‘Los Golfos’ Returns from Franco-Censored Purgatory
Carlos Saura’s once censored Los Golfos exists in a purgatory between the relatively plot-less freedom of some neorealist films and the excesses of delinquent youth melodrama.
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Fascism Bares Its German Shepherd Teeth in Two Post-Franco Films
The Creature and A Dog Called Vengeance use German shepherds in allegories of fascist politics, revolution, violence and love.
Dark Dreams of a Bright South: ‘El Sur’, a Spanish Masterpiece
With VÃctor Erice's El Sur, we must console ourselves with a work whose haunting near-perfection becomes the source of its perfection.