The Basque journalist and film critic Carlos Pumares Pardo, who became popular with the legendary radio program ‘Polvo de Estrellas’, has died at the age of 80, family sources have reported.
Pumares, one of the most renowned critics of the seventh art, for which he was also a screenwriter, also acted as an actor in some films and wrote books such as ‘A Perfect Marriage’ and ‘So Near and Far’.
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Born on September 29, 1943 in the Biscayan town of Portugalete (Basque Country), Pumares had a degree in Physical Sciences, but his professional career took other paths.
In the seventies he wrote the scripts for the films ‘La casa de las chivas’ (1972, León Klimovsky), ‘Marriage Separation’ (1973, Angelino Fons), ‘A forbidden woman’ (1974, José Luis Ruiz Marcos) , ‘The strange love of vampires’ (1977, León Klimovsky) and the television series ‘The hotel of a thousand and one stars’ (1978-79, TVE), this one with Joaquín Parejo.
He worked as a film advisor for the program ‘Laclave’ (1976-85, on RTVE; 1990-93, on Antena 3 TV), which was presented and directed by journalist José Luis Balbín. A film served as an introduction to the topics that the guests then debated, with questions that the spectators asked by telephone towards the end of the space. The program was novel because it allowed, for the first time on Spanish television, the vision of various conflicting points of view, with topics that until now were considered taboo (Opus Dei, NATO…).
At the beginning of the eighties he began to present the program about the world of cinema on Antena 3 Radio ‘Polvo de estrellas’, which would later be brought to Antena 3 TV and Onda Cero.
Pumares has done film criticism in the newspaper ‘La Razón’, presented on Radio Voz ‘La salud natural’, a daily space on natural medicine, maintains a blog to comment on news related to the world of cinema, and has been a collaborator and member of the morning show ‘Sin ir más further’ (Aragón TV), in addition to having the weekly program ‘Veo Cine’ on the channel Veo 7.
He appeared as an actor in ‘FBI: Frikis Busca Incordiar’ (Javier Cárdenas, 2004) and in ‘Torrente 3, el protector’ (Santiago Segura, 2005); and he signed the scripts for the films ‘La casa de las chivas’ (León Klimovsky, 1972), ‘Marriage Separation’ (Angelino Fons, 1973) and ‘A forbidden woman’ (José Luis Ruiz Marcos, 1974). He also in ‘The Strange Love of the Vampires’ (Klimovsky, 1977) and the television series ‘The Hotel of the Thousand and One Stars’ (Yagüe, 1978).
He also published books with Manuel Villegas López, Jaime Salom and José Luis Garci: ‘La casa de las chivas’ (1971); with Hugo Pratt: ‘The Secret of Tristán Bantam: Appointment in Bahia’ (1971); with Alberto Solsona, José Luis Garci and Adolfo Castaño: ‘The Tales of Popeye’ (1973); ‘A Perfect Marriage’ (1973); ‘So near and far’ (1973); ‘The colonizers: cinematographic plot’ (1974); with José Luis Garci, Adolfo Castaño and Alberto Solsona: ‘The Tales of Rosario’ (1974); and with Dick Fulton and Adolfo Castaño: ‘Mandrake: The X dimension’ (1974).
With Lázaro Irazábal he published ‘One of many’ (1974); with Juan José Daza del Castillo and Abelardo Empecinado: ‘At Dawn’ (1975); with Enrique Herreros, Juan José Daza del Castillo and Abelardo Empecinado: ‘El chalet de los geranios’ (1975); with Juan José Daza del Castillo: ‘The Night of the Vampires’ (1975) and collaborated with Domingo López in: ‘Wild Wild East’ (2015).
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2023-10-13 00:30:17
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