The animated adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings from the 1970s and 1980s have a bit of a bad reputation these days, but these are not entirely deserved. In particular, Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass’ 1977 TV movie of The Hobbit, with a screenplay by Romeo Miller, gets a lot of things right that Peter Jackson’s three-part live-action film adaptation did not.
The most obvious advantage that the animated version has over the live-action films is its length. The fact that the live-action movies are too long is pretty well-established, but by way of a reminder, the book of The Hobbit is about 300 pages long, with slight variations in each edition. Other books of similar length that have been adapted into films include Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma Donoghue’s Room, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
The most obvious advantage that the animated version has over the live-action films is its length. The fact that the live-action movies are too long is pretty well-established, but by way of a reminder, the book of The Hobbit is about 300 pages long, with slight variations in each edition. Other books of similar length that have been adapted into films include Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma Donoghue’s Room, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
- 12/1/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
British voices carry more than people from most other nations. It’s especially true in a city such as London, where it feels like you’re privy to everyone else’s personal lives as you’re going about your own day. This sense of eavesdropping on other people’s narratives is excellently, mysteriously explored in Jamie Fraser’s Green Space, which uses a fixed-vantage point to observe several interweaving narratives within Burgess Park, South London. Mixing oddball comedy with slice-of-life drama, the story gets great mileage out of this green, luscious location, subtly developing over the course of 24 hours. Particularly impressive is the way the space is mapped, creating a panorama of British life that spans from the banal to the monumental, all captured from the same view. We caught up with Writer/Director Fraser to talk about being inspired by landscape paintings, the fine line interconnected narratives have to...
- 8/14/2023
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
A24 is getting into the theater business with the purchase of the Off-Broadway venue Cherry Lane Theatre for the purchase price was $10 million, according to a deed filed on Friday.
Cherry Lane Theatre is the longest continuously running theater in New York City’s West Village. It features a 179-seat mainstage and a 60-seat studio theater. The space will reportedly be maintained as a place for live theater.
The studio behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Uncut Gems,” “Hereditary” and “Lady Bird” raised a $225 million equity round in March of last year, with plans to use the money to produce and distribute films while also continuing to develop initiatives beyond just big-screen cinema.
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The Cherry Lane Theatre was first established as a playhouse in 1923, courtesy of Evelyn Vaughn, William Rainey, Reginald Travers and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The theater would...
Cherry Lane Theatre is the longest continuously running theater in New York City’s West Village. It features a 179-seat mainstage and a 60-seat studio theater. The space will reportedly be maintained as a place for live theater.
The studio behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Uncut Gems,” “Hereditary” and “Lady Bird” raised a $225 million equity round in March of last year, with plans to use the money to produce and distribute films while also continuing to develop initiatives beyond just big-screen cinema.
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The Cherry Lane Theatre was first established as a playhouse in 1923, courtesy of Evelyn Vaughn, William Rainey, Reginald Travers and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The theater would...
- 3/4/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Independent film studio A24 has purchased a small Off-Broadway venue, the Cherry Lane Theatre.
The theater, which is located in New York City’s West Village, was purchased for just over $10 million, according to a deed filed Friday. Cherry Lane Theatre is the longest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York and features a 179-seat mainstage and a 60-seat studio theater.
A person with knowledge of the deal told The Hollywood Reporter that A24 plans to keep the space as a venue for live theater.
The purchase comes after the studio, which is behind this awards season’s The Whale and Everything Everywhere All at Once, raised a $225 million equity round in March 2022, with plans to use the capital to continue to produce and distribute films but also “continue to develop high-quality initiatives beyond the screen.” New York-based venture capital firm Stripes was the lead investor in that round.
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The theater, which is located in New York City’s West Village, was purchased for just over $10 million, according to a deed filed Friday. Cherry Lane Theatre is the longest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York and features a 179-seat mainstage and a 60-seat studio theater.
A person with knowledge of the deal told The Hollywood Reporter that A24 plans to keep the space as a venue for live theater.
The purchase comes after the studio, which is behind this awards season’s The Whale and Everything Everywhere All at Once, raised a $225 million equity round in March 2022, with plans to use the capital to continue to produce and distribute films but also “continue to develop high-quality initiatives beyond the screen.” New York-based venture capital firm Stripes was the lead investor in that round.
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- 3/3/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stop all the clocks,” Wh Auden famously wrote of the enormity of grief; “cut off the telephone... Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.” If Auden were writing that poem about the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, the clocks might be replaced with “traffic” and the telephone with “central London”. For one day, Britain seems to have ground to a halt.
In a television landscape increasingly dominated by on-demand streaming, where live “event TV” has become limited to the Euros finals and Love Island, today we bore witness to the passing of a seminal moment in our island’s story: all the major channels devoted their scheduling to the Queen’s funeral, in a sombre, striking acknowledgement that an era is ending. And in this wall-to-wall broadcast, the protagonists – the new King Charles, his wife Camilla, sons William and Harry, and their wives, Kate and Meghan – moved with the enforced dispassion of performers.
In a television landscape increasingly dominated by on-demand streaming, where live “event TV” has become limited to the Euros finals and Love Island, today we bore witness to the passing of a seminal moment in our island’s story: all the major channels devoted their scheduling to the Queen’s funeral, in a sombre, striking acknowledgement that an era is ending. And in this wall-to-wall broadcast, the protagonists – the new King Charles, his wife Camilla, sons William and Harry, and their wives, Kate and Meghan – moved with the enforced dispassion of performers.
- 9/19/2022
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
Darryl Hall and John Oates were fresh-off-the-plane clueless. It was fall 1971 and they’d come to California seeking the same thing as everyone else who comes to California — for them, it just manifested as a record contract. All they had were their instruments, songs, and a contact at the publishing company Chappell Music. They didn’t even know you needed a car to get around Los Angeles.
“We were kind of stuck,” Oates tells Rolling Stone, remembering how they drifted from hotel to bar to greasy spoon to label lunches that went nowhere.
“We were kind of stuck,” Oates tells Rolling Stone, remembering how they drifted from hotel to bar to greasy spoon to label lunches that went nowhere.
