All posts tagged: Luis

Two poems by Luis Muñoz: ‘Love’ and ‘The Moment’s Questions in the Air’

Two poems by Luis Muñoz: ‘Love’ and ‘The Moment’s Questions in the Air’

El Amor Es que pudiera darsesin asomo ningunoni preparaciones. Solo rumbo,horizontetamaño a partirdel corte exactode la ventana. Love Maybe it happenswithout any hintor preparation. Just a heading,a horizonthe size at firstof the precise cutof the window. Las Cuestiones Temporales en el Aire Nos encontramoscon el grafiti plataen un portón del parque:“¿Podemos cambiar?” A la primera respuesta,“no sé”, en un casillero,han añadido otraen rojo cera rápida,que sobresale del contiguo:“Sí-No-Sí”. The Moment’s Questions in the Air We stumble uponthe silver graffition a gatehouse in the park:“Can we change?” In an answer boxto the first response, “IDK,”somebody’s added anotherin quick red crayonthat spills over, into the box beside:“Yes-No-Yes.” Idra Novey is the author, most recently, of Soon and Wholly, a book of poems, and the novel Take What You Need. Garth Greenwell is the author, most recently, of Small Rain. Source link

Favourites tag means nothing, says PSG’s Luis Enrique ahead of Liverpool clash

Favourites tag means nothing, says PSG’s Luis Enrique ahead of Liverpool clash

POISSY, France, April 7 : Paris St Germain manager Luis Enrique has played down suggestions his side are favourites ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg at home to out-of-form Liverpool. The English champions, fifth in the Premier League, have suffered 15 defeats across all competitions this season – their most in a single campaign since losing 18 matches in 2014-15. PSG, meanwhile, lead Ligue 1 and are well placed to defend their Champions League crown. “It’s difficult to talk about Liverpool,” Luis Enrique told reporters on Tuesday. “Liverpool manager Arne Slot speaks very well about them. “My view is that it’s both the same team and a different team. Everyone is trying to work out who the favourites are, but in this sort of match that means nothing. It will be tough for both teams. “Showing that we’re still in the running every year and playing against Liverpool is always a positive thing. We want to reach the semi-finals; we know how difficult it will be, but we’re very motivated.” The tie is …

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More

Much has been writ­ten late­ly about the cri­sis in Hol­ly­wood, which has left many appar­ent­ly sure-fire block­busters floun­der­ing, the­aters emp­ty, and pro­duc­tion jobs lost. There are many fac­tors in play — some of them, as few diag­noses fail to point out, struc­tur­al — but can we ignore the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fatigue, per­haps even bore­dom, with film itself? We’ve post­ed in recent years here on Open Cul­ture about the decay of cin­e­ma, the rise of “visu­al muzak” on Net­flix, why movies don’t feel real any­more, and why movies don’t even feel like movies any­more. Even if they’ve lim­it­ed their expo­sure to big-bud­get spec­ta­cles, most once-avid cinephiles will have felt all those phe­nom­e­na for them­selves by now, and many will be con­sid­er­ing whether to look for a new art form to enjoy. But some will won­der: maybe there’s a cure? There could well be, and a brac­ing one. If you seek a re-enchant­ment with film, there could be few bet­ter places to look than in the work of film­mak­ers who have bro­ken that medi­um down to its very com­po­nents …

Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn Wants to Delete the Blockchain

Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn Wants to Delete the Blockchain

Luis von Ahn could have retired to a beach somewhere years ago. Best known as the CEO of the learning app Duolingo, von Ahn in the early 2000s invented the captcha, those infuriating little online tests that force people to prove they’re not robots. But after selling his creation to Google in 2009, von Ahn didn’t waste any time launching his next venture: a company borne of his experience growing up in Guatemala, one that’s now among the most prominent education platforms in the world. Von Ahn’s mom, a doctor, spent all of her extra income to send him to private school, giving von Ahn opportunities that most of his peers never saw. It is, as he tells me in this week’s Big Interview, the reason he founded Duolingo more than a decade ago, with the goal of making high-quality education free and widely available. Today, the company reaches more than 130 million users worldwide, from immigrants learning new languages to celebrities like George Clooney. Inequality may have inspired von Ahn, but his company now …

Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)

Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)

Un Chien Andalou means “an Andalu­sian dog,” though the much-stud­ied 1929 short film of that title con­tains no dogs at all, from Andalu­sia or any­where else. In fact, it alludes to a Span­ish expres­sion about how the howl­ing of an Andalu­sian sig­nals that some­one has died. And indeed, there is death in Un Chien Andalou, as well as sex, albeit death and sex as processed through the uncon­scious minds of the young film­mak­er Luis Buñuel and artist Sal­vador Dalí, whose col­lab­o­ra­tion on this endur­ing­ly strange movie did much to make their names. Two of its mem­o­rable images — among six­teen straight min­utes of mem­o­rable images — came straight from their dreams: a hand crawl­ing with ants, and a razor blade slic­ing the moon as if it were an eye. “Less than two min­utes into the pic­ture, a man — played by the stocky, unmiss­able fig­ure of Buñuel him­self — stands on a bal­cony, gaz­ing wolfish­ly at the moon,” writes New York­er film crit­ic Antho­ny Lane. “Cut to the face of a woman. Cut back to …

Sundance 2026: ‘American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez’ Q&A

Sundance 2026: ‘American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez’ Q&A

A “brujo,” a “magician,” “a social arsonist” and the “father of Chicano Theater” — these are just a few of the monikers that have been bestowed upon Luis Valdez over the course of his decades-long career. The 85-year-old filmmaker and playwright is responsible for “La Bamba” and “Zoot Suit,” films that raised a generation of Latinos and are now upheld as classics — both were inducted to the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress. Valdez awakened a movement, bringing Chicanos from the California fields he grew up working in to stages and screens all over the world. His stories shifted the frame, placing us at the forefront of the American story, allowing us to see our dreams, anxieties and struggles reflected back at us. In David Alvarado’s upcoming documentary, “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez,” it’s the celebrated storyteller’s turn to be on the other side of the lens. The film traces Valdez’s beginnings as the son of migrant farmworkers in Delano, Calif., to his early days in theater helming El …

Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala

Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala

https://unsplash.com/photos/people-walking-on-street-near-brown-concrete-building-during-daytime-Ah_2mkwI-1s Paris, May 1968. Barricades rose in the Latin Quarter, tear gas filled the French boulevards, and students occupied the Sorbonne. What started as a campus protest quickly turned into a national uprising that shook France to its core.  Already during the early spring of ’68, a new mood had begun to take hold. Rents were rising, post-colonial immigration was stirring public debate, some customs seemed increasingly outdated, and the postwar economic boom was slowing down. A sense of a nouvelle époque arrived with social unrest and a growing number of protests (Dorman, 2017).  By mid-May, student demonstrations and blockades had taken over the city. The popular indignation fueled a spirit of revolt against the structures of capitalist society—calling for an independent university and rejecting anything and anyone with even a trace of the establishment. The movement also led to a disregard for prominent French intellectuals and consolidated intellectual currents. This student revolt sought not to appropriate power, but to break away from it (Atack, 1999).  Jean-Paul Sartre, one of said intellectuals, famously asserted that …