José Luis García Muñoz dropped the ‘a’ from Spain’s most common surname when he was a student and, in return, forged a brand that is unique, personal and non-transferable from Spanish cinema. Garci there is only one. A ’44 model’ who this Thursday celebrated with the press the Gold Medal given to him by the producers of Egeda and which he will collect at the Forqué awards gala on December 14: “I’m excited because they’ve never given me a award as a producer,” said the filmmaker, who gave, as always when he speaks, a recital of reflections, film lessons and life dissections. “What I’m missing are people,” he lamented when they reminded him of the enormous list of awards he has received, from the Oscar to the Cavia to the Goya or the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. «When you are 40 years old and you are an idiot you believe that awards are given to you because you deserve them and because you are very smart; Then you realize that this work is collective and that you owe the awards to many people,” and he began to remember, with a prodigious memory, some of the many friends who always accompanied him, even though they are no longer there. “I would like nothing more now than to go to lunch with the people with whom I made ‘The Grandfather’, with other people with whom I did so many things and who are no longer there… You go through movies and you see that they are no longer there,” he concluded, with that nostalgic look that always accompanies him and that, despite everything, always has something vitalistic: “People in cinema die but they will always be present in the movies.” Standard Related News Yes La Filmoteca de Noé, according to Garci: “The one’s life is enough for a short» Fernando Muñoz The director and writer publishes ‘The Best?’, in which he dissects the supposed best film in history Youth and GarciGarci, a modern man who loves the classics and a classic that has not stopped interested in “modern” cinema, he has experienced first-hand how a new generation of film buffs have rediscovered it thanks to ‘Crack’. “They see me better than the elders because for them I don’t have a criminal record,” he said amidst a loud laugh. “Before, someone said why Garci makes movies if I’m smarter than him… When you’re older you’re no longer anyone’s rival,” he concluded. Related News opinion If Alfredo Landa without Garci in Poland Fernando Muñoz ‘El atraco’, which Netflix has released, has a protagonist who could become friends with Germán Areta from ‘El crack’ Just in case, he confirmed that he no longer wants to get involved in the trouble of directing. “I have nothing left to do, maybe if someone calls me to do a western… But I don’t want to because I’m happy in a world without meetings, I’m not going to go to a platform with a script under my arm,” he celebrated, unlike other contemporaries, who do want to continue filming and cannot find financing. Not like in Hollywood, where his beloved Clint Eastwood has just released ‘Jury No. 2’ at 94 years old. “If I think of Clint Eastwood I feel like a kid,” he celebrated. «He is the last classic, the John Ford of our generation. He has been accused of façade, but it has also happened to Mel Gibson, they do not have the support of the left wing but when the years go by they will be a classic. Of course, in all of Garci’s twists and turns, a final twist. He is in the editing room to take a cinematographic self-portrait. “I’m working on it, but since I don’t know how to do it… I’m doing it just for myself, for now.” The director, whose Egeda producers also highlighted his work as a “disseminator” of cinema, spoke about the latest films he has seen. Like ‘Megalópolis’ – ‘Megaccopolis’, he called it ironically, combining the title with the author, Coppola, another irreducible old man – and ‘The Substance’, which he described as “Caesar salad, like all the latest cinema.” “They are films that continually mix genres.” He had better words for ‘La infiltrada’, his favorite in Spanish cinema so far this year, with Carolina Yuste, “an actress who transcends the screen.”
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