Alfredo Guevara (1925-2013)
Here is a photograph of two Guevaras. With the death of Alfredo Guevara, the one on the right, at the age of 87, who was no relation to the Guevara on the left, Cuban cinema has lost its great champion. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Cuba
Cuba in Aberystwyth
Welsh hills covered in snow as the train snakes across country on the way back from Aberystwyth. Went there for a symposium on Cuban cinema, with scholars and filmmakers over from Havana, and other participants mainly based in UK universities; … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic life, Cuba, Film, Film Studies
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9 Notes on Digital Cinema
A new online journal from Colombia, Corónica, has posted a short interview with me on video, made by Juan Soto, called ’9 Notes on Digital Cinema’. It accompanies my film on the students protests in Chile, Three Short Films about … Continue reading
Posted in Chile, Cuba, Cultural Politics, Latin America, Media, Video Blog
Tagged Media, Video activism
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Changes in Cuba; independent video thriving
In 2002 the Cuban filmmaker Fernando Pérez made a compelling documentary called Suite Habana which portrayed the melancholic mood of the Cuban capital at the start of the 21st century. Ten years later the mood is rather different, as I … Continue reading
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Our Man in Havana
Our Man in Havana « LRB blog private | 10 February 2012 | www.lrb.co.uk Alan Gross, a 62-year-old US citizen, has been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009. He fell foul of the authorities while working for USAID, liaising with Cuba’s small Jewish community. … Continue reading
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The Comandante’s Memory
Brilliant cartoon by Raúl de la Nuez, La memoria del comandante 2 The Comandante’s Memory (No.2) ‘Don’t rememer who sang ‘Los zapaticos de rosa’..??? The Beatles or the Rolling Stones’ (Los zapaticos de rosa is a song to a poem … Continue reading
Memories of Memories
With Memories of Overdevelopment the young Cuba film-maker Miguel Coyula has made a remarkable sequel to one of the classic films of the Cuban Revolution, Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Intriguingly, the new film, like the old, is based … Continue reading
Fidel: past mistakes & advice to Ahmadinejad
Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic reports a meeting with Fidel Castro in which Fidel made some extraordinary statements about the failure of Cuba’s economic model and his own past mistakes, including his position at the time of the missile crisis … Continue reading
Martí according to Pérez
Screening at the Barbican on September 25, 2010 For his new film on the Cuban national hero Martí, Fernando Pérez has returned to classical narrative after a run of offbeat movies, both fiction and documentary. In Martí, el ojo del … Continue reading
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Cuba 2, Venezuela 1
Cuba 2, Venezuela 1 Three DVDs have turned up, two about Cuba and one about Venezuela, which portray different perspectives on revolutionary politics in Latin America at different stages. Mike Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill’s Listen to Venezuela is a lengthy … Continue reading
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Tagged Boxing, Cuba, Venezuela, women
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