Julio García Espinosa

Julio García Espinosa

Birth : 1926-09-05, Havana, Cuba

Death : 2016-04-13

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Julio García Espinosa

Movies

Titón: From Havana to Guantanamera, 1928-1996
Interviewee
A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.
Entangling Shadows
Director
Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Entangling Shadows
Production Coordinator
Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Reina y Rey
Writer
Reina is an old and lonely widow whose only companion is a little black dog called Rey. When the dog disappears, Reina begins to question her own existence. Suddenly, her old patrons (who had left Cuba twenty years ago) return to Miami to stay for a week and convince her to go with them. After spending some time together, Reina discovers that her usual, lonelier, life is better than anything else and decides to stay in Cuba.
Reina y Rey
Director
Reina is an old and lonely widow whose only companion is a little black dog called Rey. When the dog disappears, Reina begins to question her own existence. Suddenly, her old patrons (who had left Cuba twenty years ago) return to Miami to stay for a week and convince her to go with them. After spending some time together, Reina discovers that her usual, lonelier, life is better than anything else and decides to stay in Cuba.
The Useless Death of My Pal, Manolo
Screenplay
Cheo visits his friend, Manolo, who he hasn't seen for many years. They drink to celebrate their reunion and fondly recall the times they spent together in years past. As they reminisce, the two friends confront the revolution, evaluate their lives, and bare their souls.
The Useless Death of My Pal, Manolo
Director
Cheo visits his friend, Manolo, who he hasn't seen for many years. They drink to celebrate their reunion and fondly recall the times they spent together in years past. As they reminisce, the two friends confront the revolution, evaluate their lives, and bare their souls.
Son o no son
Director
An episodic film featuring the musical, choreographic and comedic skills of a variety of actors and actresses.
ORG
Self (archive footage)
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend.
La sexta parte del mundo
Director
One Way or Another
Dramaturgy
Quasi documentary about the creation of the Miraflores housing development after the Cuban revolution. In this first Cuban feature film made by an Afro-Cuban and by a woman, Sara Gómez uses innovative documentary and fictional techniques to focus on the marginales in the poorest, most underdeveloped areas of Cuba. Against a backdrop of dismantled slums and new housing construction, the relationship between a mulatta and a Black Cuban unfolds as a conflict between ingrown ideas of race, class and gender and a Revolution that is trying to dismantle the old, outmoded structures.
The Battle of Chile: Part II
Screenplay
Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.
The Battle of Chile: Part I
Screenplay
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
The Other Francisco
Writer
Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint.
Tercer mundo, tercera guerra mundial
Director
Critical testimony on American war crimes in Vietnam. A film both didactic and conscious of itself, bringing together a number of resources, techniques and documentary styles – a true paradigm of imperfect cinema.
The First Charge of the Machete
Writer
Cuban peasants wield machetes in a violent uprising against Spanish authorities in the late 19th century.
Lucia
Writer
In his award-winning film Lucía, Humberto Solás interpreted the theme of Cuba’s hundred years' struggle in an entirely novel way to create an epic in three separate episodes, each centred around a woman called Lucía and each unfolding in a different period of Cuban history, corresponding to the three stages of colonialism (1895), neocolonialism (1930) and socialist revolution (1968). The three episodes also present us with "Lucías" of different social classes. Solás described his film in this way: "The woman's role always lays bare the contradictions of a period and makes them explicit: Lucía is not a film about women, it's a film about society."
The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin
Writer
The metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin
Director
The metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
Cuba '58
Writer
Three stories reconstructing the start of the triumphant Cuban revolution which deposed Batista.
Cuba Dances
Director
Featured in a musical environment possible light anywhere in the world, adapted to a Cuban city makes good use of music. The argument is based on the desires and efforts of middle-income families, to hold a quinceanera at a level greater than that permitted by the economic status of a family.
El joven rebelde
Writer
Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.
El joven rebelde
Director
Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.
This Is Our Land
Story
The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.
This Is Our Land
Screenplay
The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.
This Is Our Land
Director
The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.
Sexto aniversario
Director
A commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban revolution. 500,000 campesinos invited to celebrate the occasion pour into Havana.
La vivienda
Director
Urban reform during the first months of the Cuban revolution is the subject of this documentary
El mégano
Director
Documentary that portrays the life of a coal-mining town south of Havana, around 1955, prior to the triumph of the revolution.