Third time in a row audiovisual popularizer and Professor of Communications at the University of Alicante Luis Lopez Belda works as a “prescriber” for movies and saves some of the best movies released last year. Film Yearbook 2022. They deliver the blowThe film highlighting the year of female directors, especially Spanish cinema. author of books Provocative Hollywood: (Absolutely) No Movies To Make Today (2021) and Dictionary of 20th century Hollywood directors (2018) started this guide with movies that were not released in 2020 due to the pandemic and echoed the idea. Movie Yearbook 2021. A Year of Recovery?
The available volume consists of: 154 pages and over a hundred commented films freely by the author – with tabs some of which he considers from scenario to emotionthe insight or rhythm of the film – and available on the association’s website youth for free download or by donation.
most titles Featured – Released between December 2021 and November 2022 and distributed in commercial cinema (39), independent (18), Spain, Europe and other latitudes (31) and unseen but promising releases (35)- available on streaming platforms today and indicating where they are hosted – end of directory serve as orientation the author says in the cinematographic maelstrom that “if not all that happened, but not all that happened”.
cover made by flavia bernardezthe design is already advancing what is announced in the sub-title with illustrations from some of this year’s leading filmmakers: Alauda Ruiz de Azua (five little wolves), Pilar Palomero (mom), carla simon (alcarras), Charlotte Pereda (little pig) and Alicante Elena Lopez Riera (this), next to you sian heder (to the code) Y olivia wilde (don’t worry honey).
“2022 has not been the year of great movies, but very interesting titles and a very good year for Spanish cinema, maybe not at the box office, but in production. This has been the year of directors, especially the Spaniards who shot or directed their second or third films. There is a future in Spanish cinema and it belongs to women.”states López Belda, who adds that although the pair is still far away, “The trend is unstoppable, not temporary and will be more and more”the fruit of social change that enriches cinema”.
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Highest rated movie in the year Argentina, 1985Oscar-winning animated short film by Santiago Miter windshield wipers, by Alberto Mielgo, both with 78% in the final assessment. First, “because meticulous re-enactment of a real event as only Argentines knowOn a subject as sensitive as the process against the Argentine dictatorship”, explains Luis López, and secondly, because “a fifteen-minute miracle.”
They follow him with tapes like 76%. Licorice Root Pizza, A “shimmering nostalgic history” by Paul Thomas Anderson, or the relentless Helpby Marc Munden, “describing an experience in a British nursing home at the worst time of the pandemic”.
López Belda also highlights titles like American. barbarian“best movie psychological terror the year hidden under this view Violent criticism of gentrification and to the social policies of the United States since Reagan”; red rocket“a vision The deep America that voted for Trump manager’s Florida Project“;Y manticoreBy Carlos Vermut, “The one who grabs you from the very beginning and doesn’t let you relax on a complex issue and does it in a risky way”.
From this López Riera notes that it is “a small film that accurately captures the atmosphere of Vega Baja in Alicante and explains the importance of the river and its water in everyday life and in the collective imagination of its inhabitants”. This is not my cinema. -clarifies- but The director has a distinctly personal voice.” With Ace Monsters“It’s no big deal, but we are ahead of one of the best Spanish films of the year,” says López. five little wolves highlights “insightful script, effective staging and some great performances” and little pigthis “brings to mind an almost unthinkable and disturbingly daring plot.”
a little disappointed
Even though all the works reviewed are part of your choices as a viewer—no blockbuster movies nor enough publicity Marvel movies already – author of the yearbook weak points some and biggest disappointment found in Williams methodA “cinematically very respectable” film with the disadvantage of focusing on the father of the tennis players and not the Williams brothers, starring Will Smith, who guides their lives in this “praise for all things success”.