Black Cat, White Cat

Black Cat, White Cat is a Yugoslavian Romantic comedy film directed by Emir Kusturica in 1998. It won the Silver Lion for Best Direction at the Venice Film Festival.The literal translation of the title is actually "Black cat, white tomcat". The movie characters speak in Romani Serbian and Bulgarian - frequently switching between them. Some of the film's plot points and scenery are strongly inspired by an influential Italian comics series, Alan Ford by Roberto Raviola and Luciano Secchi.
Kusturica was born in 1954 in Sarajevo. Graduated film directing at the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague in 1978. During the studies, awarded several times for his short movies including Guernica (1978) which took first prize at Student's Film Festival in Karlovy Vary.

TALK TO HER

About halfway into Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her," one of the lead male characters offers this advice to a newfound friend: "A woman's brain is a mystery. You have to pay attention to them, be thoughtful occasionally, let them know they matter to us." It says a great deal about the character and the movie when one considers the fact that he is referring to a woman lingering in a vegetative coma.
Almodovar is one of America's favorite cinematic imports. Since 1988's "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," the Spanish filmmaker has built a strong following in theaters across the United States. "Talk to Her," Almodovar's follow-up to the Oscar-winning "All About My Mother," is a stylized and wonderfully textured examination of two men's aching need to unlock the mystery of women. "Talk to Her," a sepia-toned dream of a movie, tells the story of Marco (Dario Grandinetti), a journalist who falls in love with Lydia (Rosario Flores), a famous female matador. However, the brief romance is interrupted when Lydia is gored by a bull and spends most of the movie in a coma. While standing vigil at her bedside, Marco meets male nurse Benigno, a social misfit with an increasingly unhealthy fascination with another coma patient, Alicia (Leonar Watling).

Happy Teachers' Day

"World Teachers’ Day reminds governments and the general public of the role of teachers and of the need to improve their status and working conditions. Above all, it is an opportunity to show appreciation for their work in preparing the next generation to function efficiently in a changing world." from UNESCO. (1998)

Do you know the answers?

1.) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

(2.) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

(3.) Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

(4.) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?

(5.) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

(6.) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.

(7.) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?

(8.) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?

(9.) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?

(10.) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the letter "s."

MAITENA

A self-made artist, Maitena started out drawing erotic strips for several European publications such as Makoki, in Barcelona. In Argentina, she worked in Sex Humor, Fierro, Humor, and Cerdos y Peces.
She also worked as a graphic illustrator for Argentinian magazines and newspapers, as well as publishing houses specializing in school texts. for a while, she was a TV screenwriter, restaurateur and bar owner.
Her first strip, Flo, was published in Tiempo Argentino, a Buenos Aires newspaper. Her work was compiled in a book called Y en este rincón, las mujeres.

MAITENA

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