IEC
#1: From interview [2013]
#2: From interview [2011]
#3: With actress Carmen Maura [19??]
JOSÉ LUIS ALCAINE AEC
Born: 26 December 1938, Tetuán [Tétouan], Morocco, as José Luis Alcaine Escaño.
Education: Lycée Regnault, Tangier; Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía, Madrid [EOC] [1962-66].
Career: Ph commercials dir by Sergio Piera, Leo Solanes, Angeles Reiné, a.o. Ph music videos dir by Juanma Bajo Ulloa ['No hubo manera'], a.o.
Married to makeup artist Mariló Osuna [2006-present].
Awards: 'Goya' Award nom [1987] for 'La mitad del cielo'; 'Goya' Award nom [1989] for 'Malaventura' & 'Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios'; 'Goya' Award [1990] for 'El sueño del mono loco'; 'Goya' Award nom [1991] for '¡Ay, Carmela!' & '¡Átame!'; 'Goya' Award [1993] for 'El pájaro de la felicidad'; Madridimagen 'Premio Prisma AEC' [1997] for 'Tranvía a la Malvarrosa'; 'Goya' Award nom [1998] for 'En brazos de la mujer madura'; Pescara IFF 'Delfín de Oro' [1998] for 'La pistola de mi hermano'; 'Goya' Award [2003] & AEC 'Premio Prisma' [2003] for 'El caballero Don Quijote'; Madridimagen 'Golden Award' [2003]; Madridimagen 'Mejor Imagen Award' [2004] for 'La puta y la ballena'; AEC 'Premio Prisma' [2004] & 'Goya' Award nom [2004] for 'Al sur de Granada'; European Film Award nom [2004] for 'La mala educación'; 'Goya' Award nom [2005] for 'Roma'; 'Goya' Award nom [2006] for 'Otros días vendrán'; European Film Award [2006] & 'Goya' Award nom [2007] for 'Volver'; Cannes IFF 'Prix Vulcain de l'Artiste-Technicien' [2011].
| FILMS AT THE EOC | |
|---|---|
|
1964 |
Anabel [Pedro Olea; short] still ph; ph: Julián Arreo |
|
1964 |
Día de justicia [Santiago San Miguel; short] c.asst; ph: Raúl Artigot Fernández |
|
1965 |
Su dulce compañía [Luis Vasconcelos] b&w; short/30m |
|
1965 |
Querida Julia [Eladio Pérez Díez] b&w; short/423mtr |
|
1965 |
El estrangulador [Juan Antonio Porto] b&w; short/?m |
|
1965 |
Carmen de Carabanchel [Cecilia M. Bartolomé] b&w; short/429mtr |
|
1966 |
Los buenos samaritanos [Francisco Montolío] b&w; short/29m |
| FILMS | |
|---|---|
|
1966 |
Nueve tierras [José Ángel Cortés & Juan José García-Noblejas] c; doc/13m; cph: Leopoldo Villaseñor |
|
1967 |
Javier y los invasores del espacio [Wilhelm Ziener] b&w |
|
1967 |
El hueso [Antonio Giménez Rico] ts/c |
|
1968 |
Tinto con amor [Francisco Montolío] b&w |
|
1968 |
Un pequeño colonizador verde [Guillermo F. Zúñiga] c; doc/10m |
|
1968 |
Crónicas levantinas [Gilbert Kay (= José Briz)] c; doc/11m; cph: Francisco Fraile |
|
1969 |
El último día de la humanidad [Manuel Gutíerrez Aragón] c; short/14m |
|
1969 |
Deseoconsumo [Miguel Cañones] c; doc/10m; cph: Luis Cuadrado, Roberto Gómez & Gilberto Azevedo |
|
1969 |
Las gatas tienen frío [Carlos Serrano] ts/c |
|
1969 |
El cronicón [Antonio Giménez Rico] ts/c |
|
1970 |
El mejillón gallego [Guillermo F. Zúñiga] c; doc/16m |
|
1970 |
Labelecialalacio [José Luis García Sánchez] c; short/10m |
|
1970 |
Me enveneno de azules [Francisco Regueiro] ts/c |
|
1970 |
Canciones para después de una guerra [Basilio Martín Patino] b&w-c; doc/115m; + collab co-dir |
