Langston Hughes in Spain
Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.
Tag: film
Torrente, modeled on the mafia private dick in Peckinpah’s The Getaway?
The hair, the dress-sense, the profession: some of the basics are there.
Alien meets Eroski girl, best 21st century Spanish short film?
Unlike most subsidised official festival crap, it’s fast, funny and real. Well, kind of.
Les pervertis de Santander
Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?
A spurious demonic etymology of “Andaluz”
Taken from a 17th century play which has the devil fly a student over Madrid and reveal to him its innermost secrets.
How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.
Carmen de España
A not particularly serious assault on Prosper Mérimée.
The coming and going of the gypsies
Yo, el vaquilla, quinqui cinema, and the usual political whining.
Entertaining video of prostitutes and thieves on the Rambla
By Ramon Vila & Marta Cuatrecasas