–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– This coming Sunday (February 28th) is the day of the 88th Annual Academy Awards, or Oscars to all you laymen out there…and Colombia has it’s first ever Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the fantastic jungle epic El Abrazo de la Serpiente, or ‘Embrace of the Serpent.’ Colombian […]
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–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– A lot has been written and said in recent years to combat the negative image Colombia has abroad. We are all too aware of the history of this country, but equally most people here have seen the massive strides made to improve Colombia’s public image and put the […]
Living in a major city, you don’t really think twice about going to the flicks now and then. Generally, Colombian cinemas are of fairly amazeballs quality, pretty much all with digital projection, with a dangerously delicious variety of caramel popcorn in bountiful supply. Still, a staggering 96% of Colombian towns don’t have a cinema of their […]
Vous savez ce que j’aime chez les Colombiens? Qu’ils parlent avec l’accent mexicain et ressemble aux Mexicains. Attendez, quoi? C’est pas vrai, si ? Non, ce ne sont que les Mexicains. Mais d’où vient cette erreur? –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Il y a de nombreux films qui ne représentent que certains aspects de […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– #A country gone to hell. (Overhead shot of a desert – cacti, chickens, and donkeys. Numerous Mexicans in army fatigues shooting machine guns into the air) Mexicans: “Underlay, underlay, Yippai! Yippai!” #A ruthless drug lord with no mercy. (Shot of a chubby, white-suited, sun-glassed drug lord walking away as […]
Bogotá has been putting on its own film festival since way back in 1984 and last night I got the chance to check out this year’s celebration of world cinema. I went and saw Reverón, at Avenida de Chile Cinema, which is a film directed by Diego Rísquez about famed Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón. The film […]