CULTURE

When asked if the attitude of Daniel Ellberg, the official who stole secret U.S. government documents about the Vietnam War, can somehow be considered a “precursor” gesture of Snowden’s decision, Spielberg reacted with a rather […]

To characterize Rudy Mora’s work, there is no talk of searches, but of findings, of easily recognizable personal brands. There is a courageous and nuanced approach to difficult and pressing themes of today’s Cuban society, […]

“He is not an artist. He’s a witness. It’s a testament to what can make God with your life if you get carried away with Him.” Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta about Facundo Cabral. […]

As Geovannys Manso begins his novel The Sleepy Children of the Abyss (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2016) with the certainty: “Today my father has died”, the reader can assume that he will face a backward journey, […]

Chance made me meet in Guadalajara, at the home of my Cuban-Mexican friend Waldo Saavedra, when one of my references in journalism – his reports in Juventud Rebelde marked time when I wrote my first […]

In Cuba it is well known from Frank Padrón (Pinar del Río, 1958): essayist, art critic and cultural promoter. For twenty years Frank has been the host and critical commentator of the television space Cine […]

For someone to decide to write about someone else’s life or their own memories, they need to have two big points in their favor. The first, to possess a successful pen and then to make […]

José María de la Torre says that in 1637 a church and convent was designed that would be dedicated to the Marian advocation of the Merced, redeemer of captives. This one would be built in […]

Historians, critics, theorists and audiences have consented to call “the four classics of Cuban cinema”, a set of feature films that are already half a century old. The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967), Memoirs […]

José Alberto Lezcano (born 1935) is one of Cuba’s least prolific film critics. Founder of the first Cinema Club and the Film Interest Circles of his province, he was considered by Rufo Caballero as the […]