From the intimate and personal to the vast and far-reaching, spanning life and death and hope and anger and artistry, 2017’s best documentaries captured struggle and triumph and the creative drive. Non-fiction storytelling pushed boundaries and buttons, asking the important questions and inspiring us to seek justice and to broaden our horizons. 10. “Bones of Contention”: Director Andrea Weiss used the search for the remains of legendary Spanish author Federico Garcia-Lorca as a way to ask a bigger question that haunts the nation: Where are the mass graves of Franco’s victims in the Spanish Civil War? And is the country.
- 12/13/2017
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Our critic has been awarded an OBE for services to film. Here he reflects on a life of cinema and chooses extracts from five of his movie reviews
Casting my mind back to my Observer debut, it occurred to me that, had I been celebrating half a century of writing on films for the paper in 1963, I would have been reflecting on a career begun by reviewing the arrival of Charlie Chaplin and going on to Dw Griffith's Birth of a Nation. But the Observer didn't have a movie critic until the mid-1920s, when the Honourable Ivor Montagu (a peer's son, table tennis champion, lifelong communist, the man who saved Hitchcock's bacon by re-editing The Lodger) joined the paper. He was succeeded in 1928 by the Manchester Guardian's critic, CA Lejeune, who helped create the view widely held in Fleet Street that reviewing films was women's work. Indeed, her first...
Casting my mind back to my Observer debut, it occurred to me that, had I been celebrating half a century of writing on films for the paper in 1963, I would have been reflecting on a career begun by reviewing the arrival of Charlie Chaplin and going on to Dw Griffith's Birth of a Nation. But the Observer didn't have a movie critic until the mid-1920s, when the Honourable Ivor Montagu (a peer's son, table tennis champion, lifelong communist, the man who saved Hitchcock's bacon by re-editing The Lodger) joined the paper. He was succeeded in 1928 by the Manchester Guardian's critic, CA Lejeune, who helped create the view widely held in Fleet Street that reviewing films was women's work. Indeed, her first...
- 12/30/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
When I was growing up, New York 's best (now long-defunct) classical radio station, Wncn, played only American composers' music each Fourth of July. With the classical world dominated by Europeans, this was a welcome and educational corrective. In the history of American music, independence wasn't achieved until the 20th century; 19th century composers such as John Knowles Paine and George Whitefield Chadwick studied in Europe and blatantly imitated European models. Listening to their music "blind," few would guess they were Americans. There was Revolutionary War-era vocal writer William Billings, but his originality was more a lack of proper technique. Continuing Wncn's tradition, here's a look at true American classical. music.
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
- 7/4/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Paz Vega: The Cat’S MEOWBy Alex Simon
Spanish actress Paz Vega first gained international attention with her smart, sexy turn in Julio Medem’s Sex and Lucia (2001), as a free-spirited young woman who finds personal liberation through a torrid affair after the loss of her boyfriend. The film’s lush visuals (which included Vega’s incandescent beauty) and sexual frankness raised eyebrows and heart rates in filmgoers everywhere. Vega soon found herself one of Europe’s biggest stars, appearing in over 30 productions, including Almodovar’s Talk to Her (2002), and making her American debut in James L. Brooks’ serio-comedy Spanglish (2004).
Born in Seville January 2, 1976, Paz Vega was fascinated by the movies from a young age. Inheriting a theatrical flair from her father, a former bullfighter, she cut her teeth on Spanish television in the late 1990s before landing her first feature role in Zapping (1999). Married to Venezuelan businessman Orson Salazar,...
Spanish actress Paz Vega first gained international attention with her smart, sexy turn in Julio Medem’s Sex and Lucia (2001), as a free-spirited young woman who finds personal liberation through a torrid affair after the loss of her boyfriend. The film’s lush visuals (which included Vega’s incandescent beauty) and sexual frankness raised eyebrows and heart rates in filmgoers everywhere. Vega soon found herself one of Europe’s biggest stars, appearing in over 30 productions, including Almodovar’s Talk to Her (2002), and making her American debut in James L. Brooks’ serio-comedy Spanglish (2004).
Born in Seville January 2, 1976, Paz Vega was fascinated by the movies from a young age. Inheriting a theatrical flair from her father, a former bullfighter, she cut her teeth on Spanish television in the late 1990s before landing her first feature role in Zapping (1999). Married to Venezuelan businessman Orson Salazar,...
- 4/1/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
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The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a...
- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump!
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The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German Youth
On November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop?
During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a...
- 10/18/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
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