al andalus, granada y 1492


Lamento De Boabdil

Gaspar Cassadó – Integral Per Violoncel i Piano

Muhammad XII of Granada (Boabdil)

Les_Adieux du roi Boabdil a Grenade by Alfred Dehodencq (circa 1860) Musee d’Orsay.

Emirate of Cordoba

“…10th century cordoba was the most populous city in the world.”

from Cordoba, Andalusia  wikipedia entry.

foreign policy article. controversy over the mosque-cathedral of cordoba.

 

Al-Andalus

circa 1000 AD | via wikipedia

The Capitulation of Granada. Boabdil confronts Ferdinand and Isabella. Artist: Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. 1882. via wikipedia

inherent vice

lack of plot.complicated plots. lack of artificial exposition. natural unfolding of the story.

to see

repo man (1984) by alex cox

via wikipedia

the big sleep (1946)

via wikipedia

north by northwest (1959)

police squad! (1982)

via wikipedia

the joy of filmmaking

the close-up on p t anderson, 58 mins.

josh brolin. dp/30

short indiewire (1998) on the coen brothers:

The coen brothers speak (reluctantly) the big lebowsky, the big sleep, etc.

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Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young

via wikipedia