Gone is Ventura Pons, the most prolific Catalan director with more than thirty films in his backpack. State television should have commemorated him immediately. There is still time in order to do.
The relationship between Ventura cinema and Alicante was complicated, as previously stated on Facebook. After the first stage, in which the director invited himself and all his films to his presentations, thanks to the important cooperation of Paco Huesca, his accomplice and friend, came the second stage, with Vicente Espadas’ company. released his movies. Lauren Films later took over the distribution of the film, which carries all of Woody Allen’s material. There was never a shortage of Ventura’s or Woody’s films in Alicante every year.
Until you reach the third and final stage, Very sad for the followers of Ventura Pons from Alicantefeaturing movies They stopped coming to our city. Only the Roma cinemas in L’Alfàs and the Jayán cinemas in Xàbia continued to save them.
I remember trips to the Babel cinemas in València to see films like El virus de la por. Now I would be too lazy. Following the closure of the Albatross in Valencia, Ventura Pons, a businessman, reopened them in 2017, just as he did the Texas in Barcelona. It was interesting: Valencia had its own cinemas and Alicante didn’t even have an annual movie. Part of the latter was saved by the original Mediterranean Foundation Cinematheque in the Monday cycle. He shot the last one in 2019, at least a dozen of which remained unreleased in Alicante.