yes it’s Argentine… easier to understand! ...  😉

I enjoyed the campy comedy “El otro lado de la cama” and Almod?var’s “La mala educaci?n”.

A tip if you’re trying to leanr but not up to watching and understanding a whole movie is to watch a dvd but select the spanish version with english subtitles, or the english with spanish subtitles. We idd this and its amazing how much you realise you do know. Also it helps with reading and spelling rather than just conversational.

will if you in the EU zone you now get TDT - Television Digital Terrestre (The spanish DTT) - Freeview some off the channel you get
Now the offer is:

TVE:

La Primera—- main public channel
La 2——culture
24H TVE——24 News
Teledeporte—- sports
Clan TVE—- kids channel
Canal 50 A?os—- a nostalgic channel to celebrate 50 years of spanish tv (ClanTV is 7am to 9pm and 50 A?os is 9pm to 4am
Canal Ciudadano—- A public interactive service channel with traffic, news, information about goverment, etc…
Canal Parlamento—- the parlament channel

Antena3:

Antena3—- private channel
Antena Nova—- a kind of ITV2
Antea Neox—- kids channel

Telecinco:

Telecinco—- main private channel
Telecinco Sports—- a joint venture with eurosports
Telecinco Estrellas—- series,drama, films, miniseries….

Sogecable:

Cuatro—- private independent channel
CNN+—- 24 hours news, a joint venture with CNN
40 Latino—- spanish and southamerica music

NET:

NET TV—- sports news and politcs channel
FlyMusic—- music channel

VEO:

VEO TV—- private channel
Intereconomia—- economic news

La Sexta:

La Sexta—- starts in april 2006
La Sexta 2—- starts in april 2006

Radios:

RNE1
RNE2
RNE3
RNE5

this via Hispasat 1C/1D at 30.0?W ... Europe, and i have free view box for this in again next week with dishs (this is for use outside spain )

jurdy

I watched Pan’s Labyrinth recently. What a fantastic film. Superb work by Guillermo del Toro, set in late Civil-War times, it’s a very heart-warming but sad tale of a girl with a huge imagination. Definitely recommend seeing it.

Jam?n, jam?n (1992) one off the best movies i saw back in the early 90 was with my freinds from Palma de Mallorca , now this movie not for the young
In a plot that only Luna could bring to life, young, sexy Silvia (Penelope Cruz) is engaged to and pregnant by Jose Luis, the son of underwear merchants. Silvia is too lower class for Jose Luis’ meddling mother, Conchita, so she hires the young, handsome Raul (Javier Bardem) a worker in a ham factory and wannabe underwear model and bull fighter, to romance her away. But the love starved and still sexy Conchita falls for Raul, while Jose Luis frequents the bordello owned by Silvia’s mother. Eventually, the two men duke it out in one of the most unique and bizarre fight scenes ever, beating each other with hams.

This is a dark and weird R-rated soap opera, in which every scene is over the top melodrama, and all characters deliver their lines like they were their last. But it works scene after scene, largely due to the directing and casting. For physical appearance, you won’t find a better looking cast anywhere.

Jamon Jamon is challenging because it is so unconventional, but is also enjoyable because of its romance and passion. I enjoy Luna movies immensely and highly recommend this film along with the two that follow, Heuvos de Oro and La teta y la Luna

Jam?n, jam?n (1992)

Anyone seen the Torrente movies?  They’re difficult to track down in the UK (SofaCinema doesn’t have them) but I got the first of the series from Amazon, eventually. Unlike most Spanish language movies we are able to see in the international market, they’re not arthouse flics, just gross-out humour like you’d expect from the Farrely Brothers. Torrente is a fat, lazy, corrupt, cowardly, fascist ex-cop and Atletico Madrid supporter.  Funny stuff.  Although maybe I am missing something and the character is a metaphor for the state of Spain rather than just a joke…...