How long has it been since a documentary dominated public conversation, the box office, chats between friends and social media memes? You might have to go back to 2004 and Fahrenheit 9/11, by Michael Moore, or that hybrid (but a film, nonetheless) that blew many minds — The Blair Witch Project in 1999 — to see something similar to what’s happening in the United States surrounding You Can See Everything, this season’s cultural phenomenon.
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Un año después de ser elegido Papa, en 1963, Pablo VI se reunió con centenares de artistas en la Capilla Sixtina, bajo los frescos de Miguel Ángel. Era consciente de que, después de siglos en los que la Iglesia había ejercido un importante papel de mecenazgo con grandes pintores, pintores y arquitectos, los artistas se estaban alejando tanto de los temas religiosos como de las instituciones eclesiástica. “Tenemos necesidad de vosotros”, confesó; les pidió perdón por si en algún momento limitaron su creatividad y les tendió la mano: “Tenemos que volver a ser aliado”. Y un año más tarde volvía a enviarles un mensaje: el mundo necesita la belleza para no caer en la desesperanza.
La victoria de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva en las elecciones presidenciales celebradas este domingo en Brasil, donde se ha impuesto a Flávio Bolsonaro con el 51,79% de los votos, permitirá al veterano dirigente del Partido de los Trabajadores afrontar su cuarto mandato al frente del país. A su lado continuará Rosângela da Silva, conocida popularmente como Janja, su tercera esposa y una de las figuras más influyentes de su entorno. Socióloga, militante de izquierdas y defensora de numerosas causas sociales, la primera dama brasileña, de 60 años, ha adquirido un notable protagonismo político y mediático desde su matrimonio con Lula en 2022.
In the race for the mayoralty of Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the United States, two things are certain: a woman will win, and she will be a Democrat. But with a high share of undecided voters and only days remaining before the election, it is still unclear whether Karen Bass will win another term or whether the progressive challenger Nithya Raman will take the post.
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Mikey Madison burst onto the scene, won an Oscar and disappeared. Just a couple of seasons ago, the 27-year-old Los Angeles actress was everywhere in Hollywood. After a long awards campaign in which Demi Moore seemed poised to triumph at every ceremony, the Oscars delivered a surprise. Madison, still virtually unknown to the wider public, took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Anora, in which she played a sex worker in a gritty portrayal far removed from Pretty Woman and other fairy tales.
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The magic of cinema is made in the most unexpected places. In an industrial park on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, past small woods and residential neighborhoods, several gray warehouses hide eagles, castles, monsters and mice. You wouldn’t guess it, but there sits Laika which, alongside the British studio Aardman, is the most famous film studio specialized in stop motion animation.
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About 900,000 fresh flowers hung from walls, columns and ceilings; there were tins of caviar for each guest, Dom Pérignon, three wedding dresses and a 30-piece orchestra. The Waldorf Astoria ballroom in New York hosted a wedding in September that was put together in under three months and cost around $10 million, according to the U.S. media. It was the week of the United Nations General Assembly, with Manhattan full of heads of state and diplomats, and the party drew major figures from U.S. power circles, oligarchs, Congolese politicians, the rapper Nelly on stage, and even former boxer Mike Tyson. But above all the celebration brought together the top ranks of Trumpism: the attorney general Todd Blanche; the FBI director Kash Patel; and White House counsel Will Scharf. It was a MAGA wedding for the glossy magazines.
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On the night of March 20, 2024, unusually humid and mild in London, three people in their twenties pulled up at an industrial estate in the east of the city in a cherry-red Kia Picanto. They went inside, set fire to a warehouse, and filmed the blaze on a cellphone. The video of the flames consuming the premises ended up in the hands of another 20-year-old, Dylan Earl, who was reached via the Telegram messaging app by the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner, linked to the Kremlin, which had in turn recruited others to do the dirty work. One of the burned units contained humanitarian aid and Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine. According to the British investigation, the three young men who lit the fuse did not know they were actually working for Russia.
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