Archive for 'Film'
El dia que no naci
por Ricardo Segreda “El día que no nací” es una auspiciosa primera película de Florian Cossen, un joven cineasta que confronta un difícil tema histórico con valor y compasión. Aunque la película no es [...]
Un cuento chino
por Rick Segreda El comienzo de “Un cuento chino” es uno de los más excepcionales que he experimentado en una película. Una joven pareja china va en un barco, dando muestras de mutuo cariño. [...]
The Artist
Review by Rick Segreda With its triumph at the Oscars, “The Artist” has finally capped an incredible year since its premiere last May at the Cannes Film Festival, with multiple awards across the globe from a [...]
The Rum Diary
By Laura Burgoine The beauty of every Hunter Thompson story is the author’s overpowering presence within the narrative. The American journalist was a master of the subjective, first-person writing style that would later become world renowned [...]
Mao’s Last Dancer
One of my coworkers is a Chinese guy who in his youth had been a red guard. Most Americans would not what that means but when he told me that it sent a shudder down my [...]
Woody Allen’s "Midnight in Paris" (Medianoche en París)
Living here in Chile I have grown weary of standard American Hollywood films. There are a few art film houses here but they show films in French or German or whatever with subtitles in Spanish and [...]
Film Review: 3:34 Earthquake in Chile
The time 3:34 AM is fixed in the mind of Chileans for that is the time on February 27 when the Great Earthquake of 2010 rocked the country. The jolt was so severe that is shifted [...]
The Gringo and the Harvest
Fernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison
Thought-provoking...
Give me a Grandparent
I am blessed with 7 grandchildren. I am making copies of this poem t
Give me a Grandparent
As I spend more and more time with more and more wonderfully different
George Orwell’s other Novels
In Latin America, kids don't read Orwell. I wish they did.
George Orwell’s other Novels
Animal Farm and 1984 are about any kind of dictatorship, not just comm