Appropriately enough given the show’s enigmatic nature, the slow drip of information about a second season of Spanish genre legend Alex de la Iglesia’s occult horror series “30 Coins” has, for the most part, been cryptic at best. That tradition continued Friday, after HBO Max confirmed the second season, when “Money Heist’s” Najwa Nimri, one of Spain’s biggest film and TV stars, teased her participation in the upcoming season.
Apart from the show’s three leads – Eduard Fernández as Father Vergara, Megan Montaner as veterinarian-turned-demon-hunter Elena and Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Mayor Paco – no other casting has yet been confirmed, but Nimri posted an Instagram story which included part of the Season 2 teaser and the phrase: “We start a new adventure,” while also tweeting #30Monedas – the show’s Spanish-language title.
#30Monedas
— najwa (@Najwa_Nimri) February 11, 2022
In response, Pokeepsie Films, De La Iglesia’s production company which produces the show,...
Apart from the show’s three leads – Eduard Fernández as Father Vergara, Megan Montaner as veterinarian-turned-demon-hunter Elena and Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Mayor Paco – no other casting has yet been confirmed, but Nimri posted an Instagram story which included part of the Season 2 teaser and the phrase: “We start a new adventure,” while also tweeting #30Monedas – the show’s Spanish-language title.
#30Monedas
— najwa (@Najwa_Nimri) February 11, 2022
In response, Pokeepsie Films, De La Iglesia’s production company which produces the show,...
- 2/12/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based Zeta Studios, producer of Netflix mega hit “Elite,” has boarded Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival honoree Julio Medem’s first foray into television, “Jai Alai.” It joins L.A. and Mexico City-based Panamericana Pictures, led by Mexican producer Eva Ruiz de Chavez, who had developed the show with Medem.
Expressing excitement at their first project with Zeta Studios, Ruiz de Chávez said: “It is becoming an international multi-language project just as Julio and I envisioned from the beginning.” “[Zeta Studios CEO] Antonio Asensio has been the perfect partner and I know this will be the beginning of many projects between Zeta and Panamericana Pictures.”
“ ‘Jai Alai’ is a great international production that comes to us through our co-producer, Panamericana, with whom we are very happy to work with hand in hand,” said Asensio, who added: “It is the first series that Julio Medem will address as a screenwriter and director, whose work and career we greatly admire.
Expressing excitement at their first project with Zeta Studios, Ruiz de Chávez said: “It is becoming an international multi-language project just as Julio and I envisioned from the beginning.” “[Zeta Studios CEO] Antonio Asensio has been the perfect partner and I know this will be the beginning of many projects between Zeta and Panamericana Pictures.”
“ ‘Jai Alai’ is a great international production that comes to us through our co-producer, Panamericana, with whom we are very happy to work with hand in hand,” said Asensio, who added: “It is the first series that Julio Medem will address as a screenwriter and director, whose work and career we greatly admire.
- 10/1/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg) will close this October’s rescheduled in-person festival with the first two episodes of Netflix’s animated event series “Maya and the Three” from daytime Emmy-winning director Jorge Gutierrez.
“Having ‘Maya’ premier at my beloved Ficg, in the capital of Mexican animation, is a dream come true!” Gutierrez told Variety after the announcement was made.
Ficg released details outlining the full program for this year’s 36th edition, which also includes a special screening of Dennis Villeneuve’s “Dune” at the festival’s opening ceremony. Other major takeaways include the awarding of this year’s El Mayahuel de Plata to Mexican Cinema, the highest award given out by the festival, to the illustrious Mexican actor Elsa Aguirre, a figurehead of the country’s golden age of cinema.
Other announced honors include the Golden Mayahuel for contribution Ibero-American cinema to Spanish director Julio Medem, who will...
“Having ‘Maya’ premier at my beloved Ficg, in the capital of Mexican animation, is a dream come true!” Gutierrez told Variety after the announcement was made.
Ficg released details outlining the full program for this year’s 36th edition, which also includes a special screening of Dennis Villeneuve’s “Dune” at the festival’s opening ceremony. Other major takeaways include the awarding of this year’s El Mayahuel de Plata to Mexican Cinema, the highest award given out by the festival, to the illustrious Mexican actor Elsa Aguirre, a figurehead of the country’s golden age of cinema.
Other announced honors include the Golden Mayahuel for contribution Ibero-American cinema to Spanish director Julio Medem, who will...
