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One day, a Mexican might share why
This is just one of several pictures I took when I spotted these uncanny installations. They are clearly poles which have been installed to have cellular receptors attached to them, so that the we may communicate more smoothly. But why are these installed with additional arms that resemble regular tree branches? Is it somehow a…
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Javier Marías *IX 20 1951 – La Vida Que Das / The Life You Give
Escritor, ensayista, traductor y editor español, Javier Marías (1951-2022) era el cuarto de cinco hijos de una familia acomodada. Pasó su niñez e infancia en los Estados Unidos, donde su padre, el filósofo y miembro de la R.A.E. Julián Marías, encarcelado y represaliado por el régimen de Franco, era profesor de universidad. Allí vivió rodeado…
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Days with Pedro Almodóvar: Carne Trémula (1997)
Carne Trémula (Live Flesh)February 1, 1998By James Bowman Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar begins with a scene, set on a lonely night in 1970, in which a baby is born on a bus on the way to the hospital. There is a comic bus driver and a comic older woman helping the baby be born.…
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Days with Pedro Almodóvar: Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988)
Almodovar’s First MasterpieceFebruary 23, 2010 by Emanuel Levy With the exception of “Talk to Her,” the 2003 feature in which the two protagonists are men (and straight men at that), and “Bad Education,” there are not many men in Almodovar’s films. At times, there are no men at all, and if there are, the men…
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