Founded in 1957, the Film Club Life is the most ancient, popular and prestigious of Seville and one of the most important of the Andalusian landscape.
At its meetings, have been presented, planned and discussed, over five decades, about 650 works that epitomize the history of cinema Andalusian, English, European and global. Rare is the critic, amateur filmmaker or Seville that has not learned to watch movies Life in the Film Club, one of the few that preserves the old and charming tradition of film societies: to present the films in their original language with subtitles, and comment later in a conference with broad participation, where learning is encouraged and sharing ideas between different generations together through film.
Linked from its beginnings to the Jesuit religious order, the life during the Franco dictatorship was one of the few open spaces for debate and expression of ideas. And both then and in later times, by the conversations of his famous film-forums have participated the most outstanding personalities of cultural life, intellectual policy and Sevilla.
After passing through several sites, since 2001 is part of the programming of the Sala Joaquín Turina, Cultural Center has CajaSol \u200b\u200bLaraña Street in the heart of Seville.
Its current director, Father Manuel Alcala can be considered, at 84, the dean of film criticism in Seville. Grenadian by birth, Manuel Alcala studied theology in Innsbruck (Austria) and philosophy at Madrid, Seville and Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe latter in which a doctorate in 1960.
He also studied journalism at Madrid and has worked for many years the film critic, being a regular guest at major festivals.
His work in front of the Cine Club Life has also been linked for many years working with his brother, Antonio Alcalá, also priest and film buff, died a few months ago and to which this tribute also wants to extend.
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