#nicaraguan cinema

[jafar-panahi]

Daughter of Rage (2022 🇳🇮) directed by Laura Baumeister de Montis, the first Nicaraguan woman to direct a narrative film

[volturiwolf]

Thank you @esskuesli for the tag 💜💜

Last song?

Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä (chosen by my random JO mix playlist on Spotify)

Favourite colour?

Purple 💜💜💜

Currently watching?

I'm still on the last episode of "Sex Education", season 4 episode 8 (and then I'll have to finish Big Mouth and Selling Sunset before my subscription ends)

Last movie?

I think it was probably Barbie on an oper-air cinema. I don't remember if I saw a specific movie online.

Sweet/spicy/savoury?

I'd say all three, but I have to cut on sweets because I'm pro-diabetic (or is it pre-diabetic in English??) (like a stage before diabetes), so no sweet 🥹🥹🥹 and my stomach has been upset the past few weeks so I can't enjoy spicy anymore (though I still eat as far as garlic, onion, and such. So, I have to say savoury because there are a lot more options in this category.

Relationship status?

Single Pringle, and I'm actually okay with that now (because I almost got in a relationship recently and thank Jan I didn't because he had a lot of issues that he was projecting on me).

Current obsessions?

Definitely Joker Out and Käärijä. More Joker Out than Käärijä honestly 🥹😇 (if you asked me 6 months ago I'd definitely say Käärijä and I wouldn't have said a thing about JO). This is Jan's fault. 😩❤️‍🔥

Last thing you googled?

My phone says I googled maps (and my laptop probably that or a Nicaraguan OH) because I needed to be sure the shop I wanted to go to was open today and the time they closed (I GOT BRACELET MATERIALS!!!).

Tagging (if you feel like it) @aladywithabat @leopardom @karvapallero11 @fifi-goes-to-hollywood

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazilians on Bolsonaro's first year: 'If you disagree, you're seen as a traitor'

Six prominent voices from the arts, media, diplomacy and the Amazon give their views on the far-right president’s opening 12 months

Djamila Ribeiro, feminist philosopher, publisher and activist

“It has been such a tough year – above all when it comes to public security. We feel really afraid of the intensifying repression of the black population and the increasing militarisation of the favelas. The number of black people being murdered in poor communities has increased, as has the number of indigenous leaders being killed.

“If there’s a positive side to this government, it’s that issues of race and gender have never been talked about so much. This is now a mainstream debate in a country like Brazil – a country founded on the myth of racial democracy that denied the existence of racism for so long. This debate already existed. But now people are discussing and speaking out about these issues like never before.

Patrícia Campos Mello – award-winning journalist from Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo newspaper

There hadn’t been any kind of censorship since the end of the military dictatorship [in 1985] – and now we’ve started to see a gradual erosion of freedom of expression. The other day I was talking to Nicaraguan and Venezuelan colleagues and they told me: ‘Four years ago, we were going through exactly what you’re going through. This is how it begins.’

“The aggressive messages and the fake news never stop. This is our new normal – especially for female journalists. I’ve become used to being called a whore. Each time I’m about to publish an article that’s critical of the government, I prepare myself because I know the next day will be hell.”

Celso Amorim – former foreign minister, 2003-10

“Terrible things happened back then in Brazil. But our diplomacy was more skilful, more cautious and sought dialogue whenever possible. Now it has embarked upon an all-out ideological war against everything that is not western or Christian – according to their conception.

Gustavo Bebianno – former Bolsonaro ally

“He started to see himself as a some sort of mythological entity, blessed by God. He became extremely arrogant and wouldn’t listen to anyone.

“You can agree with him about 99 things. But if you disagree on one and argue or try to offer another point of view, you are seen as a traitor. His administration became a sect of fanatics – and I’m not a fanatic.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami – indigenous intellectual, shaman and author

“Indigenous people in Brazil feel a lot more fear under this president. This year, many illegal miners have entered our land. They pollute our rivers and kill our fish. Our people are starting to get malaria again.

“Bolsonaro is a garimpeiro [illegal miner]. He wants more land and fewer Indians. After he took power in January, he attacked us and said he no longer wants to recognise indigenous reserves. He calls us lazy and says we produce nothing. That’s exactly the argument the illegal miners use."

