Nosferatu@Cult Labs | 9th August 2017 08:14 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rik
(Post 545747)
I'd never heard of him, but after checking IMDb, he hasn't made anything I'd want to see anyway :lol: | He is one of the greatest living filmmakers in Europe, if not the world, known in Spain by his last name alone – most things were just have "A Film by Almodóvar" (or the Spanish equivalent) in the same way that people in the US and Britain would do with Tarantino, Lynch, Nolan, Cronenberg or Scorsese.
I think it shows how Anglocentric the British cinema system and media (aside from Sight & Sound perhaps) is that directors like Almodóvar, Aki Kaurismäki, Hayao Miyazaki and François Ozon are not widely known. |