This is a brilliant film, and this copy is not likely to be legal. However, its YouTube link leads to another set of complete, rare films, most of which copies are not likely to be legal, but whose presence does give us a chance to see them while it lasts. Axé.
Here is the ficha de inscripción for the 2012 festival de cine de Lima, which is August 3-11. It would be fun go to this festival, but fares are high and routes inconvenient; it is actually easier and hardly more expensive to go to Argentina or Chile. Flights to Mexico and Guatemala are fully half … More Festival de Lima. A very amusing post
I found it! Axé.
Axé.
More on the Dominican theme. I don’t remember the US backed coup of 1963, but I do remember the US backed invasion of 1965, when we were also putting Mobutu Sese Seko into the Congo and escalating in Viet Nam. I cannot believe people witnessed these things, yet did not understand the drumbeat that led … More Juan Bosch
I needed video from the Dominican Republic and the search caused me to find some amazing things. Axé.
Axé.
Until very recently the administrative staff alleged we were Luddites and technophobes. We were using too much chalk and not enough computers. Now they are clucking that we “have become dependent on technology.” Axé.
Nietzche did not get tenure, it is said, due to the committee’s disinterest in The Birth of Tragedy, his tenure book; he never got another academic job. Now it appears that Taine failed the agrégation. From the Johns Hopkins Guide: Although he was clearly the outstanding student of his class, he failed his final examination … More Hippolyte Taine
I am of course also an aggregator of just a few Italian songs. It has come to me that of persons from the past about whom I know nothing, Monteverdi might be fun to meet. I am guessing we could speak in some form of Romance, and go out to hear raucous music. It is, … More Claudio, ancora
