Archive for the ‘cine’ Category
Monday, November 5th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_8724" align="aligncenter" width="254" caption="A scene from 30 Años de Oscuridad, which shows Manuel Cortes inside his hiding place."][/caption]
A few months ago, ex-guest blogger Rebekah wrote about a new edition of a book called In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes, by the late Ronald Fraser. It's the extraordinary story ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Life in Seville - cultural life, that is - has definite seasons: January and February are both cold and dull, lit up only by Carnaval and the Dia de Andalucia puente (bank holiday). Then comes the holy trinity of Semana Santa, Feria and El Rocio, followed by months of school ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Over the years, many hundreds of movies have been shot in Andalucia, due to the extraordinary variety of its landscapes - mountains, deserts, beaches; its magnificent cities, with beautifully preserved period buildings; and its reliable sunshine.
Think of the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s and 1970s, shot in Almeria; Hollywood blockbuster ...
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
A couple of nights ago I went to an event organised by The New World Trust, a non-profit organisation created to support talented young artists all over the world. The event was The Marbella International Film Festival which is an annual free outdoor screening of various award winning short films ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Seville is famous for many typically Spanish, and Andaluz, things: tapas, flamenco, bullfighting, Semana Santa - and Carmen. Bizet's 1875 opera, based on a novella by Prosper Merimee, has been a firm favourite for years, with its tragic story of the beautiful, fiery gypsy girl who works in the cigarette ...
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