David Thomson

Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main the...

Bad Man's River

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an...

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose geni...

Opera Prima

Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He'...

The Desperados

A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.

China 9, Liberty 37

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew...

Edge of Outside

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Qu...

Tragic Ceremony

After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knock on the do...

The Coming of Sin

A superstitious servant girl - who has foreboding nightmares about a naked man on horseback - comes to live wit...

Murieta

The fictionalized story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized California with his gang...

Femenino singular

Esposa y amante

Luisa's daughter attempted suicide. While attending the clinic and, contemplating the state of his daughter, Lu...

Valley of the Dancing Widows

A group of retired soldiers return from the Civil War to Texas, where they are no longer tolerated by the women...

La Corea

Toni is a seventeen year old young man who comes to Madrid from a little village in search of work. A friend fr...

Montana Trap

Potato Fritz and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rock...

Secondary

Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first d...

Tiempos de constitución