Dr. Salvatore Poeta Organizes Film Series dedicated to Federico García Lorca
As a
prelude to the Opera Ainadamar, on
Federico García Lorca´s brutal assassination at the beginning of the Spanish
Civil War, which will take place at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia,
February 7-16, 2014, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures will
host two Special Film presentations on Lorca's Mariana Pineda and The
Disappearance of García Lorca. The film presentations will take place in
Villanova´s Cinema and Driscoll Hall on Wednesday, January 29, and Friday,
January 31, 2014.
Mariana Pineda
Mariana Pineda was
a heroine of the liberal cause in 19th Century Spain, whose short and turbulent
life came to an abrupt end when she was hanged for embroidering a revolutionary
flag. Her story was immortalized in a traditional folk ballad, which inspired
Federico García Lorca to pen his well-known play depicting her life story. The
Cádiz-born bailaora Sara Baras takes Federico García Lorca´s play to the territory
of flamenco dance, under the direction of Lluis Pasqual and original music by
the renowned flamenco guitarrist Manolo Sanlúcar.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
CINEMA 2:30-4:30 pm
DRISCOLL HALL 7:00-9:30
pm
The Disappearance of García Lorca
Federico García Lorca now stands as one of Spain’s greatest
icons. But in 1936, he found himself standing in front of the firing squad at
Ainadamar (“fountain of tears” in Arabic)—quite literally caught in the middle
of the Spanish Civil War. The
Disappearance of García Lorca (1997) is a drama-biographical film directed by
Marcos Zurinaga, based on a book by Ian Gibson, about the life and murder of
the Spanish poet. It stars Andy García,
as Lorca, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales, as a journalist who
investigates Lorca’s disappearance during the early years of the Spanish Civil
War.
Friday, January 31, 2014
CINEMA 2:00-5:30
pm
DRISCOLL HALL 8:00-10:30
pm
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