- 7/19/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
For a certain subset of younger readers, bestselling author Sarah Dessen’s books — mostly sweet teen romances about nice kids working out their problems and falling in love in the process, typically set in and around Dessen’s adopted home state of North Carolina — are must-reads. For nearly three decades, Dessen has been churning out her novels to, if not always strong acclaim, at least good sales and a dedicated fanbase.
And yet, until Netflix picked up options for a trio of Dessen’s books back in 2019, the author’s back catalog of inoffensive charmers scarcely got the movie treatment. Back in 2003, two of her books were turned into the Mandy Moore vehicle “How to Deal,” but it’s taken almost two decades for Dessen to get another crack at the screen. Netflix, which has given new life to the exact kind of fare Dessen writes — from the darling to...
And yet, until Netflix picked up options for a trio of Dessen’s books back in 2019, the author’s back catalog of inoffensive charmers scarcely got the movie treatment. Back in 2003, two of her books were turned into the Mandy Moore vehicle “How to Deal,” but it’s taken almost two decades for Dessen to get another crack at the screen. Netflix, which has given new life to the exact kind of fare Dessen writes — from the darling to...
- 5/5/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The National Book Awards on Wednesday gave its fiction prize to author Jason Mott, whose novel Hell of a Book chronicled a black author’s book tour interspersed with a young Black boy in the rural South, to highlight the 2021 winners list.
The honors, held remotely for the second consecutive year, are one of the most prestigious awards in publishing. Past winners include William Faulkner, W.H. Auden, and Ralph Ellison, and winning in this age of adaptation instantly elevates the author.
Mott said his work was selected a decade ago out of the “slush pile,” a publishing industry term for books that are unsolicited. The poet and author had three previous novels.
“I would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied,” Mott said in his acceptance speech. “The ones so strange they had no choice but to be...
The honors, held remotely for the second consecutive year, are one of the most prestigious awards in publishing. Past winners include William Faulkner, W.H. Auden, and Ralph Ellison, and winning in this age of adaptation instantly elevates the author.
Mott said his work was selected a decade ago out of the “slush pile,” a publishing industry term for books that are unsolicited. The poet and author had three previous novels.
“I would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied,” Mott said in his acceptance speech. “The ones so strange they had no choice but to be...
- 11/18/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Mick Jagger narrates a new film on London’s Royal Albert Hall in celebration of the iconic venue’s 150th birthday.
Directed by Tom Harper, the 90-second film includes scenes of the empty venue during the pandemic as Jagger recites the poem “For Friends Only” by W.H. Auden. Rare archival footage of the venue is also shown, dating back to Albert Einstein speaking in 1933. Glimpses of Diana Ross in 1973, Bob Dylan from the film Don’t Look Back, Led Zeppelin in 1970, Adele in 2011, and other performances are also shown.
“Without doubt,...
Directed by Tom Harper, the 90-second film includes scenes of the empty venue during the pandemic as Jagger recites the poem “For Friends Only” by W.H. Auden. Rare archival footage of the venue is also shown, dating back to Albert Einstein speaking in 1933. Glimpses of Diana Ross in 1973, Bob Dylan from the film Don’t Look Back, Led Zeppelin in 1970, Adele in 2011, and other performances are also shown.
“Without doubt,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Andrew Blair Nov 27, 2018
Characters, history, sewage - there's a lot to consider when creating a brand new world.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Tolkien took twelve years, J.K. Rowling seventeen. Terry Pratchett started the Discworld novels in 1983, and they finished thirty-two years later. George R. R. Martin started A Song Of Ice And Fire in 1991 and it remains unfinished. God managed to build the world in six days, though to be fair he didn’t really do much plotting.
In this article we’re going to look at the worldbuilding in the examples mentioned above; some of the most famous and popular fantasy series in the world, but still barely scratching the surface of the genre and leaning towards High Fantasy.
Let’s start with the most important question...
How does the shit get out?
Terry Pratchett once opened a discussion about fantasy world-building with the question...
Characters, history, sewage - there's a lot to consider when creating a brand new world.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Tolkien took twelve years, J.K. Rowling seventeen. Terry Pratchett started the Discworld novels in 1983, and they finished thirty-two years later. George R. R. Martin started A Song Of Ice And Fire in 1991 and it remains unfinished. God managed to build the world in six days, though to be fair he didn’t really do much plotting.
In this article we’re going to look at the worldbuilding in the examples mentioned above; some of the most famous and popular fantasy series in the world, but still barely scratching the surface of the genre and leaning towards High Fantasy.
Let’s start with the most important question...
How does the shit get out?
Terry Pratchett once opened a discussion about fantasy world-building with the question...
- 11/27/2018
- Den of Geek
A True Original: Alberto Cavalcanti is showing from September 9 – October 12, 2018 in the United States.Champagne CharlieIf Dickensian fiction story of Nicholas Nickleby were to be filmed today, he’d be a young man incessantly searching Craigslist and wondering what college education is really good for. At least that’s the impression one gets watching Alberto Cavalcanti’s lively adaptation, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), which perfectly captures the angst of urban youth fitted with stellar education and plenty desire for work, but dire economic prospects—an apt topic both today and at a time when Cavalcanti made his British fiction films, during and immediately after the Second World War.In his native Brazil, Cavalcanti has been celebrated for his avant-garde modernist films, including his debut, Nothing But Time (1926), and his collaboration with Walter Ruttman on Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), which serves as an important reference in the...
- 9/18/2018
- MUBI
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Nashville recap here.
It’s all over but the cryin’… but there’s a lot of cryin’ left to do in this week’s Nashville.
That’s to be expected, of course: While we’ve had a week to process Rayna’s unexpected death thanks to complications from a car accident, her loved ones have had just a few days. So when we check back into Music City, it’s a somber place, indeed. Deacon’s a mess. The girls aren’t much better. And the unholy alliance of Teddy and Tandy...
It’s all over but the cryin’… but there’s a lot of cryin’ left to do in this week’s Nashville.
