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...over-the-head school of songwriting. Again though, the band’s mediocre musicality isn’t enough to encourage listeners to ever get to the lyrics. Even the less-conventional songs—“The Lost Brigade” and “The Toro and the Toreador”—aren’t interesting or experimental enough to warrant their length. Leo’s albums used to be wonderfully, almost paradoxically accessible. “Living with the Living,” however, is low on the bygone balance between...
...Three Mexican directors were nominated for Oscars this year: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men and Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth. Why the sudden recognition of these filmmakers...
...felt more useful for my beloved English classes than for my Spanish, however, since it gave me an opportunity to revel in the beautiful imagery and not-so-subtle symbolism of this film, which is also an Oscar contender in six categories. Never lacking in creativity, writer/director Guillermo del Toro combines elements of fairy tales with a harsh narrative set in Civil War-era Spain. Del Toro skews reality, beauty, and monstrosity, allowing normally pretty objects to become eerie and grotesque—but no less enchanting. In this hybrid world, a young girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) encounters fairies...
...trio of auteurs from a country best known in the U.S. recently for sending six million or so illegals (and millions of legals) across the border. Cuarn, del Toro and Gonzlez Irritu are Mexican immigrants even Lou Dobbs could love...
...lose--whether Gonzlez Irritu, del Toro and Cuarn come away with a half-dozen Oscars or none--their individual and collective eminence is great news for international cinema. And for Hollywood too. American movies are in their most artless, complacent period since, I don't know, ever. Somebody's got to shake the place up, and it might as well be the Mexicans...