Karine Teles �� actor

“For Brazilian cinema, 2019 represented a gigantic pause. Nothing advanced. Everything was suspended. This is a massive loss for an industry that employed more than 300,000 people. It’s not just a cultural loss, it’s an economic loss too. So many families no longer have a way of supporting themselves.

“The new government admits it wants to filter the content being produced with public money. I think it’s an attempt to restrict the content of films. But our country is still a democracy where things work in a certain way. No leader – a mayor, a governor, or president – has the right to impose their personal tastes on the entire population.

Continue reading.

[swldx]

BBC 0431 9 Oct 2022

9915Khz 0401 9 OCT 2022 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 45333. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z then ID@0359z pips and newsroom preview. @0401z World News anchored by Tom Watts. Russian divers will examine on Sunday the damage caused by a powerful blast on Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea that hit a prestigious symbol of Moscow's annexation of the peninsula and a key supply route to forces battling in southern Ukraine. Light traffic has resumed on Russia's only bridge to Crimea, hours after a huge blast brought down sections of the roadway. Iran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country's leader. 100 students were poisoned by an unidentified substance in a rural secondary school in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. A Palestinian opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem on Saturday night, killing a female Israeli soldier and wounding three other people. Hurricane Julia swept by just south of Colombia's San Andrés island Saturday evening soon after strengthening from a tropical storm, as Nicaraguans rushed to prepare for the storm's arrival overnight on their Caribbean coast. Philippine police killed three inmates, including a top Abu Sayyaf militant, after they stabbed a jail officer and briefly held a detained former opposition senator in a failed attempt to escape from the police headquarters in the capital region. Austrians are voting in a presidential election that is expected to deliver the incumbent another term in office. Alexander Van der Bellen's six opponents are trailing him in the polls. Cuban actor Mario Balmaseda died at the age of 81, eternally admired for his great work in theater, cinema and television. @0406z "Newsroom" begins. Backyard gutter antenna, Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 231.

[bisluthq]

Okay so I read the BBC review and wow. It certainly sounds quite different from what I thought it would be, especially bc of the modern day pandemic twist. I did expect it to have murders and violence and a lot of sex and the characters saying stupid things that don't make sense bc they're in a very shitty situation that feels like hell. However, I thought it was gonna be clear that it was set in Nicaragua, so that's interesting; maybe Claire wanted it to be solely a romantic thriller and not in any way a political comment, which ones does gather a bit from reading the book (or maybe I'm biased bc it's an issue very close to my reality and certainly very political). But I'm so intrigued! My sis is very into European cinema (hates MCU and all that) and she's sort of gotten me into it a bit ngl, so I'm actually excited to see how it turned out.

Not sure how I feel about it being set in present day tho. I wanted the setting to be as it was in the book, I think it would've been nice to see some representation of the situation in 1980s Nicaragua just because those people really went through the most horrible things, and it would've been good to see it portrayed and acknowledged in a film even if there's no mayor political commentary and the plot remains a romantic thriller. The Contras revolution was very trascendent to the present political and social reality in Nicaragua and in Central America in general (El Salvador and Honduras were involved to a point as well). Nearly half a million of Costa Rica's 5 million population are Nicaraguans who have inmigrated as a result of the inestability that still reigns in their country as a result of these events.

But like I say, I totally understand wanting your art to be completely apolitical, it's only fair and it's good to have art that is just art you know. So honestly I'm very excited to see the film! Sounds fascinating, people are giving such polar opposite takes on it😂 maybe I'll change my mind about the present day thing after I watch it

I’m amped to watch it!

[filmsnobreviews]

Check our our review of ¡Las Sandinistas! Uncovers a watershed moment in history when a group of Nicaraguan women shattered barriers to lead rebel troops in battle and reshape their country with landmark social reforms during 1979's Sandinista Revolution and the ensuing US-backed Contra War - only to face renewed marginalization by their male peers once the wars ended. Now, 35 years later, amid the worst levels of violence against women in Nicaraguan history, these same women take to the streets to lead the popular movements for equality and democracy once again. #movie #cinema #film #lassandanistas #nicaragua #nicaragua🇳🇮 #documentary #lvfilmfest #lasvegasfilmfestival #moviereview #filmsnobreviews https://www.instagram.com/p/BxbPfculp2r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a28cau8gz8qr