That’s to be expected, of course: While we’ve had a week to process Rayna’s unexpected death thanks to complications from a car accident, her loved ones have had just a few days. So when we check back into Music City, it’s a somber place, indeed. Deacon’s a mess. The girls aren’t much better. And the unholy alliance of Teddy and Tandy...
- 3/3/2017
- TVLine.com
The years shall run like rabbits… -W.H. Auden From the start, before Richard Linklater conducted his grand experiment on the nature of time - Boyhood - he was out to capture the great container of all experience: time - good times / bad times, we’ve all had our fill. Sometimes, time passes without a shred of significant activity. Other moments contain a heart full of emotion that can make time feel as though it’s stopped. Some things last a long time. Some things last a lifetime… as Austin’s own Daniel Johnston once said. A moment can feel like nothing and everything and it's one of life’s great tragedies that even the most significant times of our lives will too pass and fade as more time...
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- 3/2/2017
- Screen Anarchy
President Donald Trump is responding to Madonna‘s Women’s March speech.
In his second interview since becoming commander-in-chief, which aired Thursday evening, Trump called out the songstress for her rousing oration during which she stated that she’s “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” and dropped three f-bombs.
“Honestly, she’s disgusting. I think she hurt herself very badly. I think she hurt that whole cause,” the president said to Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity.
“I thought her, and a couple of others. But I thought she was in particular — I thought what she...
In his second interview since becoming commander-in-chief, which aired Thursday evening, Trump called out the songstress for her rousing oration during which she stated that she’s “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” and dropped three f-bombs.
“Honestly, she’s disgusting. I think she hurt herself very badly. I think she hurt that whole cause,” the president said to Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity.
“I thought her, and a couple of others. But I thought she was in particular — I thought what she...
- 1/27/2017
- by karenmizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Madonna was among the many high-profile celebrities who delivered speeches at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., Saturday, but her profanity-ridden, confrontational speech raised a few eyebrows.
After stating that she’s “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” and dropping three f-bombs, the 58-year-old singer took to Instagram to clear up any confusion.
“Yesterday’s Rally. was an amazing and beautiful experience. I came and performed Express Yourself and thats exactly what i did. However I want to clarify some very important things. ” she captioned a photo of herself with the words “I choose love!
After stating that she’s “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” and dropping three f-bombs, the 58-year-old singer took to Instagram to clear up any confusion.
“Yesterday’s Rally. was an amazing and beautiful experience. I came and performed Express Yourself and thats exactly what i did. However I want to clarify some very important things. ” she captioned a photo of herself with the words “I choose love!
- 1/22/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
This article originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.
Madonna joined the ranks of powerful speeches at the Women’s March Saturday, but a few of her candid moments caused controversy.
Taking the stage at the Washington rally after powerful speeches from America Ferrera, Ashley Judd, and Scarlett Johansson, among other, the Material Girl delivered a rousing message she began with: “Welcome to the love revolution.”
While the event was led by women, Madonna addressed an impact against “all marginalized people, where being uniquely different, right now, might truly be considered a crime.” During the speech, the “Holiday” singer dropped three f-bombs,...
Madonna joined the ranks of powerful speeches at the Women’s March Saturday, but a few of her candid moments caused controversy.
Taking the stage at the Washington rally after powerful speeches from America Ferrera, Ashley Judd, and Scarlett Johansson, among other, the Material Girl delivered a rousing message she began with: “Welcome to the love revolution.”
While the event was led by women, Madonna addressed an impact against “all marginalized people, where being uniquely different, right now, might truly be considered a crime.” During the speech, the “Holiday” singer dropped three f-bombs,...
- 1/21/2017
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- PEOPLE.com
Frazer Harrison/Getty
There aren’t many people who could make wearing a rose-pink fully spangled Dolce & Gabbana tea-length gown look as effortless as a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, but Sarah Jessica Parker is definitely among them. And like those of us who wear the same jeans and a T-shirt on repeat, Sjp does the same with her paillette-embellished, flare-skirt, $5,375 gown, finding two occasions to wear it within two months.
The Divorce star first took the dress for a spin at a November Art Basel event hosted by L’Eden by Perrier- Jouet and Vanity Fair, where she...
There aren’t many people who could make wearing a rose-pink fully spangled Dolce & Gabbana tea-length gown look as effortless as a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, but Sarah Jessica Parker is definitely among them. And like those of us who wear the same jeans and a T-shirt on repeat, Sjp does the same with her paillette-embellished, flare-skirt, $5,375 gown, finding two occasions to wear it within two months.
The Divorce star first took the dress for a spin at a November Art Basel event hosted by L’Eden by Perrier- Jouet and Vanity Fair, where she...
- 12/23/2016
- by Alex Apatoff
- PEOPLE.com
Et has the lowdown on what some of your favorite celebs have been up to recently that you might have missed.
On Tuesday, Justin Bieber and his friends attended Usain Bolt's I Am Bolt premiere after-party at Tape night club in London, where Justin was performing the final two concerts of the European leg of his Purpose Tour. On the way into Tape, he wore a suit and an ink stain patterned shirt. When exiting, Justin was wrapped up for the ice-cold London weather in a beanie hat and parker coat.
Watch: Justin Bieber Drops Mic, Walks Off Stage After Fans Boo Him in Manchester
Michael Simon
The same day, actress Ashley Benson joined PayPal on #GivingTuesday to encourage online donations to thousands of worthy causes while at home in Los Angeles.
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Perrier-Jouet
Later, in Miami Beach, iconic champagne house Perrier-Jouët celebrated the Opening Night of L'Eden by Perrier-Jouët in partnership...
On Tuesday, Justin Bieber and his friends attended Usain Bolt's I Am Bolt premiere after-party at Tape night club in London, where Justin was performing the final two concerts of the European leg of his Purpose Tour. On the way into Tape, he wore a suit and an ink stain patterned shirt. When exiting, Justin was wrapped up for the ice-cold London weather in a beanie hat and parker coat.
Watch: Justin Bieber Drops Mic, Walks Off Stage After Fans Boo Him in Manchester
Michael Simon
The same day, actress Ashley Benson joined PayPal on #GivingTuesday to encourage online donations to thousands of worthy causes while at home in Los Angeles.
