You can say it like Pay-dro Al-Moe-doh-bar and it would be fine, but to get the correct sounds the syllables are the same but it's a bit more difficult.
This will be weird, so i hope you can follow me.
Pe (Like Penn minus the nn) -dr (like drop without the op) o (like oh but without the u sound at the end)
Al (like Ahh then an L sound like leech but just the L sound) -mo (like moe but without the last u sound) -do (like door without the r sound) -ba (like scuba but just the ba sound at the end) r (just a medium arr sound)
This may be too confusing, so I apologize beforehand.
Really the best way would be to record an mp3 and share it here. If you get all the names of the directors from Spain, México or any Latin-American country you are interested in I could do it, but I would wish to do this in one sitting and not have to record a new file every time a new name comes up. So make a substantial list and I will do it.
Some ideas:
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
Guillermo Del Toro
Alfonso Cuaron
Buñuel
Almodovar
Alejandro Jodorowsky (though his last name is not of Spanish origin, thus i would only tell you how he is called in Latin America)
Just remember that they speak Portuguese in Brazil, so i can't totally help you there, even though pronunciation is similar.
When i see a substantial number (say, 15 or more names) I will post the mp3 as soon as i can, since i don't enter college until the 15th of January. After that it may be more difficult to find the time
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Meeting Skolo
Surely it's more than just this common disinterest in the past - there are enough younger cinephiles and film students around these days to provide a respectable audience for "rediscoveries" like Jerzy. What worries me is how whole areas of cinema seem to go in and out of fashion - the musical, the Czech New Wave, the melodrama - as though the whole post Cold War revolutionary movements in Eastern (and Western) Europe from the mid sixties have absolutely no meaning for today. But you and I are old men David. (Chonologically at least.)
Meeting Skolo in 72 was an experience, to put it mildly. If ever there was a livewire he was it - the then Director of the SFF found himself obliged to tap JS into hot blooded female companionship which was very willingly supplied by then Blonde Bombshell of the nascent Oz Movie Industry, Kate Fitzpatrick who alternated trysts with Jerzy and the brother of a very old mate of mine Charlie Waterstreet. I should add I would have willingly stepped into Kate's Manolo's, but Jerzy's tastes definitely lay elsewhere. Yours truly did manage to "satisfy" him in one sense - as someone who still smoked dope in those days I was also called upon to provide suitable quantities of weed. These were boisterous days. The only other visiting director who came near JS for partying fun was the wonderfully crazy Dusan Makaveyev.
Deep End
Currently, the Anthology Film Archives here in NYC are running (or should I say, finishing up) a Skolimowski retro. They are giving special attention to a film I have been dying to see for a long long time, Deep End (they have a brand new 35mm print). I'm going tonight, so I figured I'd ask what the opinions on the film and Skolimowski in general are. I am a big fan, based on what I have seen. I think his films would make a very nice eclipse set at the least.
From the Anthology Website:
[quote]DEEP END
by Jerzy Skolimowski
SPECIAL REVIVAL PREMIERE – BRAND-NEW 35MM PRINT!
Anthology is thrilled to revive Jerzy Skolimowski's neglected masterpiece DEEP END, in a beautiful, brand-new 35mm print! Only the second English-language film made by Skolimowski (the subject of an Anthology retrospective, running November 30-December 6 – see pages 8-9), DEEP END is an uncanny portrait of youth and sexual awakening, with a tone and mood entirely its own. Focusing on 16-year-old Mike, an attendant at a suburban-London bathhouse, and his preoccupation with his beautiful co-worker Susan, DEEP END demonstrates Skolimowski's acute sensitivity to the emotional turmoil and destructiveness at the heart of awakening desire, as well as his formidable sense of place and period. As Mike's interest in Susan deepens into obsession, DEEP END's tone becomes at once darker and more comic, culminating in a nocturnal journey through the seedy underbelly of early-seventies London, as seen from Mike's wide-eyed perspective. It's an exploration that Skolimowski invests with all the excitement and fear experienced by a fragile and impressionable mind as it collides with a strange, mysterious, and scary new world, and it's conveyed with a cinematic mastery that is simply breathtaking.
With its emotional and psychological frankness, its wonderful performances, and a score by Cat Stevens and Can, DEEP END is one of the greatest and most under-seen films of the seventies!
“Funny, touching, sexy, surreal and tragic – all at the same time and all with the sting of a punch to the nose.â€
From the Anthology Website:
[quote]DEEP END
by Jerzy Skolimowski
SPECIAL REVIVAL PREMIERE – BRAND-NEW 35MM PRINT!
Anthology is thrilled to revive Jerzy Skolimowski's neglected masterpiece DEEP END, in a beautiful, brand-new 35mm print! Only the second English-language film made by Skolimowski (the subject of an Anthology retrospective, running November 30-December 6 – see pages 8-9), DEEP END is an uncanny portrait of youth and sexual awakening, with a tone and mood entirely its own. Focusing on 16-year-old Mike, an attendant at a suburban-London bathhouse, and his preoccupation with his beautiful co-worker Susan, DEEP END demonstrates Skolimowski's acute sensitivity to the emotional turmoil and destructiveness at the heart of awakening desire, as well as his formidable sense of place and period. As Mike's interest in Susan deepens into obsession, DEEP END's tone becomes at once darker and more comic, culminating in a nocturnal journey through the seedy underbelly of early-seventies London, as seen from Mike's wide-eyed perspective. It's an exploration that Skolimowski invests with all the excitement and fear experienced by a fragile and impressionable mind as it collides with a strange, mysterious, and scary new world, and it's conveyed with a cinematic mastery that is simply breathtaking.
With its emotional and psychological frankness, its wonderful performances, and a score by Cat Stevens and Can, DEEP END is one of the greatest and most under-seen films of the seventies!
“Funny, touching, sexy, surreal and tragic – all at the same time and all with the sting of a punch to the nose.â€
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Work with China local business closely to deliver local, regional or global projects from initialization to closure to meet the business objectives
Work with Compliance and business to deliver compliance and regulatory requests from local regulatory authorities (PBOC, CBRC, SAFE, and CFETS) or Head Office.
Help bank business on business requirements analysis, review and solution delivery applied with changes on banking information systems, new technology and architecture to meet business objective with optimized business processing.
Review and monitor IT system operational reports submitted by AP Data Center team daily.
Security and Audit (internal and external) review and delivery
Direct the preparation and implementation of policies, procedures, standards & guidelines relating to information systems.
Local and regional vendor management
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IT budget control and strategy plan.
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Led and managed multiple teams (over 100 people) from business, IT, local / global vendors to deliver Consumer core banking system implementation successfully, and settled the system smoothly with services model with multiple local and oversea teams coupled with local team building.
Delivered IT changes to meet objective of Locally Incorporated Bank which was passed by local CBRC
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