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‘Segundo Premio’ también triunfó en la gran noche del cine español.

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Anoche se celebró la gala de los Premios Goya 2025, la que es la gran noche del cine español y una de las ediciones más abiertas de los últimos años donde todo podía pasar. Y es que, por un momento, parecía que íbamos a tener nuestro momento Moonlight–La La Land español, pero no, por primera vez en la historia de los Goya el premio a la Mejor Película se repartió ex aequo a El 47 y La infiltrada. Otra de las grandes triunfadoras de la noche fue Segundo premio, que logró tres galardones, incluido el de Mejor Dirección. Aquí os dejamos con la lista completa de nominados y ganadores de los Goya 2025:

Mejor PELÍCULA (Ex Aequo) Casa en flames

El 47

La estrella azul

La infiltrada

Segundo premio © A Contracorriente Films © Beta Films Mejor DIRECCIÓN Pedro Almodóvar...

‘La Habitación de al Lado’ no logra la nominación a Mejor Película y sorprende la ausencia de Najwa Nimri como Mejor Actriz. © Goya |A Contracorriente Films | Beta Films| BTeamPictures | El Deseo

Hoy ha tenido lugar la lectura de nominados a los Premios Goya 2025, en la que las películas El 47, La Infiltrada y Segundo Premio han conseguido el mayor número de nominaciones. Los ganadores se conocerán el 8 de febrero en Granada. Aquí os dejamos con la lista completa de nominados:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Casa en flames

El 47

La estrella azul

La infiltrada

Segundo premio

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Pedro almodóvar (La habitación de al lado)

Arantxa Echavarría (La infiltrada)

Paula Ortiz (La virgen roja)

Aitor Arregi y Jon Garaño (Marco)

Isaki Lacuesta y Pol Rodríguez (Segundo premio)

Mejor DIRECCIÓN Novel

Miguel Faus (Calladita)

Pedro Martín-Calero (El llanto)

Javier Macipe (La estrella azul)

Sandra Romero (Por donde pasa el silencio)

Paz Vega (Rita...

One of the most unassuming filmmakers of Britain’s early period, Michael Powell entered the golden age of his career with The Edge of the World. Though he had already made over 20 films by 1937, it represented one of his first successfully realized and self-actualized stabs at what would become one of his chief directorial strengths: the ability to film a very specific and localized environment in a manner that emphasizes its otherworldly fantasias and, paradoxically, remains faithful to the area’s ethnographical features.

To watch the film is to bear witness to Powell’s unique alchemy. Throughout, he infuses a weather-battered island community off the coast of Scotland on the verge of abandonment with off-kilter camera angles, dreamily gauzy cinematography, and a becalmed detachment that lets the characters and scenario do the work for him.

Which isn’t to say that Powell occasionally indulges in a few melodramatic flourishes that...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Atomic Blonde (David Leitch)

There’s a bargain underlying the whole of Atomic Blonde, wherein director David Leitch wavers between its more cheeky qualities and its adherence to the conventions of generic spy fare. The film is, by definition, “cool” in every sense. Despite some wonky plotting best described as Diet John le Carré and a heavy-handed soundtrack that occasionally gets in its own way, Charlize Theron plows full...

Exclusive: Movies with a Scottish flavour include Daphne, The Last Photograph, The Marker, while Okja will also screen.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed a host of movies with Scottish connections set to play at its 70th anniversary edition.

Scottish director Peter Mackie Burns will bring his debut Daphne, which stars Emily Beecham (Hail Caesar) and Geraldine James (Sherlock Holmes), while Scottish actress Freya Mavor (Sunshine On Leith) stars in the world premiere of comedy-drama Modern Life Is Rubbish.

Filmmaker Justin Edgar also returns to the Eiff with The Marker, starring veteran Scottish actor John Hannah; while The Last Photograph, starring Danny Huston, revolves around the Lockerbie disaster.