|
1971 |
Loco por Machín [José Luis García Sánchez] c; short/12m |
|
1971 |
Canciones para después de una guerra/Songs for After a War [Basilio Martín Patino] b&w-c; doc/115m; + co-realization collab; film was banned and only released in 1976 after Francisco Franco's death |
|
1972 |
El niño es nuestro [Manuel Summers] c |
|
1972 |
Corazón solitario/The Lonely Heart [Francesco Betriú] c |
|
1973 |
Encinares [Guillermo F. Zúñiga] c; doc/11m; cph: Miguel Ángel Martín |
|
1973 |
Vera, un cuento cruel [Josefina Molina] c |
|
1974 |
La encadenada/A Diary of a Murderess/Perversione [Manuel Mur Oti] c |
|
1974 |
Yo la ví primero/I Saw Her First [Fernando Fernán Gómez] c; cph: Juan Clemente |
|
1974 |
¿...Y el prójimo? [Ángel del Pozo] c |
|
1974 |
De purificatione automobilis [Gabriel Blanco] c; doc/16m |
|
1974 |
Los viajes escolares/School Trip [Jaime Chávarri] c |
|
1975 |
Vía libre al tráfico [Gabriel Blanco] b&w-c; doc/23m; cph: Alfredo Fernández, Alberto Franco, Roberto Gómez & José Miguel López Sáez |
|
1975 |
¿Quién puede matar a un niño?/Island of the Damned/Would You Kill a Child? [Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador] c |
|
1975 |
¡Ya soy mujer! [Manuel Summers] c |
|
1975 |
Pepita Jiménez/Bride to Be [Rafael Moreno Alba] c |
|
1975 |
País, S.A. [António 'Forges' Fraguas] c |
|
1975 |
Obsesión/Fascinación [Francisco Lara Polop] c |
|
1975 |
Sensualidad [Germán Lorente] c |
|
1976 |
El puente/The Long Weekend [Juan Antonio Bardem] c |
|
1976 |
Las cuatro novias de Augusto Pérez [José Jara] c |
|
1976 |
Retrato de familia/Family Portrait [Antonio Giménez Rico] c |
|
1976 |
Adiós Alicia [Liko Pérez & Santiago San Miguel] c |
|
1977 |
Cambio de sexo/Change of Sex/I Want to Be a Woman [Vicente Aranda] c; cph: Nestor Almendros |
|
1977 |
Dios bendiga cada rincón de esta casa/God Bless Each Corner of This Room [Chumy Chúmez (= José María González Castrillo)] c |
|
1977 |
Vámonos, Bárbara [Cecilia M. Bartolomé] c |
|
1977 |
Gulliver [Alfonso Ungría] c |
|
1977 |
María, la santa [Roberto Fandiño] c |
|
1977 |
Marián [Luis Cortés] c |
|
1977 |
La vieja memoria/The Old Memory [Jaime Camino] b&w; doc/165m; cph: Teo Escamilla, Roberto Gómez, Tomás Pladevall & Magín Torruella |
|
1977 |
Così come sei/Así como eres/Stay as You Are [Alberto Lattuada] c |
|
1978 |
Soldados [Alfonso Ungría] c |
|
1978 |
Oro rojo/Red Gold [Alberto Vázquez Figueroa] c |
|
1978 |
Da Dunkerque alla vittoria/De l’enfer à la victoire/From Hell to Victory/Contro quattro bandieri [Hank Milestone (= Umberto Lenzi)] tvi/c; cph: Alejandro Ulloa |
|
1978 |
El juego del diablo/Devil's Exorcist [Jorge M. Darnell] c; or prod in 1975? |
|
1979 |
La campanada/Leaving It All [Jaime Camino] c |
|
1979 |
La muchacha de las bragas de oro/Girl with the Golden Panties [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
1979 |
La triple muerte del tercer personaje [Helvio Soto] c |
|
1980 |
Thais, hombres libres [Manuela García de la Vega & Máximo Martín Ortiz] c; doc/9m |
|
1980 |
La lucha Thai [Manuela García de la Vega & Máximo Martín Ortiz] c; doc/9m |
