Directed by Víctor Erice • 1973 • Spain
Criterion is proud to present Víctor Erice's spellbinding THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (El espíritu de la colmena), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco's long regime was nearing its end, THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE is a bewitching portrait of a child's haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made.
Directed by Felipe Cazals • 1976 • Mexico
One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously att...
