Filmmakers Visit

[Sheriden Kuech]

*CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES/SPANISH DEPARTMENT - UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS SPECIAL EVENT

SPANISH FILM DIRECTOR
ALEX DE LA IGLESIA in ST ANDREWS

*A SPECIAL SCREENING OF /LA COMUNIDAD
/WITH ATTENDANCE OF DIRECTOR ALEX DE LA IGLESIA. *

Monday 30th April
NPH Cinema (5: 35 pm – 8:15 pm, Screening + Q&A)
117 North Street, St Andrews

*Free screening open to the public sponsored by the Consulate of Spain
in Edinburgh*.

Also, do not miss the run-up screening of /Ferpect Crime /(Alex de la
Iglesia, 2004) on Friday 27th April (School III, 4: 15pm)

The Centre for Film Studies, in collaboration with the Spanish
Department in the University of St Andrews and the Consulate of Spain
in Edinburgh is delighted to have director ALEX DE LA IGLESIA as guest
for a special screening of his hit comedy /La Comunidad/ (/Common
Wealth/, 2000) at the NPH Cinema. The screening will be followed by a
question and answer session with the filmmaker conducted by Belén
Vidal (Centre for Film Studies) .

De la Iglesia (Bilbao, 1965) is one of the most important filmmakers
to emerge in Spain in the 1990s. With the sensational /The Day of the
Beast /(1995) he achieved the status of cult director. His reputation
was further consolidated by /La Comunidad./ With its clever mix of
black comedy and Hitchcockian suspense, the film was a box office hit
in Spain and garnered prizes in film festivals around the world.

/La Comunidad /had its perfect follow-up in /Ferpect Crime/ (showing
on Friday 27th in School III; free screening open to the public) a
satire about murder and sexual jealousy set in a big department store.
With these and other films De la Iglesia has established himself as
one of the most inventive directors Spain, equally at ease with
long-established traditions in Spanish comedy and the codes of
contemporary Hollywood genre cinema.

De la Iglesia has just wrapped up the shoot of his eighth film, the
international production /The Oxford Murders/, a thriller starring
John Hurt and Elijah Wood about a professor and a Mathematics student
combining forces to solve a series of crimes. De la Iglesia will meet
the audience at the NPH for a question and answer session with the
audience after the screening of /La Comunidad.

/Alex de la IglesiaÂ’s oficial webpage (in English):
http://www.clubcultura.com/clubcine/clu ... g/home.htm


Read the BBC review of La Comunidad (Common Wealth, 2000, Spain, 110 min):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/06/17/l ... view.shtml