My office folks won't give my copy back so far!

Shame there was't more response to this thread. Its just one of those things you want to share with everybody. Sigh.

Rochelle

NP: Yoyes

Do you recall my interest in Iglesias some months ago? Unfortunately, he did not live up to my expectations. His often sombre style is effective but repetitive to the point of tedium.

Having acquired 'All About My Mother' and 'Flower of My Secret' which I still love to listen to - I was somewhat disappointed to have heard similar textures and styles on the non-Almodovarian tracks of 'Filmworks'; and Vacas.

Don't get me wrong though - its not bad music, I just get tired of the sound. Its actually something like 'Una Casa en las Afueras' that provides a different variation on sound and interesting contrast in mood.

Bernardo Bonezzi appears to have some interesting work but I only have one CD (Music from Felipe Vega Films) of his and I guess its too early to come to conclusions at this point.

The opening cue (El Techo Del Mundo suite) is delightful and the cues from 'Mientras' quite good as well.

Illaremendi is someone I'll watch with great interest.

Regards,
Rochelle

Roque Baños and Carles Cases are other names to keep an ear out for, but Illarramendi is certainly exquisite. José Nieto is perhaps the most acclaimed of them all, but I've still to form an opinion on him. I haven't heard much, but I didn't like his score for DIAS CONTADOS: it was like British cop show music.

Thought I'd chime in with a few Spanish films I've seen recently.

A few weeks ago I watched Rafael Moleon's 'Cuestion de Suerte' starring Eduardo Noriega. Its the story a village man (Julio) who ill-fatedly discovers a dead body with a bag of jewels. He gets rid of the body and keeps the jewels. To maintain a sense of privacy and against the wishes of his girlfriend, he ends up renting a room from a French woman (Marie) who has an 'unwholesome' reputation among the locals. A triangular relationship is inevitably formed. This film noir-ian theme is further exacerbated by the girlfiend's sister who is secretly in love with Julio not to mention a lover/accomplice from Marie's seedy past.

Its not the greatest of films but I enjoyed watching it nonetheless. Marie, the femme fatale, was superbly and eroticly played by Anna Galiena.

A film I watched last night suprisingly starred Eduardo Noriega in another complicated love quadrangle. Unlike the thiller above, 'Cha Cha Cha' is a romance comedy which is not my type of genre but this film was slightly quirky and as such great viewing. Its the story of a woman (Lucia) who runs an agency and hires a male model (Antonio) to seduce her girlfriend (Maria). Antonio is under the impression that this is a bet but the truth is that Lucia is in love with Maria's boyfriend and hopes that Maria will fall in love with Antonio. Lucia fashions Antonio to like everything that Maria likes - which predictably ends in chaos.

Do you know if there is any kind of soundtrack for this film?

BTW - Eduardo Noriega seems to be the second of three generations of actors with the same name.

I don't watch a lot of television but when I do it tends to be ABC (British diet) or SBS (universal diet). Its through SBS that I stumble across fairly contemporary foreign cinema. Its a great station that's free to air and the only gripe is that they don't show enough Japanese cinema but that tends to be quite expensive.

I haven't seen 'Vanilla Sky' so not able to compare but recently saw 'Moulin Rouge' and 'Pearl Harbor'.

I can't even remember the last film I saw on the big screen so will have to see LOTR soon.

Enjoy the Goyas.