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One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of
its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too
bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A
loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting her, the
American painter Mary Cassatt whom we follow closely as well. And
it is in the company of the latter that at the twilight of his
life, Efa and Rubio open the pages of Degas's notebooks to try to
unravel the mystery of this genius steeped in contradictions.
In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! (R) Goes to the Movies,
Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly
studio-made. Now his student, Salva Rubio, applies Blake's
principles to 50 celebrated non-studio films (again with 5 beat
sheets for each of Blake's 10 genres). From international
sensations like The Blair Witch Project to promising debuts like
Pi, from small films that acquired cult status like Texas Chain Saw
Massacre to Euro-blockbusters like The Full Monty , from unexpected
gems like Before Sunrise to textbook classics such as The 400
Blows, from Dogville to Drive and Boogie Nights to Cinema Paradiso,
here are 50 movies that fit both the "independent" label and Blake
Snyder's 15 beats. You'll find beat sheets for works from Quentin
Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Danny
Boyle, David Mamet, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Sofia Coppola,
Stephen Frears, David Hare, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Wes
Anderson, and the Coen Brothers, among other renowned writers and
directors. You will see how "hitting the beats" creates a story
that resonates for audiences the world over. Why is this important?
Because it gives both writers and moviegoers a language to analyse
film and understand how filmmakers can effectively reach audiences.
And especially if you are a writer, this book reveals how
screenwriters who came before you tackled the same challenges you
are facing with the film you want to write -- or the one you are
currently working on.
In this wordless graphic novel, a galactic Robinson Crusoe is
stranded on a desert planet, where he survives on what coconuts he
can find. Until one day a delectable croissant, perfectly wrapped
in plastic, lands on the shore of the beach, a gift from the gods.
There's only one problem: Robinson's companion, Friday, also loves
baked goods--and so begins a wild chase, the likes of which the
solar system has never seen. This exhilarating, humorous take on a
classic tale will delight children even as it introduces them to a
seminal work of Western literature. The lack of text also means
prereaders will be able to return to the story time and again
without an adult's help.
"En esta novela grafica sin palabras, un Robinson Crusoe espacial
esta varado en un planeta desierto en el cual sobrevive comiendo
cuantos cocos puede conseguir. Hasta que un dia un delicioso
cruasan, perfectamente envuelto en plastico, cae en la orilla de la
playa, un manjar de los dioses. Existe solo una complicacion: a
Viernes, el companero de Robinson, tambien le encantan los panes--y
asi se desencadena una espectacular persecucion que jamas viese
aquel sistema solar. Esta excitante, humoristica recreacion de una
historia clasica deleitara a los ninos a la misma vez que les
presenta una obra fundamental de la literatura occidental. La
ausencia de texto le permite a los prelectores seguir la historia
sin la intermediacion de un adulto."
This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of
Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled
to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found
himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to the
notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, where he spent the war
among thousands of other Spaniards and other prisoners. More than
half of them would lose their lives there. Through an odd turn of
events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is
documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has
a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of
these perverse photos--but only at the risk of his own life, that
of a young Spanish boy he has sworn to protect, and, indeed, that
of every prisoner in the camp.
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