The book's title refers to an unfinished, candy -
colored rebozo (shawl) that comes to symbolize both the interconnectedness of all these individual histories and the author's act of weaving them together.
12 or so «old» films, in the order in which I saw them: Night and the City (UK version, Jules Dassin, 1950): on 35 mm nitrate (May, Rochester) Until They Get Me (Frank Borzage, 1917): an incredibly advanced Western, on 35 mm (June, Bologna); Secrets (Frank Borzage, 1924) was also notable, DCP West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979): 35 mm, anamorphic
color print (Bologna) Furcht (Fear, Robert Wiene, 1917): German «impressionism» before «expressionism,» 35 mm (Bologna) Mit hem är Copacabana (My Home is Copacabana, Arne Sucksdorff, 1965): A Swedish documentarian meets Brazilian Cinema Novo, DCP (July, Bologna) El
rebozo de Soledad (Soledad's Shawl, Roberto Gavaldón, 1952), DCP (Bologna) Where would the Mexican Cine de Oro have been without Gabriel Figueroa's cinematography?