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Perrier-Jouet
Later, in Miami Beach, iconic champagne house Perrier-Jouët celebrated the Opening Night of L'Eden by Perrier-Jouët in partnership...
- 12/2/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has become a father for the seventh time. Kelsey Grammer Welcomes Baby Number Seven He and his wife Katye welcomed a baby boy, Auden James Ellis Grammer, on Monday. The couple shared that their name choice came from two of their favorite artists, poet W.H. Auden and singer/songwriter James Taylor. […]
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- 11/16/2016
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Kelsey and Kayte Grammer named their newborn son after a famous poet. It doesn't get more Frasier than that!
The 61-year-old actor's rep confirmed to Et that he and wife Kayte welcomed Auden James Ellis Grammer into the world on Monday, weighing 7 lbs. and measuring 21 inches long.
"Both mother and son are doing great," the TV star's rep notes.
Watch: Hilaria Baldwin Shares Letter to 3-Year-Old Daughter -- Never Let 'Anyone Belittle You'
Kelsey and Kayte, who plan to call their son James, named him after their favorite influential men, poet W.H. Auden and singer James Taylor. As for Ellis, that's Kelsey's great grandfather's name on his mother's side. "He was a colorful character to say the least and we wanted to give the name a second chance," the actor says.
This is the third child for Kelsey and Kayte, who share 4-year-old daughter, Faith, and 2-year-old son, Kelsey Gabriel. Kelsey also has...
The 61-year-old actor's rep confirmed to Et that he and wife Kayte welcomed Auden James Ellis Grammer into the world on Monday, weighing 7 lbs. and measuring 21 inches long.
"Both mother and son are doing great," the TV star's rep notes.
Watch: Hilaria Baldwin Shares Letter to 3-Year-Old Daughter -- Never Let 'Anyone Belittle You'
Kelsey and Kayte, who plan to call their son James, named him after their favorite influential men, poet W.H. Auden and singer James Taylor. As for Ellis, that's Kelsey's great grandfather's name on his mother's side. "He was a colorful character to say the least and we wanted to give the name a second chance," the actor says.
This is the third child for Kelsey and Kayte, who share 4-year-old daughter, Faith, and 2-year-old son, Kelsey Gabriel. Kelsey also has...
- 11/15/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Congratulations are in order! Kelsey Grammer and wife Kayte Grammer welcomed a baby boy Monday, Nov. 14, E! News confirms. Auden James Ellis Grammer delivered weighing 7 pounds and was 21 inches long. "The name was chosen to honor the great poet W.H. Auden and James is after another great poet and singer James Taylor—two of our favorites," the couple explained in a statement. Ellis was the Frasier alum's great grandfather's name on his mother's side. "He was a colorful character to say the least and we wanted to give the name a second chance." Kelsey and Kayte have two other children together, Faith Evangeline Elisa and Kelsey Gabriel Elias. Despite the first name Auden, the...
- 11/15/2016
- E! Online
Seven is the lucky number for Kelsey Grammer!
A rep for the former Frasier star, 61, confirms to People that he and his wife Kayte welcomed their third child together and Grammer’s seventh total. Auden James Ellis Grammer was born on Monday, Nov. 14, weighing 7 lbs. and measuring 21 inches long.
“Both mother and son are doing great,” a rep for the couple tells People.
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Auden’s name has quite the story to go along with it.
“The...
A rep for the former Frasier star, 61, confirms to People that he and his wife Kayte welcomed their third child together and Grammer’s seventh total. Auden James Ellis Grammer was born on Monday, Nov. 14, weighing 7 lbs. and measuring 21 inches long.
“Both mother and son are doing great,” a rep for the couple tells People.
Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs? Click here to get those and more in the People Babies newsletter.
Auden’s name has quite the story to go along with it.
“The...
- 11/15/2016
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
"About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters," W.H. Auden wrote in his poem on Brueghel. The words could easily have applied to both the subject and the creator of Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky's 1966 masterpiece. A film about suffering and art, the spiritual journey towards transendence, and the muddy, sodden reality of day-to-day life. It is one of the most profound and moving experiences that cinema has ever conveyed. It begins with a prologue as a man, some Leonardo or Galileo of the Steppes perhaps, takes a giddy flight with a cobbled together hot air balloon.
- 7/11/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★★★★ Part of the Orizzonti sidebar at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, actor Brady Corbet's debut feature The Childhood of a Leader (2015) combines an Ibsen-like austere family drama with a cinematic verve that's been sadly lacking on the Lido this year. A pounding orchestral overture (courtesy of the legendary Scott Walker) sets the scene as The Great War draws to a bloody, muddy and exhausted conclusion. It's 1919 and as President Wilson convenes European leaders in Paris to draw up a treaty of reparations and carve once more at the map of Europe, in a small house in the French countryside a seven-year-old boy, Prescott (Tom Sweet), collects stones to sling at parishioners leaving a local church.
It's the first of three tantrums which will divide the film into chapters. The child flees into the darkness, hurts himself and is carried back to his mother (Bérénice Bejo). They return to the...
It's the first of three tantrums which will divide the film into chapters. The child flees into the darkness, hurts himself and is carried back to his mother (Bérénice Bejo). They return to the...
- 9/6/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,Let the traffic policement wear black cotton gloves He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can come to any good. —W.H. Auden, "Funeral Blues"...
- 8/12/2015
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
In 1962, Harold Hayes, managing editor at Esquire magazine, marched over to the cubical of junior editor John Berendt, announcing himself with the infamous ca-clat of his metal-tapped shoes. “Who is the most important literary figure in New York?”, Hayes asked. “W.H. Auden”, Berendt blurted meekly. “Take him to lunch and get him to do a piece for us.” He did, and in December Esquire published ‘Do You Know Too Much?’, an article by Auden on the limits of education. This anecdote, recounted in the documentary Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the 60s, proves representative of the magazine’s approach during its golden age. Indeed, that was the way of Harold Hayes: his editorial ambitions were strat...
