X-Nico

4 unusual facts about José Luis Garci


Antonio Martínez Sarrión

He participated in several occasions as a collaborator in the Spanish TV show Qué grande es el cine (How great cinema is), moderated by José Luis Garci.

Eloy de la Iglesia

His subsequent film Una gota de sangre para seguir amando (Murder in a Blue World) (1973), written with José Luis Garci, a mixed of futuristic thriller, took some cues from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

José Luis Garci

The director changed gears with El Crack, in which he used the figure of the hard boiled detective in a story inspired by the novels of Dashiell Hammett, to whom the film is dedicated, and employing elements of the American film noirs of the 1930s and 40s giving it a Spanish flavor.

Universidad Laboral de Gijón

The Universidad Laboral has been used in several films, including those of the Spanish director José Luis Garci, La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón and Fuga de Cerebros, which stood in for Oxford University.



see also