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Weekend

2011-12-07T00:48:00.001+01:00

Andrew Haigh's study of a temporary relationship is more sophisticated than most gay cinema. This honest film is sure to speak to you, and deeply, about aspects of your own life and loves.

À la Galerie Perrotin

2011-11-26T23:38:00.002+01:00

Parisian guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world.

2011-11-26T22:40:00.002+01:00

Le bar du Comptoir Général en Paris. A pesar de la lenta cola para entrar!

'Bodies in the barrels'

2011-11-24T23:00:00.000+01:00

Powerfully directed, intense, disturbing, atmospheric serial crime drama.

Nature versus nurture

2011-11-24T20:18:00.000+01:00

lda Swinton leads an excellent cast in a thoughtful and deeply disturbing adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel 'We need to talk about Kevin'

Phyllida Barlow: RIG

2011-10-16T23:19:00.001+02:00

Invading every corner of Hauser&Wirth's Piccadilly branch , her new sculptures are in constant play with the space and the viewer. Highly enjoyable.

Tyrannosaur

2011-10-13T23:53:00.000+02:00

Paddy Considine's accomplished debut is a painfully violent slice of British realism. Very powerful film with excellent performances.

Cumber Sands

2011-10-01T22:48:00.003+02:00

For the las few days we have a real warm summer weather and today we enjoy this beautiful sandy beach surrounded by dramatic dunes. I even had a swim!

London Moonwalk

2011-05-15T18:33:00.009+02:00

Really moving seeing from the bus at 4.00 in the morning that wonderful people walking with such an enthusiasm and energy. 5,000 participants in decorated bras to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer causes. Well done ladies and gens!!!

Seductive Compositions

2011-03-18T01:00:00.000+01:00

On its closing day I managed to arrive to the Whitechapel Gallery to see this captivating exhibition. Master collagist John Stezaker matches nature to people with disturbing precision.

Turning the World Upside Down

2011-03-12T20:53:00.003+01:00

Besides enjoying his giant curved mirror sculptures and the illusory distortions created, Kapoor provides us with a chance to marvel at the beauty of the park.

Just a pity

2011-01-29T22:54:00.001+01:00

that you can't interact with Ai Weiwei's vast grey field of 100 million of sunflower seeds anymore.

Of Gods and Men

2010-12-06T00:24:00.000+01:00

A profound and immaculately acted movie explores the eternal questions of faith and human strengths and weaknesses. Austere and deeply moving.

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."

Pascal

‘Life’s not always kind, is it?’

2010-11-23T23:19:00.000+01:00

A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Another Year is a deeply involving, intelligent, compassionate drama of the sort only Leigh can create.

Dancing star

2010-10-06T21:21:00.004+02:00

"Hace falta tener un caos en tu interior para poder crear una estrella fugaz"
Nietzsche

Te quise, te quiero y te querré siempre, Chemita.

Enigma

2010-09-13T22:59:00.000+02:00

Nothing is quite it seems in Certified Copy, intriguing but, for me, unconvincing film.

Arte para estar tirado

2010-08-28T00:38:00.008+02:00

Hora punta de calor, cambiamos la arena de la playa por la moqueta y cojines de las salas de la Fundación Miró para sumergirnos en el colorido y sensual mundo de la atrevida videocreadora Pipilotti Rist ¡Que refrescante!

Arroz con cachón

2010-07-31T20:45:00.001+02:00

El mejor arroz del verano en La Maruca. Repetimos al año que viene?

Haute Couture

2010-07-14T22:51:00.000+02:00

Que noche tan divertida!!!

Refrescantes

2010-07-11T23:58:00.004+02:00

Asi empiezan mis vacaciones, en Ibiza. Que ganas de calitas, arena, olas, azules, puestas de sol...y muchas, muchas mas cosas.

Okonomiyaky

2010-07-03T23:18:00.000+02:00

Como recordatorio del viaje del verano pasado a Japon de mi hermana y porque yo no habia probado nunca esas "tortillitas"

SHOW

2010-06-13T23:42:00.002+02:00

Beautiful objects and inspiring young artists in my visit to part one of the Royal College of Art graduate SHOW. I loved Sun Ae Kim playful work presented as a classic dinner table under the intriguing title of Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
Amy Hughes revisits the classic Sèvres vases to create her own versions.

Laia descubre el pastel

2010-06-04T01:08:00.001+02:00

¡Felicidades Laia! 6 añitos ya.