Bong Joon Ho’s latest offering Okja, starring Eiff honorary patron Tilda Swinton, will also screen and there will also be showcases of local icons Sean Connery and Robbie Coltrane.

Titles filmed and set in Scotland will include Edie, starring Kevin Guthrie and psychological thriller The Dark Mile...

To begin with, no, 49th Parallel is not a Canadian film. At least not technically. The Hungarian Emeric Pressburger, who had been working in England for about five years, wrote the 1941 feature, and the Kent-born Michael Powell, who had been making films since the early 1930s, directed it. All but one interior was shot at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire, and Ortus Films, a British company, produced the picture after the Ministry of Information commissioned it. The cast is a veritable who’s who of prominent British actors, including Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, and Leslie Howard, among others. David Lean, then the preeminent editor in England, cut the picture.

Still, it is a great Canadian film. Locations range from Winnipeg to Quebec to Alberta. Perhaps more than any other film, certainly of the era, it also deals explicitly with Canada’s largely ignored involvement in World War II—as far as the movies are concerned anyway.

If you thought that Robert Kirkman expanded the world of The Walking Dead with Alexandria and the Hilltop Colony, it looks like he was just warming up. Skybound will be releasing two issues of The Walking Dead in March and the cover art for #139 will make the 3-month wait excruciating. *Spoiler Warning*

Based on the cover art for issue #138, it looks like The Whisperers will still be a threat for at least a few more issues and #139 marks the start of a brand new story arc, titled “From the Edge of the World”. While the Cdc episode of the TV series hinted at the global impact of the zombie outbreak, the comic book series hasn’t really touched upon it. Could we finally find out how others are faring in other parts of the world? Check out the new cover art below, thanks to our friends at TheWalkingDead.com, and...

Cinematography festival to present retrospective on the innovative British film-making duo, attended by Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker.

Camerimage (Nov 15-22) is to host a special retrospective around the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

The film festival that celebrates cinematography, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, will be attended by Powell’s wife and three-time Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker as well as film scholars and Powell-Pressburger experts Erich Sargeant and Ian Christie.

Films of the due set to be screened at Camerimage include:

The Edge Of The World; 1937; cin. Monty Berman, Skeets Kelly, Ernest Palmer

One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing; 1942; cin. Ronald Neame

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp; 1943; cin. Georges Périnal

A Canterbury Tale; 1944; cin. Erwin Hillier

‘I Know Where I’m Going!’; 1945; cin. Erwin Hillier

A Matter Of Life And Death; 1946; cin. Jack Cardiff

Black Narcissus; 1947; cin. Jack Cardiff

The Red Shoes; 1948; cin. Jack Cardiff

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Fire in the Blood, directed by Dylan Mohan Gray, has won the Best Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, an award instituted at the Filmfest Hamburg for the first time this year. The festival was held from September 26-October 5 in Germany.

Twelve films aspiring to provide a political message competed for the prize money of 5,000 Euros.

Famous Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin, a native of Hamburg, accepted the award on behalf of Dylan Mohan Gray.

The films nominated in this category were: 74 -The Reconstitution of a Struggle (Lebanon), Against the Grain (USA, Pakistan), The Edge of the World (France), Fire in the Blood (India), The Human Scale (Denmark), Imbabazi – The Pardon (Rwanda), Lampedusa auf St. Pauli (Germany), Looking for North Koreans (France), Manuscripts don’t burn (Iran), Once I Entered Garden (Switzerland, France, Israel), They are the Dogs (Morocco) and Vers Madrid (France, Spain).

Fire in the Blood tells the story of...

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) "so unambiguously [satirizes] the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "Newly restored by Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation and playing two weeks [starting Friday] at Film Forum in its full length, Colonel Blimp is as stylized in its florid palette, lavish mise-en-scène, and obtrusive musical cues as Powell and Pressburger's subsequent The Red Shoes. Beginning and ending in London under the blitz, the movie spans 40 years, tracking the career of General Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) from dashing young hero of the Boer War to the sort of walrus-mustached establishment fogy that political cartoonist David Low named 'Colonel Blimp.' … The filmmakers originally wanted Laurence Olivier, but it seems unlikely that so acerbic an actor could have delivered so warm a performance."

