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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UPDATED with festival response: Spanish director Victor Erice, who was absent from the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his film ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes” is an unconventional “love letter to cinema,” but one of the most powerful of that ilk in recent memory. “The sun is sinking in the West / The cattle go down to the ...

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 ...