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Chueca Neigborhood
Chueca is an area of central Madrid, named after its main square, Plaza de Chueca. It is known as Madrid's gay neighborhood. Plaza de Chueca was named after Spanish composer and author Federico Chueca. It is located in the administrative ward in the Centro (Madrid), central Madrid neighbourhood of Justicia (Madrid), Justicia. Chueca is very lively, with many street cafes and boutique shops. ''Lonely Planet'' describes it as "extravagantly gay, lively young, and always inclusive regardless of your sexual orientation." Places of interest *San Anton Church, which contains the bones of Saint Valentine *Mercado de San Antón *Plaza de Chueca *Museo del Romanticismo Art in Chueca In the later half of the 2010s, Chueca had become a centre for gay art. The ''Festival Visible'' which takes place every year during the Gay Pride, has included works by Jean Cocteau, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Wilhelm van Gloeden, David Hockney, David Hochney, Tom of Finland, Roberto González Fernánde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wards Of Madrid
Madrid, the capital city of Spain, is divided into 21 districts (''distritos''), which are further subdivided into 131 neighborhoods (''barrios''). List {{Districts of Madrid Wards of Madrid, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. The ''National Observer'' suggested that, “of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man.” He is best known for his novels ''Le Grand Écart'' (1923), ''Le Livre blanc'' (1928), and '' Les Enfants Terribles'' (1929); the stage plays ''La Voix Humaine'' (1930), '' La Machine Infernale'' (1934), ''Les Parents terribles'' (1938), '' La Machine à écrire'' (1941), and ''L'Aigle à deux têtes'' (1946); and the films ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930), ''Les Parents Terribles'' (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Orpheus'' (1950), and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark
) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark , established_title = History of Denmark#Middle ages, Consolidation , established_date = 8th century , established_title2 = Christianization , established_date2 = 965 , established_title3 = , established_date3 = 5 June 1849 , established_title4 = Faroese home rule , established_date4 = 24 March 1948 , established_title5 = European Economic Community, EEC 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, accession , established_date5 = 1 January 1973 , established_title6 = Greenlandic home rule , established_date6 = 1 May 1979 , official_languages = Danish language, Danish , languages_type = Regional languages , languages_sub = yes , languages = German language, GermanGerman is recognised as a protected minority language in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chef's Special
''Chef's Special'' ( es, Fuera de carta) is a Spanish film directed by Nacho García Velilla that centers on homosexuality and the decision to come out. It focuses on men who have had relationships with women to hide their own sexuality, to the point of even having kids. The film also deals with the theme of single parents. It stars Javier Cámara, Benjamín Vicuña, Lola Dueñas, and Fernando Tejero. The film premiered in Spain on April 11, 2008 and was a success in the box office, earning almost 1 million Euros in its first weekend and ending the year as the sixth highest-grossing Spanish film grossing 5,107,626.41 €. It received fourteen award nominations—including two Goya Awards—winning six of them. The critical reception was not as favorable, receiving negative reviews from important publications like El País, El Mundo, and ABC. Plot Maxi (Javier Cámara) is the chef and owner of a restaurant, Xantarella, who aspires to win a Michelin Star but is having financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Albaladejo
Miguel Albaladejo (Pilar de la Horadada, Alicante, 20 August 1966) is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. Filmography as film director * ''The First Night of My Life'' (1998), made for 2000, Seen By...Norbert Creutz,Dix cinéastes de quatre continents imaginent le jour de l'an 2000" ''Le Temps'', 4 December 1998. * ''Manolito Gafotas (film), Manolito Gafotas'' (1999) * ''Ataque verbal'' (1999) * ''Rencor'' (2001) * ''El cielo abierto'' (2001) * ''Cachorro'' (2004) * ''My Quick Way Out, Volando voy'' (2006) References External links * 1966 births Living people People from Vega Baja del Segura Spanish film directors Film directors from the Valencian Community Spanish male screenwriters Spanish male writers {{Spain-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boystown (film)
''Boystown'' ( es, Chuecatown, links=no) is a 2007 Spanish comedy film directed by from a screenplay by Flahn, Félix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso. Synopsis The plot focuses on the neighborhood of Chueca that is located in Madrid. Victor, an owner of a real-estate company, wants to have a monopoly over all the apartments in Chueca, in order to turn it into the Madrid version of the Castro district in San Francisco, but the apartments are owned by senior citizens that do not want to sell to him. Víctor decides to take matters into his own hands and murder anyone that stands in his way. Everything is going Víctor's way until Rey and Luis, a gay couple, inherit the apartment of Víctor's latest victim. Víctor tries to buy the apartment from Rey but he refuses to sell it because he wants his mother, Doña Antonia, to move into the apartment. Now Víctor has to find a way to kill Doña Antonia while police are out looking for the murderer that is on the loose in Chueca. Cast Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesc Gay
