Oriol Paulo… One of the brightest and most original screenwriters and directors of our days and many years to come. Oriol Paulo, born in Catalonia, a graduate of the Los Angeles Film School, has accomplished great things in his career, especially in the crime genre. He has created some of the most successful examples of the…
My greatest entertainment while growing up was watching Baretta and Columbo on a black and white TV towards the end of 1970s. These shows were the starting point of the career I chose for myself because after watching them I was sure of what I wanted to be when I grew up. One day I…
Let’s imagine that you woke up in New Orleans today. The year is 1919 and the day is the 16th of March. It hasn’t been more than an hour since the sailors woke up, the grocery boy is just now pulling up the shutter, and you’re reading a frightening but also weird letter on the…
These are the first sentences that introduced readers from all over the world to Martin Beck. This July is the July of 1965. And at that time Martin Beck, who became commissar in 1951 when he was 28 years old, is on duty at Stockholm Homicide Desk. He’s been married since 1951, the year he…
In Sue Turnbull’s volume The TV Crime Drama, an entire chapter titled “Women and crime” is dedicated to the relationships between the genre and gender issues, and in particular the question of gender equality. “Despite a perception that the television crime drama may be an inherently ‘masculine’ genre”, writes Turnbull, “women have played a key…
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