Carlos Saura
Born: 1932-01-04 in Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Died: 2023-02-10
Known For: Directing
Biography
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100. In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.
Filmography
2023
- The Walls Can Talk as Self
2022
- Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel as Self
- Donde acaba la memoria as Self
2021
- The King of All the World ... (Screenplay)
- Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy ... (Director)
- Goya, May 3rd ... (Director)
- Goyasaurio as Self
2018
- Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores as Self (archive footage)
- Searching for Ingmar Bergman as Self - Filmmaker
- Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander ... (Writer)
2017
- Carlos Saura - Fotograf as Self
- Saura(s) as Self
2016
- J: Beyond Flamenco ... (Director)
- Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire as Carlos Saura
2015
- Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin as Self
- Argentina ... (Writer)
- Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí as Self
2014
- Aragón rodado as Self
2013
- Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy as Inszenierung
2012
- 24 horas en la vida de Querejeta as Self
2010
- Flamenco Flamenco ... (Director)
- Rafael Azcona as Self
2009
- I, Don Giovanni ... (Director)
- In the Lost City as Self
2008
- Critic as Self
- Sinfonía de Aragón ... (Director)
2007
- Fados ... (Director)
- Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza as Self
2005
- Iberia ... (Director)
- Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones as Self
2004
- The 7th Day ... (Director)
- Portrait of Carlos Saura as Self
2002
- Salomé ... (Writer)
2001
- Bunuel and King Solomon's Table ... (Director)
2000
- Speaking of Buñuel as Self
1999
- Goya in Bordeaux ... (Director)
1998
- Tango ... (Director)
- Les paradoxes de Buñuel as Self
1997
- Little Bird ... (Writer)
1996
- Taxi ... (Director)
1993
- Cuentos de Borges ... (Adaptation)
- Outrage ... (Writer)
- Marathon ... (Director)
1991
- The King of Ads ... (Director)
1990
- Ay, Carmela! ... (Director)
1989
- The Dark Night of the Soul ... (Director)
- Buñuel as Self
1988
- El Dorado ... (Director)
1986
- El amor brujo ... (Writer)
1984
- Los zancos ... (Director)
1983
- Carmen ... (Director)
1982
- Sweet Hours ... (Director)
- Antonieta ... (Director)
1981
- Faster, Faster ... (Director)
- Blood Wedding ... (Writer)
1979
- Mama Turns 100 ... (Director)
1978
- Blindfolded Eyes ... (Director)
1977
- Elisa, My Life ... (Director)
1976
- Cria! ... (Director)
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- Cousin Angelica ... (Director)
1973
- Anna and the Wolves ... (Director)
1970
- The Garden of Delights ... (Director)
1969
- Honeycomb ... (Idea)
1968
- Stress Is Three ... (Screenplay)
1967
- Peppermint Frappé ... (Director)
1966
- The Hunt ... (Director)
1964
- Weeping for a Bandit ... (Director)
- Muere una mujer ... (Writer)
1960
- The Delinquents ... (Director)
1959
- The Little Apartment as (uncredited)
1958
- Cuenca ... (Cinematography)
1957
- La tarde del domingo ... (Director)
1956
- El pequeño Río Manzanares ... (Director)
1955
- El proceso
- Letter of Sanabria ... (Assistant Camera)
- Before Breakfast ... (Director of Photography)
- La llamada ... (Director)