"Hilària is a festival that can only be held in Catalonia and with Catalans in mind," states its director, Oriol de Balanzó. It has been ten years since Cruïlla began a comedy cycle infiltrated into its musical programming, and it has been two years since the comedians have been walking on their own, under the umbrella of Hilària. This year, nine shows will be offered with more than thirty guest artists who –due to the closing of El Molino– are distributed across various spaces in the city. Observing the lineup, there is no doubt that it is designed by and for Catalans: they have set up a duel of comedians titled Barcelona vs. Regions, they will hold a roast of El Foraster, and they will offer a late night show hosted by Joel Díaz with a single guest, who will be Lluís Gavaldà. Thus, we finally have a self-centered comedy scene. But what does that mean? What makes us Catalans laugh?

L’Espai Texas, the project remodeled by architect Francesc Guàrdia with two cinema rooms and a theatre with 200 seats, presents a new season featuring names such as Sílvia Munt, Víctor Borràs, Toni Gomila and Roger Coma, as well as figures from the humorous scene such as Oye Sherman and Andrés Fajngold. The theatre located on Bailèn street in Barcelona bets on contemporary Catalan dramaturgy and will revive successful titles such as La pols, by playwright Llàtzer Garcia, awarded with the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or.

There are many movies I haven't seen. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the tragedy, until the lockdown I hadn't seen Dirty dancing (what a marvel) nor Pretty woman. I have wanted to take advantage of this series of articles to efficiently fill some of my cinematic gaps. In an era of massive audiovisual supply and absolute channel atomization, I cure my FOMO retrospectively. And after seeing for the first timeBen-hur, Blade runner,E.T.,A very legal redhead,Terminator,Dancing with Wolves and Alien (and alsoThe Odyssey of Nolan, bonus track of current events), I close this series with a classic of the proportions of Smiles and tears, a fresh movie from 1965:

There are many movies that I haven't seen. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the tragedy, until the lockdown I hadn't seen Dirty Dancing (what a marvel) nor Pretty Woman. I wanted to take advantage of this series of articles to efficiently fill some of my cinematic gaps. In an era of massive audiovisual offering and absolute atomization of channels, I cure my FOMO in deferred. This week I saw Dances with Wolves for the first time and these are my notes:

There are many movies I haven't seen. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the tragedy, until confinement I hadn't seen Dirty dancing (what a marvel) nor Pretty woman. I wanted to take advantage of this series of articles to efficiently fill some of my cinematic gaps. In an era of massive audiovisual supply and absolute atomization of channels, I cure my FOMO on deferral. This week I saw Terminator for the first time and these are my notes:

There are many movies I haven't seen. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the tragedy, until confinement I hadn't seen Dirty dancing (what a marvel) nor Pretty woman. I wanted to take advantage of this series of articles to effectively fill some of my cinematic gaps. In an era of massive audiovisual supply and absolute atomization of channels, I cure my FOMO in deferred. This week I saw E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the first time and these are my notes:

The book we are reviewing here was to be titled There has to be a better way to do this, that the author, comedian Maria Rovira (Barcelona, 1990), he says it's a mantra that accompanies him. But that title fell in favor of Garland, which according to the dictionary of the Institute of Catalan Studies is a chain of flowers, of braided foliage, that is hung as an ornament; and whoever says flowers, says banners or whatever. It is based on this idea of a string of memories and thoughts that we must read this book, which bears the subtitle "Words, losses and other celebrations".