Cine. Toda la historia

A small prince looks at the outside world in a mirror from his magnificent palace and he does not like what he sees. Therefore, each morning he imagines solutions to improve the lives of his subjects. But one day he will stop observing the world to admire his own image. The small prince will become bigger and bigger until only he occupies the space of the mirror.

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...

Personajes relevantes de la vida pública española harán un retrato plural y personal de la figura del rey Juan Carlos I.Luis María Anson, Marcelino Oreja Aguirre, Miguel Ángel Aguilar, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Manuel Marín González, Felipe González Márquez, Victoria Prego, Soledad Gallego-Díaz, Nicolás Redondo Urbieta, Jaime Mayor Oreja, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Jodi Pujol, Pasqual Maragall, José Antonio Ardanza, Carlos Garaicoetxea, Rodolfo Martín Villa, Adolfo Suárez Illana, Santiago Carrillo Solares, Juan Luis Cebrián, Fernando Morán López, Santos Juliá, Jaime...

Tras veinte años trabajando en la industria del cine como guionista, editor de storyboards y director de películas tan memorables como El quinteto de la muerte, Alexander Mackendrick abandonó Hollywood y empezó una nueva carrera como pro-fesor en el California Institute of the Arts, una de las escuelas de cine más solicitadas e influyentes de Estados Unidos. Su devoción absoluta por el oficio de hacer películas combinada con un estilo de enseñanza que incluía unas notas preparatorias muy ex-haustivas, unos storyboards trabajadísimos y unos apuntes en los que abundan las refe-rencias ...