[strongjooheon]

im literally in bed doing nothing so i should do this while i can

tagged by @kihyuninq​ thanks hun <333

1. Nickname: Dawny

2. Gender: female

3. Star Sign: Pisces

4. Height: 5′5″ (168 cm)

5. Time: 10:49 pm

6. Birthday: March 4th

7. Favorite Bands/Groups: this is gonna be so long omg. Monsta X, KNK, VAV, Block B, SVT, iKON, NCT(all units), K.A.R.D, 2PM, SHINee, DAY6, Victon, VIXX, GOT7, SISTAR (i cri), CNBLUE, SF9, EXO,  Bigbang, BTS, BTOB, B.A.P, etc. im just gonna stop here im sorry

8. Favorite Solo Artists: HA. THIS ISNT GONNA BE SHORT EITHER Jay Park, Eddy Kim, Roy Kim, Sam Kim (all the kims), Zion T, Crush, Simon D, Loco, DEAN, Zico (he counts right?), I’M (not i.m, but you should look him up! as well as these next 2), Owol, Ovan, Heize, Brother SU, Mad Clown, Yoo Seung Woo, etc. there’s so many amazing artists holy and theyre all my faves

9. Song Stuck In My Head: Happy - WJSN -.-

10. Last Movie I Watched: lmao wtf are movies HA i only know video games i think i saw 5 minutes of Avatar in the hotel room from my road trip

11. Last Show I Watched: How I Met Your Mother (yet again in the hotel room)

12. When Did I Create My Blog: 8 months ago?? archive says December 14th 2016 o.o

13. What Do I Post: mostly mx (tbh jooheon and i.m with sprinkles of wonho and shownu + specks of hyunwon, minhyuk and kihyun rofl) but im 40% multifandom so chances are im reblogging basically anything concerning nct, exo, knk and svt + specifically namjoon or jin of bts

14. Last Thing I Googled: VAV Flower (you) lyrics

15. Do You Have Other Blogs: i have a theme testing blog that is really just an excuse to keep the first url i wanted

16. Do You Get Asks: not really tbh, only a few when i do ask games

17. Why Did You Choose Your URL: because of Jooheons song Stay Strong and how much i love my bby and want him to be strong and face anything and everything with as much strength as he can

18. Following: 316 (shit thats a lot, my multifandom ass is a hoe)

19. Followers: 98 :> and i love every single one of you

20. Favorite Colors: blue, purple and black

21. Average Hours of Sleep: lol what’s sleep? never heard of it maybe 5 sometimes 12

22. Lucky Number: 4 :D

23. Instruments: i used to play the trombone in junior high?? i tried the guitar but i gave up :>

24. What Am I Wearing: uuuh, a shirt with an owl on it and sports shorts

25. How Many Blankets I Sleep With: 1

26. Dream Job: anything with computers tbh, but specifically maybe IT in a big company 

27. Dream Trip: around the world in 80 days 8D

28. Favorite Food: like, type? Chinese food, but i really love macaroni and mashed potatoes??

29. Nationality: Nicaraguan American??? (both my parents are from Nicaragua in central america but they moved to the u.s during the war, so i was born in the u.s. i know english mainly and spanish my mom taught at home)

30. Favorite Song Now: MIND CONTROL - TOPSECRET GUYS YOU GOTTA CHECK IT OUT, ITS SO CATCHY AND THE MV IS ADORABLY HILARIOUS

31. Name: Dawn on the internet rofl but my real name is Alexandra, i dont sue it online just cause it’s easier to use Dawn when that’s what i’ve used for the longest time

32. Orientation: straight as far as i know ;D

33. Relationship status: single af booooiiii that’s probably why holy

34. Biggest fear: not having a future :/

35. Fave movie: Anastasia

36. Fave fruit: peach

37. Fave season: spring baaaaabby

38. Fave flower: shit idk flowers, the classic rose it is

39. Fave scent: that brand new unopened album smell 8) jk i think its lavender or something

40. Fave animal: CATS <3333

41. Fave fictional character: The jooheon in my dreams probably the punisher

42. Favorite books: i dont read books any more but i sued to love the Maximum Ride series from James Patterson

43. Favorite beverage: Sprite or Boba

BTS themed asks: Would You Rather-  Monsta X themed asks: Would You Rather - (i decided to change it lmao)

- build a snowman with Jooheon OR have a snowball fight with Minhyuk  - get coffee with Wonho OR get ice-cream with Wonho - go to the cinema with Hyungwon OR the amusement park with Shownu - do a dance cover with Shownu OR sing a duet with kihyun - kiss Minhyuk OR cuddle Hyungwon - babysit with Kihyun OR dogsit with I.M - meet Minhyuk’s family OR have Wonho meet your family - film a commercial with Shownu OR film a sketch with Jooheon - hug Hyungwon OR hold hands with Kihyun  - go to paris with Minhyuk OR London with I.M - Film a drama with Jooheon OR do a photo shoot with Wonho - attend an award show with Kihyun OR wear couple t-shirts at the airport with Hyungwon - spend a lazy day with Hyungwon OR explore a city with Jooheon - fall asleep next to Shownu OR wake up next to Wonho i legit just ruined myself - have a fun picnic with Minhyuk OR a fancy date with I.M - have Wonho serenade you OR have kihyun sing you to sleep - have a dance party with Jooheon OR sing karaoke with Hyungwon - go camping with Shownu and I.M OR go to the beach with Kihyun and Jooheon - have a sleep over with the hyung line OR a birthday party with the maknae line - celebrate Halloween with Jooheon, Minhyuk and Kihyun OR Christmas with Shownu, Wonho, I.M and Hyungwon

shit i made that so hard for myself

i tag: @floofta-x @icedwonho @wonhosflower @jooheonster @kittyminhyuk @sweetheartwonho @1changkyvn @shownx @sh0wnu @warmwonho​

[global-news-station]

Restaurants and churches will reopen in Italy on Monday as part of a fresh wave of lockdown easing in Europe, but rising coronavirus death tolls in Brazil, South Africa and other parts of the world showed the worst is still to come in many countries.

The relaxation of curbs in some places comes as governments around the world struggle to repair the vast economic damage unleashed by the pandemic, with Japan the latest to slump into a recession and the Fed warning of a severe US downturn as the global infection count topped 4.7 million.

But the World Health Organization has warned that reopening too quickly without a vaccine could trigger a second devastating wave of infections, and the body will host a virtual global health assembly this week to help chart a course out of the crisis.

Once the worst-hit country in the world, Italy on Monday will take its latest step in a cautious, gradual return to normality, allowing businesses and churches to reopen after a two-month lockdown.

“I share the joy of those communities who can finally reunite as liturgical assemblies, a sign of hope for all society,” Pope Francis said on Sunday during his live-streamed prayer, with Saint Peter’s Basilica also throwing its door open to visitors.

The Vatican, an independent enclave in the heart of Rome, has applied the same anti-virus measures as Italy, which imposed strict lockdowns after a dizzying rise in COVID-19 deaths and infections that overwhelmed hospitals.

Businesses including restaurants, cafes, hairdressers, and stores will be allowed to re-open on Monday. Gyms, pools, cinemas and theatres are allowed to open on May 25.

Spain is also set to further ease its lockdown measures, while Germany has already taken several steps towards a reopening, including the resumption of its top football league — but with empty stadiums.

There was other welcome relief for Europeans on the weekend too, with people enjoying beaches in France, Greece and Italy, and Britons going to parks to bask in the sun.

– South America, Africa hit hard –

Despite the optimism in parts of Europe, the deadly pandemic remains on the march having claimed more than 315,000 lives, with worrying data from South America and Africa offering a reminder of the severity of the crisis.

Deaths in Brazil have risen sharply in recent days, and with more than 241,000 infections reached over the weekend, South America’s largest country now has the fourth-highest caseload in the world.

But President Jair Bolsonaro has been a staunch opponent of lockdowns, claiming they have unnecessarily hurt the Brazilian economy, but experts and regional leaders have warned that the healthcare infrastructure could collapse.

The far-right leader alongside several ministers greeted hundreds of his supporters in the capital Brasilia on Sunday in defiance of social distancing measures, telling the crowd that the virus restrictions were too much.

Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded more than half a million infections, with almost half of them from Brazil, and there is growing alarm about the impact of the virus on the least privileged in the region.