|
1980 |
La fiesta de los elefantes [Manuela García de la Vega & Máximo Martín Ortiz] c; doc/8m |
|
1980 |
Ayuthaya, el fin de una ciudad [Manuela García de la Vega & Máximo Martín Ortiz] c; doc/8m |
|
1981 |
Después de... primera parte: No se os puede dejar solos [Cecilia M. & José Juan Bartolomé] c; doc/90m; 2uc: Antonio de Benito |
|
1981 |
Después de... segunda parte: Atado y bien atado [Cecilia M. & José Juan Bartolomé] c; doc/99m |
|
1981 |
Asesinato en el Comité Central [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
1981 |
Formula [Miguel Hermoso Torres] c; doc/13m |
|
1981 |
La próxima estación [Antonio Mercero] c |
|
1982 |
Per favore, occupati di Amelia/Por favor, ocúpate de Amelía [Flavio Mogherini] c; cph: Giulio Alboníco |
|
1982 |
Bésame, tonta [Fernando González de Canales] c |
|
1982 |
El sur/The South [Víctor Erice] c |
|
1982 |
Demonios en el jardín/Demons in the Garden [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1983 |
El caso Almería [Pedro Costa] c |
|
1983 |
Akelarre [Pedro Olea] c |
|
1984 |
Tasio [Montxo Armendáriz] c |
|
1984 |
La reina del mate [Fermín Cabal] c |
|
1984 |
Rustlers' Rhapsody/Esos locos cuatreros [Hugh Wilson] p/b&w-c |
|
1985 |
El viaje a ninguna parte/Voyage to Nowhere [Fernando Fernán Gómez] c |
|
1985 |
La corte de Faraón/The Court of the Pharaoh [José Luis García Sánchez] c |
|
1985 |
Los paraísos perdidos [Basilio Martín Patino] c |
|
1985 |
El caballero del dragón/Star Knight [Fernando Colomo] c |
|
1985 |
Mambrú se fue a la guerra/Mambru [Marlborough] Went to War [Fernando Fernán Gómez] c |
|
1986 |
José Hernández [Fernando Gónzález de Canales] c; doc/47m |
|
1986 |
La mitad del cielo/Half of Heaven [Manuel Gutíerrez Aragón] c |
|
1986 |
Hay que deshacer la casa/We Must Undo the House [José Luis García Sánchez] c |
|
1987 |
El lute: camina o revienta/El lute I/Run for Your Life [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
1987 |
El lute II: mañana seré libre [Vicente Aranda] c; sfx ph: Jesús Peña |
|
1987 |
Jarrapellejos [Antonio Giménez Rico] p/c |
|
1987 |
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios/Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Pedro Almodóvar] p/c; assoc ph: Juan Carlos Rodriguez & Tomás Corrales; vfx ph: Pablo Núñez |
|
1988 |
Malaventura [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c |
|
1988 |
El sueño del mono loco/El mono loco/The Mad Monkey/Twisted Obsession [Fernando Trueba] p/c; sfx ph: Pedro Balandin & Félix Cordon |
|
1989 |
El mar y el tiempo/The Sea and the Weather [Fernando Fernán Gómez] p/c |
|
1989 |
¡Átame!/Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [Pedro Almodóvar] c |
|
1989 |
¡Ay, Carmela! [Carlos Saura] c |
|
1990 |
Solo o en compañía de otros [Santiago San Miguel] c |
|
1990 |
Dancing Machine [Gilles Béhat] c |
|
1990 |
Amantes/Lovers [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
1991 |
Hay que zurrar a los pobres/Let's Trash the Poor [Santiago San Miguel] c |
|
1991 |
Sevillanas [Carlos Saura] c; mus doc/53m |
|
1991 |
Sam suffit/Sam's Enough [Virginie Thévenet] c; ph Spain; ph: Jean-François Robin |
