Movie Salad

Off The Book — Beyond Fiction … RE LOAD ED !!!! 2013 has so far been a fantastic year as far as literature affairs are concerned. I’ve been able to finish a novel I hadn’t been able to read when I bought, I’ve managed to add some terrific pieces to my (loved and hated) improvised bookshelf, I’ve finally found what I needed in order to start writing my first novel. There’s also a project that was postponed for too long, due to… well… agenda issues mostly. My agenda, of course, but also the cram packed agenda of another essential 33,33%: my iron-strong, genial co-presenter Dee-Dee! (Sorry Dee, but we all are percentages some time or other. The thing is not to be just a number, which of course you aren’t.) I’m referring, you must surely have guessed, to the amazing “Off the Book – Beyond Fiction”! Ups and downs... They mean nothing eventually It could be a metaphor of how, if you struggle for what you want, you’ll surely get it. But, please, let’s not wax self-help....

by Federico M. Bones FX's “American Horror Story” has recently ended its second season. We’ve seen a whole new story absolutely detached from the first one, yet as powerful and fantastic – only much more disturbing. What ’ s this season about? If the first season was about a horror house, this season we are introduced in a mental asylum in mid 1960s America and its modern-day wreckage. In 2012, a couple gets into the dark, abandoned building that once worked as an institution for the criminally insane looking for exciting adventures and sordid, creepy sex. They are raunchy, daring: they have sex on an ECT… is it a chair? A bed? A Table? (it’s whatever, it serves it purposes well enough). She even “blows” him while he films a dark room through a hole in the wall with his cell-phone and… RRRRIP ! He can film no more because his arm has been severed. We are then taken forty eight years back, and witness the easy, countryside life of a man and his wife (Kit, pl...

______________________ Por Federico M. Bones No sé si será lícito comparar obras de disciplinas diferentes, pero en una época en que el cine y la literatura están tan interrelacionados me permito tal licencia (que en cualquier caso no considero un pecado). Miércoles por la tarde. Mi amiguísima, colega y co-conductora Delfina y yo comenzamos de nuevo con un proyecto pospuesto demasiado tiempo: la segunda temporada de Off the book – Beyond Fiction , un programa casero de radio sobre escritores anglosajones y sus obras. En esta segunda temporada elegimos invocar autores estadounidenses, y el primero fue el fabuloso Henry James. “¿Qué mejor”, pensé, “que tratar su novela ‘ Otra vuelta de tuerca ( The turn of the screw )’? Es la más emblemática y me fascinó leerla.” La grabación del episodio se sucedió algo apurada, en parte porque no contábamos con demasiado tiempo; en parte porque cuando uno se entretiene y hace lo que le gusta el tiempo corre. Viernes por la noche. A fal...