Word: berlanga
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...TOMAS DE BERLANGA, BISHOP OF Panama, named them Las Encantadas--the Enchanted Isles--in 1535, and more than 4 1/2 centuries later, it's hard to argue with his view of the Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off the South American coast, seems idyllic: the giant tortoises known as galapagos, which gave the islands their name, still amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour...
...Galapagos' astonishing variety of animal life, however, that has captivated visitors ever since De Berlanga, whose ship was blown off course en route from Panama to Peru, stumbled on the archipelago. Because the chain was never attached to any other land mass, all the resident species are descended from ones that flew, drifted, swam or were carried there. Ninety-five percent of the reptiles, 50% of the birds, 42% of the land plants, 70% to 80% of the insects and 17% of the fish live nowhere else in the world. Among them: giant tortoises, Galapagos penguins, waved albatrosses, flightless cormorants...
...Berlanga himself is tentatively scheduled to appear on Nov. 3 at the screening of his Welcome, Mr. Marshall (1952). Murphy says that if Berlanga is unable to commit to the date, the archive may ask director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, who has three films in the festival, to speak instead...
Directors like Berlanga, Saura, and Aragon were able to produce monumental works despite the constraints of censorship during the Franco...
...Berlanga is among the most important Spanish filmakers. He is a person who straddles both historic eras. He is a person who is able to slip through the censors well," says Charles Pressberg, course head for Spanish F. "Saura is a major Spanish director. He uses imagery in a way unique to Spanish film," he adds...