Bilbao2Brooklyn
10 Dec 2004, 08:55 AM
part of a spanish film festival in New york city, I'll be there the 18th.
go here
http://www.eeny.org/news.php?id=120692
and here
http://www.eeny.org/news.php?id=120691
description:
About the Basque Ballhttp://www.eeny.org/images./blank.gifThe Basque Ball / La Pelota Vasca: La piel contra la piedra Julio Medem, 2004; 115m.
December 9,2004
"With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, BASQUE BALL is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region. Director Julio Medem is best known for his stylishly erotic love stories (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Sex and Lucia), but in this exhaustive documentary, he delivers a fascinating overview of the torturous politics of the Basque area and the region's notorious terrorist separatist group.
Controversial in the extreme, Medem's documentary has drawn sharp censure from the Spanish authorities, with Spain's Minister for Culture branding the film "suspicious." * Such a response is typical of the passions that the Basque issue stirs up. Fortunately, Medem's even-handed approach straddles both sides of the political spectrum, treating the complex web of history, identity and politics surrounding his subject with great maturity." - Jamie Russell, BBC Radio
*The reviewer refers here to the Minister of Culture during the Aznar’s Government
Showtimes at the Walter Reade Theater in Manhattan
Mon Dec 13: 8:15; Tue Dec 14: 1 Sat Dec 18: 2; Sun Dec 19: 6:20
go here
http://www.eeny.org/news.php?id=120692
and here
http://www.eeny.org/news.php?id=120691
description:
About the Basque Ballhttp://www.eeny.org/images./blank.gifThe Basque Ball / La Pelota Vasca: La piel contra la piedra Julio Medem, 2004; 115m.
December 9,2004
"With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, BASQUE BALL is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region. Director Julio Medem is best known for his stylishly erotic love stories (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Sex and Lucia), but in this exhaustive documentary, he delivers a fascinating overview of the torturous politics of the Basque area and the region's notorious terrorist separatist group.
Controversial in the extreme, Medem's documentary has drawn sharp censure from the Spanish authorities, with Spain's Minister for Culture branding the film "suspicious." * Such a response is typical of the passions that the Basque issue stirs up. Fortunately, Medem's even-handed approach straddles both sides of the political spectrum, treating the complex web of history, identity and politics surrounding his subject with great maturity." - Jamie Russell, BBC Radio
*The reviewer refers here to the Minister of Culture during the Aznar’s Government
Showtimes at the Walter Reade Theater in Manhattan
Mon Dec 13: 8:15; Tue Dec 14: 1 Sat Dec 18: 2; Sun Dec 19: 6:20