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FilmSharks Signs Deals For NINE QUEENS 4K, BOOGEYMAN: THE ORIGIN OF THE MYTH, And THE RESTLESS WATERS, SHIVERING LIGHTS

With a couple more days left in this year's EFM our friends at FilmSharks have let us know about more deals they've secured in their time there. Two titles we've spoken about in recent months the other is the return...

Review: TRUMAN, A Well-Trod but Satisfying Journey

Catalan filmmaker Cesc Gay seems to have cornered the market for Spanish dramedies that can reach both national and international markets. With a wry and discerning eye on the professional and artistic classes in his native country, he assembles a...

Ricardo Darin Reunites With CHINESE TAKEAWAY Director For Thriller KOBLIC

We were big, big fans of Sebastián Borensztein's comedy drama Chinese Takeaway in these parts and now the Argentine helmer has reunited with leading man Ricardo Darin for what promises to be a riveting true life thriller.The year is 1977...

Review: A GUN IN EACH HAND Invites Puns, Delivers Wit

A Gun In Each Hand is a smash-hit success; a multi-award winner boasting a huge all-star cast, it is an extremely commercial production that broke box-office records in its native Spain. It opened the Spanish Film Festival in Australia this...

Ricardo Darin Stars In Kidnap Thriller THE 7TH FLOOR, Watch The First Teaser!

We do love us some Ricardo Darin here at ScreenAnarchy, the Argentinean leading man proving to be one of our favorite actors on the globe thanks to his generally stellar eye for quality scripts and directors and the simple gravity...

It's Not Easy Being A Man In Cesc Gay's A GUN IN EACH HAND

Boasting an all star cast of Spanish speaking talent - Ricardo Darin, Javier Camara, Eduardo Noriega, Candela Pena, Jordi Molla, Luis Tosar - and a biting sense of humor, Cesc Gay's A Gun In Each Hand (Una Pistola En Cado...

Ricardo Darin Stars In Upcoming Thriller THESIS ON A HOMICIDE

Argentina's Ricardo Darin has become one of the world's most respected leading men for a very simple reason. He's very, very good. And it doesn't hurt that he has fantastic taste in scripts. The star of Oscar winner The Secret...

CARANCHO SCAVENGES BAYSIDE

One of my favorite films from 2010 is the Argentine dark thriller Carancho (2010), for which I've already provided a critical overview, as well as an interview with the film's director Pablo Trapero. Strand Releasing has picked up Carancho for...

PSIFF 2011: CARANCHO: Interview With Pablo Trapero

Pablo Trapero was born in San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971. He wrote, directed and edited the short films Mocoso Malcriado (1993) and Negocios (1995) before directing his feature debut, the award-winning Crane World (1999), a black and white...

PSIFF 2011: CARANCHO: A Critical Overview

Programmed within my favorite sidebar at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF)--i.e., Awards Buzz: Best Foreign Language Film (which this year is featuring 40 of the 65 official submissions to the 2011 Academy Awards®)--Pablo Trapero's Carancho (2010) chases the...

The Director Of CRAZY HEART And Writer Of THE TOWN Attached To Remake Pablo Trapero's CARANCHO

Pablo Trapero's Carancho remains one of my favorite films of the year and if producer Roy Lee has his way the story will soon become much more familiar to a great many people. Lee is working with Imagine Entertainment and...

TIFF 2010: CARANCHO Review

We are all familiar with the concept of the sleazy lawyer, the vulture who lurks on the outskirts just awaiting his chance to swoop in and profit on others' misfortune. Pablo Trapero takes that image as the center of his...

Cannes 2010: Pablo Trapero's CARANCHO Added To Un Certain Regard Lineup!

Well, they said that there would be more titles announced for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and that announcement has come with the big news to these eyes being that a new film from Olivier Assayas (Carlos) will be screened...

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Review

It's hard nowadays to talk about Argentine filmmaker, Juan Jose Campanella's latest feature without discussing its Oscar win for best foreign language film. How that reflects on the film and any possible positives it could have on the relatively healthy...

Pablo Trapero's CARANCHO Looks Like Another Winner For THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Star Ricardo Darin

Oh, it's a good time to be Ricardo Darin. Fresh off his performance in the Best Foreign Film Oscar winning The Secret In Their Eyes the Argentinian star - much loved in these parts for a long string of stellar...

Ricardo Darin Stars In Pablo Trapero's CARANCHO!

Argentina's Ricardo Darin has man fans here at ScreenAnarchy, the lot of us drawn in not only by his skill but his impeccable taste in scripts. And so when the star of Nine Queens, El Aura and this year's foreign-language...

TIFF 09: A Trailer For Argentine Crime Thriller THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES

There are certain actors that I am willing to follow just about anywhere, performers who I find both compulsively watchable and who are blessed with great taste in scripts.  Performers whose mere presence is a virtually certain mark of quality. ...