Ecuador reported the first COVID-19 case in one of its indigenous Amazon tribes, deepening the crisis in one of South America’s hardest-hit countries.

Rights groups in Nicaragua have accused the government of hiding the true number of COVID-19 cases by rushing burials.

Nicaraguan hospital staff have said the Nicaraguan health system is overwhelmed with patients suffering from respiratory illnesses, relatives say the bodies of loved ones are being carted off in pick-up trucks for “express burials” without their consent.

There was also grim data in Africa, where the number of infections rose rapidly.

South Africa on Sunday reported 1,160 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily number since the first case was recorded in March, taking the total to 15,515 — the highest on the continent.

In Asia, India extended its lockdown — the world’s biggest — to the end of May as it reported its biggest single-day jump in infections on Sunday.

– Deep economic pain –

The pandemic has left the world economy facing its worst downturn since the Great Depression, and governments are scrambling to figure out how long they can sustain lockdowns with no vaccine available.

There was yet more evidence of the deep economic damage done by the coronavirus on Monday, as Japan slid into its first recession since 2015 and some analysts predicted the worst is yet to come.

US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell warned the American economy — the world’s largest — is going to suffer a massive downturn.

“The data we’ll see for this quarter, which ends in June, will be very, very bad. There’ll be a big decline in economic activity, big increase in unemployment,” Powell said.

He added that a full recovery may not happen without a COVID-19 vaccine.

The post More easing in Europe but virus hits hard in S. America, Africa appeared first on ARY NEWS.

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[swipestream]

Cinema (The Right Geek): What I’m trying to say here is that I’m the audience for a female superhero like Captain Marvel. And yet – and yet! – I have no interest in seeing her new movie because her marketing campaign has been a trash fire of epic proportions. First of all, there’s the deeply stupid year-zero mentality.

  Writers (DMR Books): I first encountered Shea by way of the Cthulhu Mythos. I’d heard he was a good writer–this being in reference to his classic, Nifft the Lean–but I stumbled onto his Mythos novel, The Color Out of Time, first. The cover blurb made it sound cool, I was always in the market for good Mythos fiction, so I bought it.

  Fiction (Swords Sorcery Blogspot): For five blood-soaked chapters of C.S.Forester’s debut Horatio Hornblower novel, The Happy Return (1935) (Beat to Quarters in the US) the British frigate Lydia battles the Natividad, an old Spanish ship-of-the-line crewed by Nicaraguan rebels. For all of author Forester’s tremendous success at recreating the wooden world of King George’s navy during the Napoleonic Wars, it’s that battle, as presided over by the brooding Hornblower, that got me.

Fiction (Pulp Archivist): During a discussion of science fiction by C. S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, and Brian Aldiss, published as “Unreal Estate”, attempts to define the genre. While I lean towards the German view of science fiction, that of any adventure of the future, I have to admit the Lewis has a point. There is something to the English and American traditions that demands something more, despite how popular futurist adventures can be.

  Writers (The Mixed DM): In addition to old-school roleplaying games, I enjoy reading fantasy and science fiction stories. Unfortunately, there is a lot of garbage out there, so finding the good stuff can be hard.

Luckily, there are some authors out there writing great fantasy and science fiction. One of the authors bringing us good fiction is Kit Sun Cheah.

When I saw that he was doing a Kickstarter for a trilogy of novels that had an OSR influence, I asked him for an interview about the novels. Without further ado, here is the interview.

  Fiction (Track of Words): For this instalment I spoke to veteran Black Library author James Swallow about The Buried Dagger, his latest Horus Heresy novel – the 54th and final book in the main-range series! As befits the book that closes off the Horus Heresy this is a somewhat longer interview than usual, so settle down with a mug of recaff and enjoy!

  Cinema (Akratic Wizardy): As noted at this blog previously, Amazon Prime is coming out with a television series set in Middle-earth. Rotten Tomatoes has posted an article that goes over everything that is known publicly about the series at this time (and also engages in a fair bit of fun speculation).

