Films and more: películas, teatro y más

How many love stories arrives every weekend at cinemas? How many say that it's catching, sensitive, emotional,...? How many times is true? Really few. Most of the times the small movies hidden in the hoardings are the good ones, but it's true that sometimes are like the other ones but with a low budget for advertisement and a indie touch. Eighteen years ago, in 1995, arrived at cinemas Before Sunrise , a small story with two almost-unknown actors, Julie Delpy  and Ethan Hawke , directed by an almost-novel director, Richard Linklater . The three of them was the creators of that movie who told the encounter of Jesse and Céline in a train in Europe. He is from Chicago, she from Paris. Both live a short love story of 105 minutes (the length of the film), a night in Vienna that starts and ends there. It was a small phenomenon. The simplicity (or not) of the plot was so realistic, without any expectations or relevancy, that not only capture the attention of the spectator, their...

The world needs a hero. The news are worst everyday, humans can't stop fighting between each others, and the movies can see that. And a director more than the rest: Christopher Nolan . After his Batman that talk to the world about nuclear weapons and nihilistic terrorism, the author has decide to co-write and produce the story of another superhero well known for the audience: Superman. Maybe because be the director of two reboots is a mess, or the huge responsibility of be a father of two superheroes is too much for a human being, the case is he tries to stay in the back. But he can't. His signature is in every single frame, line and deep thoughts of this Men of Steel  even if the credits say is directed by Zack Snyder  (the man behind another epic movie 300 ). The deep of this new Superman is there because Nolan  has decided as he decided than for the action shots  Snyder  was the perfect director. Why I say that? Obviously, because as we saw in the re...

Insensibles  podría referirse al espectador medio de nuestro país que aún sigue teniendo cierto complejo de lo que el cine español puede ofrecer. Por mucho que esté cada día se esté esforzando más en crear grandes producciones, desarrollar un cine comercial para adolescentes (la calidad ya es más dudosa), cine independiente reconocido en varios festivales y, recientemente en sumergirse en el cine de género. Y realmente, ciertos films y directores son un auténtico descubrimiento con potencial. Juan Carlos Medina  sin duda, apunta muchas maneras. Con su primer largometraje, Insensibles , demuestra que ha bebido del mejor género fantástico, ese que España ya vivió con Jesús Franco  y que Guillermo del Toro  vino a rescatar con su Laberinto del fauno , además de tantos y tantos otros que han ido pasando desapercibidos. ¿A que me refiero cuando digo que ha recuperado lo mejor del fantástico? El espectador no instruido puede pensar que cualquier película que tiene ...

There's a small problem in Behind the candelabra . The latest work directed by Steven Soderbergh  it's just a tv-movie for the HBO channel. Not a film for the cinemas. With all the admired tv-series it could be hard to understand why this is a problem. The excellent qualities of this shows or tv-series are designed exclusively for the tv spectators. An audience that doesn't pay (or not to much) to see what it's on the tv. The want quality but they not required perfection, even when some shows they offer it. The stereotype of a tv-series, and more if it's a biopic it's simple: it has to be emotional, it has to be tough or sensitive, tell us about a life problem to fight (drugs, poverty, fame, illness,... all together). The spectator doesn't require a fidelity of the facts if the show satisfy them expectations. Behind the candelabra  does it. And does it well. It has all the components, plus a good budget, a good director who use all his skills to do a dig...