|
1992 |
Jamón, jamón/Ham Ham [J.J. Bigas Luna] c |
|
1992 |
Semana Santa [Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón] c; doc/41m |
|
1992 |
Belle époque/The Age of Beauty [Fernando Trueba] p/c |
|
1992 |
El pájaro de la felicidad/The Bird of Happiness [Pilar Miró] c |
|
1993 |
Intruso/Intruder [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
1993 |
Huevos de oro/Golden Balls/Macho [J.J. Bigas Luna] p/c |
|
1994 |
La teta y la luna/The Tit and the Moon [J.J. Bigas Luna] p/c |
|
1994 |
La pasión turca/Turkish Passion [Vicente Aranda] p/c |
|
1994 |
Dile a Laura que la quiero [José Miguel Juárez] c |
|
1995 |
Two Much/Loco de amor [Fernando Trueba] p/c |
|
1995 |
Libertarias/Freedomfighters [Vicente Aranda] p/c; cph: Juan Amorós |
|
1995 |
En brazos de la mujer madura/In Praise of Older Women [Manuel Lombardero] c |
|
1996 |
Tranvía a la Malvarrosa/Tramway to Malvarrosa [José Luis García Sánchez] c |
|
1996 |
Más allá del jardín/Beyond the Garden [Pedro Olea] p/c |
|
1996 |
La pistola de mi hermano/My Brother’s Gun [Ray Loriga] c |
|
1997 |
Don Juan [Jacques Weber] c |
|
1998 |
Blast from the Past [Hugh Wilson] s35/c |
|
1998 |
Il mio West/Gunslinger's Revenge/My West [Giovanni Veronesi] c |
|
1998 |
L'amante perduto/The Lost Lover [Roberto Faenza] scope/c |
|
1999 |
Celos/Jealousy [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
1999 |
António, um rapaz de Lisboa [Jorge Silva Melo] c |
|
1999 |
Sé quién eres/I Know Who You Are [Patricia Ferreira] c |
|
2000 |
The Dancer Upstairs/Pasos de baile [John Malkovich] c |
|
2000 |
Son de mar/Sound of the Sea [J.J. Bigas Luna] c |
|
2001 |
Chica de Río/Girl from Rio [Christopher Monger] c |
|
2001 |
La vida de nadie/Nobody's Life [Eduard Cortés] c |
|
2002 |
Al sur de Granada/South from Granada [Fernando Colomo] c |
|
2003 |
La puta y la ballena [Luis Puenzo] c |
|
2003 |
La mala educación/Bad Education [Pedro Almodóvar] c |
With actor Juan Diego Botto - "Roma"
|
2003 |
Roma [Adolfo Aristaráin] scope/c |
|
2004 |
Otros días vendrán [Eduard Cortés] c |
|
2004 |
La vida perra de Juanita Narboni [Farida Amor Benlyazid] scope/c |
|
2004 |
Vida y color/Life in Color [Santiago Tabernero] scope/c |
|
2005 |
Tu vida en 65' [María Ripoll] c |
|
2005 |
Tirant lo Blanc/Tirante el Blanco/The Maidens' Conspiracy [Vicente Aranda] s35/c |
|
2005 |
Volver [Pedro Almodóvar] p/c |
|
2005 |
Pedro entrevista a las actrices [?] c/V; doc/38m; shot during the prod of 'Volver' |
|
2005 |
Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo [Ray Loriga] c; filmed 2005-06 |
|
2006 |
Tuya siempre/Always Yours [Manuel Lombardero] c |
|
2006 |
Las 13 rosas/13 Roses [Emilio Martínez-Lázaro] scope/c |
|
2007 |
Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club/Lolita's Club [Vicente Aranda] c |
|
2007 |
My Life in Ruins/Mi vida en ruinas [Donald Petrie] c; ph 'b' cam: David Carretero; 2uc (+ ph plate unit Spain): Javier Salmones; ph plate unit Greece: Ramón Ignacio Malapetsas |
|
2007 |
Rivales [Fernando Colomo] s35/c |
|
2008 |
