The land inhabited by the basques has a mild and damp climate and is largely hilly and wooded. Basque ball, skin against stone 2003, directed by julio. Skin against stone jump to navigation jump to search. If you want to know more about the basque area of francespain, the deep political problems which have echoes of northern ireland and get to the bottom of something that is glossed over by the media and the spanish government, go and see the. The basque ball, the skin against the stone about dialog. May 06, 2016 lebron james high school team upsets no.
The skin against the stone is only the latest bout in a struggle to represent and explore basque identity on film. Jan 30, 2019 fermin muguruza is a basque rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer and record label manager. The basque ball cert 15 peter bradshaw friday 14 may 2004 the guardian. The madridbased basque director of lovers of the arctic circle and sex and lucia set out to create a polyphonic film, using 100odd. Documentary about the basque nationalist movement in.
The name of basque pelota includes several ball games that take place in a playground called the cancha and are played against a front. Basque, member of a people who live in both spain and france in areas bordering the bay of biscay and encompassing the western foothills of the pyrenees mountains. An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the basque country, in northern spain. Carmelo gomez, ana torrent, xabier arzalluz, bernardo atxaga, txiki benegas, txetxo. The controversy engendered by julio medems basque ball.
A modified representation of truth through the use of. For example, there is an endurance portion of the stone lifting competition that measures how many times someone can lift a 150 kilogram stone around 330 pounds on and off of their shoulder within a ten minute. With xabier arzalluz, bernardo atxaga, txiki benegas, txetxo bengoetxea. Fermin muguruza is a basque rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer and record label manager. Pilota basque handball is a game that involves throwing or hitting a rubber or leather ball against a wall. Dec 07, 2010 those are transcriptions from the documentary the basque ball the skin against the stone by julio medem alec reid redemptorist priest.
In order to do so, the recorded interviews are shown giving a sense of dialogue between parties that refuse to sit down and talk. Other large cities include bilbao and san sebastian. The spanish provinces, alava, vizcaya and guipuzcoa are collectively known as the autonomous community. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. May 28, 2019 the pyrenees mountains are the major geographic feature of the basque country. Stone lifting as sport in the basque country the new. Basque country in its totality is known as euskal herria. The basque autonomous community in spain is divided into three provincesaraba, bizkaia, and gipuzkoa. Maitane beristain, who runs the hostel in lastur, can be contacted at naparranekua. Skin against stone, directed by julio medem 2003 1 is arguably the most influential documentary produced so far on. Basque pelota pilota in the original basque language also pelota vasca in spanish, pelote basque in french is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using ones hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall frontis or fronton or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. Basque filmmaker julio medems latest film has caused a political storm, but he.
Vacas 1991, the red squirrel 1993, sex and lucia 2001 and basque ball. Julio medems new film tells both sides of the bloody history of spains basque country. Basque ball, skin against stone 2003, directed by julio medem. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. The french side of basque country the new york times. The basques have occupied much the same area of northern spain and southern france for thousands of years, extending further eastward and northwards into gascony and the pyrenees, as attested by archaeological and toponymical evidence, and speak a language whose ties to other living languages are unclear at best. Stone in basque, translation, englishbasque dictionary. Hes brother of musicians inigo muguruza and jabier muguruza and is one of the personalities interviewed for the julio medems documentary film the basque ball. Stone lifting as sport in the basque country the new york times. Txikito glasses are small, heavy handcrafted wineglasses from which the wine is.
This is one of the oldest, most traditional sports in the basque country. A souvenir stone of mikel saralegis record, he lifted 329 kg in 2001, could be the. Documentary about the basque nationalist movement in spain. San sebastian, spain cnn for spaniards, hardly a day goes by when they are not confronted with the. Basque country stone lifting has some impressive records to its name, with the recordholders performing seemingly superhuman feats. The reflecting skin 1990 lenfant miroir watch online download subtitles player. Director julio medem sex and lucia, lovers of the arctic circle delivers a fascinating overview of the torturous politics of the basque area and the regions notorious terrorist separatist group. Skin against stone 2003 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It is played in the two or threewalled court called frontoia, and points are scored when opposing players miss a shot or cannot return the ball before it bounces twice on the ground. It changed with time, improving rules and facilities, to become the most universal of basque sports. Set in the basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 18701935. Apr 20, 2014 stone lifting as sport in the basque country. Learn more about the basque people in this article.
Those are transcriptions from the documentary the basque ball the skin against the stone by julio medem alec reid redemptorist priest. This article is within the scope of wikiproject basque, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of basque people, basque country, basque language, history and culture on wikipedia. Skin 462x subtitles download movie and tv series subtitles. If you come here often, you should tell us and the whole world, really about yourself in the bio section of your profile. With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage,the basque ball is an incisive documentary on spain, eta, and the basque region. In an area of northern spain known as basque country, the spanish government and the regions people are in a constant political struggle as the basque people strive for autonomy, an effort that. Fiachra gibbons in san sebastian monday september 22, 2003 medems the basque ball the most controversial spanish film in decades was shown last night in the face of a government campaign of opposition to it that has raised the specter of the bad old days of general francos dictatorship. After the madrid bombings, the basque movement returned, briefly and. Early travelogues celebrated a unique landscape and heritage that had bred an indomitable race, and this romantic notion of a historically, linguistically and culturally. Pdf style, theme and identity in the films of julio medem david. Skin against stone is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by spanish filmmaker julio medem. With emma suarez, carmelo gomez, ana torrent, karra elejalde.
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