CULTURE

The film The Old Guard (2020) seems, in its early days, a policeman and suddenly reveals itself as what it really is: a superhero adventure. Although sailing off its territory, director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, Behind the Lights…), comes out of this start which, it seems, will have continuity. With the screenplay by Greg Rucka, the film is based on the comic of the same name, whose authors are Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernández. Among others, it stars Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Marwan Kenzari.

For the young and laureate Cuban pianist Franco Rivero Bueno, creation must first be a passionate flow within the performer and then a tune of blending with the audiences. In order to commemorate on August 6th the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ernesto Lecuona, Palabra Nueva approaches the artistic work of this young musician, who is considered, today, the greatest connoisseur and practitioner of the Lecuonian work.

A tribute to Elisha Diego in his centenary wants to be this article. The author rests in the poet’s verses to show us his tentative recurrence to the description of spaces that refer to the island and its edges. And it was Diego who was one of the intellectuals who nucleared around the group and the magazine Orígenes, and for whom, Cuba, as an island, had a transcendent dimension.

In this time of obligatory gathering, the books have been excellent company. From Palabra Nueva we recommend reading Traspapelados Archives, title of Mirta Yáñez. The invitation is accompanied by a strong critero of this Cuban author: “Poor of those who in the rispidity of existence cannot count on the handle of an old poem or an ineffable character of literature. One might wonder whether much of the spiritual poverty that sometimes slaps us does not come from people devoid of the magical arsenal of imagination and poetry.”

In search of Catholic footprints in the habaneras streets, travel this time through San Rafael and discover part of its history

Get to know roberto Méndez’s lucid and pleasant hand the relationship between the renowned Cuban poet Julián de Casal and the music

The master’s degree Alina del Carmen Blanco Puentes talks in this interview about the Ventus Habana camera quintet that she directs and which turns 16 years of foundation

Do you know the renowned photographer Alberto Borrego Sánchez, who for his talent has been rated as the Korda Pinareño?

Daniel Céspedes Góngora comments on his book Sit down and watch. Criticism, commentary and essays on cinema, published in 2019 by the Editorial Primigenios

Between locks and peripecias, the researcher Emilio Cueto, author of the monumental text La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre in the soul of the Cuban people, travels through Artemisese lands spreading his knowledge.