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If you don't like what we show, say so.

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The 79th Academy Awards ceremony takes place on February 25th. What film do you think will win the Oscar for Best Picture? And what film deserves to?

The nominees are:

Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

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[Centre for Film Studies]

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 Iglesia’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