Kneecaps are free. No one goes through life without experiencing dancing. If you want to know what it’s like you should go dancing. Cumbia is the princess of the streets, a hammock for kids, Latin America’s popular music. It’s fun and it takes away the sadness. So, in the year 1955, the Wawancó were already moving everyone&...
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Todos dicen que con este film el mejor Jarmusch está de vuelta. ¿Cuándo se había ido? La sublime abstracción de su film anterior es aquí menor, pero sigue organizando la disposición de los objetos y la relación entre los espacios interiores y exteriores. Como es sabido, se trata de una pel&iac...
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Not-that-young film buff, stop drooling over action figures from your favorite VHS tapes and listen to the greatest fan-fiction story ever told (and filmed): in 1981, Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, in Mississippi and at 11, saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Rosetta Stone of Indy adventure cinema. Right there, with a comic book and pirated copy of t...
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To depict the life and work of Beto (or if you prefer to call him by his name, Alberto Zamarbide, the V8 vocalist who taught Argentina to sing Heavy Metal, with capital letters, yes) means to draw an arch that goes from the loneliness of the very first heavies, misunderstood and resisted during the last dictatorship, to the growing epic of metal ba...
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In some alley in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Jack Burton’s truck is parked. And the verbose, smart-ass, mainly insufferable Burton is determined to get it back, whatever the cost; or, rather, whatever it costs his (not quite) friend and expert martial artist Wang. While he’s at it, he will make sure Wang pays his gambling debts and...
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Right in the mid-eighties, in 1985, Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed and starred in the fourth installment of Rocky. The most bombastic of the franchise, the one that was considered a pinnacle of Reaganist cinema. Of course, those of us who were twelve when it came out found out about those details later. We also found out later that many critics...
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at Studio Ghibli –that he founded thirty years ago– will be a little less regretted if that creative factory keeps developing projects like The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. A fascinating, delicate, splendid, and very powerful syncretism of drawing, color and animation techniques, the millennial tale of the princess born from a bamboo sp...
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