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The giggling guiri comedy club is the leading professional English language comedy provider in Spain, staging regular live comedy nights and offering corporate entertainment solutions since 2005.

Have a laugh in Barcelona and buy your entrance on:

http://www.comedyinspain.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=58&Itemid=67

For an apartment in the city center of Barcelona have a look on www.cocoonbarcelona.com.

Barcelona is not short of high culture, but for those who have neither Spanish nor Catalan as a native language, going to the theatre can be tricky. This is where contemporary dance comes in. Most dance pieces use little or no language, as stories are told with the dancers’ bodies rather than with words. The good news is that Barcelona’s dance scene is an embarrassment of riches: great companies, enthusiastic young audiences and a plethora of venues, of which one of the best is the Mercat de les Flors.

For January bargain hunters, don’t forget that if shows haven’t sold out, half-price tickets can be bought in person from the Tiquet 3 box office in the Tourist Information office in Plaça Catalunya up to three hours before the start of the show.
Check out the Mercat de Flors website to view the whole program: www.mercatflors.cat

After a beautiful dance show you can stay in a cosy apartment in Barcelona.

CINE VERDI
Carrer Verdi
Gracia 

The Verdi cinema suggests many movies in the original language. Mostly european movies.

A nice place to go and discover spanish, french, german, english movies ….

Have a look at their website to see which movie you can go and watch.

http://www.cines-verdi.com/inicio.php

To enjoy your stay in Barcelona, you can hire an apartment in the Gracia area or a B&B room

Now we know what Harvey Weinstein’s secret trip to Barcelona was all about last week. Weinstein was actually securing the participation of Penelope Cruz in the musical drama “Nine”, Chicago director Rob Marshall’s latest musical.  Nine will revolve around Bardem’s character; play director Guido Contini, who must juggle all of the women in his life while he puts on his masterwork. His lovers include his wife, his mistress, his film-star muse, his agent, and even his mother. The script is based on Fellini’s Eight and a Half.
Cruz is mulling over the role of Carla, Contini’s mistress
Penelope Cruz is currently in Barcelona for the shooting of Woody Allen’s new movie. It is about a painter entering a relationship with two American tourists. Conflict begins with the painter’s jealous ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately for Allen, the filming in Barcelona is not certain to be set; some residents in Barcelona are furious that their tax money is being used to fund Woody Allen’s new movie. Ten per cent of the new film by Woody Allen comes from the city of Barcelona and regional government, paid by tax payers. Seventy-five percent of Catalans think that the public investment is “excessive”. A local director said: “Along comes Woody Allen with all his money and success and they help him? I could make five films with his budget.” On the other side, others say the investment in The Barcelona Project of Allen will promote Barcelona in the same way that Lord of the Rings helped New Zealand.

Cillian Murphy is definitely making a name for himself in Hollywood. After roles in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine and Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Cillian is now set to team up with the legend that is Al Pacino in a movie about Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. The film, titled “Dali & I: The Surreal Story” will span the 1960’s to the 1980’s and follows the time in Dali’s life when many of his great works were behind him and he was becoming more and more flamboyant.

 Al Pacino will play Dali, who developps a mentor-protégé relationship with a young art dealer, Stan Lauryssens (played by Murphy).

The film is scheduled to begin shooting in early 2008 on location in Spain and New York. Andrew Noccol is directing and the film will be adapted from Lauryssens’ memoir ‘Dali & I’. There is still no word on who has been cast as Gala, Dali’s wife.

Now we know what Harvey Weinstein’s secret trip to Barcelona was all about last week. Weinstein was actually securing the participation of Penelope Cruz in the musical drama “Nine”, Chicago director Rob Marshall’s latest musical.  Nine will revolve around Bardem’s character; play director Guido Contini, who must juggle all of the women in his life while he puts on his masterwork. His lovers include his wife, his mistress, his film-star muse, his agent, and even his mother. The script is based on Fellini’s Eight and a Half.
Cruz is mulling over the role of Carla, Contini’s mistress
Penelope Cruz is currently in Barcelona for the shooting of Woody Allen’s new movie. It is about a painter entering a relationship with two American tourists. Conflict begins with the painter’s jealous ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately for Allen, the filming in Barcelona is not certain to be set; some residents in Barcelona are furious that their tax money is being used to fund Woody Allen’s new movie. Ten per cent of the new film by Woody Allen comes from the city of Barcelona and regional government, paid by tax payers. Seventy-five percent of Catalans think that the public investment is “excessive”. A local director said: “Along comes Woody Allen with all his money and success and they help him? I could make five films with his budget.” On the other side, others say the investment in The Barcelona Project of Allen will promote Barcelona in the same way that Lord of the Rings helped New Zealand.

An interesting mix of films will be shown the 2nd and 3th of august on the Gandules film festival at the CCCB ( Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona). The topic of the festival will be focused on travel and the pleasure of discovering. The most famous cinematographers that contribute to the festival are amongst others Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki and Wim Wenders. The whole program can be found on the website www.cccb.org.