José Luis Garci
- Directing
- January 20, 1944 · Madrid, España
Biography
José Luis Garci is a Spanish director, producer, film critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Known for
Filmography
- Eloy de la Iglesia: Film Addict · Self
- Miguel Velázquez. El catedrático del ring · Self
- Summers el rebelde
- Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood
- Directors Talks · Self
- Olea… ¡Más alto! · Self
- The Crack: Inception · Director, Screenplay
- Operación Palace · Self
- Holmes & Watson: Madrid Days · Director, Writer
- Enrique Herreros · Self
- Blood of May · Director, Writer
- Sunday Light · Director, Editing
- Hécuba: un sueño de pasión · Thanks
- The Night of the Sunflowers · Self, Thanks
- Ninette · Director, Writer
- Merry-Go-Round c. 1950 · Director, Writer
- Historia de un beso · Director, Writer
- You're the One · Writer, Director
- Leo · Executive producer
- Yoyes · Producer
- Cóndor Crux · Executive producer
- Un uomo perbene · Producer
- Shacky Carmine · Producer
- The Revenge · Associate Producer
- Yerma · Writer
- The Grandfather · Director, Writer
- Stolen Moments · Producer
- La herida luminosa · Producer, Director
- ¡Qué grande es el cine! · Self, Director
- Cradle Song · (uncredited), Director
- Casablanca revisitada · Director, Writer
- El tesoro · Writer
- El río que nos lleva · Executive producer, Special Effects
- La gran comedia · Producer
- Historias del otro lado · Writer, Director
- Course Completed · Director, Producer
- Beyond the Walls · Producer
- Double Feature · Director, Writer
- El crack dos · Minor Role (uncredited), Director
- Begin the Beguine · Director, Writer
- El crack · Director, Producer
- Viva la clase media · Antonio 'Vladimiro' Flanagan, Writer
- Alfonso Sánchez · Writer, Director
- Las verdes praderas · Writer, Director
- Alone in the Small Hours · Director, Screenplay
- Asignatura pendiente · Director, Writer
- La Gioconda está triste · Storyboard, Story
- La mujer es cosa de hombres · Writer
- La noche de los cien pájaros · Writer
- Tiempo de gente acobardada · Director, Writer
- Mi mujer es muy decente, dentro de lo que cabe · Writer
- Mi Marilyn · Director, Writer
- ¡Al fútbol! · Director, Writer
- Los nuevos españoles · Screenplay, Story
- Vida conyugal sana · Oficinista (uncredited), Writer
- Murder in a Blue World · Screenplay
- It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone · Writer
- The Telephone Box · Screenplay
- La casa de las Chivas · Writer
- Plinio · Screenplay
- El cronicón · Writer, Assistant Director
- Las nenas del mini-mini · Writer
- Los preparativos · Writer
- Los chicos del Preu · Writer
- Las últimas horas · Writer