- 9/14/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Streamer boarded both projects at script stage; will launch in February and July.
Netflix has announced two new Netflix Originals and will launch Julio Medem’s drama The Tree Of Blood and Sebastian Schindel’s thriller The Son worldwide this year excluding theatrical in the projects’ home countries.
The streamer boarded the projects at script stage and confirmed to Screendaily the deals with Argentina’s FilmSharks at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires last month.
The Tree Of Blood (El Árbol de la Sangre) from Spanish auteur Medem centres on a couple, Rebeca and Marc, who travel to Rebeca...
Netflix has announced two new Netflix Originals and will launch Julio Medem’s drama The Tree Of Blood and Sebastian Schindel’s thriller The Son worldwide this year excluding theatrical in the projects’ home countries.
The streamer boarded the projects at script stage and confirmed to Screendaily the deals with Argentina’s FilmSharks at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires last month.
The Tree Of Blood (El Árbol de la Sangre) from Spanish auteur Medem centres on a couple, Rebeca and Marc, who travel to Rebeca...
- 1/27/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Julio Medem's Lovers of the Article Circle (1998) is showing November 17 – December 16 on Mubi in the United Kingdom and November 25 – December 24, 2018 in the United States, and Room in Room (2010) is showing November 18 – December 17, 2018 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.Room in RomeKairos is a specific word that the Ancient Greeks used to describe time, not in its lineal nature, but an opportune moment or critical, chance timing. Kairos is composed by circumstances capturing the most elusive part of our lives, half-fate, half-luck, activated by human agency. Celebrated Basque director Julio Medem, in his filmmaking strokes, has a way of taming this crucial notion of time, transforming chance encounters into kairotic human interaction. His orchestration of character development over the course of a lifetime in Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) or a night, as in Room in Rome (2010), represents the magical transformative power of intersubjectivity and intimacy. Both films position and...
- 12/11/2018
- MUBI
It's Thursday. Friday's still quite a few hours away, and you're looking for something to help you pass your time. We totally hear you. The Internet has become a veritable theme park of time-killing activities, and the following one is a treat for sure!
As per the Pajiba website...
"Are you familiar with the movie and television trope in which someone is unexpectedly hit by a bus or other large vehicle? I’m sure that two or three instances of it immediately come to mind (and they’re assuredly in the video). We see it all the time (and it’s almost always effective), but I had no idea just how often it is employed until the noted video editor behind Harry Hanrahan compiled practically every instance ever of the trope into this supercut. It’s one of those brilliant video edits that blows up the trope, exposes it for...
As per the Pajiba website...
"Are you familiar with the movie and television trope in which someone is unexpectedly hit by a bus or other large vehicle? I’m sure that two or three instances of it immediately come to mind (and they’re assuredly in the video). We see it all the time (and it’s almost always effective), but I had no idea just how often it is employed until the noted video editor behind Harry Hanrahan compiled practically every instance ever of the trope into this supercut. It’s one of those brilliant video edits that blows up the trope, exposes it for...
- 2/7/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Toronto International Film Festival
BARCELONA, Spain -- With Sex and Lucia and The Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Spanish director Julio Medem firmly established his own dreamy, winding plots, suffused with philosophical themes and spiced with a liberal dose of sex. Medem's work is not to everyone's taste, but his new film, Chaotic Ana, is carried by imagination and the force of a strong cast. It should do well in Spanish-speaking territories and in art houses elsewhere. The film screens in the Toronto International Film Festival.
"Ana" tells the story of a young Spanish woman from age 18 to 22. Under hypnosis, she is convinced that her life is the continuation of four other women's lives, all of whom died tragically at age 22. The audience is asked to believe this is her "chaos" -- and the reason she is given to nasty turns when confronted with images that remind her of these women. If the audience does not take the film too literally and indulges Medem's idea that Ana is basically tormented by demons, then they can enjoy the action more.
Ana, played by Medem's new muse Manuela Velles, is transported from her home on the hippy Spanish island of Ibiza to an artists' commune in Madrid by mother figure Justine (Charlotte Rampling). She falls for a disturbed Arab named Said (Nicolas Cazale), then undergoes hypnosis to confront her "other women." Ana ends up on a boat bound for New York and finally travels through Arizona with her dashing hypnotist (Asier Newman).
The plot veers annoyingly from one scene to another with little explanation. But the film is far more interesting when you know that Ana was inspired by Medem's own sister, who died tragically in a traffic crash. He wrote the film as a form of tribute to her.
