Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with Welles's eleventh film is partly economic. For his epic project, Welles could gather only a sonnet-size bankroll of $1,500,000-presumably because few of the pictures he has directed were ever commercial successes. To stretch the dollars, he shot the film in Spain with Spanish extras. The corner cutting shows in nearly every scene. Dubbing has made Shakespeare's words fit badly in the mouths of the supporting players and sometimes of the principals (Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet). The background of Avila sits oddly with...
...STEPHENS Palma de Mallorca, Spain...
...Spanish Cabinet last week finally approved a historic bill to grant religious freedom to Spain's Protestant, Jewish and Moslem minorities. The measure had been in the works for more than three years, had the backing of both Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 74, and the Vatican. Yet as recently as three weeks ago, it was shelved by Franco after the Cabinet split over whether it gave non-Catholics too much freedom too fast. It was then revised and toned down in some parts to meet with the approval of the Conservatives, who reluctantly began to realize that, in any case...
...Spain's Jews and Protestants, the bill is nonetheless an important advance. Not that they have done badly, despite official obstacles. Unwilling to risk living in Morocco after it won independence from France in 1956, some 5,500 Jews emigrated to Spain, live quietly as members of the business and professional class. Spain's Protestants are largely native-born Spaniards of working-class, urban background whose ancestors picked up the faith by way of foreign missionaries allowed in Spain for a few years in the late 19th century. Aggressive and evangelical, Spain's Protestants have increased...
...ability to convey emotion. In the beginning, such drama lay primarily in the camera's power to capture and freeze a random instant in time. But with the arrival of motion pictures, the telephoto lens, journalistic photography and television, the camera has developed a new vocabulary of images. Spain's Juan Genovès, 37, calls it "graphic language, the language of the photographer." In his show at London's Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, he illustrates the chilling resources open to the artist who has learned to parse it for his own artistic ends...