Federico García Lorca’s Remains to Be Exhumed
Javier Beltrán as Federico García Lorca, Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes
According to reports, forensic experts have begun digging at a mass unmarked grave in search of the remains of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (right), executed in the early days of Spain’s bloody 1936-39 civil war.
The work is taking place on a remote hillside area near Granada, in Spain’s southern province of Andalusia. The assassins were members of a militia loyal to right-wing Gen. Francisco Franco. Approximately 500,000 people were killed during the civil war, which erupted after Franco, abetted by Spain’s business establishment and the Catholic Church, rebelled against the elected leftist Republican government. (Guillermo del Toro captures the brutality of this dark period [...]
by Andre Soares | October 28, 2009
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Tags: Federico García Lorca, Francisco Franco, Gay Interest, Guillermo del Toro, Javier Beltran, Little Ashes, Politics, Robert Pattinson, Salvador Dali
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: BURN THE BRIDGES, CAMPILLO, YES I DO
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Thursday, April 2, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
One Summer in New Paltz, a Cautionary Tale
Cast:
Nancy Nicol
Country:
Canada
Year:
2008
Running time:
54min
Campillo, Yes I Do
Directed by:
Andrés Rubio
Country:
Spain
Year:
2008
Running time:
52min
One Summer in New Paltz, a Cautionary Tale
In 2005, George W. Bush called for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to enshrine a heterosexual definition of marriage. The mayor of New Paltz however didn’t agree and performed 26 gay weddings one sunny afternoon, beginning a wave of civil disobedience. Whether you are the marrying type or not, only the hardest of hearts could fail to be moved by this clever and touching film about love, commitment and pissing off George [...]
by Andre Soares | March 30, 2009
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Tags: Andrés Rubio, Bodies of Society, Burn the Bridges, Campillo Yes I Do, Can't Spit it Out, Can't Swallow it, Film Festivals, Francisco Franco, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Marriage, Klara Liden, Lars Laumann, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London Screenings, One Summer in New Paltz, Ottica Zero, Quemar las Naves
