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Billy Dean

Billy Dean

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Is ace la.

Starting to develop a huge interest in the place (its culture, history, politics, food, tourism etc) and trying to read up on it and watch as much about it as I can.

If anyone's got any book/film/documentary/etc recommendations, go 'ed and post them in this thread.

I'll start. I've started watching these documentaries about Chile : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Chile

Also reading 100 years of solitude by Marquez (it's confusing).
 

Some essential reading.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/184668742X
 
Watched this the other night, Argie film, not exactly what you would call light entertainment, good though. It's about babies that were taken from their mothers who were 'disappeared' by the regime and then put up for adoption as orphans. Trailer below in Spanish only but you can get the film with subtitles

 

the mainstream ones if you havent already seen them.
city of god , central station , pixote and bus 174 from brazil
el hombre de al lado , the secret in their eyes and bombom el perro from argentina
the only other one that springs to memory is "What the eyes doesn't see" from Peru.
all worth a watch
 
BluePeadar said:
the mainstream ones if you havent already seen them.
city of god , central station , pixote and bus 174 from brazil
el hombre de al lado , the secret in their eyes and bombom el perro from argentina
the only other one that springs to memory is "What the eyes doesn't see" from Peru.
all worth a watch
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the popes bathroom - El Bano del Papa (I think) is a decent uraguayan film too, about the pope making a visit to their town, and everybody thinks to try and make a bit of cash out of it,

they're basically all making cakes and food and drink to sell to the crowd, but this one guy decides to install a toilet for all the crowds to use, with tragic/comic consequences

really enjoyed it
 
@wm02 @BluePeadar cheers lads, will deffo check those out. Really wanna see Central Station especially, heard good things about that. Same director as Motorcycle Diaries, one of my favourite films.
 

Pat's Van said:
the popes bathroom - El Bano del Papa (I think) is a decent uraguayan film too, about the pope making a visit to their town, and everybody thinks to try and make a bit of cash out of
really enjoyed it
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yes my bro was telling me bout this one a while back. thanks for reminding me will check it out.

@Billy Dean there are so many politically based documentaries out there it can get a bit heavy and you forget who did what when and where after a while.

a very good read this. Lots of different themes running thru it but quite a lot of political history and reference in there too.
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Billy Dean said:
Of the ones I've been to has to be Argentina - has a bit of everything! Had a great time there.

What about you mate?
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best time I had is without a doubt Bolivia, but deffo the best country to visit (out of those I've see) is Colombia

deffo gonna have to check out some of these docu's getting mentioned, I tend to read about it more than anything, but will need more recommendations, the central library's got a south american section but there'snot a lot to pick from TBH
 

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