Starring Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel and Gina Gershon, Rifkin’s Festival was shot in and around the city in 2019, and according to the plot synopsis takes place during the festival itself. “It tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastián festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.”

Rifkin’s Festival was backed by Spanish media giant Mediapro (which has participated in Allen films including Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris) as Allen has become increasingly shunned in the US after Farrow’s allegations against him, which he denies. Publication of his memoir Apropos of Nothing was cancelled by Hachette after staff protests, and it was rapidly picked up by another publisher, Arcade. Film-maker Spike Lee issued an apology after defending Allen in a radio interview, writing on social media “My words were WRONG.”

Puerto Rico, which had braced for the worst, seemed to be spared any heavy wind and rain, a huge relief to many on an island where blue tarps still cover some 30,000 homes nearly two years after Hurricane Maria. The island’s 3.2 million inhabitants also depend on an unstable power grid that remains prone to outages since it was destroyed by Maria.

What did she like about him? “He was definitely an interesting character. He was listening to quite heavy music; he had earrings and sunglasses. I was attracted to the strangeness of him, maybe.” She laughs. “I guess he looked different.” Valente says he was “really nervous, because I had to go to my school and I was late, but I saw Isla and I thought: ‘Oh wow, she’s beautiful. School can wait, no problem.'” He was delighted she spoke Spanish, although he assumed she was a tourist and would be leaving in a week or so. Did he plan to see her again? “I thought: ‘I need to say something. I need to ask her name and her number.'”

The circumstances of Díaz’s departure from Cuba had an unhappy air of intrigue about them. If ICAIC, where he was an active member of the party branch, encouraged his independent thinking, he had run into trouble with other factions over his novel Las iniciales de la tierra (The Initials Of The Earth), which the authorities censored when it finally appeared in 1987.

Donald Trump began the day by insulting and taunting Puerto Rico and its residents, who are US citizens, on Twitter. “Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth,” the president wrote in part. “Their political system is broken and their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt. And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!”

Trump declared an emergency on Tuesday night and ordered federal assistance for local authorities in Puerto Rico. But in a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump, a climate crisis denier, seemed to complain about Puerto Rico’s exposure to storms, and escalated a long-running feud with Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital.

Dennis Feltgen, a Hurricane Center meteorologist in Miami, said Dorian may grow in size and could land anywhere from south Florida to South Carolina on Sunday or Monday. “This will be a large storm approaching the south-east,” he said.

Of all the bonnie, bony possibilities on the butcher’s counter – the osso buco and the neck of lamb, the shanks and the trotters – it is oxtail that needs the slowest cooking. Once browned in hot fat, you need to lead an oxtail along the slow road to tenderness in a slow oven, the bones wallowing in stock or wine, and with robust aromatics. Thyme, bay leaves, a head of garlic. Rosemary perhaps. It is not a dish that needs updating, but a curious cook can tweak the details. I gave mine a soft smoky note with a whole head of golden-skinned smoked garlic.

The Cuban writer, filmmaker and intellectual Jésus Díaz, who has died unexpectedly in Madrid aged 60, was among his country’s most controversial figures, both before and after his exile in 1991. The author of half a dozen novels, loba negra descargar gratis which portray the vicissitudes of characters caught up in politically trying circumstances, he refused to stay silent when he himself was forced into exile, and set about founding the journal Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana to promote dialogue between Cubans at home and abroad.Born in Havana, Díaz belonged to a generation that was propelled into accelerated activity by the 1959 revolution, and he rapidly went from being a student militant to editing Caimán Barbudo, the literary supplement of the newspaper Juventud Rebelde, soon achieving wider prominence when his book of short stories, Los anos duros (The Hard Years), won the Casa de las Americas prize in 1965.

Four years later, he was one of the scriptwriters of Alicia en el pueblo de maravillas, a black comedy about bureaucracy, which the Cuban government suppressed. Though no one else involved was penalised, Díaz was advised that it would be better for him not to return from teaching film in Berlin, and he subsequently settled in Madrid.