Some five decades separate director Victor Erice’s debut film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and his latest, Close Your Eyes. In between these twin professional highlights, there are two other ...
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 ...
The first feature that Victor Erice directed, 1973’s “The Spirit of the Beehive,” begins in the 1940s, when a traveling cinema arrives in a small rural town in Spain to project “Frankenstein.” In the ...
Some of the best and most beautiful gifts of cinema are those that are also the form’s rarest. They come along only every so often from filmmakers who may not be the most prolific, but are just as ...