Even Spanish TV feels the pain
State broadcaster RTVE warns that a 20-percent reduction in funding means an end to big-budget original programming and more repeats.
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Nick Lyne has lived in Madrid for the last twenty years.
During that time he's worked as a freelance as well as for the EFE news agency, the Foreign Trade Institute, Reuters, and El País, setting up their English language edition with the International Herald Tribune. He's also set up a number of English language publications, and was launch editor for the first Time Out guide.
It’s gonna be a love fest at the Goya awards
Expect few surprises when Spain’s film community gather to celebrate the best and the brightest. The main event will be a very public reconciliation between Pedro Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Academy.
Spain’s literary giants are lost in English translation
Three cheers for Javier Marías for making it into Penguin Modern Classics: the first Spanish writer to do so since Federico García Lorca. Isn’t it about time the English-speaking world woke up to the Spanish literature of the last 75 years?
Spain’s Civil War film canon needs new urgency
Plenty of excellent movies about this traumatic period in Spain’s history have been made. New drama ‘The Sleeping Voice’ isn’t one of them.
‘The Skin I Live In’: another Almodóvar masterpiece?
The Manchegan maestro has produced a tour de force, if you believe many reviewers. But they are ignoring the director’s failure to create genuine tension and his reliance on cinematic gimmicks.
Anarchy in the UK, headed Spain’s way soon
So far, Spain has been spared the kind of rioting and violence that has plagued the streets of Britain this last week and on other occasions. But Spaniards shouldn’t assume that there is something special about their country that will protect them; the same social and economic forces that have shaped British society are at work here too.
Mission: Impossible, the Valley of the Fallen
A religious shrine or a monument to hate? The Valley of the Fallen, which houses General Franco’s tomb, has loomed over the landscape outside Madrid and Spain’s collective memory for decades. Now, 36 years after the death of the dictator, the government has appointed a commission to decide the site’s fate.
The Spanish holocaust
British historian Paul Preston’s latest book, ‘The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination during the Civil War and After’, makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Spanish Civil War, and the systematic policy of rape, murder and repression carried out by Franco’s forces.
Sábato, Argentina’s contradictory literary giant
Despite his shifting allegiances, the late Argentine writer had one constant throughout his life: exploring mankind’s efforts to understand a baffling world.
Garzón appeals to Strasbourg over prosecution for Franco-era probe
Spain’s best-known and most divisive judge is hoping that the European Court of Human Rights will ensure justice prevails and that charges against him for daring to investigate crimes committed by the Franco dictatorship are dropped.