"Seeing Colonel Blimp strictly in the...

Film4 and Focus Features are set to reteam with BAFTA award-winning writer Abi Morgan (Brick Lane) on ensemble drama Suffragettes.

Suffragettes will center on a group of militant British women who fight for the right to vote, and be in the vein of Nigel Cole’s comedy-drama Made in Dagenham.

Sarah Gavron is attached to direct, with production set to commence once she’s done with documentary The Edge of the World.

Morgan currently has two screenplays in different stages of production: Steve McQueen’s Shame, starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender; and Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent. Both of which are due to be unveiled later this year.

Source: Variety...

Suffragettes will be written by Abi Morgan which Sarah Gavron is attached to direct. This reteams Focus Features and Film 4 with the Shame writer. The ensemble drama is set in the early 20th century and focuses on a group of militant British women, fighting for their right to vote. Ruby Films (Brick Lane) develops Suffragettes and Morgan recently completed the first draft of the script. Gavron is currently shooting her documentary for The Edge of the World for Film 4, produced by Apt/Met Films, reports Variety. Aside from Suffragettes, Morgan is busy with two scripts currently in production for Film 4. One, as listed above, is Steve McQueen's Shame, about a New York sex addict (Michael Fassbender of X-Men: First Class) which is being co-financed by Focus Features...

Suffragettes will be written by Abi Morgan which Sarah Gavron is attached to direct. This reteams Focus Features and Film 4 with the Shame writer. The ensemble drama is set in the early 20th century and focuses on a group of militant British women, fighting for their right to vote. Ruby Films (Brick Lane) develops Suffragettes and Morgan recently completed the first draft of the script. Gavron is currently shooting her documentary for The Edge of the World for Film 4, produced by Apt/Met Films, reports Variety. Aside from Suffragettes, Morgan is busy with two scripts currently in production for Film 4. One, as listed above, is Steve McQueen's Shame, about a New York sex addict (Michael Fassbender of X-Men: First Class) which is being co-financed by Focus Features...

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The Innocents, A Zed & Two Noughts, The Edge Of The World, Loving Memory

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These releases preserve and promote the works of four significant British directors: Michael Powell, Tony Scott, Peter Greenaway and Jack Clayton. The least prolific of the four, the latter is represented by The Innocents, which remains one of the finest ghost stories ever filmed. Greenaway's A Zed & Two Noughts, only his second feature, still stuns too; the hairstyles and lighting may look a bit 1980s, but his symmetrical framing and the frankly bizarre storyline of twin zoologists obsessed with decay is timeless. Michael Powell's offering is his romantic 1937 drama The Edge Of The World, made before he teamed up with Emeric Pressburger and shot on the Shetland Islands, miles from any established film-making community. Tony Scott is the odd one out here – his recent output, films such as Domino and The Taking Of Pelham 123,...

I’m really excited about Austin Film Society’s newest series: A Summer of Restoration: Selections from Milestone Films.

From July 3rd to August 7, every Saturday at the Ritz the very good and creative people at Afs are bringing some of the highlights from Milestone Films, an organization that is responsible for distributing and restoring some of the greatest films throughout history.

From the Afs press announcement: “With an emphasis on the physical restoration of classic films and a spiritual restoration of our 21st century souls, Austin Film Society presents a wide selection of films, old and new, from the wonderful Milestone catalog.”

The line-up delivers on that promise of spiritual restoration, with a slew of titles that will renew your interest in the cinema’s power to inspire.

6/12: Village Of Dreams – A recent Japanese film offering insights on what it means to be a child.

6/19: The Edge Of The World...