Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

Born: August 11, 1932
in Melilla, España
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955. Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films; he has published plays, novels, poetry collections, chapbooks, artist's books, and several essays.

Movies for Fernando Arrabal...

Arrabal the panic explosion
Title: Arrabal the panic explosion
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
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Le Passeur immobile
Title: Le Passeur immobile
Character: Self
Released: December 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.
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L'Artifice et le factice
Title: L'Artifice et le factice
Character: Self
Released: July 19, 2012
Type: Movie
"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.
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La Traversée du désir
Title: La Traversée du désir
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: Movie
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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Arrabal, Panik Cineast
Title: Arrabal, Panik Cineast
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary about the filmmaker Fernando Arrabal.
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Avida
Title: Avida
Character: Le Picador suicidaire
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
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Amours décolorées
Title: Amours décolorées
Released: February 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.
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The Jodorowsky Constellation
Title: The Jodorowsky Constellation
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and workshop leader, and his eccentricities including tarot reader and theatrical director during The Panic Movement. Directed by Louis Mouchet, La Constellation Jodorowsky includes a lengthy on-camera interview with Jodorowsky in Spanish with subtitles. Marcel Marceau, Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Jean Pierre Vignau make appearances discussing their various projects with the director. In addition to the interview and film clips, Mouchet features some bizarre footage from Jodorowsky’s absurdist plays in which topless women splattered with paint writhe around the stage in a theatrical production meant to represent The Panic Movement, i.e., an artistic expression in which reason cannot fully express the human experience.
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Avec Mariola
Title: Avec Mariola
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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Lire
Title: Lire
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer reading the beginning of his last published book.
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Couple
Title: Couple
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes.
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Jouer sa vie
Title: Jouer sa vie
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
The Great Chess Movie takes a varied and idiosyncratic approach to its subject. Title cards printed with slogans and symbols underline remarks by commentators; stylized interviews, notably with Fernando Arrabal, the great Spanish playwright, filmmaker, novelist, anarchist and chess expert, are intercut with scenes from great movies or with verite footage from international chess matches and press conferences.
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The Hamburg Syndrome
Title: The Hamburg Syndrome
Character: Ottakar
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°442
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Underground and Emigrants
Title: Underground and Emigrants
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 1976
Type: Movie
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who is interviewed in Spanish). The emigrants named in the title are notable Germans who left the country before World War II, such as Greta Keller and Grete Mosheim. Reviewers at the time of the film's release considered it to have been a sort of paid vacation for the filmmaker rather than a serious effort. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)
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Obszönität als Gesellschaftskritik?
Title: Obszönität als Gesellschaftskritik?
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 1970
Type: Movie
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Trap
Title: Trap
Character: Le vendeur de pièges
Released: March 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
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The Big Ceremonial
Title: The Big Ceremonial
Character: Le vendeur de lingerie
Released: October 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls to satisfy his sick fantasy. But as in all fairy stories, there comes a day when a real, warm girl enters the sheltered life of the son. His natural and innate thirsts for oddities soon make him repeat on the girl what, until then, he has been doing with the dolls. The story then evolves into a fight of wills between the mother and the girl.
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Arrabal
Title: Arrabal
Released: May 16, 1969
Type: Movie
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Title: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Character: L'homme au savon à barbe
Released: October 21, 1966
Type: Movie
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.
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He! Viva Dada
Title: He! Viva Dada
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV