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The term "cuerda" (Spanish for rope) refers to a unit of measurement in some Spanish-speaking regions, including Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Cuba, Spain, and Paraguay. In Puerto Rico, the term cuerda (and " Spanish acre " [ 1 ] ) refers to the unit of area measurement. [ 2 ]
José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 1947 – 4 February 2020) was a Spanish filmmaker.He is nationally recognised and considered to be amongst the greatest and most influential Spanish directors of all time, [1] having made such critically successful and culturally significant films as The Enchanted Forest (1987), Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989) and Butterfly's Tongue (1999).
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (Spanish: Amanece, que no es poco) [1] [2] is a 1989 Spanish surrealist comedy film written and directed by José Luis Cuerda.It has attained cult film status.
The term cuerda can refer to areas of different sizes. Cuerdas can refer to areas that are 50 x 50, 40 x 40, 30 x 30, 25 x 25 or 20 x 20 varas (i.e. 2500, 1600, 900, 625, or 400 square varas). [3] In addition, some sources describe a cuerda as 32 x 32 varas. In Guatemala, the linear vara is 0.8421 meters.
Within the Ottoman Empire cuerda seca tilework fell out of fashion in the 1550s and new imperial buildings were decorated with underglaze-painted tiles from İznik. The last building in Istanbul to include cuerda seca tilework was the Kara Ahmed Pasha Mosque which was designed in 1555 but only completed in 1572. [12] [13]
Butterfly's Tongue or Butterfly (Spanish: La lengua de las mariposas [la ˈleŋɡwa ðe las maɾiˈposas]; may be more literally translated as "The Tongue of the Butterflies"), is a 1999 Spanish film directed by José Luis Cuerda. The film centers on Moncho (Manuel Lozano) and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936.
Some Time Later (Spanish: Tiempo después) is a 2018 Spanish-Portuguese absurdist comedy film written and directed by José Luis Cuerda which features an ensemble cast of actors and comedians. [1] Set in the year 9177 and based on the 2015 eponymous novel by Cuerda, the film is billed as a "spiritual sequel" to the 1989 cult film Amanece, que ...
José Ángel Cuerda Montoya (born 17 March 1934) is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). He was the first democratically elected mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz , serving from 1979 to 1999.