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Melodías de cine. Seminar with Carlos Aguilar

Friday / 10 Feb / 7:00 p.m.
 Free admission with prior withdrawal of invitation until full capacity is reached.
Theatre

This seminar, led by film historian Carlos Aguilar, will explore the links between cinema and jazz and the central character of the piano in this musical genre. The episode Piano Blues (2003), directed by Clint Eastwood, which is part of the series The Blues, directed by Martin Scorsese, will be screened.

Coordinated by the professor of the Faculty of Communication María Noguera, the MUN film cycles are conceived as the counterplan that dialogues and deepens the proposals of the artistic programming of each season at the Museum. In this edition, Melodías de cine builds a bridge to the Cartografías de la Música (Cartographies of Music) cycle and transfers to the cinema the focus on the piano as the main instrument.

In this episode, Eastwood pays tribute to the pianists of this musical genre, drawing on extraordinary and previously unpublished archival footage and treasured interviews and performances by living legends such as Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Doctor John, Dave Brubeck and Marcia Ball.

CARLOS AGUILAR

The historian from Madrid combines various facets (film and music historian, novelist and essayist, collaborator of Filmoteca Española and TVE, writer and lecturer, etc.) throughout forty years of uninterrupted activity. He began publishing in the field of fanzines and has written nearly seventy books on cinema between Spain, Italy and Germany. Among his individual authorships, Clint Eastwood, Guía del Cine, Sergio Leone, Cine y Jazz, Cine cómico español 1950-1961, Mario Bava, La espada mágica, Hugo Fregonese, EuroSexy, Julio Diamante y el Jazz, and Jean-Pierre Melville stand out .

In narrative, he has published six novels and several short stories. He has received a dozen awards (two in Italy, the rest in Spain), some for his work as a whole and others for specific works.