Eliseo Alberto Diego Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Mario García Joya, au., dir., screenplay, music, and photography
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1988
Published:
Cuba : Cine Cubano
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two shy young lovers enlist the help of a poet to write passionate letters to each other. When the poet becomes enamored of the young woman, the three are faced with a perplexing dilemma.
Gabriel García Márquez, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Gavaldón, Ignacio López Tarso, Lucha Villa, Narciso Busquets, Gabriel Figueroa, Gloria Schoemann, Ruben Fuentes, and au
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1964
Published:
Chicago, IL : Cinemateca- Condor Video
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on the story of the same name by Juan Rulfo. ||A poor man forgets his roots in the fame, wealth, and romance of the cock-fighting arena. His luck runs out and he is returned to his origins.
Gabriel García Márquez, Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Sánchez, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, and author
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1999
Published:
Deerfield Beach, FL : Maverick Latino
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
An old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not, so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has broken still beats with a vengeance.
Gabriel García Márquez, Eliseo Alberto, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1991
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
On April 11, 1956, destiny (and a trivial mistake) sabotaged a plan by two young lovers to elope. But when a letter arrives 35 years later after it was mailed, Ofelia Rosales de Mendoza, one know as Ofelita "My Eyes," begins by making inquiries into the whereabouts of her lost parmour, José Luna. The conflicting stories she hears from the people who knew them as teenagers only increase her confusion -- until up walks the man himself, at the café where they were to rendezvous so many years before.
Gabriel García Márquez, au. Harold Mantell, Ana Christina Navarro, prod., and dir
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
2003, 1982
Published:
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Presents a literary biography of Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel prize winner, through conversations with the author, his friends, and his critics. Examines the course of García Márquez's life, the sources of his plots and characters, realism, a blending of the real and the fantastic, to the cultural diversity of the Caribbean. Explores the history of Colombia.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This in-depth interview with Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez is presented in the form of a conversation with an old friend he has not seen in a long while. The program is structured to suggest an apparent disorder of time. Assisted by readings and dramatizations of his works, the master of "magic realism" focuses on the supernatural aspects of his spellbinding narrative style, in an effort to convey his particular vision of the world." --Container
Efraín Kristal Contributors: Edwin Williamson and Evelyn Fishburn
Format:
Primary source, Audio-visual Materials
Publication Date:
(January 4, 2007)
Published:
BBC
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Jorge Luis Borges is one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, best known for his intriguing short stories that play with philosophical ideas, such as identity, reality and language. His work, which includes poetry, essays, and reviews of imaginary books, has had great influence on magical realism and literary theory. He viewed the realist novel as over-rated and deluded, revelling instead in fable and imaginary worlds. He declared “people think life is the thing but I prefer reading”.
Translation formed an important part of his work, writing a Spanish language version of an Oscar Wilde story when aged around 9. He went on to introduce other key writers such as Faulkner and Kafka to Latin America, liberally making changes to the original work which went far beyond what was, strictly speaking, translation.
He lived most of his life in obscurity, finding recognition only in his sixties when he was awarded the International Publishers' Prize which he shared with Samuel Beckett. By this point he was blind but continued to write, composing poetry in his head and reciting from memory.
So how has Borges' work informed ideas about our experience of the world through language? How much was his writing shaped by his travel abroad and an unrequited love? And how has his legacy inspired the next generation of great Latin American authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa?"-- BBC Website
Comentator Katie Davis is assigned to interview Gabriel García Márquez. To accomplish this task, Davis uses García Márquez's friends. Davis interviews Alejandro Obregon, an old friend of Gabriel García Márquez. Here, Obregon contacts Gabriel García Márquez via telephone and Davis and Márquez speak.