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Yahoo! lives up to its name and that isn't a good thing in the land of branding. Yahoo! was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo while they were studying at Stanford University and began as “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” In the spring of 1994, it was renamed Yahoo!, and by 1995, it was incorporated. According to Wikipedia, they selected the name because it came from Jonathan Swift’s...
Budget bed options at state-run pousadas, smoking bans in public places, new hotels in picturesque towns and villages, and more news from the edge of the Iberian peninsula.
Wearing his director's hat, Clint Eastwood returns to Cannes with Changeling, a 1920s-set kidnap thriller starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. It has its world premiere here on Tuesday night, but won't open in Ireland until early January, as the awards season builds in the US.
Film News: The lost '68 films screening in Cannes this year -- Forty years after the tumultuous events of 1968, six films that failed to unspool at the fest that year are included in 2008's Cannes Classics lineup. A sneak peek: PEPPERMINT FRAPPE (SPAIN) Helmer Carlos Saura's surreal pic about repression during the Franco regime was tipped by many as a possible Palme d'Or winner. But pandemonium broke...
Paris - Among the films being screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, there is one 40-year-old movie that will forever be associated with the most tumultuous chapter in the festival's history. The forced cancellation of Peppermint Frappe, by Spani...
Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of the peaceful overthrowing of Salazar's fascist dictatorship that crippled Portugal for 48 years. Today, by happy coincidence, the San Francisco International Film Festival was showing Fados by Spanish director Carlos Saura . Growing up during Salazar's decline and his colonial war in Africa, fado was for many of my generation backward, sentimental, reactionary....
Listen to José Alfonso 's song "Grândola, Vila Morena," the song that announced Portugal's Revolução dos Cravos (Carnation Revolution) thirty-four years ago today. Carlos Saura's Fados features scenes of the Carnation Revolution accompanied by this song near the end of the film, suggesting that working-class experiences of dispossession and displacement expressed in fados, a musical genre which, like...
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opens on April 26, and the full program introduced today at a press event is very, very cool. The theme for this years' Tuscan festival is dedicated to peace and to women: operas (Carmen, Lady Macbeth, Hans...
During a career of five decades in which he wrote more than 90 screenplays and participated in every great moment in Spanish cinema, Rafael Azcona so honed his skill as a scriptwriter that actors claimed they need read only one line of his to spot him as the author.
MADRID, Spain -- Spanish novelist and scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, known for films such as the Oscar-winning comedy "Belle Epoque" and Luis Garcia Berlanga's "The Executioner," has died. He was 81.
Film News: 'Fados' sold to U.S. and China -- HONG KONG — Carlos Saura's "Fados" scored sales deals in North America and China during the Hong Kong FilMart.
