Today’s post has to do with a course I am doing at the BFI in London about Steven Spielberg. I still don’t know how, but here I am preparing a presentation for tomorrow’s class. “E.T” was taken, so I chose to talk about “The Terminal”. Without knowing why, after just watching it, I now know that it was my reconciliation with Spielberg after “A.I” and “Catch me if you can” or “Minority Report”. He had a tendency of making two hours and thirty minutes films that were about ego more than anything else.  Continue reading ““The Terminal” – “La Terminal”” →

It’s a summer night in 1988 and a few days before my first Holy Communion. So my brother, one of our favourite cousins and I decide to sit in front of the TV. Back then, it was anything but flat! My parents switch the channel to watch a film all together before our cousin leaves as it’s his last evening at home before we celebrate our Holy Communion in all three at the same time (kind of typical in Spain). The title of the film, at first, is a little bit scary:”Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Wow! Even sounds dangerous. I didn’t have the slightest idea that this film would change my life to the point that I still remember the exact day of the event! Continue reading ““Close Encounters of the Third Kind”- “Encuentros en la tercera fase”” →