  Gaming (Rleyh Reviews): Although the publication of Behind Enemy Lines by FASA in 1982 was the first roleplaying set during World War II, it would not be until the year 2001, the sixtieth anniversary of the United States of America’s entry into that conflict, that the hobby industry really became interested in the period with Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc.’s Weird War II: Blood on the Rhineand Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 from Arc Dream Publishing. Both though added an extra genre to World War II, horror and superheroes respectively, whereas Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS World War II line kept it purely historical for the most part…

  Gaming (OSR News): There’s another, different OSR sale at DTRPG right now. I picked up a bunch of random stuff.

Official GW3 Cleansing War of Garik Blackhand –  Gamma World module about his fight vs the cult of Mr. Clean. $4.99 and 38 pages, also available in print.

Polyhedron 26 and 27 – 99 cents each. Actually has something interesting, what’s happening in Gamma World on Mars (both issues).

  Anime (Rawly Nyanzi): I’ve heard so much about the films of Hayao Miyazaki, but I had only seen Spirited Away prior to this one (and that was a long time ago.) Out of curiosity, I decided to watch his 1997 movie Princess Mononoke, which I remember the media speaking highly of when I was a kid. At the end of it, I came away quite impressed. Before reading anyone else’s thoughts on the movie, I decided to get my own thoughts down.

    Fiction Review (Catholic Reads): Ready for the end of the world, battle mechs, and body swaps? This collection of short stories has it all.

Strange Matter is a collection of short stories from one of my favorite contemporary authors. Niemeier has a range of talent, covering various genres in this volume including sci-fi and horror. It ranges from the whimsical to the terrifying, to the thought provoking.

  Fiction (Western Genre Musings): This 1893 work of historical theorizing offered as “The Frontier Hypothesis” has been influential on many historians, authors, and those with a libertarian bent.

I wager those with an attraction to the Western genre will find much food for thought in Turner’s essay.

I am struck by much of significance within it that I offer several lengthy examples below.

    Weapons (Paul Bishop): TV Westerns also had a passion for celebrity guns. Like celebrity horses, these gimmick guns were given to TV’s Western heroes in another attempt to make each show stand out from the competition. Many of the hybrid six-guns and rifles used to establish law and order on Hollywood’s backlots and sound stages were made by Ed Stembridge’s Gun Room at Paramount Studios.

  T.V. (Red Shirts Always Die): Cosmic horror, which is also known as Lovecraftian Horror, exists at a gloomy intersection of science fiction and horror.  Based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a storyteller who himself is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Gene Roddenberry in some respects, cosmic horror depicts people facing abysmal existential dread.  The strange happenings and encounters with mysterious and horrific beings serve only to remind the characters that they are merely insignificant humans.

    published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames

[01sentencereviews]

”neighboring scenes: new latin american cinema” - lightning falls behind q&a (3 / 4 / 18) w/ adriana alvarez

adriana alvarez and natalia arias, the film’s lead actors, were also producers on the film. they originally acted together in esteban ramírez's gestation (2009) and since then have wanted to produce a movie together. they began to become tired of playing the same type of distressing roles, often auditioning against one another for the same parts, so they decided they needed to depict stronger characters with more agency; women who were more in control of their actions, decisions, and consequences. 

alvarez and arias were familiar with julio hernández cordón’s previous work and had known him for almost a decade, so they knew they wanted to reach out to him early on in their search for a writer/director. cordón’s previous film, i promise you anarchy (2015), was a notably larger production made in mexico, so alvarez and arias feared cordón wouldn’t want to go “backwards” and work on a smaller film again, but cordón accepted their offer, just as long as he had full creative control over the script.

alvarez was originally offered a role in i promise you anarchy (2015), but she had to decline because she was studying in nyc.

though cordón wrote an official screenplay, improv was heavily used throughout the film. cordón was described as “sensitive” by alvarez, meaning to her that he was always more focused on his immediate “ideas” rather than whatever was on the schedule. cordón is used to working with nonprofessional actors and because alvarez and arias were the producers on set (meaning their wasn’t any “higher up” person they needed to immediately answer to), improv became more than encouraged. 

i didn’t initially pick up this info while watching the film because i wasn’t familiar with the history or commentary, but during the q&a, alvarez clarified how much this movie is really about the ongoing struggle between costa rica and nicaragua.

people from nicaragua immigrate to costa rica, often forced into isolated communities while working more labor intensive jobs. alvarez compared it to the relationship mexico has with the united states. 

the plot of the film centers around two no-longer-teenagers-not-yet-adults discovering a decaying body of a nicaraguan in the trunk of one of their grandfather’s cars. crimes against nicaraguan people in costa rica are not taken as seriously by their authorities, so deadly crimes often lead to little or no answers. costa rica views the conflict between the two nations very superficially and ignorantly, like it is unimportant to them and their country. because of this attitude, cordón, an outsider himself (born in the u.s. to a mexican father and a guatemalan mother), subtlety incorporated this type of mindset and mood throughout the film. 

