The Spanish Issue

  • Film / Profiles

    The Unusual Spaniard

    As daughter of Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin, Geraldine Chaplin was destined for fame or failure in her own film career. Instead, she became an unlikely icon of Spanish cinema through some unusual choices of her own. Celebrated at this month's London Spanish Film Festival, Latinolife gets under the skin of an unsual American-British lady, embraced by Spain as ita own

  • Poetry / Features

    In the shadow of Lorca

    The poems of Federico Garcia Lorca have touched and inspired people and poets worldwide. Yet his passion, defiance to oppression and his unique vision of Andalucía as a tolerant fusion of cultures makes him particularly special to the Arabs, whose own poetry Lorca was deeply connected to. No better example of this connection, writes Atef Alshaer, is Lorca’s 'The Gypsy Ballads', whose new English translation is to be launched next week in an event hosted by the Cervantes Institute.

  • Film / Interviews

    New Spanish Cinema - Daniel Monzon and Film Philosophy at its best

    On the DVD release of Cell 211, Latinolife interviews Daniel Monzón, one of the new great directors of Spanish Cinema, Daniel Monzón reveals his passions and fears during the making of his film, which ended in some unexpected, life-changing findings.

  • Spanish alternative / Things that matter to...

    ...Ojos de Brujo

    Ojos de Brujo are a musical collective based in Barcelona. Their hyper music is best described as flamenco experimentation, with a strong Hip-Hop influence.

  • Society / Features

    Modern Spain: Stylizing the Stereotypes?

    Spain is a country that attracts strong stereotypes. Images of wife-beating machos, blood thirsty sports and crazy drivers may have dissolved since the years of Franco isolation, but siestas, fiestas and Flamenco is still what most people think Spain is about. So what is modern Spain? Maybe maturity is not worrying about what people think or maybe the key to modrrn Spain is in the stereotype. Latinolife investigates Spain's image of its contemporary self

  • Football / First person

    Relishing the Magic of FC Barcelona

    'Justify the meaningfulness of the football suffering fan if you like, while I bask in the glory of FC Barcelona magic'. Kings of the football world today, the great Barca has also had its share of suffering, on and off the pitch. Jimmy Burns tells the story of a club that well deserves its glory moment.

  • Football / Things You Should Know About...

    ...the best Spanish footballers of all time

    Current European and World Champions; home to arguably the two greatest clubs in the world; it would be fair to say that Spain has produced a few decent footballers over the years. In fact, after years of underachievement, Spanish football has become so sickeningly good that many of the Premier League’s most talented players (David Silva, Fernando Torres and the now departed Cesc Fàbregas) struggle to claim a place in their country’s national side. Who would make your list of the ten best Spanish footballers ever? Here’s Latino Life’s selection:

  • History / Features

    Los Niños Vascos and The English Lord

    In 1937, as Bilbao was being bombarded, 4,000 Basque children arrived in Southamption, thanks to some extraordinary individuals who defied the British government's official policy of appeasement (which ultimately contributed to the victory of Fascism in Spain). This is the incredible story of an English Lord, an exiled Spanish poet and the Basque children who stayed on his Oxford estate.

  • Food / Things You Should Know About...

    Spanish Tapas

    "Pae-lah and chor-itzo for me, matey!" Yes strange sounding impressions of Iberian cooking seem still to pervade the British psyche. Many people will have heard of tapas (difficult to go wring with that pronunciation), the ubiquitously familiar way of presenting Spanish food to the public, but enquire as to a person's favourite, and a blank stare may often cloud her face. Here's Latinolife's guide to Spanish tapas.

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