\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Whether you\u2019ve been hiding from the heat or avoiding the back-to-work rush after the festive period, Buenos Aires offers plenty of reasons to get up off the couch this weekend. From dream-hopping Japanese anime and cult cinema to bold Brazilian pop art and prestige theater starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, the city\u2019s cultural calendar is working overtime.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s where to go to keep your January smart, cultural and pleasantly air-conditioned.<\/p>\n
Masterpieces of Japanese cinema, all around Gaumont Theater (Rivadavia 1635)<\/p>\n
Malba (Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415)<\/p>\n
Cinemark theaters<\/p>\n
Spirited Away (left) and Paprika (right) will both be screened in January Some of the best-regarded Japanese films will screen this weekend and throughout January in Buenos Aires. The Gaumont Cinema is playing a great selection of Studio Ghibli films, including some of Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s finest works like Spirited Away (2001) and Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service (1989). The program, which runs from January 2 to 28 with films playing at 7 p.m, also includes films by Isao Takahata and Kenji Iwaisawa. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or on the theater\u2019s website. All films have Spanish subtitles.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been 20 years since Satoshi Kon blew people\u2019s minds with Paprika, an animated sci fi film based on Yasutaka Tsutsui\u2019s novel in which therapists use a device to enter patients\u2019 dreams. This influential work, which inspired films like Christopher Nolan\u2019s Inception, will have an anniversary celebration release on January 8 at the Cinemark multiplex theaters and will run through the weekend.<\/p>\n
Finally, the Malba theater will play five films by Japanese master Seijun Suzuki. In the 1960s, this cult director\u2019s radical style subverted the Japanese film studio system from within. Screening all films in 35mm prints, the program sponsored by the Japanese Embassy includes his 1966 classic Tokyo Drifter, a clear influence for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Kill Bill, which plays January 8 at 10 p.m. The series plays on Thursdays 8, 22 and 29 of January, with tickets at AR$7,000.<\/p>\n
Brazilian Pop Art at Malba Throughout January until February 2<\/p>\n
Malba (Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415)<\/p>\n
Tickets: AR$10,000 (50% discount on Wednesdays)<\/p>\n
Claudio Tozzi. Cover of Veja magazine, 1968 Organized by the Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo for the 60th anniversary of two fundamental exhibitions of Brazilian art \u2014 Opini\u00e3o 65 and Propostas 65 \u2014 Pop Brazil: Vanguard and New Figuration, 1960s-70s is the most important and extensive exhibition presented in our country on the innovative and radical art of Brazilian artists of those decades. Tickets can be purchased online.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The show features more than 120 pieces by 50 artists, including Anna Bella Geiger, Ant\u00f4nio Dias, Claudio Tozzi, and H\u00e9lio Oiticica, among other leading figures of that period. The exhibit includes special screenings of two films by some of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade\u2019s 1962 documentary on legendary football player Garrincha, and Rog\u00e9rio Sganzerla\u2019s radical and violent cult piece The Red Light Bandit (1968). Entry to both screenings is free, booking in advance on the Malba website.<\/p>\n
William Faulkner, Daniel Veronese and Leonardo Sbaraglia\u00a0
\nJanuary 9 to February 1
\nWednesdays to Sundays, 9 p.m.<\/p>\n
National Cervantes Theater (Libertad 815)<\/p>\n
Tickets starting at AR$20,000<\/p>\n
Leonardo Sbaraglia in Los d\u00edas perfectos The National Cervantes Theater kicks off the 2026 season with a bang: renowned playwright Daniel Veronese adapts Jacobo Bergareche\u2019s novel Los dias perfectos, featuring Argentine star Leonardo Sbaraglia \u2014 soon to be seen starring Pedro Almodovar\u2019s latest film \u2014 in a one-man show about the stages of love.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a Texas documentation center, Sbaraglia\u2019s character reads the original letters William Faulkner wrote to his lover Meta Carpenter. He reviews 17 years of living together, the desire to start a family, the inevitable routine, and that silent inventory of what is lost, what is held onto, and what is feared to be lost in the natural course of a relationship that, in their youth, seemed idyllic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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