Spain’s film dubbing: ghost of a fascist past must be laid to rest
Failure to use original sound in movies is bad for cinema fans and their language skills.
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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?
Catalan cuisine faces the future by returning to its roots
In recent years, Catalonia’s chefs have become renowned across Spain and around the world for their molecular gastronomy. But many chefs in the north-eastern region are now moving in a more traditional direction.
Art not Bombs
The sculptures of Eduardo Chillida and Jorge Oteiza manage the remarkable feat of taming emptiness.
The Outsiders!
The music of Iberia has the strongest of identities, yet it has absorbed many influences over the decades – and become a powerful influence itself.
Wilco’s Spanish honeymoon
When everyone loves your favourite band, you start to hanker for just a little bit of dissent.
The man who knew Fidel Castro, Warhol and Franco’s Spain
Waldo Díaz-Balart used to be married to the sister of Cuba’s revolutionary former leader. But he remembers with more fondness his stint in 1960s New York, where he lived before settling in Madrid to develop his career as an abstract artist.
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.
Balagueró hits top horror form with ‘Mientras duermes’
The director of ‘Rec’ takes a leaf out of the masters’ book with a psycho-killer thriller that won’t let you sleep.
