by José Luis Garci, Enrique Algrete, Guillermo Balmori, Noemi Guillermo, Ventura Anciones, Víctor Arribas, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Cayetano Guillén Cuervo, Luis Herrero, Eduardo Torres-Dulce Lifante, Agapito Maestre, Julián Marías · Notorious Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788415606628
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This book is a deep analysis of the cinema of José Luis Garci, one of the most important Spanish filmmakers. Through essays by critics and scholars, his personal style, recurring themes, and impact on Spanish cinema are explored. His cinema is highlighted as a reflection of memories, hobbies, and feelings, with an atmosphere of solitude and reflection.
José Luis García Muñoz, known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish film director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. One of the most influential film personalities in the history of film in Spain, he earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
