Tag Archives: Cuba

Coming soon – Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes (Cuba: Vivir entre ciclones)

by michaelc Posted on 19 October 2019

The Cuba we left behind when we finished shooting Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes in July came under renewed pressure from the North in September. Fresh sanctions by Washington on oil shipments from Venezuela plunged Cuba into a fuel crisis. There … Continue reading →

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A film about ecology in Cuba

by michaelc Posted on 10 June 2019

Living Between Hurricanes is the title of a new documentary which I begin shooting this month in Cuba with Jean Stubbs and Jon Curry-Machado of the Commodities of Empire research project at the Institute of Latin American Studies. Funded by … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Santiago Alvarez

by michaelc Posted on 18 March 2019

Happy Birthday Santiago Alvarez Born 18 March 1919, Havana Died 20 May 1998, Havana Santiago Alvarez was not speaking metaphorically when he said that the Revolution made him a filmmaker. Before the creation of Cuba’s revolutionary film institute in 1959 … Continue reading →

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Cuba: After the Burial

by michaelc Posted on 21 December 2016

A more interesting question to ask after his death is not what Fidel Castro was – a revolutionary hero? a tyrannical dictator? a beneficent dictator? – but who would now call themselves a Fidelista and what will become of Fidelismo? … Continue reading →

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Fidel Castro 1926-2016

by michaelc Posted on 26 November 2016

No-one ever frightened the powers-that-be in Washington more than Fidel Castro. No-one ever challenged their hegemony more effectively, not just with his powerful rhetoric but above all in action, driving out a dictator and installing socialism ninety miles south of … Continue reading →

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Julio García Espinosa 1926-2016

by michaelc Posted on 14 April 2016

Very sad to hear of the death in Havana of the pioneer of Cuban cinema, Julio García Espinosa, at the age of 89. One of the founding members of Cuba’s film institute, the ICAIC, of which he was President from … Continue reading →

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Cuba in Nottingham

by michaelc Posted on 11 September 2014

A short note on the Cuba Research Forum conference which has just taken place at Nottingham, which suggests that international research on Cuba is in good health. Under the as-ever cheerful helm of Tony Kapcia, we heard from speakers of various … Continue reading →

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New? Latin American? Cinema?

by michaelc Posted on 7 January 2014

The proper title of Havana’s annual film festival, founded in 1979, is the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema – Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. The words mark the Festival’s identification with a movement that was born in the 1960s, in … Continue reading →

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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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Coming soon – Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes (Cuba: Vivir entre ciclones)

A film about ecology in Cuba

Happy Birthday Santiago Alvarez

Cuba: After the Burial

Fidel Castro 1926-2016

Julio García Espinosa 1926-2016

Cuba in Nottingham

New? Latin American? Cinema?

No small beer at Cuba’s Film School

Alfredo Guevara (1925-2013)

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