{{Short description|Biweekly film magazine in Spain (1956–1970)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | frequency = Biweekly | circulation = | category = Film magazine | company = | publisher = Publicaciones Populares Católicas | founded = 1956 | firstdate = October 1956 | finaldate = 1970 | country = Spain | based = Madrid | language = Spanish | issn = }} '''''Film Ideal''''' was a biweekly film magazine, which was published in Madrid, Spain, between 1956 and 1970.<ref name="ros">{{cite book |author=Rosanna Maule|title=Beyond Auteurism: New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s|year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbC8vKJgbRYC&pg=PA37|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-204-5|page=37|location=Bristol; Chicago}}</ref>
==History and profile== The first issue of ''Film Ideal'' appeared in October 1956.<ref name="sful">{{cite news|title=Film Ideal, la mítica revista de cuando el cine era extraodinario|work=Spoonful|language=es|url=http://www.spoonful.es/noticia/cultura/cine/film-ideal--la-mitica-revista-de-cuando-el-cine-era-extraodinario_20120503131234.html|access-date=3 February 2017|date=3 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Iván Tubau|year=1984|language=es |title=Hollywood en Argüelles: cine americano y crítica española|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DjMCsCkSOnAC&pg=PA62|location=Barcelona |publisher=Edicions Universitat Barcelona|isbn=978-84-7528-116-2|page=62}}</ref> The founders were Félix Martialay, José Maria Pérez Lozano, Juan Cobos, and two Jesuits, José A. Sobrino and Félix de Landaburu.<ref name="jol">{{cite book|editor1=Jo Labanyi|editor2=Tatjana Pavlović |title=A Companion to Spanish Cinema|year=2015|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oxXCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA457 |isbn=978-1-119-17013-6|page=457|author=Ferran Alberich|display-authors=et. al.|chapter=Film clubs, festivals, archives and magazines}}</ref> Its headquarters was in Madrid.<ref>{{cite journal|author=L. Carol Gerones|title=Dracula, the Vampire in Catalonia. Between literature and cinema through Pere Gimferrer|journal=Catalan Review|volume=XXVIII|issn=0213-5949|year=2014}}</ref> It was modeled on the French movie magazine ''Cahiers du cinéma''.<ref name="fbil">{{cite book|editor=Francesca Billiani|title=Modes of Censorship: National Contexts and Diverse Media |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImGhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT335|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-64032-5|page=335 |author=Jeroen Vandaele|chapter=The National-Catholic Versions of Billy Wilder's Broadway Adaptations|location=London; New York}}</ref><ref name=alr/> The magazine was published by Publicaciones Populares Católicas on a biweekly basis.<ref name="jol"/><ref name="sful"/>
''Film Ideal'' initially covered articles about the Hollywood films.<ref name="sful"/> It also published the film critics and reviews. Critics contributed to the magazine included Manolo Marinero<ref>{{cite book|year=2005|editor=Alberto Mira|title=The Cinema of Spain and Portugal |isbn=978-1-904764-44-1|author=Alberto Mira|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oboxWAqj37UC&pg=PA119|publisher=Wallflower Press |page=119|location=London|chapter=El Extraño Viaje/ Strange Journey}}</ref> and Terenci Moix.<ref name=fbil/> Although it was a moderate publication and had a Catholic stance until 1962,<ref name=fbil/><ref name="alr">{{cite book|author=Antonio Lazaro-Reboll|title=Spanish Horror Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSfsAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT77|year=2012|publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-7062-8|page=77|location=Edinburgh}}</ref> then it adopted a militant stance.<ref name=ros/> During the period from its start in 1956 to 1962 the magazine had the idea that cinema was one of the significant tools to reinforce Catholic doctrine and morality.<ref name="jol"/> Due to the fact that José Maria Pérez Lozano left the magazine to direct another film magazine, ''Cinestudio'' which was launched in May 1961, the stance of the magazine changed, and it began to support new Spanish cinema.<ref name="jol"/> ''Film Ideal'' suffered several serious crisis, leading to changes in its frequency, and finally folded in 1970.<ref name="jol"/>
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