Espacio interior/Richness of Interior Space [Kai Parlange Tessmann] announced as doph, but film was ph by Juan Jose Saravia in January/February 2010 |
|
2010 |
La piel que habito/The Skin I Live In [Pedro Almodóvar] s35+HD (Panasonic AG-HVX200)-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c |
[Left] with Fernando Colomo - "La banda Picasso"
|
2011 |
La banda Picasso [Fernando Colomo] HD (ARRI ALEXA)/c |
|
2012 |
Passion [Brian De Palma] 35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c; remake of 'Crime d'amour/Love Crime' (2009, Alain Corneau; ph: Yves Angelo) |
|
2012 |
Los amantes pasajeros/I'm So Excited [Pedro Almodóvar] HD (ARRI ALEXA Studio)-to-D-Cinema/c |
|
2013 |
Adam's Perfection [?] announced |
|
2014 |
Wild Oats [Andy Tennant] HD/c |
|
2014 |
Altamira [Hugh Hudson] HD (ARRI ALEXA)-to-digital/c; 2uc: Tom Debenham |
|
2016 |
La reina de España [Fernando Trueba] HD/c |
| TELEVISION | |
|---|---|
|
1971 |
Plinio [Antonio Giménez Rico] 8-part series/b&w, 1971-72 |
|
1972 |
La balada del pequeño soñador [Antonio Giménez Rico] tvm/50m |
|
1986 |
Casanova/Il Veneziano, vita e amori di Giacomo Casanova [Simon Langton] tvm |
|
1987 |
Barbablù, Barbablù/Bluebeard, Bluebeard [Fabio Carpi] tvm |
|
1992 |
La mujer de tu vida 2: Las mujeres de mi vida [Fernando Fernán Gómez] tvm |
|
1992 |
El sur/The South [Carlos Saura] tvm/60m; ep series 'Cuentos de Borges' |
|
2001 |
El caballero Don Quijote/Don Quixote, Knight Errant [Manuel Gutíerrez Aragón] 2-part miniseries; also released theatrically (119m) |
|
2002 |
Ruy Blas [Jacques Weber] tvm |
|
2004 |
Películas para no dormir: La culpa [Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador] tvm |
|
2007 |
Martes de carnaval [ep #2 'Las galas del difunto' & #3 'Los cuernos de Don Friolera' dir by José Luis García Sánchez] 3-part miniseries/16mm, 2008; other ph (ep #1): Javier Salmones; also theatrical version (2009; 116m) 'Esperpentos' |
|
2008 |
Doctor Mateo [ep #1-9 dir by Angeles Reiné, Enric Folch, a.o.] 53-part series/HD, 2009-11; 1st season, 2009 |
|
2009 |
Doctor Mateo [ep #10-23 dir by Manuel Tera, Enric Folch, a.o.] 2nd season, 2009; see 2008 |
|
2009 |
Doctor Mateo [ep #24-29 dir by César Rodriguez Blanco, a.o.] 3rd season, 2010; see 2008 |
|
2010 |
Doctor Mateo [ep #30-35 & #39-41 dir by Manuel Tera, a.o.] 4th season, 2010; other ph (ep #36-38 + cph #39-41): Eduardo Ortiz-Cañavate; see 2008 |
|
2013 |
Andalucía verde [Juan Lebrón] 8-part doc series (2015); filming started in 2007, but was interrupted for a couple of years; for Canal Sur Televisión |
|
2016 |
Rutas de Andalucía [Gracia Querejeta] 8-part doc series; for Canal Sur Televisión |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
|---|---|
|
1964 |
Platero y yo [Alfredo Castellón] still ph; ph: Francisco Sempere |
|
1966 |
Quevedo [Jesús Fernández Santos] 16mm/c; doc/11m; co-collab; ph: Armando R. González Posada |
|
1966 |
Bécquer [J.F. Santos] 16mm/c; doc/12m; co-collab; ph: A.R.G. Posada |
|
1966 |
Nueve cartas a Berta/Nine Letters to Bertha [Basilio Martín Patino] co-c.asst; ph: Luis Enrique Torán |
|
1966 |
Acteón [Jorge Grau] still ph; ph: Aurelio G. Larraya |
