Ignacio Sanchez Prado
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
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Alejandro Sugich’s Prometo no enamorarme is a creative-class romcom for a gentrified Mexico City and an adaptation of sorts of Dostoevsky’s White Nights, in love with both its contemporary music scene and its narrow cultural geography, carried by two chrismatic leads.. In Hulu.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Alejandro Sugich’s Prometo no enamorarme is a creative-class romcom for a gentrified Mexico City and an adaptation of sorts of Dostoevsky’s White Nights, in love with both its contemporary music scene and its narrow cultural geography, carried by two chrismatic leads.. In Hulu.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia is a consummate anti-humanist film wrapping in weirdness and precarity humanity’s inclination to self destruction, with characteristically good acting by Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. In MUBI.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia is a consummate anti-humanist film wrapping in weirdness and precarity humanity’s inclination to self destruction, with characteristically good acting by Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. In MUBI.
A Sunday morning with the Czech poet Vladimir Holman, in Clara Janés’ translation. A poet of both lyrical and hermetic inclinations, Holan delivers powerful imagery in his briefs poems, but the real treat here is his long poem “A Night with Hamlet” on poetry in times of secularization and barbarism
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A Sunday morning with the Czech poet Vladimir Holman, in Clara Janés’ translation. A poet of both lyrical and hermetic inclinations, Holan delivers powerful imagery in his briefs poems, but the real treat here is his long poem “A Night with Hamlet” on poetry in times of secularization and barbarism
Last week’s arrivals
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Last week’s arrivals
Eric Khoo’s Ramen Teh, a syrupy, minimalist, somewhat flat Singaporean drama in which food is a language of family memory, the painful stories of intercultural love and the redemption of the past. In MUBI
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Eric Khoo’s Ramen Teh, a syrupy, minimalist, somewhat flat Singaporean drama in which food is a language of family memory, the painful stories of intercultural love and the redemption of the past. In MUBI
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, a movie in which every shot is gorgeous, with four actors at the top of their talents, perhaps Del Toro’s best film in English, though suffering from his Achilles’ heel of the uneven screenplay, which delivers a second half much better than the first one.
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, a movie in which every shot is gorgeous, with four actors at the top of their talents, perhaps Del Toro’s best film in English, though suffering from his Achilles’ heel of the uneven screenplay, which delivers a second half much better than the first one.
Duplessis’ Drafts is one of the most powerful and brilliant poems in the English language in recent times, 114 cantos wrote over forty years, full of experimentation and rigor on poetic language, with dialogues that range from Mallarme and Pound to Williams Olson. Loved it.
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Duplessis’ Drafts is one of the most powerful and brilliant poems in the English language in recent times, 114 cantos wrote over forty years, full of experimentation and rigor on poetic language, with dialogues that range from Mallarme and Pound to Williams Olson. Loved it.
Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, a dynamic, beautiful, imaginative take on Ibsen’s powerful play, shining through fiery, delicious performances of Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss and Imogen Poots. In Prime Video.
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, a dynamic, beautiful, imaginative take on Ibsen’s powerful play, shining through fiery, delicious performances of Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss and Imogen Poots. In Prime Video.
Mexican movie alert, Mesa de Regalos, my favorite Mexican romcom of the past three or four years, and currently the highest grossing Mexican film of 2025 dropped in Hulu today. (And yes, it does have English subtitles).
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Mexican movie alert, Mesa de Regalos, my favorite Mexican romcom of the past three or four years, and currently the highest grossing Mexican film of 2025 dropped in Hulu today. (And yes, it does have English subtitles).
Last week’s film arrivals.
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Last week’s film arrivals.
Plane reading today, four delicate and precise novellas by one of my favorite writers from my college years
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Plane reading today, four delicate and precise novellas by one of my favorite writers from my college years
The Bay Area harvest!
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The Bay Area harvest!
The four excellent new albums I’m enjoying this week.
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The four excellent new albums I’m enjoying this week.
Michelle Garza Cervera’s The Hand that Rocks the Cradle follows her preoccupation with the horror of motherhood from Huesera to this remake of a 1992 thriller with great performances and good moments, but that never fully coalesces. In Hulu.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Michelle Garza Cervera’s The Hand that Rocks the Cradle follows her preoccupation with the horror of motherhood from Huesera to this remake of a 1992 thriller with great performances and good moments, but that never fully coalesces. In Hulu.
Taco in the wild at the bookstore both I and my credit card love, Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop, where it made the top 10 bestselling book board! (Thanks local peeps!)
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Taco in the wild at the bookstore both I and my credit card love, Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop, where it made the top 10 bestselling book board! (Thanks local peeps!)
San Francisco friends! I will be presenting my book Taco at the Medicine for Nightmares bookstore next Saturday at 4 PM! Full info below
October 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
San Francisco friends! I will be presenting my book Taco at the Medicine for Nightmares bookstore next Saturday at 4 PM! Full info below
My Houston travel reads, two long-postponed Mexican novels, Herrasti’s book on Genji and Mishima in the key of Bolaño’s La parte de Los críticos and Leal’s update of Garro about La Soledad as a space narrator, both very good and underread, counterpointed by two pocket classics
October 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My Houston travel reads, two long-postponed Mexican novels, Herrasti’s book on Genji and Mishima in the key of Bolaño’s La parte de Los críticos and Leal’s update of Garro about La Soledad as a space narrator, both very good and underread, counterpointed by two pocket classics
Taco in the wild at two Houston bookstores: Basket on top, Brazos in the bottom.
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Taco in the wild at two Houston bookstores: Basket on top, Brazos in the bottom.
I am very grateful to Basket books in Houston for hosting a presentation and reading of Taco last night! (Photos by Kako Escalona)
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I am very grateful to Basket books in Houston for hosting a presentation and reading of Taco last night! (Photos by Kako Escalona)
Tonight at 7, in Basket Books and Art in Houston,
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tonight at 7, in Basket Books and Art in Houston,
I’ve been gathering my Krasznahorkai books for re-reading. Still have to find two in English (War and Wind) and two in Spanish (Seiobo and Isaias), likely lost in the unorganized parts of my library in storage…
October 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I’ve been gathering my Krasznahorkai books for re-reading. Still have to find two in English (War and Wind) and two in Spanish (Seiobo and Isaias), likely lost in the unorganized parts of my library in storage…
3:00 AM reading
October 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
3:00 AM reading
Got home and in the highway I heard these true masterpieces of albums by two of the very best Mexican musicians out there that came out on Friday.
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Got home and in the highway I heard these true masterpieces of albums by two of the very best Mexican musicians out there that came out on Friday.