- 9/10/2014
- Village Voice
In a statement to the media, Coote's family said, “To his community, Greg Coote was an extraordinary leader and advocate for the arts in the public schools. He founded an arts endowment campaign to fund arts programs in perpetuity and to create a model for other school districts around the state and country. He was a generous and strong individual who was able to bring people along with him when it came to making sure that the arts remained part of the public school curriculum.”
Here is a poem by W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was our North, our South, our East and West,
Our working week and our Sunday rest,
Our noon, our midnight, our talk, our song;
We thought that love would last for ever: We were wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
He is survived by his girlfriend Amanda Pryce, two brothers, four children, four grandchildren, and his first and second wives. His funeral will take place on Wednesday, July 2, in Santa Monica, with a second service as yet unscheduled in Sydney, Australia.
The former CEO of Dune Entertainment and Village Roadshowchief died today of cancer in Los Angeles. Greg Coote was 72. He was a key player in the emergence of the Australian film industry, starting in the mailroom at Aussie distributor Village Roadshow and working his way up to Managing Director. “Greg was a champion of Australian films from the early 1970s, and he continued being a great supporter of Australian filmmakers,” said Screen Producers Australia president Brian Rosen. After a stint at Ten Network during which its ratings soared, Coote relocated to La as President of Columbia Pictures’ international division, where he oversaw worldwide distribution, acquisitions and marketing. He later became the founding President and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures in Los Angeles, and the company helped finance films including The Matrix. Later, when Coote was Chairman and CEO of Dune Entertainment, the company co-financed dozens of movies including Avatar, which went on to be the top-grossing film in history.
Coote also chaired China Lion Film Distribution and ScreenSingapore; served as a non-executive director of Bollywood producer Eros International; partnered with Leon Tan in the Malaysian-based DragonSlate; and was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the advisory board of the Singapore Government’s Media Development Authority. He teamed with David Calvert-Jones to launch the Century City-based development and production company Larrikin Entertainment, working there until his death. A funeral is set for July 2 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica.
Here is a poem by W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was our North, our South, our East and West,
Our working week and our Sunday rest,
Our noon, our midnight, our talk, our song;
We thought that love would last for ever: We were wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
He is survived by his girlfriend Amanda Pryce, two brothers, four children, four grandchildren, and his first and second wives. His funeral will take place on Wednesday, July 2, in Santa Monica, with a second service as yet unscheduled in Sydney, Australia.
The former CEO of Dune Entertainment and Village Roadshowchief died today of cancer in Los Angeles. Greg Coote was 72. He was a key player in the emergence of the Australian film industry, starting in the mailroom at Aussie distributor Village Roadshow and working his way up to Managing Director. “Greg was a champion of Australian films from the early 1970s, and he continued being a great supporter of Australian filmmakers,” said Screen Producers Australia president Brian Rosen. After a stint at Ten Network during which its ratings soared, Coote relocated to La as President of Columbia Pictures’ international division, where he oversaw worldwide distribution, acquisitions and marketing. He later became the founding President and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures in Los Angeles, and the company helped finance films including The Matrix. Later, when Coote was Chairman and CEO of Dune Entertainment, the company co-financed dozens of movies including Avatar, which went on to be the top-grossing film in history.
Coote also chaired China Lion Film Distribution and ScreenSingapore; served as a non-executive director of Bollywood producer Eros International; partnered with Leon Tan in the Malaysian-based DragonSlate; and was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the advisory board of the Singapore Government’s Media Development Authority. He teamed with David Calvert-Jones to launch the Century City-based development and production company Larrikin Entertainment, working there until his death. A funeral is set for July 2 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica.
- 6/28/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Twenty years ago, "Four Weddings and a Funeral," a charming little romantic comedy about a group of friends who attend wedding after wedding but can't seem to find true love themselves, became the highest-grossing British film in history. It earned more than $245 million worldwide, a number that's since been eclipsed ("Skyfall" currently holds the record).
Besides boffo box office, this movie skyrocketed the careers of star Hugh Grant and screenwriter Richard Curtis, who would work together again in "Notting Hill" and "Love Actually." It also was one of the first mainstream romantic comedies to casually feature a committed gay couple (played by John Hannah and Simon Callow).
The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars, but lost out to "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction," respectively.
So, where is the cast now? Most are still hard at work but a few are no longer with us. Pardon...
Besides boffo box office, this movie skyrocketed the careers of star Hugh Grant and screenwriter Richard Curtis, who would work together again in "Notting Hill" and "Love Actually." It also was one of the first mainstream romantic comedies to casually feature a committed gay couple (played by John Hannah and Simon Callow).
The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars, but lost out to "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction," respectively.
So, where is the cast now? Most are still hard at work but a few are no longer with us. Pardon...
- 3/8/2014
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
At the end of last week, in the wake of Roger Ebert's death, countless tributes poured from the film critic community. Ebert's influence, however, extended beyond his peer and had a major impact on the film industry at large. To complement the Ebert reminiscences by film critics gathered on Criticwire (along with a roundup of obituaries), we reached out to filmmakers, distributors, publicists and others from the indie world for their own memories of Ebert. This one comes from Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker. --The Editors "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong." W.H. Auden Roger Ebert. Journalist. Film critic. Philosopher. Humorist. Poet of the people. Raconteur. Friend of the artist (make that all artists). Populist intellectual. Humble. Fearless. So much to say, so many stories to tell. My colleague Tom Bernard eloquently told me the other...
- 4/8/2013
- by Michael Barker
- Indiewire
London — Richard Griffiths was one of the great British stage actors of his generation, a heavy man with a light touch, whether in Shakespeare or Neil Simon. But for millions of movie fans, he will always be grumpy Uncle Vernon, the least magical of characters in the fantastical "Harry Potter" movies.
Griffiths died Thursday at University Hospital in Coventry, central England from complications following heart surgery, his agent, Simon Beresford, said. He was 65.
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe paid tribute to the actor Friday, saying that "any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence."
"I am proud to say I knew him," Radcliffe said.
Griffiths won a Tony Award for "The History Boys" and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. But he will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles – Harry Potter's Uncle Vernon Dursley...
Griffiths died Thursday at University Hospital in Coventry, central England from complications following heart surgery, his agent, Simon Beresford, said. He was 65.
