Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First released 50 years ago, after Francoist censors convinced themselves that its anti-authoritarian messaging would have little ...

Victor Erice, one of the greatest of Spanish filmmakers, will receive a prestigious Donostia Award, given for career achievement, at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The award will coincide with a ...

The Spanish director Víctor Erice is one of our most revered, yet least prolific, European filmmakers. Over the past 50 years or so, he’s directed just four features, starting with his masterful debut ...

Victor Erice’s 1983 gem remains a haunting tale of family secrets and postwar loss, even if problems behind the camera left much of its story unfilmed If you’re looking for a quiet place of refuge ...

The celebrated director of 'The Spirit of the Beehive' and 'Dream of Light' returns to Cannes with his first feature after more than three decades. By Jordan Mintzer It’s been 31 years since the great ...

This exquisite, unhurried exercise in melancholy will mean most to existing fans of the Spanish master, but it's moving enough to make some new ones. Having premiered at Cannes (where its surprising ...

The Spanish director tells us about his first feature since 1992, the mesmerizing Close Your Eyes, and the art he’s made in the time since. Photo: Film Movement Close Your Eyes follows a director, ...

It is seen as one of the greatest films ever, with the most hypnotic child performance in history. So what has Víctor Erice been doing in the half century since Beehive? As his new film Close Your ...

ERICE, Italy — "You don't come here to see sights, you come here to be here," I was told by one native of this walled town that crowns an isolated mountain 2,400 feet above the port city of Trapani in ...

NYFF: The "Spirit of the Beehive" director returns with a 169-minute epic that captures the essence of his entire career. Erice has only made three other features since his spellbinding debut, but all ...