Valencia Film Noir Festival
The 7th edition of Valencia’s Film Noir (VLC Negra) Festival took place from 10th to 19th of May 2019.
For 10 days 56 writers and a hundred participants took Valencia to the dark side, illuminated by the light from the silver screen.
Valencia’s Institut Français participated with workshops by Johana Gustawsson and Sandrine Destombes.
Adding more international colour was Britain’s Fiona Barton, author of The Suspect, as well as B.A. Paris, Sharon Bolton, Vanessa Savage and Italian Antonella Latanzzi.
Spanish participants included Esther García Llovet, Berna G. Harbour, Lea Vélez, Maribel Medina, Lourdes Ortiz, Margarida Arizteta, Anna Moner and Esperança Camps, the latter being the author of the intriguingly titled ‘Assasins valencians’.
Bob Yareham, author of ‘Movies Made in Spain’ http://www.obrapropia.com/Obras/1664/MOVIES-MADE-IN-SPAIN
pointed out some of the Film Noir movies made in Spain, in English, including, That Man from Tangiers (1953) with Sara Montiel, Malaga (Fire Over Africa) (1954) starring Maureen O’Hara Contraband Spain (1955) featuring TV’s Robin Hood Richard Greene, Port Afrique (1956) with Christopher Lee, Action Stations (1956), largely shot in Barcelona, Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957) starring Anne Baxter, Richard Todd and Herbert Lom, shot at Tamariu, Girona and produced by Douglas Fairbanks Junior, Across the Bridge (1957), Rod Steiger’s first film in Spain before making Doctor Zhivago, filmed at Lora del Rio, Sevilla, Action of the Tiger (1957) Sean Connery’s first of many films in Spain, one of the earliest made in Guadix and at the famous La Calahorra castle in Granada province, Deadfall (1968), where Michael Caine robs the Marivent palace in Palma, now a royal palace, Hard Contract (1969) with James Coburn shooting in Malaga and in Madrid, Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969) filmed at Chinchón, and Batres castle, Madrid, The Hit (1984) with John Hurt, Tim Roth and Terence Stamp filmed all over Spain, The Man in the Brown Suit (1989) set in Cairo, but using Madrid’s Temple of Debod, Uncovered (1994) a book by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, filmed all over Barcelona, The Ninth Gate (1999), by the same author and featuring Johnny Depp in Toledo, Deception (2008) with Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor shot in Madrid and Ridley Scott’s The Counselor (2013) filmed in Pego, Elche, Alicante, as well as Cañada de Albatana, the vineyards of Termino de Arriba on the outskirts of Jumilla in Murcia province, and in the Badlands of Bardenas Reales Natural park in Navarra,
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