Tag Archives: Spain

QuickPix (36): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 12”

Posted on January 22, 2024 by KPKeelan

> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 to 5 star movie. It don’t get any better than this. … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged adventure, Alfre Woodard, art, Asghar Farhadi, Burt Lancaster, Captain Horatio Hornblower, cinema, courtroom drama, criticism, Down in the Delta, drama, E. M. Forster, entertainment, families, family secrets, films, Gregory Peck, Herbie Hancock, heroes, ideas, Iranian cinema, Javiar Bardem, John Frankenheimer, Kevin Keelan, kidnapping, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Maya Angelou, Mississippi, movies, opinion, Penelope Cruz, psychological thrillers, QuickPix, racism, reviews, seafaring, Shelly Winters, Spain, Telly Savalas | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (855): “A Vivid Look at BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES”

Posted on October 20, 2022 by KPKeelan

BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES (directed by Salvador Simó Busom, 2018) *** (out of 5) . > Here’s an odd duck: . BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES is a Spanish animated film recounting iconic Latin filmmaker Luis … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged animation, arts, biography, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, cinema, criticism, entertainment, filmmaking, films, hunger, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Luis Buñuel, movies, opinion, poverty, Ramón Acín, reviews, Salvador Dalí, Salvador Simó Busom, social justice, Spain, Spanish cinema, surrealists | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (126): “The Films of August 2022”

Posted on September 6, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > AUGUST 2022 (126) (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) > This month I review the following 7 films: THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957) **** A … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Sunday in New York, action, Akira Kurosawa, Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Arthur Miller, arts, battle, Björk, Cary Grant, cinema, Claes Bang, Clark Gable, classics, Cliff Robertson, cowboys, criticism, drama, Eli Wallach, entertainment, Ethan Hawke, fantasy, feudal Japan, films, Frank Sinatra, genius, George Harrison, George Martin, ideas, Jane Fonda, Japanese cinema, John Huston, John Lennon, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Let It Be, Linda McCartney, Macbeth, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Ritter, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Mike Mitchell, Montgomery Clift, morality, movies, music, music documentaries, musicians, Nevada, Nicole Kidman, Norse mythology, opinion, Paul McCartney, Peter Jackson, Reno, revenge, reviews, Ringo Starr, Robert Culp, Robert Eggers, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, Ronin, sex, songwriters, Sophia Loren, Spain, Stanley Kramer, supernatural, The Beatles: Get Back, The Misfits, The Northman, The Pride and the Passion, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Toshiro Mifune, values, violence, war, westerns, Willem Dafoe | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (123): “The Films of May 2022”

Posted on August 31, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > MAY 2022. Months overdue, but this baby is delivered! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) > This month I review the following 10 films: KELLY’S … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Adolfo Celi, adventure, Adventures of Don Juan, Alan Hale, Alfred Molina, Andrew Garfield, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ben Hecht, Benedict Cumberbatch, black comedy, Burgess Meredith, Carol O’Connor, Carole Lombard, Charles Boyer, class, classics, Cliff Robertson, Clint Eastwood, Cluny Brown, comedies, comedy, comics, crime, David O. Selznick, Diana Rigg, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Dorothy Parker, drama, Ernst Lubitsch, Errol Flynn, Eva Marie Saint, Eve Arden, Exodus, fantasy, Fredric March, Gavin MacLeod, gender, George S. Kaufman, Harry Dean Stanton, Hattie McDaniel, heists, historical epics, Israel, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Jones, Jews, Kelly’s Heroes, Last Night in Soho, Lee J. Cobb, London, Maggie Smith, Margaret Hamilton, Marisa Tomei, marriage, Marvel, Melvyn Douglas, Merle Oberon, Moss Hart, murder, mystery, Nothing Sacred, Otto Preminger, Paul Newman, Peter Lawford, Peter Parker, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Burr, relationships, Rex Harrison, Richard Haydn, Ring Lardner Jr., Rita Tushingham, romance, Sal Mineo, scams, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spain, Spider-Man: No Way Home, superheroes, supernatural, Susan Hayward, suspense, swashbuckling, swordplay, Telly Savalas, Terence Stamp, That Uncertain Feeling, The Honey Pot, Thomas Haden Church, Thomasin McKenzie, Tobey Maguire, Tom Holland, Una O'Connor, Willem Dafoe, William Wellman, World War II, Zendaya | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

Posted on December 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > This month we get a serving of silent German expressionism from Fritz Lang, an effervescent modern musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a handsome American period piece from George Clooney, an early schlock film from Francis Coppola, one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Adam Driver, American history, Anthony Ramos, Arthur Kennedy, arts, B-movies, Barry Fitzgerald, betrayal, biography, Black Girl, boxing films, British cinema, brothers, Bruce Dern, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, cargo cults, Champion, change, cinema, Colin Firth, colonialism, comedy, commitment, Communism, corruption, crime, criminal masterminds, criticism, dancing, David McCallum, David Strathairn, Dean Stockwell, death, dementia, Dementia 13, demonization, Dennis Hopper, detectives, drama, dreams, economics, Edward R. Murrow, emigration, England, English cinema, entertainment, ethnicity, experimental films, exploitation, fighters, film noir, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Langella, Freud, Fritz Lang, gay couples, genius, George Clooney, German cinema, Good Night and Good Luck, growth, Henry Jaglom, hopes, horror, horses, House Un-American Activities Committee, Howard Duff, HUAC, hypnosis, hysteria, I Walk Alone, ideas, illness, immigrants, imperialism, In the Heights, incarceration, inmates, insanity, Ireland, Jeff Daniels, Jimmy Smits, John Huston, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph McCarthy, journalism, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lizabeth Scott, love, madness, Marc Anthony, Matthias Schoenaerts, medicine, memory loss, mental illness, metafiction, Michelle Phillips, Miguel de Cervantes, Montgomery Clift, movies, murder, musicals, mystery, neighborhoods, New York, opinion, Patricia Clarkson, Patrick Magee, people, Peru, Peter Fonda, police procedural, politics, prisoners, psychological drama, racism, Ray Wise, reform, rehabilitation, relationships, revenge, reviews, Robert Downey Jr., romance, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel Fuller, Sancho Panza, Senegal, Senegalese cinema, Sigmund Freud, silent films, singing, slasher films, Spain, spies, Stanley Tucci, Stellan Skarsgård, Supernova, Susannah York, television, Terry Gilliam, the American dream, The American Friend, The Last Movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Mustang, The Naked City, The Secret Passion, therapy, thrillers, Toni Basil, tragedy, villains, violence, Washington Heights, Wim Wenders | Leave a comment

GUESTBOOK: “Homeless Señorita” (by Diane Morinich)

Posted on September 11, 2021 by KPKeelan

. The world lost this kind, thoughtful poetic soul on 9/4/21. We never met face to face, but carried on an emotional love affair from afar, through mutual support and the healing power of words. My heart now has a … Continue reading →

Posted in GUESTBOOK | Tagged characters, Diane Morinich, Guestbook, KPKworld, people, poems, poetry, Spain | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

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QuickPix (36): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 12”

KPK on the CINEMA (126): “The Films of August 2022”

KPK on the CINEMA (123): “The Films of May 2022”

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

GUESTBOOK: “Homeless Señorita” (by Diane Morinich)

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