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Cine Nostalgia: Terror at boarding

Made in 1969, The residence was the logical consequence of the career of its director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, dragging a fruitful career in television apasionarte (English television), which was giving glory days with programs and series a formal and artistic quality.

Let's ignore speak of their entertainment programs as One two three, or teaching as Waku Waku , since the ultimate aim is to stop a little in his debut in the big screen under his proven ability to lead in television stories, especially those of terror.

Ibáñez Serrador In 1966 he undertook the making of the series not to sleep Stories based on the Extraordinary Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Its success was such that the series had an impact not only is Spain, but called attention in many European countries where it was greeted with the same expectation in Spain.

producers gave him carte blanche to direct his first film was sung. The only condition is asked to be a horror film, with ambitions to conquer the market outside our borders. Ibáñez Serrador was, of course, delighted.

The result was The residence, an impeccable exercise in style that had its own series as a reference on Poe, but also the Gothic films of the Hammer, the famous British producer of horror films.

However, the script The residence has other connotations of a more ambitious and not merely to recreate a movie "genre" as it is imbued with references and allusions that refer to other works and authors prestige.

Thus, we can detect in The residence influences as a writer Daphne du Maurier or filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock. Not surprisingly, writer and filmmaker responsible for movies like Jamaica Posada or Rebecca. The influence of these two masterpieces are evident in the residence.

In Hitchcock we can detect other influences. Perhaps the most crucial is that of Psycho (1960), with whose story is great overlap. Ibáñez Serrador But beyond suggesting when subplots and The residence, a film really daring to Spain in the late sixties, issues such as lesbianism, incest, sado masochism and necrophilia are very present.

One of its virtues is that, despite the gruesome of his argument, we find style visual excess, for example, Dario and Mario Bava Aregento (the giallo in general) than in those years was in full swing yen every horror film worth his salt had to run the bloodletting. These excesses, in The residence is avoided. Ibáñez Serrador want (and get) to make a more ambitious kind of film. His goal is to conquer the international market not only in box office but wants to be recognized even outside of Spain as an author.

Hence the film has a vague atmosphere and not be detected where the plot goes, that could happen and anywhere in Europe. Clear evidence that international calling is the cast, led by the great Lilli Palmer and the young boy (very fashionable then films like Ludwig , Luchino Visconti, among others) John Moulder Brown.

For many years, The residence was the highest grossing film in English cinema. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador surprisingly did not have a continuing career in film and, after shooting his next film, the no less extraordinary Who can kill a child? , never again to direct movies.

Ibáñez Serrador's film had the honor of being parodied: undeniable proof of its popularity.

then reproduce the text of program notes that on the occasion of the release of the residence, was delivered in the future box office viewer. Practice, unfortunately, no longer in use.

" After fifteen years of directing television make my first film. Everything was put into my hands: choice of subject, cast, a superb team of professionals that, if I continue making films, I would like to roll always-week shoot, means of production. Everything. All I was given. But a slogan: "Make a movie that can be sold abroad." That's nothing! I know that, on the grounds that my TV deviate slightly from normal, many expect in The residence new forms, nonconformity, breaks old patterns ... Sorry to disappoint, nothing like that in my film. My purpose was that, over three thousand odd feet, the audience forget that behind the camera is a director. I wanted to narrate the subject properly, to classical, in the sense pejorative with which today is spoken of classicism in the cinema. In short: with this, my first film, attempt to win the honor of professional qualification. As for the script, my faithful and eternal partner Luis Peñafiel, based on a story by Juan Tebar, decided this time that the terror and suspense serve only as backdrop to a series of psychological approaches, with the intention that The residence were more than a scary movie. I know that I put into play fifteen years of television. I have fear and doubts and nerves. You can continue making films, I do not know. Depends on many factors. Whatever happens, I want to thank Anabel Films, SA, all the confidence placed in me, the opportunity to work with Gomez and Mahnahen Velasco have finished discovering Cristina Galba, Maribel Martin, Teresa Hurtado, Conchita Paredes and all other English girls, of being responsible for Maude and Mary Pauline Challenor, the two English girls, debuted in films, and especially today to have the friendship of Lilli Palmer, the great lady who always professed an immense admiration "

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Torture is not culture, let alone art ICT as CrecePelo

On Sunday morning, I was with a couple hundred people to the sales-an insignificant number given the commitment of the organizers - wrapping up a banner that read: TORTURE IS NOT CULTURE. Of course not, not only culture but is not connected with the most sordid of human traditions, which enjoys the cruelty and mistreatment of innocent creatures.

