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Spike Jonze’s Her

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Spike Jonze's Her

Spike Jonze continues to reel us in with his recent spate of emotional movies. This time it's sci-fi romantic drama Her - here's why it's great... Let's take a look at the film in a nutshell: Man reluctantly divorces wife. Man is sad. Man mopes around and broods intensely. Man installs new state-of-the-art Operating System onto his computer. Man falls in love with computer, resulting in a vague moral ending. A strangely satirical comment on modern day society, don't you think? The funny thing is that the events in the film actually have quite a high chance of happening in the … [Read more...]

Arte y compromiso: ‘The Act of Killing’ de Joshua Oppenheimer

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Arte y compromiso: 'The Act of Killing' de Joshua Oppenheimer

Indonesia. 30 de septiembre de 1965. Con el presidente Sukarno cada vez más debilitado y acorralado, el teniente coronel Untung dirige un golpe acusando de corrupción a los jefes militares del país. Al día siguiente, el general Suharto da un contragolpe aplastando la sublevación. De este modo, Suharto arrincona y desplaza a Sukarno, y acusa al Partido Comunista de estar detrás del primer golpe. El ejército, colaborando con grupos paramilitares, inicia una masacre contra los comunistas -reales o imaginados- que sirve de pretexto para acabar con sindicatos, cooperativas y organizaciones civiles … [Read more...]

Goodbye Harold Ramis

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Goodbye Harold Ramis

Yesterday a celebrated actor, director and writer passed away. It was only the other week that I watched Groundhog Day, arguably one of Harold Ramis's most reverred works. Twenty years later and the film still holds it's own (well, aside from the awful Spanish film title translation, but let's save that issue for another day). Ramis directed a series of classic films such as Analyse This, Caddyshack, Multiplicity and National Lampoon's Vacation. Delving into the IMDB back office of Ramis's works also offered up a few surprises - he directed four episodes of the American version of The … [Read more...]

Operación Palace: ópera bufa o nueva propaganda

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Operación Palace: ópera bufa o nueva propaganda

Desde hace tiempo, el degradado régimen político español viene reclamando instrumentos de propaganda más sofisticados y efectivos que los proporcionados por la cohorte de mamarrachos de la escuela de Paco Marhuenda e Isabel San Sebastián. Resultan tan desagradables, previsibles e incondicionales que surten escaso efecto, y eso si no es que son directamente contraproducentes. El pasado domingo, Jordi Évole con su Operación Palace echó un inesperado y oportunísimo guante a una monarquía española más cuestionada que nunca. Por lo pronto, consiguió que muchas de las personas que vivieron con … [Read more...]

Marty’s Nikes to become a reality

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Marty's Nikes to become a reality

Back to the Future Part II is one of my favourite films ever. Points to support this claim: I have a 1:24 diecast metal DeLorean on my bedroom shelf, I WILL win you in a BTTF trivia challenge and I took great pleasure in knowing the answer to a recent tie-break quiz question: To which 3 years did Marty McFly time travel during the Back to the Future trilogy? But let's delve a little further into the misadventures of the eighties' most loved teenager/mad-time-travelling-scientist combo. Part one's got it, sure. Who doesn't love the heartwarming Enchantment Under The Sea dance scene? … [Read more...]

Anuncios por los que boicotear a una marca

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Verdasco huele mal

La publicidad, a veces, es bonita. Puede ser original, curiosa, divertida, en ocasiones hasta brillante. Sin embargo, la mayoría es bastante pobre, cutre y embrutecedora. Entiendo que no es fácil supeditarse a las instrucciones del cliente, y que qui paga, mana. Pero hay una publicidad que trasciende todos los límites del sentido común, que va más allá de las puertas de Tannhäuser del asco. Anuncios que provocan que quieras agarrar un taladro y perforar la sien del creativo que dijo la palabra mágica, del directivo que aprobó el proyecto y del cliente que celebró la ocurrencia. Anuncios que te … [Read more...]