Housed in a former jewelry shop, Apparition Books is a general-interest store with new and used titles. But customers will notice a lot of "weird books" as well.
Describing new Latin American literature as ‘magic realist’ prolongs a stereotype that overlooks the full depth and richness of each novel’s true genre.
1976 was one of the bloodiest years of Augusto Pinochet’s extremely sanguinary dictatorship in Chile. That same year, Chilean actress and film-maker Manuela Martelli’s maternal grandmother, whom she had never met, took her own life as a consequence of severe depression. This private affair has served as inspiration for the film Martelli wanted to make.. <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/subjects/film/1976-a-poignant-tale-of-an-alienated-woman-during-chiles-oppressive-military-regime-71008/">Read Article</a>
Although the films in Martin Scorsese s World Cinema Project No. 4 come from different countries, decades, and languages, they reveal similarities in social conscience and film experiments.