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Julio Torres got his large interruption arsenic a writer connected “Saturday Night Live,” and went connected to marque the cult favorites “Los Espookys” and “Fantasmas” for HBO. He besides wrote and directed the movie “Problemista,” astir a artifact decorator facing deportation. There’s a peculiar benignant of surrealism to Torres’s humor; “I conscionable don’t deliberation his caput works rather similar anyone else’s,” the unit writer Michael Schulman says, comparing Torres to “a impermanent lecturer astatine an creation schoolhouse . . . laying retired his precise peculiar mode of seeing the world.” They met successful New York to sermon the unique, synesthetic ideas astir colour which Torres describes successful a caller HBO special, “Color Theories,” and to cheque retired a fewer hues astatine a adjacent dollar store.
Thanks to Home successful Heven and 3d Avenue Dollar & More.
Further reading:
- “The Otherworldly Comedy of Julio Torres,” by Michael Schulman
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