Weekly Quote
“It’s rubbish, bad, greedily bad. Worse than Laura Palmer and her father. Terrible, horrible. So much so that I directly recommended avoiding going to the cinema. Please, if it released, don’t watch it. Some television channels will buy it and, by putting ads in the middle, it will be much more fun and entertaining thanks to the ads. This film is undesirable”
Carlos Pumares Pardo (Portugalete, Vizcaya, September 29, 1943 – Madrid, October 12, 2023) was a Spanish film critic and journalist.
A graduate in Physics, he was a film advisor for the RTVE program “La clave”, which was presented and directed by the journalist José Luis Balbín, from the first to the last broadcast.
At the beginning of the 1980s he began to present the radio program “Polvo de estrellas”, almost as an experiment, since it was the first time in that media that a format oriented to cinema and other arts was chosen.
“Polvo de estrellas” was broadcast from Monday to Friday on the now defunct Antena 3 Radio starting at 1:30 in the morning, after the sports program directed by José María García. Its initial duration was half an hour, but due to the good ratings it was extended to three hours, always in the early morning and on the same channel.
His phrase to answer a call from a listener, “Yes, good evening, tell me”, became legendary among the listeners of his program, as well as his indifferent behavior towards them.
After the disappearance of Antena 3, his program moved to Radio Voz, where, without changing its content or structure, it was renamed “La voz de las estrellas”. It remained there until 1999, when it entered Onda Cero and recovered its original title.
After the cancellation of “Polvo de estrellas” on the Onda Cero channel, Pumares collaborated on the Terra portal with a space called “El monolito de Pumares”. In it he gave answers to questions from Internet users about the world of cinema. The space remained on the portal until the summer of 2004.
He wrote film reviews for the newspaper La Razón, collaborated on some film websites to comment on news related to the cinema, and made a weekly programme on the Veo 7 channel (TDT) called «Veo Cine».
Carlos Pumares acted in «FBI: Frikis Buscan Incordiar» (Javier Cárdenas, 2004) and in «Torrente 3, el protector» (Santiago Segura, 2005); and wrote the scripts for the films «La casa de las chivas» (León Klimovsky, 1972), «Separación matrimonial» (Angelino Fons, 1973), «Una mujer prohibida» (José Luis Ruiz Marcos, 1974), «El extraño amor de los vampiros» (León Klimovsky, 1977) and the TV series «El hotel de las mil y una estrellas» (Yagüe, 1978).
He also used to travel to different film festivals (Sitges, Valladolid, San Sebastián, Gijón, Berlin, Cannes, Venice…), from where he broadcast the programmes live.
