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cinema, by Luis Martínez

DOCUMENTARY 'CARELIA'

Few Spanish filmmakers so restless, so exciting, so international and, perhaps (and as always), as little known as Andrés Duque. Well, now, and thanks to Margins (which is an online festival and distributor ), it's time to discover it, rediscover it or simply remember it. Karelia: international with monumentit is an immersive, hard and deeply poetic journey to the bottom of a region as magical as it is cursed from the confines of Europe. Between Finland and Russia, a family survives, inheriting all the scars and forgetfulness after World War II. Between the Stalinist purges and soulless globalization, resist a culture that is myth, legend and memory. The result in a hypnotic and sleepwalking cinema with the privilege of the unique, the ungraspable, the true. Incidentally, you can also see Oleg and the rare arts , The Bartleby Constellation , Parallel 10 and Iván Z. That is, the entire filmography of an irrefutable creator.

DOCUMENTARY / 'WILD SESSION'

And since pieces and protagonists unjustly forgotten, or not taken into account as it deserves, Spanish cinema is about nothing better than recovering Wild Session , the chronicle of the exploitation exploitation production . The film by Julio César Sánchez and Paco Limón recovers with more than affection (perhaps devotion) sacred names such as Jordi Grau, Eugenio Martín, Jesús Franco or Juan Piquer Simón. We are talking about a cinema that gave rise to miracles like Panic in the Trans-Siberian . In Filmin.

DOCUMENTARY / 'SCREWBALL'

The biggest scandal in baseball history told by the largest collection of idiots that the sport has given as a whole. That is already idiocy. The dramatizations with children, simply great. It is signed by Billy Corben on Netflix.

Literature, by Manuel Llorente

FIGHTING ON AND OFF THE COURT / 'OPEN' BY ANDRE AGASSI

He had a crest in a Mohican plan, he was caught smoking what he should not, he married Brooke Shields, he lost finals without knowing how, the depression destroyed him ... but he was reborn: he went on to win up to eight Grand Slam tournaments. Once retired, Agassi told JR Moehringer everything (everything is everything). Result: a book that cannot be left for its sincerity, both in failures and in good times ("as much as you win, if you are not the last to win you are a loser") because it shows a sport inside (advertising contracts, travel, training), the loneliness of one man versus another in strenuous battles. And because it is for all audiences, whether they love sports or not.

And already put, a literary delight: Tennis as a religious experience of David Foster Wallace, with two long reports: a Nadal-Federer match and the US Open seen with different eyes. It takes you off the track.

OTHER CONFINAMIENTOS 'LOS TOPOS' LEGUINECHE / TORBADO

In 1969 Franco proclaimed an amnesty, as a result of which many republicans came out of their hiding places but others did not believe the siren songs. Jesús Torbado and Manuel Leguineche published this book in 1977 with 17 disarming cases, such as that of Protasio Montalvo (38 years hidden in Cercedilla), who was a model for the sculptor Benlliure (his son wanted to take money from his history); or Juan Rodríguez Aragón, 31 years old next to an orchard in San Fernando (Cádiz), who was a novelist rather than fled; or Manuel Serrrano Ruiz, from Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real), 13 years old in white, forgotten even by the woman he picked up from a brothel. Like La trinchera infinita, by Goenaga / Garaño / Arregui, with Antonio de la Torre and Belén Cuesta. Other confinements.

Music / by Pablo Gil

CONCERT / ONE WORLD TOGETHER AT HOME

Eight hours of performances by more than 100 musicians went a long way. The One World Together At Home television event, broadcast Saturday night to support coronavirus-fighting workers and raise funds in that fight, can be viewed in full or with segmented videos of each song on YouTube. from the NGO Global Citizen. The Rolling Stones each playing from home for Zoom You can't always get what you want , Lady Gaga recreating a standard classic to raise your spirits, Smile ; Billie Eilish with her brother Finneas adapting another classic, Sunny ; Taylor Swift very intimate on the piano playing Soon you'll get better , Stevie Wonder honoring Bill Withers with Lean on me ; Paul McCartney dedicating Lady Madonna of the Beatles to public health workers in memory of her mother, a nurse during World War II; Elton John in the garden with a grand piano attacking I'm still standing ... Anyway , there is a choice.

BOB DYLAN / 'I CONTAIN MULTITUDES'

Eight years without releasing a song and it's been two in less than a month. The Literature Nobel Prize winner takes one of Walt Whitman's most popular verses, "I Contain Multitudes," to compose a laconic and apparently confessional piece by which he slips William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, the Rolling Stones, Anna Frank, Indiana Jones , Beethoven and Chopin. A preciousness.

FIONA APPLE / 'FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS'

Nostalgic 90s sigh with the return of Fiona Apple. His first album in eight years is a work of brutal honesty recorded in isolation that the Anglo-Saxon press has elevated as a masterpiece.

Series, by Luis Alemany

MYSTERY / 'THE TWILIGHT ZONE'

Every few years, a novel falls into our hands based on The Unknown Dimension , the 1960s series created and presented by Rod Serling. Rodrigo Fresán used to talk about her a lot in Mantra and his friend Alan Pauls used it in The Past. How not to be curious? We have good and bad news. The bad: there is no way to see The unknown dimension, the fetén, on Spanish platforms. And the good ones: there is a recent remake available on Syfy that works well as a kind of Black mirror that doesn't rattle the viewer.

CLASSICS / 'RETURN TO BRIDESHEAD' / 'M * A * S * H'

Another series that is not in the legal showcase and that some of us long for every day when it comes to applause is M * A * S * H , with its military doctors and nurses. They were coiled, libertine and disbelieving, but at the moment of truth, they acted with extreme morality. The girl was called Morritos Calientes (that doesn't look good anymore) and Alan Alda was great. But M * A * S * H is not for the good (yes for the bad ), and its yearners settle for his contemporary Return to Brideshead (Filmin). Maybe it's because between Alan Alda and Jeremy Irons there is an air of family. One opinion: These yesteryear series have something serene about them, free of current visuals, which is appreciated.

ADAPTATION 'HOWARDS END'

We start with literature and in literature we end. Brideshead appears on Filmin in a funny category called Tea and Pasta that also includes a new Howards End signed by Kenneth Lonergan ( Manchester by the Sea ) and based on EMFoster's The Mansion . It has everything that anyone can expect from a series like this: contained and naturalistic interpretations, beautiful architecture, very hidden tensions ... Not bad for the spirit.

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