Francesc Gay Puig (born 1967), better known as Cesc Gay, is a Spanish film screenwriter and film director. Biography Francesc Gay Puig was born in Barcelona in 1967. His 2015 film '' Truman'' won Goya Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Ricardo Darín), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Cámara) and Best Original Screenplay (Cesc Gay and Tomás Aragay Tomás may refer to: * Tomás (given name) Tomás is a Spanish, Portuguese, and Irish (also in the archaic forms ''Thomaz'', ''Thomás'' and '' Tomaz'') given name equivalent of ''Thomas''. It may refer to: * Tomás de Anchorena (1783–1847), ...). Filmography Film Television Theatre *"Los Vecinos de Arriba" (2015) (Author and director) References External links * 1967 births Living people Spanish male screenwriters Film directors from Catalonia Writers from Catalonia People from Barcelona 21st-century Spanish screenwriters {{Spain-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truman (2015 Film)
''Truman'' is a 2015 comedy-drama film directed by Cesc Gay and co-written by Gay and Tomàs Aragay. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, and Dolores Fonzi. It won five Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Darín), and Best Supporting Actor (Cámara). Plot Julián, living in Madrid, receives an unexpected visit from his friend, Tomás, a professor living in Canada. Julián is an actor and has had cancer for a year, and his only companion now is Truman, his loyal dog. The friends and Truman share four days together. Julián reveals he is opting for assisted suicide rather than chemotherapy if his health deteriorates. His cousin Paula and Tomás are disturbed by the news and share emotional and meaningful moments during Tomás's visit. They try to cope with Julián's situation. Julián gives his dog to his friend and they bid goodbye after an intense conversation. Cast Production The film was produced by Imposible Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Lovers
''Bulgarian Lovers'' (''Los novios búlgaros'') is a 2003 Spanish romantic comedy-drama film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. The plot centers around Daniel, a gay aristocratic lawyer in Madrid. He is part of a group of gay Spanish men who cruise for sex, which is treated as a form of domination. Daniel forms a relationship with an attractive Bulgarian expatriate, Kyril, for whom he makes extraordinary efforts, such as forging papers and smuggling uranium. Daniel and his wealth are contrasted with Kyril and his good looks, as the film explores the connections between wealth, power, and sex. Cast * Fernando Guillén Cuervo - Daniel * Dritan Biba - Kyril * Pepón Nieto José Antonio Nieto Sánchez, known professionally as Pepón Nieto (born 20 January 1967) is a Spanish actor. He started his acting career in a 1993 episode of the Antena 3 TV series '' Farmacia de Guardia''. He has appeared in other TV series ... - Gildo * Roger Pera - Lawyer * Anita Sinkovic - Kalina Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloy De La Iglesia
Eloy de la Iglesia (1 January 1944 – 23 March 2006) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency, with many of his films dealing with the theme of homosexuality. Part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as quinqui films, to which he contributed several works. De la Iglesia took risk in his films that captured the struggles of the underclass, portraying the everyday, unidealized lives of powerless characters portrayed genuinely with flaws and vices. They are an example of commitment to the immediate reality, going against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time. Beyond their debatable aesthetic merits, his film served a document of the Spanish marginality of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Garbade
Daniel Garbade (born 1957) is a Swiss painter, illustrator, art director, property master, and publisher. Born in Switzerland from Swiss-Cuban origins, Garbade is the grand-nephew of Adrien Lachenal, great-grandchild of Cuban sculptor Fernando Heydrich, grandson of Theodore Garbade and cousin of sculptor Juan Esnard Heydrich. Garbade lived in Spain from 1983–2011, then taking residence in his hometown Zurich, to work with Peyer Fine Art. In 2016 he returned to Spain, living in Mascaraque, Castile- La Mancha. Work Garbade is one of Spanish expressionists, who turned to Pop art during the ''Movida madrileña''. His stroke is personal and minimalistic. Writer Alvaro Pombo described Garbade's work by coining the term "garbatear". Garbade's portraits are melancholy yet humorous and aim to show mankind at its core. Nobel Prize winner José Saramago once said, "Garbade shows us humanity where it unfolds" His most well-known portraits include those of Nancy Cunard King Juan Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Trullo
David Trullo (born 1969 in Madrid) is a Spanish visual artist and Photographer, he was artist in residence in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2002) and selected in Backlight International Triennial for Photography, Tampere, Finland (2005). The recurrent themes in his photographic and video work are gender identity and the exploration of the uses of iconography. His work also frequently deals with the interpretation of the traditional subjects of art history. He has participated in art fairs and festivals such as , Estampa and Photo España in Spain and Art Miami and The Armory Show in the United States. In 2006 the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, showed Trullo's "''Coined''", a photographic series composed of hundred portraits of friends and acquaintances of the artist, all represented in profile, in the manner of Roman emperors, following the style of commemorative medals and coins. The 96 portraits correspond in number to the list of emperors from Augustus to Romulus Augustu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
