China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest exhibition at the MUSAC, a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain, he shows EL PAÍS the first house he’s ever bought, at the age of 67
‘Brideshead Revisited,’ ‘The Mission,’ ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’… these are just some of the titles in film and television that forged the career of this great British actor. Irons originally intended to be a musician, but his physique, voice and acting skills led him down the path of cinema. EL PAÍS spoke with him in Seville
Filmmaker Jordan Peele selects his favorite Black authors in ‘Out There Screaming,’ an anthology of stories. The book serves as the cultural industry’s spearhead against racial clichés
Science fiction authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein have inspired figures such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who, adopting the persona of strongmen, fantasize about saving humanity
Nearly 40 years after his death, the series ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ portrays the descent into drugs and alcohol into which the writer fell after doing the one thing that New York high society would never forgive him for: exposing their underbelly
With a stellar cast, an unprecedented production design and music by Pink Floyd, it had everything required to become one of the biggest films of the 20th century. But no one in Hollywood wanted to support it. It turns out, however, that there was no need: today, it’s a cult classic, without even existing
In a new work, film critic Juan Dos Ramos analyzes how the hypermasculinity of gangster cinema was the perfect terrain for men to love each other when that love was prohibited
Representative of the new North American horror narrative, the author received an award at the Sui Generis festival in Madrid, Spain
A former industry executive is promoting a course to teach film professionals how to treat religion in series and films in a plural, non-stereotypical way
Chenta Tsai Tseng — a Spanish musician of Taiwanese origin — turned insults into a stage name: Putochinomaricón. In their most ambitious project to date, they’re now working on deconstructing post-internet music
Cierto Estudio is a cooperative that stands up to the masculine cliché in the sector. They dream of designing the sets for a Pedro Almodóvar film
The Portuguese creator reflects on the feminine, the domestic and being recognized in the supermarket
Estaños de Pedraza has been working with this material for 55 years, but there is no one left to keep the craft alive
Netflix’s documentary ‘Blitzed!’ reminds us that, long before today’s non-binary club-goers in second-hand clothes, the New Romantics were redefining fashion from a position of precariousness. Their influence endures today
At 60, the acclaimed author has learned a lot about his craft, and even more about living
Chef Paco Roncero opens Sublimotion, a restaurant that takes you on a global journey as you eat
Mexican singer intends to go on defying attempts to pigeonhole her
Actress Natalia Verbeke is setting her sights on new horizons: France and her native Argentina
