‘Viridiana’ Was Luis Buñuel’s Revenge

Franco is long gone, but “Viridiana” — which, as the critic Andrew Sarris wrote in 1962, has a plot “almost too lurid to ...
Variety

‘Franco: Spain’s Scorned Memory,’ ‘Achille Lauro’ Among New Docs Presented by Java Films at France’s TV Rendez-Vous (EXCLUSIVE)

“Franco: Spain’s Scorned Memory,” a new documentary that marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, is making its market debut at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous ...

See Luis Buñuel's Once-Banned, Sacrilegious ‘Viridiana' Anew in 4K - Watch the Trailer

Exclusive: The Spanish surrealist's sacrilegious classic, starring Silvia Pinal as a woman preparing to be a nun, opens ...
The Economist

Francisco Franco: the charmless man who became Spain’s dictator

He represented a previous tradition of reactionary Catholic nationalism, his worldview forged by Spain’s humiliating loss of ...
Reuters

Dictator Franco's head replica rolls on football pitch in Spanish art festival

MOIA, Spain, July 4 (Reuters) - Spanish artist Eugenio Merino and a U.S. art collective used a lifelike replica of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's head as a football at an art festival to warn of ...