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe paid tribute to the actor Friday, saying that "any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence."
"I am proud to say I knew him," Radcliffe said.
Griffiths won a Tony Award for "The History Boys" and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. But he will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles – Harry Potter's Uncle Vernon Dursley...
- 3/29/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard’s unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies, has died. He was 65.
Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry, central England.
He paid tribute to Griffiths as “a remarkable man and one of our greatest and best-loved actors.”
Griffiths appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, but will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles — the hero’s grudging Muggle guardian in the Harry Potter series, and flamboyant Uncle Monty...
Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier of complications following heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry, central England.
He paid tribute to Griffiths as “a remarkable man and one of our greatest and best-loved actors.”
Griffiths appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, but will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles — the hero’s grudging Muggle guardian in the Harry Potter series, and flamboyant Uncle Monty...
- 3/29/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that acclaimed film and television actor Christopher Lloyd, will star as Azdak in the company's upcoming spring production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, to be directed by Brian Kulick who directed Brecht's Galileo last season, and featuring new music by Tony Award-winning singersongwriter Duncan Sheik, featuring translation by James and Tania Stern with lyrics by W.H. Auden. The Caucasian Chalk Circle will begin performances Thursday, May 2 at Csc 136 East 13th Street for a limited engagement. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, April 2.
- 12/12/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Oxford just inherited a sizable collection of letters and manuscripts from former poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, The Guardian reports. The archive was donated to the University’s Bodleian Library by his children, actor Daniel Day-Lewis and food writer Tamasin Day-Lewis.
The collection includes letters exchanged between the elder Day-Lewis and other notable figures, such as Kingsley Amis, Alec Guiness, and W.H. Auden. The latter, with whom Day-Lewis was especially chummy following their undergraduate years at Oxford, offers previously unseen criticism of Day-Lewis’ work that ranges from subtle (“The lines ‘For there’s no wonder … When any echo waits’, sound as...
The collection includes letters exchanged between the elder Day-Lewis and other notable figures, such as Kingsley Amis, Alec Guiness, and W.H. Auden. The latter, with whom Day-Lewis was especially chummy following their undergraduate years at Oxford, offers previously unseen criticism of Day-Lewis’ work that ranges from subtle (“The lines ‘For there’s no wonder … When any echo waits’, sound as...
- 10/30/2012
- by Josh Stillman
- EW.com - PopWatch
He may be gearing up to do some honorable deeds onscreen in Lincoln, but Daniel Day-Lewis is proving to be quite the altruistic chap in real life. The 55-year-old is donating works by his late poet father, Cecil Day-Lewis, to Oxford University, per The Guardian. Cecil, who was named the U.K.'s poet laureate in 1968 and who died four years later, was a professor at Oxford. The sprawling documents, packed into more than 50 boxes, include correspondence with luminaries like W.H. Auden and Alec Guinness. They also include one particular literary gem: a poem commemorating the birth of son Daniel. Yep—we'd say that Daniel's celebrated career and two Oscars made good on that...
- 10/30/2012
- E! Online
When I was growing up, New York 's best (now long-defunct) classical radio station, Wncn, played only American composers' music each Fourth of July. With the classical world dominated by Europeans, this was a welcome and educational corrective. In the history of American music, independence wasn't achieved until the 20th century; 19th century composers such as John Knowles Paine and George Whitefield Chadwick studied in Europe and blatantly imitated European models. Listening to their music "blind," few would guess they were Americans. There was Revolutionary War-era vocal writer William Billings, but his originality was more a lack of proper technique. Continuing Wncn's tradition, here's a look at true American classical. music.
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
- 7/4/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
If you are reading this, that means you have access to the Internet and therefore are well aware that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing after five years of marriage. The entertainment news world and social media networks are already in a frenzy over this slowly exploding developing story. But as usual, what tends to get lost in all of the reporting and speculation is the tragedy of it all. Let’s not forget, a romance is ending here. A very public one, yes, but a romance nevertheless.
So to mark this solemn moment in Hollywood history, we present…
TomKat Blues
(with Apologies to W.H. Auden)
Shut off your cell phones and stop all the clocks,
Put your sweet fashionistas in the somber’est of frocks,
Silence the talk shows with their sorrowful preaching,
Bring...
So to mark this solemn moment in Hollywood history, we present…
TomKat Blues
(with Apologies to W.H. Auden)
Shut off your cell phones and stop all the clocks,
Put your sweet fashionistas in the somber’est of frocks,
Silence the talk shows with their sorrowful preaching,
Bring...
- 6/29/2012
- by Melanie McFarland
- IMDb Blog - All the Latest
February House Public Theater, NY
In a theater season dominated by musicals adapted from movies, it is nice to see an original new musical, but originality alone is no guarantee of a fully realized and satisfying entertainment. February House, the new musical opening at the Public Theater, is indeed original. It has its assets, including intelligence and an impressive score, but it is also uneven. While the musical has moments that are close to magical, it ultimately left me wishing it had delivered more than it did.
February House is inspired by real-life events. In 1940, flamboyant editor George Davis took a house in Brooklyn and turned it into a bohemian commune for writers and artists, including such icons as Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, and Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical depicts life at what was called February House -- because so many of those artists had February birthdays --...
In a theater season dominated by musicals adapted from movies, it is nice to see an original new musical, but originality alone is no guarantee of a fully realized and satisfying entertainment. February House, the new musical opening at the Public Theater, is indeed original. It has its assets, including intelligence and an impressive score, but it is also uneven. While the musical has moments that are close to magical, it ultimately left me wishing it had delivered more than it did.
February House is inspired by real-life events. In 1940, flamboyant editor George Davis took a house in Brooklyn and turned it into a bohemian commune for writers and artists, including such icons as Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, and Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical depicts life at what was called February House -- because so many of those artists had February birthdays --...
