

[celluloidrainbow]

ANDER (2009) dir. Roberto Castón The valley of Arratia in August 1999. Ander, a farmer well into his forties, lives with his sister Arantxa and his old mother in a remote part of rural Basque country. His is a monotonous life filled with nothing but farm work and a job at the local bicycle factory. It won't be long before Arantxa gets married and leaves home and then Ander will be left to look after their stubborn mother on his own. Then one day Ander has an accident and breaks his leg. His limb will be in a plaster cast for two months. Against his mother's wishes, the family decides to employ a Peruvian immigrant, José, in order to help out, and the arrival of the new farm hand has an influence on interpersonal relationships within the family. The old woman, who barely speaks any Spanish, refuses to communicate with José, but Arantxa and Ander soon get to know José quite well. The two men in particular become firm friends. (link in title)

[beautiful-basque-country]

Kaixo gals!! Have you seen the new Sorogoyen movie, "As Bestas"? I'm not Galician nor am I from Galiza, but I've read many Galicians say that even though they agree it was quite good with good acting (and based on a real event), it's kind of tiring having you being portrait as an outsider-hating xenophobe, especially when using the local native language to convey it.

Kaixo!! I'm wodnering if you have seen the movie Vacas? I'm told it's a pretty iconic movie about a generation of a Basque family from the 2nd Carlist Wars until the beggining of the Civil War, and was curious if you ever watched it and liked it :o

Kaixo anons!

Neither one nor the other. I've read what both movies are about and that's why I decided to answer at the same time, because I think they are quite related: both are rural dramas set in minoritized nations - one in Galiza and the other in EH - whose people are perceived by a large sector of Spaniards as distrustful, closed, and inbred.

Regarding As Bestas: the movie is based on real events. Apparently a Dutch couple was looking for an unspoiled place to live in contact with nature and ended up in a small village in Galiza. As the years went by, quarrels and arguments started to arise with the neighboring family, whose father of the family was mentally ill. The situation escalated until this man killed the Dutchman and his son covered it up. All very sad. What bothers me a bit - and I speak without having seen the movie - is that this crime (whose perpetrator was not charged because of his disability) is not used to reflect the problem of undiagnosed mental illnesses, the shame they still provoke in rural areas, the problem of expatriates looking for wilderness to settle in impoverished areas outside their own countries, etc. No. It is used as a representation of all Galician people. If this story were set in Madrid nobody would say, "of course, they are very closed-minded there and in the end bad things happen", but it would be taken as the story of an individual who happened to be from Madrid. If that makes sense.

And as for Vacas: it bores me to death that EH is only used to make movies about ETA or the civil war. How unoriginal. Apart from the fact that none of the main characters are played by Basque actors (only the supporting actors are Basque), it's a bit more of the same: two Basque families become enemies after the last Carlist war and this enmity lasts for decades and generations. As in Patria. Because we Basques are spiteful and perpetuate our hatreds in our children. Again, if Vacas or Patria were located elsewhere, it would be understood as two extreme families corrupted by hatred and not representative of the entire population of the place. By locating it in EH - with the stereotypes about the Basques roaming around the collective imaginary - the thing changes.

[docpiplup]

Good news: Irati is currently the highest grossing film in Basque in history!

And if anyone is on Murcia this weekend, Irati will be screened at the beginning of Sombra, the Murcia's Fantasy Cinema Fest in Friday 17 of March, and the director of the film Paul Urkijo and the costume designer Nerea Torrijos will be at the Fest.

[directedbywomen]

Celebrating Icíar Bollaín! "Iciar Bollaín is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first Spanish female director to have had a film (También la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy."

Read Isabel Santaolalla's book The cinema of Iciar Bollaín to learn more about her films.

Maixabel (2021) "...a turbulent and emotional look into the repercussions of terrorist violence, both for the victims and the victimizers." Read more in Variety's Icíar Bollaín’s Basque Drama ‘Maixabel’ Studies the Long Shadow of Violence.

The Olive Tree | El Olivo (2016)

"an earthy, quietly stirring Spanish fable that finds familial, regional and environmental grievances inseparably tangled in its branches." Read more in Variety's review.

Even the Rain | También la lluvia (2010)

"The film within a film begins to open up the narratives from past to present, from Spanish filmmakers to Bolivian extras, from corporate claims to native rights, from conservative politicians to liberal elites, multiplying the discourses in a way that provides a powerful dialogic awakening in the filmmakers and the audience." Read more in Michael Dean Benton's #Crucial21DbW post on the #DirectedbyWomen website.

Explore Bollaín's work on MUBI:

[dykesynthezoid]

A list of academic articles I currently have saved in my phone’s bookmarks:

Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville’s Novels

GUTS (a horror film theory essay)

Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080 - 1350

Three Lies of Digital Ethnography

The Basques and the Spanish Civil War

From Noble Dress to Jewish Attire: Jewish Appearances in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire

The Ultimate Ride: Point Break, Surfing Cinema, and Masculine Transcendence

How Does A Bulldagger Get Out of the Footnote? or Gladys Bentley's Blues

Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape

The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England

Indicted Knights: Female Agency and the Adjudication of Rape in Arthurian Romances

The “Anarchy” of King Arthur’s Beginnings: The Politics that Created the Arthurian Tradition

Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of Disability, “Cripping the Middle Ages, Medievalizing Disability Theory”

[nando161mando]

AGAINST FASCISTS: THE BASQUE SPACE PROGRAM

On 20 Dec 1973  Basque resistance ETA blow up fascist PM Luis Carrero Blanco, chosen sucessor to Franco. It is said that he was the first fascist in space. Make Fascists Fly Again !

Scène from the movie Opéracion Ogro (1979) by Gillo Pontecorvo, same director of The Battle Of Algiers.

1973ko abenduaren 20an ETAk Luis Carrero Blanco lehen ministro faxista leherrarazi zuen, Francoren ondorengo hautatua. Espazioko lehen faxista izan zela esaten da. Egin faxistek berriro hegan egin!

Opéracion Ogro (1979) filmeko eszena, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle Of Algiers-eko zuzendari beraren.

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