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Cuba's cinema architecture
Cuba cinemas: Megano and Yara, Havana
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
BEFORE the revolution, there were 511 cinemas in Cuba, with 130-plus in greater Havana alone — more than Paris or New York at that time — and, after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, that number increased to more than 600 all over the country.
They delivered a visual spectacle which, like anywhere, was a shared experience. It was a world away from today’s streaming culture but times have changed on the island.
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