Ignacio Sanchez Prado

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2 AM trip-hop and derivations playlist Sneaker Pimps-6 Underground Portishead-Sour Times Hooverphonic-2 Wicky Massive Attack-Protection Tricky-Ponderosa Björk-Human Behavior Nicolette. No Government Everything but the Girl-Missing Dido-Here With Me Martina Topley Bird-Anything

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is a masterclass in atmospherics which carry the movie fully even if the script has a coupleholes. Maika Monroe is a compelling lead and Nic Cage found a perfect role for his madness. Saw it in Monday bc weekend and Tuesday were sold out. Worth the hype.

Anthony Chen’s The Breaking Ice, a lovely film about youthful ennui in the wake of COVId, fascinatingly set in a Chinese town bordering North Korea. Full of melancholy and political elipsis, it is a worthy weekday watch. In the Criterion Channel

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is a fun, wicked trilogy of absurdist horror films exploring ethics against the grain. Closer to his earlier work, the film is fueled by a perfect cast that shines in every role. Not for everyone (ten people left the theater) but I loved it. In theaters.

My writing today is accompanied by a gift from The Criterion Channel, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus, a concert film of the last recorded performance of the great composer and pianist, shot in stunningly beautiful black and white by director Neo Sora and cinematographer Bill Kirstein.

The first novel of July is a real banger. Beautifully written and very intense.

I came to see That Mexican OT and I met him outside the venue!

I am honored to receive this prize. It is the article seeks to represent the work of Mexicanist comrades. It is written in the hybrid style between personal essay, crónica and academic prose I am developing for my taco book. now available in open access : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Endless Proliferations of Signifiers: Mexican Cultural Studies in the Future Tensewww.tandfonline.com This piece argues that Mexican literary and cultural studies are on the verge of a series of paradigm changes. The essay begins with an imagined walk through Mexico City to illustrate the ways in w...

Instead of thinking about that debate, here are four very recent Mexican albums you most likely don’t know about but that are truly spectacular

On Kino Film Collection, the new streaming platform you should check out! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/m...

Seeking Serious Cinema on Streaming? Try Kino Film Collection.www.nytimes.com The service is an art house answer to what’s missing on some of the more popular streamers.

One of the best Latin American films from the 1980s, Carlos Mayolo’s La Mansión de Araucaíma adapts a novella by Alvaro Mutis, which was originally pitched to Buñuel. An apotheosis of Caliwood, is a sultry gothic tale of desire, betrayal and low-key madness. Not on streaming

From the editor of films by Lisandro Alonso, Amat Escalante and Carlos Reygadas, Natalia Lopez Gallardo’s Robe of Gems is a smartly elliptical and visually stunning film on the banality of violence in rural Mexico. It lacks the attention it deserves and merits watching. in OVID and other platforms

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It is worth reading these two great books together, as attempting the same literary feat (a novelization of the relationship between body, affect and alternative perceptions) from two different generational and cultural sites.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s sublime Millenium Mambo, arguably the best film on the turn of the century, in a 2022 restoration in which the cinematography of frequent collaborator Mark Lee Ping Bing, fresh out of working in In the Mood for Love, really shines. Also in Kino Film Collection and for rent.

Interesting read. Paul Schrader is fascinating because he knows a lot about cinema and is capable of both sublime films and real garbage. There are a lot of issues with this ranking, but it is worth seeing this filmography in one piece www.pastemagazine.com/movies/paul-...

Every Paul Schrader Film, Rankedwww.pastemagazine.com It's never been a better time to be a fan of filmmaker Paul Schrader and his lonely men. Here's every Paul Schrader movie, ranked:

2AM favorite songs this week playlist: Please Please Please-Sabrina Carpenter Austin-Dasha The Kill-Maggie Rogers Risk-Gracie Abrams Genesis-Raye Mucho Gracias-That Mexican OT Drunk Love-Snow Tha Product Sessions No. 60-Bizarrap & Lismar El 100-Sofia Reyes & DannyLux

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Essay by Jonah Siegel makes an interesting point: if you hold that critiquing the canon is a mode of resistance to the powers that be, you must grapple with the fact that *our* elites no longer go to art museums, see plays, attend film festivals, or read books. Moreover, they hate the people who do.

From someone not in my quadrant, this essay by Alan Jacobs on the decline of myth as a theme in criticism focuses on Vico, Frazer and Frye is really intelligent and worth reading. In Latin America, mythological reading of literature has a much longer shelf life . harpers.org/archive/2024...

Yesterday’s Men, by Alan Jacobsharpers.org The death of the mythical method

I just learned about this journal and the association behind it because I’m going to their conference. it is the first thing from the Anglosphere I have seen in a while in which “the humanities” are the actual humanities and not the English department, and where the rest of the world actually exists

I first saw Tran Anh Hung’s 1993 Scent of the Green Papaya when I was 15 years old or so, at the Muestra Internacional de Cine in Mexico City, during one of the toughest periods of my life. Still captivating and beautiful, in my second watch as an adult. In Kino Film Collection (new platform!)

My back to home reading binge is going awesome

Back to home cooking: Oaxacan mole Amarillo with chochoyotes (masa dumplings) made with actual yellow chilhuacle chiles, and a pot of yellow rye beans cooked with tomato and herbs. All vegan (except for the side of the crema and cheese of course)

A failed romcom with an interesting but underdeveloped premise, Richard Linklater’s Hitman drowns on pacing, surprisingly bad writing, a formal identity crises, the mediocrity of Glen Powell as a leading man and his lack of any chemistry with Adria Arjona. In Netflix.

Davide Ferrario’s Umberto Eco, A Library of the World, a documentary full of illuminations about books, knowledge in the information era and the value of erudition. A jewel and a tribute to a man of letters through the relationship with his books. In DVD and various platforms.

Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster, a masterclass in screenwriting, directing and acting, profoundly moving and affecting, a perfect film. Avoid all spoilers if you are going to see it. Its minimalistic soundtrack is the final contribution of Ryuichi Sakamoto to a film. Don’t miss it. In MUBI

Absolutely stunning