Olor

2010-06-03T00:51:00.000+02:00

Para nosotros siempre ha sido azahar aunque en realidad se llame celinda o falso azahar. Lleva toda la vida ahi, junto al puente de la huerta, la flor dura poco y su perfume no se olvida nunca, es fuerte y me encanta!

Un ramito de

2010-05-20T21:25:00.005+02:00

madalenas o...a cupcake bouquet. That's what I need after my day, which has been a not very good one.

The Ghost Writer

2010-05-12T21:38:00.002+02:00

I liked The Ghost. Polanski's political satire is also a terrific conspiracy thriller.

Engagement Party

2010-05-08T20:44:00.003+02:00

What a joy to see how happy Alvaro and Jerome are!

Desriñonada

2010-05-02T23:27:00.001+02:00

Who cares about the terrible Bank holiday's weather when we are too busy indoors! My friend Txema needs help to install the laminate flooring so I get my overalls ready and despite the knees pain and the stiffness we are really pleased whit the result.

Continua el paseo

2010-04-19T22:32:00.000+02:00

Por Milan con las elegantes escenas de este melodrama familiar, Io Sono L'amore.

Empty Sky

2010-04-18T20:30:00.005+02:00

Once upon a time there was a volcano that erupted in Iceland and as consequence all the planes stopped flying...
Although sympathetic to those who were stranded and aware of the downsides of a world without aircraft activity what a pleasure to experience a quiet and clear sky for a few days.

By MikeHypercube

Milano

2010-04-10T17:02:00.004+02:00

Tenía la idea de que Milán era una ciudad un tanto gris -alguien me lo había comentado- pero durante nuestra estancia no fue así: el Duomo resplandecía ante un impecable cielo azul, el Naviglio Grande era una fiesta multicolor con su Feria de las Flores, lámparas de diferentes tonalidades animaban la Via Monte Napoleone... Un gusto.

Anglomania

2010-03-29T02:59:00.004+02:00

Rain,rain y mas rain. Necesito estas botitas!!
(Vivienne Westwood for Melissa)

Spring

2010-03-20T02:31:00.001+01:00

The hibernation is over!! Explota primavera!!

Love and loss

2010-03-04T22:36:00.002+01:00

For some, Tom Ford's directing debut, A single man, is little more than a long and boring cologne commercial. In my opinion is a stylish intimate film with a delicious use of colour and music and great performances. I found it delicate and moving.

The man who saw the beauty of colour

2010-02-27T21:51:00.001+01:00

Whenever I go to the Victoria Miro Gallery I am late so I really needed to run because it was the last day of the exhibition William Eggleston: 21 st Century.

Fortunately I managed to arrive on time to see these fascinating prints, images of ordinary and mundane subjects that under his gaze are endowed with powerful significance.

Se nos fué

2010-02-19T14:33:00.001+01:00

Luisa, la más dicharachera.

"En la intuición del amanecer se condensaba toda la intensidad de aquella noche inquieta, como en esas despedidas en las que una persona nos sonríe por ultima vez, preparada para convertirse en un recuerdo."

Para amantes y ladrones Pedro Zarraluki

A Prophet

2010-02-04T17:28:00.001+01:00

This tough, gripping French prison thriller combines a Goodfellas–like scope with gritty, contemporary realism, as a young Arab inmate learns to survive and then trive, on the inside and outside.

Clever and classy

2010-02-01T22:55:00.004+01:00

Mad Men returns to UK screens. Season 3 starts tomorrow in BBC 2.
I can't wait!!!

Still Walking

2010-01-31T22:26:00.002+01:00

Acabo Enero con una pelicula muy Japonesa.
La familia se reune y, entre comidas y mas comidas, van surgiendo los resentimientos, iras y reproches aunque se tiran los trastos de forma bastante ordenada y contenida, de acuerdo a las convenciones de cortesia y respeto tan importantes en su cultura.

Frozen Britain

2010-01-07T17:49:00.002+01:00

The entire island of Great Britain is covered with snow. Brrrr!!!

Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response

Stranted passenger

2010-01-06T21:53:00.002+01:00

No es la pimera vez que por una razon u otra me he quedado tirada en alguna parte del mundo pero desconocia el termino ingles. Seguro que ya no se me olvida, como recordare siempre la terrible noche de Reyes en que Ryanair, despues de desviar el vuelo por inclemencias climaticas, aterrizo en Bournemouth y.... busquense la vida señoras y señores! Unforgettable.

