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Alex De La Iglesia
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Pedro Almodóvar produced de la Iglesia’s first feature, an extraordinary sci-fi comedy about a future world in which beautiful people have taken over the planet. A group of disabled malcontents — calling themselves Mutant Action — decide to fight the status quo that leaves them marginalized from the good life. Yarritu, their leader, comes out of prison with a plan to kidnap the daughter of a filthy-rich industri alist and then demand a ransom that pay for the group to live in high style forever. All goes according to plan, until envy and betrayal raise their ugly heads, driving these murderous mavericks into a murderous stampede in which only the strongest will survive.
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Considered one of Spain's hottest directors of the late '90s, Alex de la Iglesia has shown the promise of becoming the next Pedro Almodovar. Like the 1980's director, de la Iglesia makes colorful, imaginative films laced with black humor and sometimes painfully sharp satire. Like U.S. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, Iglesia's films are comedies of hyper-paced excess bursting with too much violence, energetic sex, and a plenitude of rapid-fire cuts.
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Rife with social and religious satire, Alex de la Iglesia's cult horror film centers on Father Angel (Alex Angulo), a priest determined to stop the coming apocalypse. When he uncovers proof that the anti-Christ will be born in Madrid on Christmas Day, Father Angel decides he must win the devil's trust before he can defeat him. Setting piety aside in order to save humanity, the good father commits a series of shocking sins to gain access to Satan.
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This interesting film from Spanish director De la Iglesia is a road trip that is fun and action packed, as it is obscure. A great premise taken to the extreme, in which a servant of god, has to get in touch with the evil side, in order to save the world. The comic relief comes in Chema, a rock-store clerk, who, along this priest takes this trip to it's ultimate consequences.
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De La Iglesia himself ... provided the voice of The Underminer in the Spanish language dubbing of The Incredibles. He has directed to Elijah Wood and John Hurt in The Oxford Murders, which id his second movie in English, released in Spain in January 2008.
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Cervera is a relative newcomer to de la Iglesia's regular cast rotation. His players generally operate more like a theater company, lending the same faces to numerous productions. "Perdita Durango" (screening Friday) is the rare exception, a director-for-hire work that is by most accounts a disturbing, disjointed road adventure based on a Barry Gifford novel and starring Javier Bardem and Rosie Perez. This film wasn't available for pre-screening, but I can tell you that its designated inspiration, Fuller's "Shock Corridor" from 1963 (showing Wednesday), has its own unnerving quality, perhaps increasing the giggles it will provoke with its dated depiction of a journalist faking insanity to investigate murder in an asylum.
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