Posts Tagged with ‘Spain’
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1898 – Spain’s Last Men in the Philippines,
30 Jun 2017I happened across Salvador Calvo‘s, 2017 movie 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines / 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas …
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The Starched Blue Skies of Spain – a Remembrance by Josephine Herbst
02 Jul 2016The Starched Blue Skies Of Spain by Josephine Herbst is a small, mostly overlooked gem of reportage/memoir from the Civil…
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….
02 Feb 2016The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every…
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Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle
15 Jan 2016Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle Walking through Spain on knotted, riven knees toes soaked in pain backs bent to the…
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Old School, New School — Detectives in Post-Franco Spain
19 Oct 2015Marshland (La Isla Minima) by Spanish director Alberto Rodriguez laces a sharply honed policía procesal (sadistic serial killer included) with traces from Spain’s recent fascist…
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Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
16 Jan 2015Just saw this a second time. Nothing changes in the review! It’s out now on the regular circuit… Stop the…
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The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th
18 Oct 2013The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades. I spent a very fruitful year in…
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To A Very Young Lady, Separated — A Poem, Jaime Gil de Biedma
25 Mar 2013To A Very Young Lady, Separated In the year since you married, sweet beautiful breasts, you have found the fruits…
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Message of Love from Valdemar Gris — Miguel Labordeta
29 Jul 2012MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM VALDEMAR GRIS by Miguel Labordeta From my own man sadness wrenched out in bits of bitter…
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The Mule – A Novel from Spain
08 Mar 2012Spain was the country of some former life of mine, I’m sure. I loved living there as a younger man…
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Princesas a Film From Madrid
11 Dec 2010It’s rare to find ordinary working folks as the subjects of serious, well-done movies and even rarer when those workers…
