Joyceana: Literaria hibérnica

Los capítulos de la Memorias de Eisenstein no están ordenados con precisión cronológica. En este segundo volumen, volvemos a los recuerdos de infancia, como en el primero conocimos los éxitos del Potiomkin (1926). Hay numerosas referencias a México y páginas estupendas sobre Chaplin, Mayakovski, Prokofiev, sobre directores de cine europeos y estadunidenses, actores y actrices, ciudades, todo entretejido con anécdotas divertidas y brillantes reflexiones.

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

Tras el éxito de la película Campeones, vista por cuatro millones de espectadores, con siete candidaturas a los Premios Goya y candidata española a los próximos premios Oscar en la categoría de mejor película de habla no inglesa, te presentamos este libro en el que podrás disfrutar de todos los detalles que no te han contado. Cómo fueron sus comienzos entre los directores, guiones, storyboards y comentarios de los participantes de la película, los que están tanto delante como detrás de las cámaras. Y si no has visto la película después de leerte este libro irás corriendo a...

Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed...