Category Archives: Cuba

No small beer at Cuba’s Film School

by michaelc Posted on 30 July 2013

This is a revised version, incorporating feedback received. At the beginning of July, the EICTV, Cuba’s world renowned film school at San Antonio de los Baños was hit by a bombshell when the current director, the Guatemalan Rafael Rosal, announced … Continue reading →

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Alfredo Guevara (1925-2013)

by michaelc Posted on 20 April 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 →

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Cuba in Aberystwyth

by michaelc Posted on 23 March 2013

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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9 Notes on Digital Cinema

by michaelc Posted on 15 September 2012

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 →

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Changes in Cuba; independent video thriving

by michaelc Posted on 25 April 2012

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

by michaelc Posted on 10 February 2012

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

by michaelc Posted on 6 June 2011

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 →

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Memories of Memories

by michaelc Posted on 6 November 2010

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 →

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Fidel: past mistakes & advice to Ahmadinejad

by michaelc Posted on 9 September 2010

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 →

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Martí according to Pérez

by michaelc Posted on 22 August 2010

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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