Film Director Carlos Saura has just released his latest film featuring an incredible number of fabulous flamenco artists: Sara Baras, Farruquito and his 13-year-old brother El Carpeta, Eva Yerbabuena, Jos?? Merc??, Estrella Morente, Mar??a Pages, …
After Camar??n released his groundbreaking flamenco album called La leyenda del tiempo in 1979, a few years later a film/documentary was made, bearing the same name. la distribuidora Intermedio ha publicado en dvd ???La leyenda del tiempo???. Esta…
The first FFLAC Festival Internacional Flamenco de Cortometrajes was held at the Sala Berlanga in the Instituto Bu??uel in Madrid from 3 to 5 September 2010, where 26 short films (cortometrajes) which were selected for the Finals were shown. The j…
This well-produced B&W film from 1960 recreates the atmosphere of the famous Caf?? de Chinitas in M??laga (1857???1937) in the caf?? cantante period of flamenco???s history. The film features singers Antonio Molina and Rafael Faria, as well as the…
During 1939, when Carmen Amaya was in Cuba, she made a short film called El Embrujo del Fandango (The Bewitching Fandango). One of the central moments in the film is when Carmen Amaya dances a stylised form of fandango called El Embrujo del Fandan…
After last week’s silly indulgence of seeing Manolo Caracol in Embrujo, I feel we need something with some serious flamenco performances, so I have chosen Los Tarantos featuring two superb dancers Carmen Amaya and Antonio Gades. Los Tarantos is a …
Embrujo (bewitched) is a black & white film dating from 1947. It wasn’t well received in its day by the critics, and I hope you will excuse my indulgence, but I have to say that I enjoy watching the flamenco singer Manolo Caracol from Seville with…
The film Flamenco directed by Carlos Saura in 1995 may be more of a documentary rather than a Friday night film in the sense of having a plot but because of Saura’s approach each of the performances on this film has a narrative to it; I say this b…
It’s Friday night so that must mean it’s flamenco film night! The Spanish film maker Carlos Saura started making films about flamenco in the 1980s and he has made some wonderful films including one of Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo, featuring the…
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