Primary and Secondary schoolchildren still have approximately 790 vacation days left. Ideas for family cultural activities in Barcelona, beyond the beach and the pool: 1. Visit the exhibition Amics imaginaris at the Fundació Miró, which includes lots of huggable polar bears by Paola Pivi and (success guaranteed), a large room full of to the ceiling of orange balloons, the work of Martin Creed. 2. The Symphony virtual reality activity, suitable for children aged eight and over at Caixafòrum, which allows you to feel the instruments of an orchestra from within and 3. The FilmoXica cycle, the children's and youth programming of the Filmoteca, which is dedicated this summer to musicals and includes titles ranging from The Wizard of Oz to Frozen, including Canta, Las señoritas de Rochefort and School of Rock.
THE BOYS OF SANTIAGO
Whoever listens well to podcasts in English is in for a luxury premiere this summer, the closest thing to a blockbuster in the field of narrative audio. The creators of The Santiago Boys have spent more than two years investigating a historical episode as fascinating as it is unknown, when engineers and technologists from all over the world gathered around a British utopian named Stafford Beer in Salvador Allende's Chile to try to design a visionary future in which technology (which then passed through telex machines) was placed at the service of the state. The description of the room, Stanley Kubrick style, in which the architects of the project met, with screens that we would now call retro-futuristic and seven seats in a circle designed with a hole for a glass of whiskey and another for a cigar, leads one to imagine perfectly the scene. The creator of the ambitious nine-chapter podcast, writer Evgeny Morozov, author of books such as Big Tech Capitalism (Enclave) and The Madness of Technological Solutionism (Katz) defends the thesis that Pinochet's coup, which marks the 50th anniversary of In September, not only did the socialist project of Latin America end, but also an anti-corporate way of understanding technology and that the consequences of that are now experienced daily.
75 YEARS OF 'THE RED SHOES'
An important anniversary that will take place next month: the 75th anniversary of The Red Shoes, the beautiful experimental musical by Powell and Pressburger whose influence becomes more noticeable with each passing decade. Especially since the original celluloid was restored thanks to the efforts of Martin Scorsese and new generations of moviegoers have accessed the film. Greta Gerwig has cited it as one of the key visual references of her hit of the year, Barbie, filmmakers as diverse as Steven Spielberg and Brian de Palma pay homage to it and it has been chosen several times as the best British film of all time. The Red Shoes is always noted to be a visual feast, but it might not have aged so well were it not for an unusually deep story centering on a ballerina, Victoria Page (a Moira Shearer who was hard-pressed before to accept the role), who is torn between surrendering to her career or surrendering to her relationship with a composer, Julian Craster (Marius Goring). If anyone wants to get ahead of the anniversary, you can check it out on Filmin and Prime Video and, for those who keep the DVD player, the Criterion collector's edition has fancy extras.
THE PIANO OF MADAME MANET
Like Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson, who made their best compositions the more angry they were with each other and more obsessed with outdoing their admired rival, the relationship of total admiration but also rivalry between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas allowed them to grow and improve. in yours. This summer, the Musée D'Orsay in Paris dedicates a large exhibition to the relationship between the two. It is said (and if it is not true, it does not matter, because the story is very good) that they met in the Louvre, while both were copying a Velázquez and quickly became frenemies, friend-enemies. An emblematic anecdote of that relationship came when Manet commissioned Degas to paint a portrait of him and his wife, in which she appeared playing the piano. Since Manet did not like the result at all, he cut out the canvas and today it is preserved, without hands and without a piano.
FILMS THAT NEVER WERE
There are filmmakers, like Sofia Coppola or Christopher Nolan, who are as famous for the work they haven't done as for the ones they've done. The author of Marie Antoinette and the future Priscilla Presley biopic was involved in a version of The Little Mermaid that never happened (and had nothing to do with the one that Disney released this year) and in a highly anticipated television adaptation of Edith Wharton that has not seen the light either. For his part, the Oppenheimer director has a long history of unfinished projects that his fans sometimes still fantasize about: a remake of the cult British 1960s series The Prisoner, an adaptation of a Ruth Rendell mystery. and the Howard Hughes biopic that he abandoned when he learned that Scorsese was also preparing The Aviator.
