QUAD CINEMA
SAT 4/5 @ 1PM
Followed by conversation w/ Prof. Ana María Hernández
SUR-REAL: FANTASY & VISION IN IBERO-AMERICAN CINEMA
THE BLUE LOBSTER
LA LANGOSTA AZUL
Fiction
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Director:
Gabriel García Márquez & Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Year:
1954
Runtime:
29 min
Country:
Colombia
A man arrives in a poor fishing town to investigate a mysterious animal, a tasteless blue lobster whose uses are “under investigation.” The search for the lobster becomes an anthropological excursion during which the protagonist observes the daily activities of the townsfolk. The Blue Lobster is the only film in which Gabriel Garcia Marquez was directly involved, along with other great names of Colombian literature, journalism and art.
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Un hombre llega a un pueblo de humildes pescadores para investigar un misterioso animal, una insípida langosta azul cuyo uso se ha convertido en “objeto de investigación”. La búsqueda de la Langosta se convierte en una excursión antropológica en la cual el protagonista observa lo que pasa a diario con la gente del pueblo. La langosta azul es la única película en la que Gabriel García Márquez participó, junto con otros grandes nombres de la literatura colombiana, el periodismo y el arte.
VILLAGE EAST CINEMA
Festivals & Awards
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia—died April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico) was a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was the fourth Latin American to be so honored, having been preceded by Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971 and by Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1967. With Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez is the best-known Latin American writer in history. In addition to his masterly approach to the novel, he was a superb crafter of short stories and an accomplished journalist. In both his shorter and longer fictions, García Márquez achieved the rare feat of being accessible to the common reader while satisfying the most demanding of sophisticated critics.
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Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio (March 30, 1926 – October 12, 1972) was a Colombian journalist, novelist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Within Colombia and the rest of Latin America, he is known in his own right as an important and innovative writer and journalist, largely inspiring much of the artistically, intellectually and politically active climate for which this particular time and place, that of mid-century Colombia, has become known. Cepeda Samudio harbored an intense love and knowledge of films, and often wrote criticisms of the subject in his columns. García Márquez writes that his sustenance as a film critic would not have been possible had he not partaken in "the traveling school of Álvaro Cepeda". The two eventually made a short black and white feature together called La langosta azul (The Blue Lobster) (1954), which they co-wrote and directed based on an idea by Cepeda Samudio; García Márquez states that he conceded to take part in its creation as "it had a large dose of lunacy to make it seem like ours."
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SHOWTIMES
SAT 4/5 @ 1PM
Followed by conversation with Professor Ana María Hernández
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC