Bigas Luna was best-known as the Spanish film director who simultaneously launched the film careers of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem – and he did so in a surreal, sexually charged 1992 melodrama, ...

Any movie, Spanish or otherwise, whose title translates as “Ham, Ham”-and which starts with an exotic long shot of a bewitchingly arid landscape seen through an outdoor billboard shaped in the ...

Spanish film director Juan Jose Bigas Luna, a colorful chronicler of sexual and social excess, died Friday near Tarragona, Spain, after a long battle with cancer. He was 67. It was typical of Bigas ...

Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who was best known for the 1992 film Jamon, Jamon, has died aged 67. The director's family said he died after a long battle with cancer on Saturday at his ...

The Spanish-born actress Penelope Cruz began acting at 16 by starring in Jamon Jamon. The role catapulted her to fame and established her as one of Spain’s rising stars. Since then, she has starred ...

Actor Penelope Cruz says that her mother Encarna understood her and supported her when she was upset about doing nude scenes in her debut film, Jamon Jamon (1992). The 37-year-old actor says she shed ...

MADRID (AP) ― Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who discovered actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and whose 1992 movie “Jamon, Jamon’’ launched their careers, has died in northeast ...