Carlos Flores

Nov 26, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores

In an era characterized by fanfiction, sequels, spin-offs, repetition, reformatting, and rethinking, it was very logical, even obvious that the National Book Award for Fiction went to Percival Everett for James, an imaginative rewriting of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Nov 20, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores

You have no idea how much I wanted “Pedro Páramo,” Rodrigo Prieto’s adaptation of Mexican author Juan Rulfo’s masterpiece (and one of the seminal novels of the Latin American boom and magical realism that premiered on Netflix on November 6), to end up being crap. Seriously, I really wanted the movie to be hateful and not even remotely honor the book.

Nov 20, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores |William Schwartz

One of the world’s best cinematographers adapted Juan Rulfo’s seemingly unfilmable magical realist novel…and it’s a masterpiece

Nov 7, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores

For many, many, many members of the film industry (almost entirely Hollywood) and a crazy amount of artists and musicians in general, the morning of  November 6, 2024 had to be something like the scene from Apocalypse Now, when  Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore says: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Nothing else in the world smells like that.” Only the opposite.

Nov 7, 2024 | bookandfilmglobe.com | Carlos Flores |Neal Pollack

Publishers keep pulling books from shelves, for all kinds of reasons