Movie Review: Siete destacados directores de cine: Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noe, Juan Carlos Tabio y Laurent Cantet, unieron esfuerzos para crear “Siete días en La Habana” un retrato del gran desgarro de una sociedad como la cubana.
“The Lady” tells the story of Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, whose efforts earned her a Nobel Prize.
The cultural elite are panning the movie “Atlas Shrugged II,” which opened two weeks ago. Don’t be bamboozled. The movie is a nail-biter. You’ll watch train passengers speed unknowingly to their deaths inside a Rocky Mountain tunnel and the movie’s heroine swerve through mountain passes in a small plane chasing a scientist with a secret. But this movie isn’t just entertainment. It is also a chilling look at what America will become if Barack Obama is elected to a second term. That’s the reason it’s getting maligned by critics.
Una de las primeras citas que me volcó a estudiar el libertarianismo, fue la John Ruskin, recordando a la vez, que su primera lección sobre el significado de la libertad, fue que la madre evitó que su niñera, le impidiese tocar una tetera caliente. No niego que me quedé perplejo y sin entender, que el mensaje de aquel escritor, era que la libertad implica asumir las consecuencias de los actos propios, aun cuando nos quememos.
La gran recesión no ha sido culpa del libre mercado. Por el contrario, su causa debe buscarse en la profunda intervención del estado y los bancos centrales en la economía, provocando, de manera fraudulenta, ciclos recurrentes de expansión artificial, burbuja y recesión económica que terminan pagando todos los ciudadanos. Este es el tema que toca la mas reciente produccion de Juanjo Mercado y Daniel García, dos jóvenes emprendedores defensores de la libertad, y quienes crearon Amagi Films.
Flame and Citron, directed by the Danish Ole Christian Madsen is a foreign language film starring Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen (who played Le Chiffre in Casino Royale) as resistance fighters in Nazi occupied Denmark, code named “Flame” and “Citron.” The pair is an oddly coupled hit squad who systematically targets Nazi officers, and sometimes their own countrymen who are believed to be aiding them.
The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the golden age”. The movie combines several true stories to portray an era during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.
First-time director Laura Israel, who has a log cabin in Meredith, first became aware of the town’s wind energy debate when she read stories in the local newspaper about the potential dangers of turbines to the bird population (bats are also at risk). “I went through the same process myself as they did in the film,” says Israel. “First, I thought, maybe I’d like to get a wind turbine, but then I started going on the Internet and realized there was more to the story.”
Raudel, que en el conocidísimo tema “Decadencia” le puso música a las angustias de muchos cubanos, es ahora el protagonista de este filme en blanco y negro: “Despertar”. En la pantalla aparece un hombre que habla, ama, opina; alguien que aborda temas como el racismo, el estado de la salud pública o la situación constructiva de su vivienda… No hay llamados a la violencia social ni mensajes de odio; tampoco incitaciones a una revuelta popular.
Directed by filmmaker Nicolas Entel, the movie features interviews with Sebastian Marroquin (Juan Pablo Escobar) and his mother, and never-before-revealed home movies, photographs and audio recordings from the Escobar family archive. Marroquin, who changed his name and fled Colombia after his father was gunned down in 1993, grapples with the impossible task of reconciling the conflicting roles of his father: the doting family man he still loves, and the stone-hearted criminal who publicly threatened his enemies and their own families.