- 5/26/2012
- by James Miller
- www.culturecatch.com
February House (Playing at the Public Theater through June 10) February House is an ambitious artistic experiment about an ambitious artistic experiment: An attempt by Harpers fiction editor George Davis (Julian Fleisher) to found an art commune in Brooklyn Heights in 1940. Davis’s incandescent brood of tinderbox souls included wunderkind novelist Carson McCullers (the adorable Kristen Sieh), composer Benjamin Britten (Stanley Bahorek) and his lover-muse, the tenor Peter Pears (Ken Barnett), anti-fascist firebrand Erika Mann (Stephanie Hayes), “thinking-man’s stripper” Gypsy Rose Lee (Kacie Sheik), and, as elder statesman (at 33), the revered poet W.H. Auden (Erik Lochtefeld, subtly and sustainedly wrong for a disagreeable and miswritten role).To capture the brilliant din, composer-lyricist Gabriel Kahane, a narrative songwriter of great skill and ample wit, has attempted a simultaneous dialogue with the yearning poetry of Auden, the modern musical decouplings of Britten, McCullers’s Southern longings, and Gypsy’s brass. It’s...
- 5/25/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
This Week on Stage: An actor breaks a leg, old Jews tell jokes, and a 'Cock' fight wows Off Broadway
That old actor’s adage “Break a leg” is not supposed to be taken literally. But that message apparently didn’t make it to Michael McKean, the Laverne & Shirley and This is Spinal Tap alum now starring in the hit Broadway revival Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. The actor was hospitalized Tuesday with a broken leg after being struck by a car in New York City; James Lecesne will be playing his role as a presidential campaign manager for the foreseeable future.
Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...
Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...
- 5/25/2012
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Playing real people in a straight play is daunting enough. Imagine if it's a musical. That is precisely the challenge facing the actors in "February House," a new tuner about poet W.H. Auden, stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, composer Benjamin Britten, and novelist Carson McCullers who all lived together in a Brooklyn Heights commune, on the cusp of World War II. With a book by Seth Bockley and music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane, "February House" is now running at The Public Theater and undoubtedly giving its actors some big challenges.Back Stage: What are the challenges in playing real people?Stanley Bahorek (Benjamin Britten): One challenge is getting mired in historical research and losing sight of the playwright's chosen story. So with great reverence for the legacy of Britten, and equal respect for the man, I focused on embodying the character as sketched.Erik Lochtefeld (W.H. Auden): The sheer amount of information can.
- 5/18/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
On the eve of new musical "February House" beginning previews at The Public Theater, critics and artists gathered there May 7 for a panel discussion that asked the question, "Is New York City still a home for artists?"The evening began with an introduction to "February House," the musical recreation of a proto-artists' commune in pre-wwii Brooklyn that found Gypsy Rose Lee, Carson McCullers, and W.H. Auden, among others, sharing living quarters. Bookwriter Seth Bockley and composer Gabriel Kahane took the unusual living arrangement (memorably recreated in Sherill Tippins' 2005 non-fiction "February House") as a jumping off point to exploring the themes of coming of age as an artist in the city, finding one's artistic family in the city, and living in the city as a retreat from other places.Afterward, Damian Woetzel, director of Arts Programs for the Aspen Institute, led a panel of New York Magazine critics in a discussion.
- 5/8/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Penny Gray)
- backstage.com
Getty Images Simon Callow on November 9, 2010 in London, England.
When talking with British actor Simon Callow, try not to mix him up with that other British guy with the same initials. The 62-year-old actor says people accidentally call him Simon Cowell all the time: “I used to bridle at it.”
The fact is, Callow, who may be best known to American audiences as the effervescent bon vivant who keels over from a heart attack in the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral,...
When talking with British actor Simon Callow, try not to mix him up with that other British guy with the same initials. The 62-year-old actor says people accidentally call him Simon Cowell all the time: “I used to bridle at it.”
The fact is, Callow, who may be best known to American audiences as the effervescent bon vivant who keels over from a heart attack in the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral,...
- 3/31/2012
- by Ellen Gamerman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
New York -- It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who famously wrote there are no second acts in American lives. It is Jon Robin Baitz who says that's utter baloney.
"There's nothing but second acts," the playwright says over coffee in the café of a Greenwich Village hotel.
He should know: Baitz was a well-regarded writer of such plays as "The Film Society" and the Pulitzer Prize finalist "A Fair Country" when he left New York for Hollywood in 2002 to create the TV show "Brothers & Sisters."
But finding frustration at every turn, Baitz lasted only a few years before being fired and fleeing back East. He has re-emerged with the drama "Other Desert Cities," easily his best-reviewed play and the first of his original works to make it to Broadway.
"I always felt that there was something else to come," says Baitz. "I sort of wake up every day in a...
"There's nothing but second acts," the playwright says over coffee in the café of a Greenwich Village hotel.
He should know: Baitz was a well-regarded writer of such plays as "The Film Society" and the Pulitzer Prize finalist "A Fair Country" when he left New York for Hollywood in 2002 to create the TV show "Brothers & Sisters."
But finding frustration at every turn, Baitz lasted only a few years before being fired and fleeing back East. He has re-emerged with the drama "Other Desert Cities," easily his best-reviewed play and the first of his original works to make it to Broadway.
"I always felt that there was something else to come," says Baitz. "I sort of wake up every day in a...
- 1/11/2012
- by AP
- Aol TV.
Why Watch? Music meets visuals meets poetry meets heartache. This short film works as a deconstruction of the moving parts of a movie. It is a blend of visuals, voice over and music that are far enough apart to show the sum of their parts, but tied closely enough to show how powerful their combination can be. Featuring the W.H. Auden poem “As I Walked Out One Evening,” and a couple navigating the bustling night-time streets of London with a symbolic fox in tow, it’s stirring non-narrative work that deserves applause. What does it cost? Just 6 minutes of your time. Check out the trailer for Your Crooked Heart for yourself: Your Crooked Heart (2011) Trust us. You have time for more short films.
- 10/6/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Athletes have been announced for Espn Magazine's "The Body Issue," which has athletes naked but strategically posed. I'm not a big expert on how famous these people are, but gymnast Alicia Sacramone, snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, soccer goalie Hope Solo, the NBA's Blake Griffin, Mlb's Jose Reyes, the NFL's Steven Jackson and hockey player Ryan Kesler made the list.