[jafar-panahi]

La Yuma (2009 🇳🇮) directed by Florence Jaugey

[caredogstips]

Bowie and the missing soundtrack: the amazing fib behind The Man Who Fell to Earth

David Bowie is rumoured to have written a score to the sci-fi classic thats locked up in some grave. But the truth is much stranger committing screaming maids, boozy melee and coke-induced sounding hallucinations

There is a great mystery at the very heart of The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roegs cult film: its soundtrack. There is a prolonged report that long-lost music for the film recorded by its sun David Bowie sits somewhere in a vault. Theres merely one trouble: Bowies soundtrack to The Man Who Fell to Earth doesnt actually dwell. The music that appears in the film released for the first time next month as part of a collectors edition by Studio Canal and a vinyl carton to be prepared by Universal was written and produced by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.

The never-before-told story of its formation is almost as improbable as Roegs film. Signed to both idol in and write an original soundtrack for the cinema, Bowie, then at the top of his early renown, intended to record the music once killing had completed, envisioning it as the follow-up to his album Young Americans. But he began working instead on Station to Station, while deep into his cocaine and milk phase. After three months, he had managed to complete exclusively five or six lines in a ludicrous mishmash of styles from country rock to instrumentals on African thumb pianos and atonal electronic music.

The British arranger Paul Buckmaster worked on the demos with Bowie at his rented house in Bel Air, and at Cherokee Studios in Hollywood. Although they had composed the music playing along to a videotape of the movie , none of it was actually synched to the picture, interpreting it almost unusable. I repute[ Roeg] just got these disparate parts and likely said, What the hell is this? responds Buckmaster.

Finding himself without a soundtrack weeks from the movies projected premiere in March 1976, Roeg turned to the Mamas and Papas songwriter. Phillips third spouse, Genevieve Waite( a South African actor and simulate ), had introduced him to Roeg in 1970, when the director was in LA to work on Performance.

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Four years later, the director come here for Phillips and Waite performing a musical-comedy double act at Reno Sweeney cabaret club in Greenwich Village. Subsequentlies, he offered Waite the role of Mary Lou in The Man Who Fell to Earth opposite Bowie the capacity that eventually went to Candy Clark. He told John he wanted me to do it, she announces. But Phillips had other ideas. He had written his own sci-fi themed rock musical for his wife to star in, called Space, which was about to go into product. John spoke, Genevieves going to be working on the Broadway show. And he and Nic Roeg were so wino they had this terrible fight and knocked over tables and stuff.

The posting for the film Photograph: Everett/ REX/ Shutterstock

Those kind of episodes with Nic is somewhat I wouldnt announce frequent but “theyre not” sporadic, adds Graeme Clifford, who edited The Man Who Fell to Earth. Everybody who knows Nic, at one point or the other, has got into a wheeling around on the flooring fight with him. If John Phillips had not had a fight with him, Id enunciate, Oh really?

The next time the pair converged, Phillips was living in Malibu. We went to Candy Clarks mansion, he said in an interview before his death in 2001. Nic was going with her at the time. Roeg depicted him a cut of the cinema on a small portable TV. I merely adored the movie the moment I find it. He was unsure why Roeg was asking him to work on the soundtrack when Bowie was the obvious option, but took the number of jobs regardless, aiming to create a real American rating with banjos and folk and stone.

Phillips whose busines started in the late 1950 s in a doo-wop/ jazz vocal radical “ve called the” Smoothies, before he founded, first, tribe trio the Journeymen, then the Mamas and the Papas was steeped in American beginnings music. A musical chameleon like Bowie, he had moved effortlessly through a succession of styles, with a marked virtuosity, and has hitherto worked on soundtracks for Myra Breckinridge and Robert Altmans Brewster McCloud.

