A Foreign Affair

With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low

A Foreign Affair

With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low

Recuerdos del porvenir: el 37 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana

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Recuerdos del porvenir: el 37 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana

El Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, en donde se pueden ver las películas más recientes, es un paraíso para los amantes del cine. Hoy en día, lo que era antes un festival que abarcaba hasta los barrios marginales de la ciudad, se concentra en las grandes salas, muchas de ellas venidas a menos, a pesar de que algunas hayan sido modernizadas para proyectar películas digitales y de que se encuentren situadas a lo largo de la Calle 23. Iván Giroud, director del festival, explicó que este mantiene costos muy bajos (no hay alfombras rojas, ni limosinas ni demás excesos mediáticos) a cambio de la posibilidad de brindarles a los habitantes de la ciudad la posibilidad de asistir a la proyección de películas de América Latina, imposibles de conseguir el resto del año, y a precios módicos. En respuesta, el público forma colas larguísimas, ansioso de ver los estrenos, especialmente los de las películas cubanas