NYFF: The "Spirit of the Beehive" director returns with a 169-minute epic that captures the essence of his entire career. Erice has only made three other features since his spellbinding debut, but all ...

Some five decades separate director Victor Erice’s debut film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and his latest, Close Your Eyes. In between these twin professional highlights, there are two other ...

The celebrated director of 'The Spirit of the Beehive' and 'Dream of Light' returns to Cannes with his first feature after more than three decades. By Jordan Mintzer It’s been 31 years since the great ...

The Spanish director tells us about his first feature since 1992, the mesmerizing Close Your Eyes, and the art he’s made in the time since. Photo: Film Movement Close Your Eyes follows a director, ...

The first feature that Victor Erice directed, 1973’s “The Spirit of the Beehive,” begins in the 1940s, when a traveling cinema arrives in a small rural town in Spain to project “Frankenstein.” In the ...

For his latest, the Spanish director Victor Erice, known for the classic “The Spirit of the Beehive,” weaves a meta tale of a director looking for an absent actor. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase ...

Some of the best and most beautiful gifts of cinema are those that are also the form’s rarest. They come along only every so often from filmmakers who may not be the most prolific, but are just as ...