Whitman-Walker Health and the Mautner Project have announced a joint program for Glbt seniors called People Advocating for Lgbt Seniors (Pals) to address the needs of aging members of our community.
Disney Channel has gone to the dogs, literally, with Dog With a Blog about a talking, blogging canine. Hrmm. I wonder if he'd be willing to do a column for AfterElton.com
The Art of Habit is playing in Washington, D.C., and a familiar face is starring as Tim, an actor who isn't afraid to strip down to make a scene work.
Whitman-Walker Health and the Mautner Project have announced a joint program for Glbt seniors called People Advocating for Lgbt Seniors (Pals) to address the needs of aging members of our community.
Disney Channel has gone to the dogs, literally, with Dog With a Blog about a talking, blogging canine. Hrmm. I wonder if he'd be willing to do a column for AfterElton.com
The Art of Habit is playing in Washington, D.C., and a familiar face is starring as Tim, an actor who isn't afraid to strip down to make a scene work.
- 9/30/2011
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
The 30th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) is starting to finally announce their roster of films with an outstanding line-up of documentaries that celebrate the power of cinema and the arts across the Dance, Music, Theatre and the Visual Arts mediums. Legendary filmmakers Wim Wenders , Frederick Wiseman, and Mike Figgis are among the talent presenting films at the festival this year which runs from September 29-October 14th. Here is a taste of what to expect so far:
Pina
Germany/France/UK | Director: Wim Wenders
One German master more than does justice to another as Wim Wenders fashions a kinetic and gorgeous tribute to the singular German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. “Entertainment that will send culture vultures swooning… the film lets the artist’s work speak for itself via big, juicy slabs of performance.” — Variety
Flamenco, Flamenco
Spain | Director: Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura continues to mine a rich vein...
Pina
Germany/France/UK | Director: Wim Wenders
One German master more than does justice to another as Wim Wenders fashions a kinetic and gorgeous tribute to the singular German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. “Entertainment that will send culture vultures swooning… the film lets the artist’s work speak for itself via big, juicy slabs of performance.” — Variety
Flamenco, Flamenco
Spain | Director: Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura continues to mine a rich vein...
- 8/18/2011
- by Gregory Ashman
- SoundOnSight
On April 16th 2011, science fiction author Stephen Hunt sent out a press release to genre websites, including Fgt, announcing a letter of protest signed by 85 authors of sci-fi and fantasy literature sent to the BBC.
This letter, penned by Hunt, complained that the BBC 2 had not covered science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction sufficiently in their World Book Night programming on March 5th, 2011. The programs that particularly bothered Hunt were called “The Books We Really Read”, an episode of The Culture Show, hosted by comedian Sue Perkins and “New Novelists: 12 of the Best.”
Hunt quoted himself in his press release as outlining his contempt for the BBC shows:
Quote:
Fantasy author Stephen Hunt, who organised the protest, commented, “The sneering tone that was levelled towards commercial fiction during The Books We Really Read was deeply counterproductive to the night’s aims of actually encouraging people to read novels. The weight...
This letter, penned by Hunt, complained that the BBC 2 had not covered science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction sufficiently in their World Book Night programming on March 5th, 2011. The programs that particularly bothered Hunt were called “The Books We Really Read”, an episode of The Culture Show, hosted by comedian Sue Perkins and “New Novelists: 12 of the Best.”
Hunt quoted himself in his press release as outlining his contempt for the BBC shows:
Quote:
Fantasy author Stephen Hunt, who organised the protest, commented, “The sneering tone that was levelled towards commercial fiction during The Books We Really Read was deeply counterproductive to the night’s aims of actually encouraging people to read novels. The weight...
- 4/30/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
It's the first of April! A day of pranks, pratfalls and poetry. Poetry? Yes, poetry, verse, balladry, poesy, doggerel. Poetry. April is National Poetry Month (donchaknow) and instead of trying to prank you today, I thought I would take a moment and look at the best uses of poetry in film. We're going to pretend that film where Cameron Diaz learned to read and then stumblewept her way through e.e. cummings never happened. If I missed your favorite, let me know. . .mayhap in meter and rhyme? Is that asking too much? Then a haiku will do.
1. John Hannah--"Four Weddings And A Funeral
Poem: W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues"
Best Lines: He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.
2. Sarah Polley--"The Sweet Hereafter"
Poem: Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Best Lines: It's dull in...
1. John Hannah--"Four Weddings And A Funeral
Poem: W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues"
Best Lines: He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.
2. Sarah Polley--"The Sweet Hereafter"
Poem: Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Best Lines: It's dull in...
- 4/1/2011
- by Joanna Robinson
Inspector Bellamy and Cold Weather have, frankly, a lot in common: a male detective with an interest in crime fiction (in Bellamy Georges Simenon and Agatha Christie take the places occupied by Arthur Conan Doyle and E.W. Hornung in Cold Weather) is assisted in an investigation by the woman he is closest to (Bellamy, his wife; Cold Weather, his sister); the first clues to the mystery are introduced in a motel room; an emphasis on dinner scenes and establishing the social life of the characters before establishing the crime; the integral role played by a frequent collaborator's score (Chabrol's son, Matthieu, in Bellamy; Keegan DeWitt in Cold Weather); adult siblings (Paul and Jacques, Doug and Gail) cohabitating, one noticeably more aimless than the other; overcast skies, the sea, and landscapes, namely the way landscapes appear from a moving car; the cars themselves, key participants in the action, indicators of character...
- 2/14/2011
- MUBI
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney has brushed off claims that he is a supporter of bullfighting after being targeted by an animal rights protester. Sheffield-based ex-teacher Paul Hurt, 62, travelled 414 miles to a Suffolk reading with leaflets attacking Heaney in protest against the poet's alleged support of the sport in his 2006 poem 'Tate's Avenue' and a 1976 essay on W.H. Auden, The Daily Telegraph reports. Event organiser Jonathan Reekie, Aldeburgh Music chief executive, said: "Mr Hurt obviously has very strong beliefs against bullfighting which I wholeheartedly understand and support. "But unfortunately he has come to the mistaken belief that Seamus Heaney (more)...
- 8/31/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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