The White Ribbon

2009-11-24T19:17:00.000+01:00

As always happens with Haneke I leave the cinema baffled. I've found this sober black and white film quite disturbing because its repulsive cruelty but also fascinating.

Tulpan

2009-11-17T22:42:00.002+01:00

This film is an engaging account of life in a Kazakhstan yurta, a skilful study of nomadism, a tender story and beautifully shot but... too much steppe, too much sheep...a little too much of rurality for my taste.

The Walthamstow Tapestry

2009-11-14T23:50:00.000+01:00

Grayson Perry, who won the 2003 Turner prize, is well known for his beautifully crafted pots decorated with often uncomfortable scenes of modern life. Now he has produced a monumental tapestry, 15 metres long and three metres high, replete with characteristically Perry-esque scenes of consumer excess and grim retribution. If you have never been before, now is an excellent time to visit the interesting Victoria Miro gallery where this work exhibits.

Delorean se presenta en Londres

2009-11-12T12:35:00.002+01:00

Muchos Españoles disfrutando de su concierto el pub The Legion en Old St. Unai me dijo que él también se lo había pasado muy bien tocando para nosotros.

Jesper Just

2009-11-08T22:49:00.005+01:00

Descubrí a este vídeo artista danés en Lisboa. Me gusta la estética cinematográfica de sus vídeos, su belleza extraña, su ambigüedad. Ofrecen una consciente complejidad psicológica que invita a múltiples interpretaciones.

A vida é um sopro

2009-10-21T20:25:00.003+02:00

Oscar Niemeyer se descubre en este documental cuyo título proviene de una definición suya "la vida es un soplo y hay que aprovecharla". Se puede ver en la Fundación Telefónica dentro de la exposición dedicada al arquitecto Brasileño.

Otoño en la Ciudad Blanca

2009-10-18T22:12:00.001+02:00

Para los nostálgicos de las señales de neón, de los tranvias, de la ropa tendida en los balcones y muchas cosas más....Lisboa.

Hendrick's Horseless Carriage of Curiosities

2009-10-04T22:44:00.000+02:00

We How could we resist a Hendrick's G&T for free?

Fish Tank

2009-09-23T23:23:00.001+02:00

After her darkly compulsive tale of surveillance and revenge in Glasgow, Andrea Arnold opens up the council estates of Essex, revealing the myriad ways in which they cramp but never entirely extinguish the spirit and imaginations of the people who live there. It delivers in spades attitude, humour, sadness, love, anger and hope – all wrapped up in a way of telling stories that is very much the director’s own. British film at its best.
(Y de ninguna manera verla doblada, please)

Inflatables

2009-09-13T21:49:00.004+02:00

Unlike yesterday's summery day today was ugly, grey, windy... To cheer myself up I went again to see Jeff Koons's Popeye Series. Contagious Happiness.

Seguimos con las familias

2009-09-12T22:16:00.004+02:00

I haven't been in the Riverside Studios for a while. Today double bill with two family dramas "Three monkeys" and "35 Shots of Rum". Good cinema, as you normally find there.

Tres dias con la familia

2009-08-15T21:39:00.001+02:00

Esta peli, debut de Mar Coll, es la unica que he visto en el verano pero vale por veinte.

Summer

2009-07-24T17:36:00.006+02:00

Todos a las palas! Buen merecido verano para todos.

Cornwall

2009-07-20T17:23:00.000+02:00

Beautiful Coastal path.
Fernando, esto es lo que veia mientra me hablabas.

Sirenita

2009-07-16T17:07:00.002+02:00

Su medio natural es la playa donde corretea desnuda, juega con las olas y coje las piedrecillas de la orilla para meterselas a la boca. Es Lua.

First Day on the Fourth Plinth

2009-07-06T21:58:00.002+02:00

Before the first participant could take her place an anti-smoking protester evaded security and scaled the monument before the artwork was launched.

Pride London 2009

2009-07-04T01:28:00.000+02:00

Equality and Diversity.

No Drips

2009-06-22T00:35:00.000+02:00

Virtual digital graffiti using cans that contains not paint. I saw it in LOAD.

Leonard Cohen, Troubaudor of human miseries

2009-06-12T23:06:00.001+02:00

Portrait of a Girl

Se sits behind the wooden shutters
on a very hot day
The room is dark, the photographs gloomy
She is profoundly worried
that her thighs are too big
and her ass fat and ugly
Also she is too hairy
The lucky American girls are not hairy
Se sweats too much
There is a fine mist caught
on the dark hairs above her mouth
I wish I could show her
what such hair and haunches
do for one like me
Unfortunately I don't know who she is
or where she lives
or if indeed she lives at all
There is no information about this person
except in these lines
and let me make it clear
as far as I'm concerned
she has no problem whatsoever

Well done!

