There can't be many better places in the world to watch films about architecture than projected onto the travertine wall of the Mies van der Rohe (and Lilly Reich) pavilion. The Screen Pavelló festival, which does just that, has a concise but highly recommended program: three films, one each summer month. The next one, scheduled for August 1, is the documentary Life, Works
BACK TO 'URGENCIES'
Investing approximately 250 hours to watch the 15 seasons of the ER series that HBO Max hangs on its menu this month does not seem like a bad idea. Michael Crichton's series had above all five glorious seasons – the first ones – and is a good reminder that quality television was not invented with The Wire and The Sopranos. For those who don't have those 250 hours, you also have the option to go find some especially memorable episodes. Among them, the pilot, which set the tone for the series and also allows us to attend the exact moment in which a little-known actor who had spent almost his entire career unemployed named George Clooney becomes a star: when his character, Doug Ross , appears onscreen, still half-drunk after a night out. His new resident doctor, Tracy Young, observes: "He's handsome." And Nurse Haleh replies: “and she knows it”. Chapters 3, 10 and 24 (directed by Quentin Tarantino) of the first season are also very revisitable.
WHEN PHILIP WAS CALLED BRUNETTE
In the summer of 1943, just after graduating from Oxford, the not-yet-poet Philip Larkin wrote two novels under an invented pseudonym, Brunette Coleman (Blanche Coleman was then the leader of an all-female marching band). for the sole purpose of entertaining his friends, Kingsley Amis, Edmund Crispin and Diana Gollancz. Under the name Coleman, Larkin contributed to a genre he himself read with pleasure, who knows if guilty, girls' boarding school novels with a lesbian subtext, full of illicit late nights and field hockey games. Impedimenta, which takes good care of Larkin's work (as well as those of Crispin and Amis Sr.), now publishes in Spanish those two novels, Tangle in Willow Gables and its sequel, Michaelmas Quarter in St. Bride, which caused some controversy when they were released. unearthed in 2002. There were scholars of the poet's work who were not at all in favor of publishing these youthful works, who argued that they disfigured his legacy. Others, however, like Terry Castle, said that Coleman's novels are instrumental "in Larkin's process of becoming Larkinesque."
DIRECTORS WHO DRESS LIKE THEIR CHARACTERS (OR THE BACKWARDS)
Given that Vicky Krieps plays Chris, a filmmaker in her late 40s and paired with another much older filmmaker, in Bergman's Island, it was to be expected that everyone would bring up the subject of autofiction and want to find out to what extent it is Chris its creator, Mia Hansen-Løve, who had a daughter with Olivier Assayas. As if anticipating it, the director also dresses her character in a very similar way to how she does it. Like Sofia Coppola, who has been lending her style (simple but very expensive) to her actresses throughout her filmography: it was no coincidence that the character of Rashida Jones in On The Rocks wore Cartier bracelets and the Chanel bag combo New Yorker tote bag. Hasn't Woody Allen put his clothes on all of his male leads since the '70s? Another working filmmaker is doing it the other way around: photos that have surfaced of Greta Gerwig on the set of the Barbie movie show the director dressed in bubblegum pink, the film's iconic color.
THE CHICKEN OMELETTE
For a modest neighborhood bar (although one where you have to order the tortilla ration by phone in advance, due to its success), El Pollo has acquired some ambassadors for whom the marketing departments of the restaurants would pay a lot of money. more powerful restoration groups. First, it was Lorde who posted a photo of herself in her newsletter eating grilled squid with green mojo in this bar on Calle Tigre in Raval that she visited when she played at Primavera Sound – the New Zealander loves to talk about food on her social media : He had an Instagram account for a while scoring onion rings. And then Rosalía tweeted that the best potato omelette in Barcelona is the one at Bar El Pollo. The local managers, who decided when they took over that they would not touch any of the classic decoration of the bar, neither the sign, nor the tiles from the 70s, nor the slot machines, have not echoed either of the two recommendations .