A musical chameleon John Phillips with his wife Genevieve Waite. Photograph: Allan Tannenbaum/ Getty Images

On arriving in London in 1976, faced with putting together a tally from scratch in an enormously short time, Phillips knew he necessity someone who could really play. That party was Mick Taylor, erstwhile guitarist for the Rolling Stones, who he considered the best guitar actor in the world.

They started work at Glebe Place, Phillips rented house in Chelsea. One daylight, Phillips recollected, Keith Richards stepped in and theres Mick Taylor standing here. Were playing guitar together. On looking Taylor, Richards give away a shriek. They both ice. They hadnt watched one another since Taylor had sauntered out on the Stones only over a year earlier. It was a little crabby, Phillips suggested.

Richards and Taylor reacted like pups circling. Keith broke the ice the only way he knew how: he grabbed a guitar and is participating in. We simply played old country chants, Phillips enunciated. Those is increasingly becoming the basis for the music Phillips recorded for the film, which included originals like Boys from the South, as well as energetic handles of Hank Snows Rhumba Boogie and Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys Bluegrass Breakdown.

Rude awakening Bianca Jagger. Picture: ANL/ REX/ Shutterstock

Some of the music was very improvised, suggests Richard Goldblatt, one of the engineers who worked with Phillips. The transcriptions were quite innovative. Despite being under gigantic pressure to develops the music in a matter of weeks, Phillips continued to lead a busy and complicated life of narcotic and sexual excess. After one hearing, he arrived back home around two in the morning. Knowing nobody there, he trod round to his sidekick Mick Jaggers house on Cheyne Walk, looking for his wife. Instead, he found Bianca Jagger and Liza Minnellis younger sister, Lorna Luft. Genevieve wasnt there and nor was Mick. We all sat around, drank wine-coloured and went pissed, told Phillips. I was playing the guitar, singing some hymns and substance. Eventually, Luft left and John and Bianca who had enjoyed a brief affair in 1970, before she met and married Jagger ended up in bed.

At some extent close to dawning, they both fell asleep. At the session the following morning, Phillips was a no-show. The musicians and operators all sat waiting. Someone echo Glebe Place to find out where he was. Waite took the announce. She went round to Cheyne Walk, figuring he might be there, talked the help into letting her in and was told “hes in” the bedroom with Bianca.

So we were awakened around 10.30 am, Phillips supposed. There was Genevieve, I know youre in there, you two. Oh God, here I am in Micks bed with Micks old lady. My old ladys outside, slamming on the door. There were Nicaraguan maids run down, screaming in Nicaraguan. Genevieve storms in the door and takes a move at Bianca. I sort of hold Genevieve back and take her out. She just passed down wall street. I had to go to work.

The final session for the score has just taken place in February, with the films world premiere at Leicester Square in London now only three weeks away. Phillips began to desegregate the racetracks so they could be laid into the revise. At that spot, answers Goldblatt, abruptly, he started to go a little singular. He could discover clicks and noises on the tape and, despite the engineers insistence that there was nothing there, insisted they do everything over. But their own problems persisted. By the fourth or fifth day, concepts were pretty tense between them. Then something snarled. He lost it for some reason, remarks Goldblatt, who trod out of its present session and rendered the next morning to learn hed been replaced by another engineer.

Goldblatt was later to indicate that the projectionist had gone into the toilets and all he could hear was mortal in the cubicle next to him smelling big smells. The shower break-dance Phillips had go take, almost at the end of every take, unexpectedly acquired appreciation. He was doing astounding amounts of coke. So much, Goldblatt speculates, that he was having auditory hallucinations. Rafe McKenna, deputy engineer, recollects Roeg coming to the studio to have a serious discussion with Phillips about his behaviour. Told him off, mostly, and articulated stop pissing off the engineers and get wise finished tonight.

The eleventh hour entreaty worked. The music just came piloting out of the studio and I remain it in, reads writer Graeme Clifford. Roeg testifies himself joyous with the music Phillips produced for the movie. It had a range of different calibers that I thought was rather interesting, he does. He truly was an individual composer.

The rebuilt The Man Who Fell to Earth is in UK cinemas on 9 September, when the soundtrack will also be available, and then on DVD and Blu-ray on 24 October.

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