Some argue the anachronism of bullfighting by a misinterpretation of the tradition. If we stand by in customs of the past, would be justified racism (blacks had no souls), violence against women (they are supposed to lower the dignity of male) or female circumcision, to name three aberrations that appear black indelible record of humanity.

Cruelty to animals is also part of that black history, which should be ashamed. Given that there is no unnecessary cruelty to rely on tradition, but use the criteria of compassion and universal values. Does this mean that we give to serve animals? I'm not asking much, but we deal with compassion to those beings that are going to sacrifice on our behalf. The need for food, as guinea pigs for certain research irreplaceable ... Humans have an unpayable debt of gratitude to the animals that at least requires us to monitor their suffering as little as possible.

Torture is neither culture nor art can be disguised. It is simply incompatible with modern society. Deserve not only reject the runs (particularly serious for torturing to death mammals feel pain like us) but any kind of cruelty against animals free. Enter here the murder case of a facility in Havana Cáceres Clearance where the artist of the moment decided to drive a thousand crickets on a panel to show his agony.

A visitor asked him to stop this senseless cruelty and self-conscious because of the impotence of the organizers who did not want to be labeled as censors, he decided to spray insecticide crickets to stop suffering. For the artist, "the woman acted like a Taliban, hindering the creative and cultural freedoms, but I believe that these alleged creative freedoms have a limit: the gratuitous suffering, the senseless and unnecessary cruelty to a living being.

In short, respect for freedom of expression, yes, but within the framework of universal values. To a display of violence and sadism, is no place for art.

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A character endearing classic western was the Chapman, who moved into his cart a host gender-like Chinese stores but street-version to fill the pioneers stocked out. Among them, a peculiar group was made up of charlatans who offered universal remedies, usually a miraculous elixir brought from the Far East, which was not refused any medical condition, discomfort or inconvenience, of gastritis with alopecia. In this case, the condition of street came forced by the need to exit legs of each population, either because the miracle was expected, either because the results were not exactly advertised.

With ICT is the same. Upload a charlatan huckster the floor of Congress and offer the cure-all remedy for the ills of education. And buy it without question make no proof! The ICT elixir obnubila politicians .. and many teachers. Matter little experimental reports that demonstrate the dubious effectiveness of the remedy, at least if applied shortage criteria. No one objected to the CrecePelo miraculous.

the politicians fall given before the computer does not surprise me. In a serious state of education, is infinitely greater media impact of cramming classrooms with computers that incorporate support teachers. In the final analysis, the effects are only seen in the long term, beyond the electoral horizon. What I find hard to accept is the rapture of the teachers before the speech ICT trickster. Do not you remember that great educational innovations have to do with reflection and action, but not technology? Do not you see that countries that excel in international events are less technological equipment that our most backward regions? Why, then, applaud the charlatan rather than throw tomatoes or out of the stage to Gorraz?

If we have learned is that we are in an environment of vast diversity, where each student from a different position, with its own organizers and preconceptions, their own interests and their own patterns and rhythms of learning. Therefore, the "one size fits all" does not work, call lecture, manual or minipecé encyclopedic. To a diverse environment must be to welcome the computer as a powerful resource to enrich, never to replace, the list of available resources. I have come to see the materials stored in boxes in a science lab, relatively modern and well stocked, to make room for a new computer room, and this is a disgrace for learning. Can you learn mechanics with a virtual laboratory? No doubt, but is this the way to achieve a better learning experience? Who put in the hands of a surgeon, knowing that all their clinical training already done by a computer?

Educators seduced by the discourse of charlatan easy as pie exploit the argument that the computer has conquered all areas of society, while the classrooms are basically stuck in a transmissive model, outdated and inefficient. "If everybody uses the computer, how is it that is not in school?". This is a wrong and harmful speech, which explains the large investments failed. The question is "what should we change the current educational model to better serve the growing diversity" and "how ICTs can bring in this new model."

is naive to think that technology itself is going to cause major changes in the classroom. Al contrary, experience shows that by becoming a mere substitute for other resources such as the textbook, without a deep reflection on the organization of the groups, spaces and school days, further strengthens what has already been doing and not contributes to innovation and educational improvement.

The sale of snake oil elixir is easy, because it saves us the complex decision among numerous other resources available, and low risk for the charlatan, because the results will come in the long term. So when a report analyzing the results seriously, as has happened recently with the devastating analysis after eight years of implementation of ICT in the Landes , the charlatan and will be away or be taken another distraction from his wagon.