Fernando Martín Peña

Fernando Martín Peña

Born: November 12, 1968
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fernando Martín Peña is an Argentine teacher, film critic, researcher and collector. He has published several books on film topics since 1991. Since December 2006, he has been conducting "Filmoteca, temas de cine" at midnight on Argentine Public TV. As a researcher, Peña has been responsible for the recovery of several films that were deemed lost or incomplete, such as an unknown 16mm copy of the Fritz Lang classic film Metropolis.

Movies for Fernando Martín Peña...

La tara
Title: La tara
Released: September 27, 2024
Type: Movie
After finding the soundtrack of Tararira, the only Argentine surrealist film shot in 1936, lost since then, and starring their great-grand uncles, the Aguilar brothers set out to unravel the family history at the crossroads of the great political events of the 20th century. It is also a story of El Cuarteto Aguilar, a very particular music band, which had an openly lesbian member in the first half of the last century. The discovery of the soundtrack of the lost film leads to a documentary collage that travels through Argentina, Spain and other parts of the world to ask again, one hundred years later, if perhaps the revolution is not also an aesthetic.
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Gombrowicz or The Immaturity
Title: Gombrowicz or The Immaturity
Released: April 20, 2024
Type: Movie
A documentary of absurdist humor that delves into the immaturity of Witold Gombrowicz, the controversial Polish writer who lived in Argentina and wrote the first existentialist novel.
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Life in the Dark
Title: Life in the Dark
Released: April 26, 2023
Type: Movie
It is an approach to the figure of Fernando Martín Peña, but it is also a film about cinema, about a transcendental movement in its history, its spaces and rituals.
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Another Cursed Movie
Title: Another Cursed Movie
Character: Self
Released: April 21, 2023
Type: Movie
A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror.
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A Movie Man
Title: A Movie Man
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: Movie
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Fernando Martín Peña: La proyección del mundo
Title: Fernando Martín Peña: La proyección del mundo
Character: Self
Released: November 21, 2021
Type: Movie
After almost 20 years, Fernando Martín Peña returns to the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata to teach the subject History of Cinema II. Little by little, the reflections, questions and contradictions of the students who wonder about the study of the history of cinema begin.
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An Important Premiere
Title: An Important Premiere
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
For many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive authoritarian governments shaped the will of the spectators, dictating what could be seen and what could not, so that the true cinema lovers, in their desire to watch films, had no choice but to embark on the most extraordinary and strange adventures.
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Alfredo Li Gotti. Una pasión cinéfila
Title: Alfredo Li Gotti. Una pasión cinéfila
Character: Self
Released: June 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Documentary about Argentine film collector Alfredo Li Gotti.
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Metropolis Refound
Title: Metropolis Refound
Character: Self
Released: February 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Argentinian film historians find a complete print of Fritz Lang's “Metropolis” (1927) at Buenos Aires Film Museum and take it to Germany for its restoration.
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Voyage to 'Metropolis'
Title: Voyage to 'Metropolis'
Character: Self
Released: February 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of the final version of "Metropolis" by restoring all material from different sources.
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Flesh on Flesh
Title: Flesh on Flesh
Released: April 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Documentary on Argentine actress and sex symbol Isabel Sarli, including clips from her films and interviews with her and other actors.