As 2023 hits its final straights, Spain’s “Nowhere,” a mother-baby survival thriller, rates as the most-viewed non-English title – film or series – of 2023, with 77.9 million views. It also ranks as Netflix’s second most-watched non-English movie of all time, currently punching 141.6 million hours, bettered only by Norway’s “Troll.”
“Nowhere” also has legs: No other non-English Netflix movie has punched 1.6 million views on its seventh week of release.
That achievement is all the more remarkable given that “Nowhere” is also the first title by the film’s producer Miguel Ruz and exec producer Jordi Roca at their new Madrid-based production company Rock & Ruz which they launched after the success of their first film together, Mario Casas-starrer “The Paramedic” (“El Practicante”), also on Netflix.
Made for an above-average budget for Spain, based on an original story by Indiana Lista (“Scandinoir”), “Nowhere” is co-written by producers Ruz and Ernest Riera alongside...
“Nowhere” also has legs: No other non-English Netflix movie has punched 1.6 million views on its seventh week of release.
That achievement is all the more remarkable given that “Nowhere” is also the first title by the film’s producer Miguel Ruz and exec producer Jordi Roca at their new Madrid-based production company Rock & Ruz which they launched after the success of their first film together, Mario Casas-starrer “The Paramedic” (“El Practicante”), also on Netflix.
Made for an above-average budget for Spain, based on an original story by Indiana Lista (“Scandinoir”), “Nowhere” is co-written by producers Ruz and Ernest Riera alongside...
- 11/15/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Jordi Mollà in El cónsul de Sodoma (Steinweg Emotion Pictures) (bottom) In the Spanish-language website Filmin, "questions without answers" are asked about the selections for the Spanish Academy’s 2010 Goya Awards. A few of the questions, e.g., "who will win best actress this year" can only be answered at the Goya ceremony next Feb. 14. Several questions, however, are just plain unanswerable — at least from a logical (or personal) standpoint. For example, Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces was up for a Golden Palm in Cannes. Starring Lluís Homar and Penélope Cruz, Almodóvar’s homage to old Hollywood film noirs has also won several [...]...
- 1/10/2010
- by Pedro Exterminador
- Alt Film Guide
Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (top); Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Daniel Monzón’s prison drama Cell 211 and Alejandro Amenábar’s historical blockbuster Ágora (aka Mists of Time), with respectively 16 and 13 nominations, are the two leaders in the race for the 2010 Premios Goya (or Goya Awards), the Spanish Academy Awards. Actress Paz Vega and filmmaker Javier Fesser, accompanied by Academy president Alex de la Iglesia, made the announcements earlier today in Madrid. Besides Cell 211 and Ágora, the two other best picture nominees are Fernando Trueba’s The Dancer and the Thief, Spain’s submission for the best foreign language film Academy Award, and Argentinean [...]...
- 1/9/2010
- by Pedro Exterminador
- Alt Film Guide
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) The Spanish Academy’s Goya Award nominations, the Writers Guild nominations, and the Vancouver Film Critics’ winners are some of the film-award announcements to come in the next few days. Potential Goya nominees include Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodóvar, and Penélope Cruz. The Toronto Film Critics will also announce their Best Canadian Film winner, while the American Society of Cinematographers will name their nominees. Expect James Cameron’s Avatar (Mauro Fiore) to be shortlisted by the Asc, along with Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd), and quite possibly Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones (Andrew Lesnie) and Rob Marshall’s Nine (Dion Beebe) as well. Jan. 9 – Goya [...]...
- 1/8/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Penélope Cruz, José Luis Gómez in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (Elephant Eye) (middle); Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Los Angeles’ American Cinematheque will host the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s series of screenings devoted to the films and filmmakers nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. They are: Baaria (Italy) from Giuseppe Tornatore; Broken Embraces (Spain) from Pedro Almodóvar; The Maid (Chile) from Sebastian Silva; A Prophet (France) from Jacques Audiard; and The White Ribbon (Germany) from Michael Haneke. These films will each screen once between January 11 and 15 at either [...]...
- 1/8/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (middle); Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darin in The Secret of Her Eyes (Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) The Spanish Academy’s 2010 Goya Award nominations — that’s Spain’s Oscars — will be announced on Jan. 9. Among the potential nominees are Broken Embraces, director-screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, actor Lluís Homar, actress Penélope Cruz, and supporting actress Blanca Portillo. In Broken Embraces, which has won a few awards from Us critics’ groups, Penélope Cruz plays a secretary/sex worker who becomes her wealthy boss’ lover only to fall for a film director (Homar). Cruz has been touted as a potential best actress [...]...
- 1/4/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Penelope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) At The Wrap, Steve Pond offers some cool insights into the Oscar ballots. For instance, in all but one category, voters are supposed to write down the name of the film — not the talent — on the ballot. So, if your best director picks for the 2010 Academy Awards are Pedro Almodóvar for Broken Embraces, Kiyoshi Kurosawa for Tokyo Sonata, and Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon (one can always dream), you have to write down Broken Embraces, Tokyo Sonata, and The White Ribbon. The one exception to this rule is the acting category, in which Acting Branch voters must write down the name [...]...
- 12/31/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores in Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre (Focus Features)(top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (Films du Losange / Sony Pictures Classics) (middle); Penelope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Sin Nombre, a Mexican-American co-production directed by Cary Fukunaga and featuring Stockholm Film Festival best actor winner Edgar Flores, has thus far been the Us-critics’ favorite foreign-language film of 2009, with six wins. Additionally, Fukunaga’s drama about a Honduran family’s dramatic trek north to the United States, has landed Critics Choice and Spirit Award nominations. Michael Haneke’s European Film Award winner The White Ribbon, about strange occurrences in a small German town shortly before the outbreak [...]...
- 12/29/2009
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Pedro Almodóvar’s noirish (in color) Broken Embraces, which was screened in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, opens in New York City on November 20 and in Los Angeles on December 11. Broken Embraces star several Almodóvar alumni: Muse Penélope Cruz (a potential Oscar 2010 contender in the best actress category), Lluís Homar of Bad Education, Blanca Portillo and Lola Dueñas of Volver, Rossy de Palma of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Chuz Lampeavre of just about everything Almodóvar has ever directed. Also: Rubén Ochandiano (of Che), Tamar Novas (of The Sea Inside), Carlos Leal (of Chef’s Special), and José Luis Gómez (of Goya’s Ghosts). Broken Embraces Trailer. Photos: © Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo, [...]...
- 10/20/2009
- by Joan Lister
- Alt Film Guide
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