Indeed, the Ana character becomes a feminist hero, struggling against the aggression of man. This theme is carried off with a marvelous ending when Ana wreaks glorious revenge on U.S. political ambitions abroad, symbolized by an obnoxious American politician.
Velles, whose previous experience was one television advertisement, carries the film, showing a maturity way beyond her years. She is not daunted by a cast that includes the likes of Rampling, Matthias Habich (The Downfall) and Lluis Homar (Bad Education). Velles might lack the sex appeal of a Penelope Cruz or a Paz Vega, but she offers much promise.
The real charm of this film is that it keeps the viewer guessing what strange turn it will take. Or indeed, what it is all about. It is a little long at nearly two hours but never seems plodding.
CHAOTIC ANA
Sogecine/Alicia Produce
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Julio Medem
Executive producers: Simon de Santiago, Enrique Lopez Lavigne, Koldo Zuazua, Julio Medem
Director of photography: Mario Montero
Music: Jocelyn Pool
Costume designer: Estibaliz Markiegi
Co-producer: Sebastian Alvarez
Art director: Montse Sanz
Editor: Polo Aledo
Cast:
Ana: Manuela Velles
Justine: Charlotte Rampling
Linda: Bebe Rebulledo
Anglo: Asier Newman
Said: Nicolas Cazale
Lucas: Raul Pena
Mister Halcon: Gerrit Graham
Klaus: Matthias Habich
Ismael: Lluis Homar
Running time -- 156 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BARCELONA, Spain -- With Sex and Lucia and The Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Spanish director Julio Medem firmly established his own dreamy, winding plots, suffused with philosophical themes and spiced with a liberal dose of sex. Medem's work is not to everyone's taste, but his new film, Chaotic Ana, is carried by imagination and the force of a strong cast. It should do well in Spanish-speaking territories and in art houses elsewhere. The film screens in the Toronto International Film Festival.
"Ana" tells the story of a young Spanish woman from age 18 to 22. Under hypnosis, she is convinced that her life is the continuation of four other women's lives, all of whom died tragically at age 22. The audience is asked to believe this is her "chaos" -- and the reason she is given to nasty turns when confronted with images that remind her of these women. If the audience does not take the film too literally and indulges Medem's idea that Ana is basically tormented by demons, then they can enjoy the action more.
Ana, played by Medem's new muse Manuela Velles, is transported from her home on the hippy Spanish island of Ibiza to an artists' commune in Madrid by mother figure Justine (Charlotte Rampling). She falls for a disturbed Arab named Said (Nicolas Cazale), then undergoes hypnosis to confront her "other women." Ana ends up on a boat bound for New York and finally travels through Arizona with her dashing hypnotist (Asier Newman).
The plot veers annoyingly from one scene to another with little explanation. But the film is far more interesting when you know that Ana was inspired by Medem's own sister, who died tragically in a traffic crash. He wrote the film as a form of tribute to her.
Indeed, the Ana character becomes a feminist hero, struggling against the aggression of man. This theme is carried off with a marvelous ending when Ana wreaks glorious revenge on U.S. political ambitions abroad, symbolized by an obnoxious American politician.
Velles, whose previous experience was one television advertisement, carries the film, showing a maturity way beyond her years. She is not daunted by a cast that includes the likes of Rampling, Matthias Habich (The Downfall) and Lluis Homar (Bad Education). Velles might lack the sex appeal of a Penelope Cruz or a Paz Vega, but she offers much promise.
The real charm of this film is that it keeps the viewer guessing what strange turn it will take. Or indeed, what it is all about. It is a little long at nearly two hours but never seems plodding.
CHAOTIC ANA
Sogecine/Alicia Produce
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Julio Medem
Executive producers: Simon de Santiago, Enrique Lopez Lavigne, Koldo Zuazua, Julio Medem
Director of photography: Mario Montero
Music: Jocelyn Pool
Costume designer: Estibaliz Markiegi
Co-producer: Sebastian Alvarez
Art director: Montse Sanz
Editor: Polo Aledo
Cast:
Ana: Manuela Velles
Justine: Charlotte Rampling
Linda: Bebe Rebulledo
Anglo: Asier Newman
Said: Nicolas Cazale
Lucas: Raul Pena
Mister Halcon: Gerrit Graham
Klaus: Matthias Habich
Ismael: Lluis Homar
Running time -- 156 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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