2009-06-10T00:11:00.000+02:00

Congratulations to my dear Edgard and his final mayor proyect, "KNY", inspired by the colour of architecture in New York City.

Babeando con mi sobri

2009-06-04T21:59:00.000+02:00

Laia se habia quedado dormida en el coche mientras su papa conducia hasta Villanueva. Una vez alli siguio roque un buen rato mas y cuando desperto todavia agarraba en su manita el dibujo que habia hecho para mi. Me lo tendio mientras se frotaba los ojillos con la otra mano y yo, aunque no me vi, puedo imaginarme perfectamente la sonrisa de bobalicona que puse.
Hoy cumple 5 añitos.Felicidades, cariñin.

Domingueando en Columbia Road Market

2009-05-19T00:13:00.000+02:00

El dia no acompañaba mucho con esas molestas ventoladas y la amenaza de lluvia asi que Sami compro su planta y, despues de curiosear un poco por las tiendas adyacentes, nos volvimos para 'el Oeste'

Changing faces

2009-05-09T23:47:00.003+02:00

US photographer Cindy Sherman has been her own model for more than 30 years. In her latest works examines glamour and the ageing process in women with an acute sense of social hierarchy. At the Sprüth Magers gallery in London we can see just three oversized photographs from Sherman's recent suite of portraits.

Gost

2009-05-02T20:24:00.008+02:00

This impressive installation of a group of muslim women in prayers made from tin foil is part of the last show at London‘s Saatchi Gallery, Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East.

‘Gost‘.Kadder Attia

Sweet Julia

2009-04-25T00:49:00.001+02:00

Cuando llega la hora de comer Julia, a veces, hace enfadar a su mama, Gemma. Una de las cosas que se come encantada son las mazorcas de maiz.

Deliciosas vistas

2009-04-23T23:04:00.000+02:00

Paris esta por las nubes pero comerte tu bocata en la terraza paronamica de Déli-cieux, en la novena planta de los almacenes Printemps de la Maison, es un lujo al alcance de todos.

Vacances!!!

2009-03-30T21:07:00.001+02:00

The suitcase is ready. Destination: Marseile and Paris first, and then, Spain.

The Oxford&Cambridge Boat Race

2009-03-29T20:46:00.004+02:00

As always the Boat Race created today a festival atmosphere on the banks of the river Thames.A good excuse to meet friends and go to the pub. Oxford won.

Switch off

2009-03-28T20:48:00.004+01:00

This evening at 8.30pm, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn their lights off for one hour – WWF’s Earth Hour – to show global leaders that they want strong action to tackle climate change. Do it!

Santo y seña.Flamenco Festival London

2009-03-24T21:08:00.004+01:00

Eva Yerbabuena nos dejo anoche boquiabiertos con sus zapateos, sus braceos, sus contoneos y su movimiento de la bata de cola. Una pena que, al estar tan lejos del escenario, su duende no me llegara a cautivar.

Hello Spring!

2009-03-20T13:14:00.002+01:00

The sun has been shining for the last few days making us feel that Spring is in the air. Today is, officially the first day of de new season.

Daffodil Season

2009-03-13T17:53:00.007+01:00

Estan de obras en mi acera, reponiendo losetas en mal estado, y alguien ha tenido la ocurrencia de "plantar" un narciso en el cemento fresco. Me ha hecho sonreir esta mañana de camino al trabajo, que no es poco!

Gran Torino

2009-03-12T23:48:00.002+01:00

Ademas de sus gruñidos iniciales hay alguna otra cosa mas que me chirria pero no importa, el talento gana y salgo del cine tatareando la cancion que el propio Clint canta parcialmete en los creditos finales. Y como Boyero dice, pienso: no se muera nunca, señor Eastwood.

Vintage film posters

2009-03-10T21:08:00.001+01:00

A pleasant walk among films this evening at Christie‘s. There will go under the hammer tomorrow, this two have an estimate of £4,000 - £6,000.

¡Aquellos tiempos en que podias pedir al acomodador del Novedades que te guardara el cartel y te lo daba por la cara!

