Phase Zero: Felipe Cazals on His 1979 Gabriel García Márquez Collaboration, El año de la peste (Year of the Plague)

It has been a good day for everyone, even for God. No sign of rain. No evidence of disease or blood. -- Henry Miller, quoted at the beginning of El año de la peste Around this time a year ago, many of us were suddenly sent home and forced to become film programmers. I asked people: after Contagion or, from a far distance, Outbreak, what was the ultimate Coronavirus movie? The Last Days of Nostradamus? 28 Weeks Later? The Host? The South Korean apocalypse thriller The Flu? 12 Monkeys? Kinji Fuka...