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Spider-Man Animator Luis de la Rosa Dead After Annecy Train Incident

Spider-Man Animator Luis de la Rosa Dead After Annecy Train Incident

Published by Daniella Wilson

Mexican animator and illustrator Luis de la Rosa has died in a train incident while attending the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France. He was 34. The Vancouver-based animator was struck by an express train locomotive on Wednesday evening near a downtown train station, Annecy festival organizers confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Friday. A police investigation has been opened to determine a cause of death. News of the fatal incident was first reported in the French newspaper Le Dauphine Libere, which said emergency services attended to de la Rosa near the railroad tracks on Avenue Aristide Briande on Wednesday evening, in an area that was fenced off and closed to the public. He was wearing festival credentials when emergency services arrived on the scene. Efforts to save de la Rosa’s life were not successful and he was pronounced dead at the scene, the newspaper account reported. A tribute to the Mexican illustrator and animator will take place at the closing ceremony on Saturday, with Artistic Director Marcel Jean expected to offer remarks and …

‘Zoot Suit’ celebrates 45 years with Edward James Olmos, Luis Valdez at The Ford

‘Zoot Suit’ celebrates 45 years with Edward James Olmos, Luis Valdez at The Ford

Published by Sam Flores

The classic Chicano film “Zoot Suit” is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year in style. The Golden Globe-nominated movie, featuring a lead performance by Edward James Olmos, was based on a stage play penned by legendary screenwriter and director Luis Valdez, who drew inspiration from a pamphlet about the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the riots that it sparked. On Thursday it was announced that the flick will be screened at The Ford amphitheater on July 8 to honor its notable benchmark and enduring legacy. The special screening will include a conversation with Valdez, Olmos and actor-educator Cristina Frías, who will discuss the movie’s production, influence and place in the L.A. film canon. “‘Zoot Suit’ changed the way our stories could be seen on screen,” Olmos said in a statement. “It gave voice to a history that many people had never been taught and showed the beauty, strength and complexity of the Chicano experience. Forty-five years later, the film continues to inspire because it is about more than one moment in time. It is …

Faith in Luis Enrique leads PSG to back-to-back Champions League titles

Faith in Luis Enrique leads PSG to back-to-back Champions League titles

Published by Sam Flores

BUDAPEST, May 30 : Paris St Germain’s back-to-back Champions League triumphs have been built on talent, depth and tactical sophistication, but those inside the club point first to something less tangible when explaining their rise to the summit of Europe – belief. Luis Enrique arrived in Paris in 2023 promising a cultural shift rather than instant glamour, with the Spaniard wanting a team in which collective sacrifice outweighed individual status, where the biggest names defended, pressed and suffered together. Two Champions League titles later, his players speak about him less as a coach than as an architect and people leader. “It’s not easy to do it back-to-back, but we did,” defender Achraf Hakimi said after PSG beat Arsenal 4-3 on penalties in Saturday’s final following a 1-1 draw after extra time. “The coach is the big voice of the club. We follow him, we trust him. Since day one he told us the team is more important than the player. We have created not just a team but a family.” That idea has become the defining …

Why Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel Made the Still-Shocking Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Why Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel Made the Still-Shocking Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Published by José Betancourt

Under most cir­cum­stances, there’s noth­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly shock­ing about cut­ting into an eye removed from a dead ani­mal. Gra­tu­itous, maybe, and sure­ly dis­gust­ing for some, but cer­tain­ly not psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly dam­ag­ing. I remem­ber a man turn­ing up one day to my first-grade class­room and show­ing us how to dis­sect a real sheep­’s eye, which most of us found a fas­ci­nat­ing break from our usu­al spelling and math exer­cis­es. But in edu­ca­tion as in art, con­text is every­thing, and it is the con­text estab­lished by Sal­vador Dalí and Luis Buñuel that has allowed their own act of eye-slic­ing to retain its vis­cer­al impact. It occurs, of course, in their short film Un Chien Andalou, from 1929, the sub­ject of the new Nerd­writer video above. The shot of Buñuel’s hand tak­ing a razor to the dis­em­bod­ied eye of what he lat­er said was a calf comes ear­ly in the pic­ture. What gives it its pow­er are the images that pre­cede it: Buñuel sharp­en­ing a razor and gaz­ing up at the moon, and the actress Simone Mareuil hav­ing her own …

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’

Published by Sam Flores

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

Published by Sam Flores

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

Published by José Betancourt

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

Published by skeptic

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 …

Why Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel Made the Still-Shocking Un Chien Andalou (1929)

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

Published by José Betancourt

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

Published by Sam Flores

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 …