Vente a cenar conmigo

2009-03-09T18:21:00.000+01:00

Ultimamente estan muy de actualidad en Londres los Supperclubs o Underground Dinner Parties aunque en Paris Jim Haynes lleva mas de 30 años invitando a extraños a cenar cada domingo. Estas cenas se hacen en casas de particulares que suelen ser chefs aficcionados o profesionales y los contactos entre anfitrion e invitados se hacen via internet. El coste se calcula, en algunos casos, para cubrir los gastos y en otros se sugiere una cantidad como donacion. En cualquier caso mucho mas barato que en un restaurante pero, dado que no es estrictamente legal, no siempre es facil dar con ellos. Sshhh...

MsMarmitelover‘s Underground Restaurant

You‘ll never know what‘s coming for you

2009-03-03T20:13:00.000+01:00

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I was so captivated by this emotional fairy tale about time, life, love... that I didn‘t notice its nearly three hours running time. Beautifully filmed it brought back to me great memories of New Orleans. Late at night, when I was arriving home after the cinema, the Blythe House‘s clock transported me to the film again.

Entre le murs

2009-03-02T16:23:00.000+01:00

Naturalidad desbordante sin moralina. Escenas de gran autenticidad en las que el profesor trata de educar en forma de dialogo a sus conflictivos alumnos.Lo hace con calma y humor pero la insolencia de los adolescentes es inagotable. ¡Pufff...que desesperacion!

Si te quieres sentir protagonista

2009-02-28T20:31:00.007+01:00

Members of the public will stand as live statues in Trafalgar Square‘s empty fourth plinth in artist Antony Gormley‘s project One and Other.

Off their trolley

2009-02-28T14:50:00.007+01:00

artichokeltd.com offer us the chance to bag a Bansky for just 1p.

Antony - The Creek

2009-02-22T12:15:00.000+01:00

In addition to his new album, The Crying Light, we can see now in London an exhibition of his own art. His work has the same mix of fantasy and vulnerability as his music. It's at the beautiful gallery Isis

Amazing Kate

2009-02-14T11:45:00.004+01:00

I've seen lately Revolutionary Road and The Reader both films performed by Kate Winslet. Her acting was superb and I enjoyed the pictures regardless its depressing tone.
Ufff...El elogiar a Kate y no a Pe me va a costar una buena reprimenda por parte de mi querido Edgard.

Venice Suite

2009-02-13T20:01:00.018+01:00

These collage prints by Peter Blake are part of a projected series based on iconic cities.
I have a weakness for this artist,often cited as the father of British Pop Art, since I met him several times at the school where I work when his daughter was studying there. That's why I went to see the exhibition at Paul Stolper gallery.

Penn es "la leche"

2009-02-10T21:41:00.001+01:00

Sean Penn esta sublime interpretando al activista gay Harvey Milk. La pelicula quiza da una vision demasiado romantica del leader pero se hace un buen trato historico de la epoca de la revolucion gay en San Francisco en la que Milk desarrolla su carrera politica.

Run

2009-02-08T17:25:00.011+01:00

You haven't seem them yet? Then you are lucky because the burlesque cabaret sow, La Clique, has been extended until April at he Hippodrome. Quirky fun.

La Clique

London melts

2009-02-04T23:02:00.002+01:00

We get back to normal. Well...almost. After tree days my road is still quite slippery. And yesterday this poor swan was struggling to make his way through the ice in Kensington Park lake.

White London

2009-02-02T15:02:00.000+01:00

The heaviest snowfall in 18 years disrupts London travel.

Hundreds of schools closed. Yupi!!!

From my window

The year of the Ox begins

2009-02-02T00:30:00.000+01:00

Crowds gather in Chinatown to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Slumdog Millionaire

2009-01-29T18:12:00.001+01:00

Maybe it doesn‘t deserve all the success and awards but it‘s still a perfectly watchable melodrama with a silly Bollywood end.

In India there has been protests against the offensive title.

British Design Classics

2009-01-28T16:53:00.002+01:00

Quintessentially British. Indelibly iconic.

Para mi hermana.

Royal Mail stamps

Just nice people

2009-01-25T23:23:00.001+01:00

Squatters have taken over two £15m mansions on London's Park Lane.
"It feels pretty good. It's the dream of everyone in London to live for a little bit in Park Lane."

Link

About time

2009-01-25T18:28:00.000+01:00

Ahora si que si, me lo como! Lo que no me como son las coles-flores, regalo de mis invitados Chema y Paul.

From Samia

Happy New blog!!!

2009-01-25T00:54:00.000+01:00

New Year, New Blog.
sin pretensiones y...probablemente, sin mucha constancia.