New Views: Lorca, Berkeley
28/04/2021
I read a Marxist-type analysis of Lorca. He has fascist elements. The article is good and so is its bibiliography. And there is a documentary about Berkeley I must see. Axé.
Category: Cinearte
Ya no estoy aquí, and deep reading
22/03/2021
Deep reading. And a trenchant critique of the film in question. Axé.
México exhumado
22/03/2021
Axé.
Guy Debord
19/03/2021
I want to see this film. Axé.
Citation
22/11/2020
This is something to watch, but it is too serious for me now. Axé.
Carne y arena
30/09/2020
In my study group we read an interesting paper about this that said it was reformist and not revolutionary. Axé.
Joshua Lund
14/06/2020
Look at this person’s bibliography: race and the state, and hybridity, and now Herzog. Admiration and envy are my feelings on this — I wanted to be in a position to spend time on these things myself. Perhaps I can now. Axé.
Film on the Spanish Civil War
04/03/2020
What would you teach for this? (Side note: McClennen’s Globalization and Latin American Cinema costs hundreds of dollars; if not, I might use it as a textbook for a different film course.) La lengua de las mariposas – Raza – Dragón rapide/Encontrarás dragones – Cría cuervos – ¡Ay Carmela! – Land and freedom – El … More Film on the Spanish Civil War
The edge of democracy
26/12/2019
It is a film by Petra Costa about Bolsonaro and it is opening in San Francisco January 5, although it is almost a year old and is apparently available on Netflix already. Apparently it is very important and we should show it in class if there is any way to justify doing something in Portuguese. … More The edge of democracy
Vijay Seshadri, Werner Herzog
15/07/2019
I was taken with this poem and discovered its author is well known. And it seems Herzog is still working, I do not necessarily approve of him or like all of his work but effectively he seems to be my favorite filmmaker, so what can one do. Life, pleasure, art. Axé.
