Backstage at the Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2020 collection with Hannelore Knuts and creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli Photo: Archivio Fotografico Paolo Di Paolo
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Anna Magnani, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Charlotte Rampling, Grace Kelly, Marcello Mastroianni, Rudolf Nureyev, Sophia Loren, Ezra Pound, Faye Dunaway, Monica Vitti, Giorgio de Chirico, Gina Lollobrigida, Tennessee Williams, Marlene Dietrich, Giulietta Masina, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Anita Ekberg, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Moravia, and many others were photographed by Bruce Weber’s muse and subject of his latest documentary The Treasure Of His Youth: The Photographs Of Paolo Di Paolo, which starts with an overture of images and film clips. After putting his camera away for decades we see di Paolo return to shoot Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2020 collection.
Paolo di Paolo with Silvia di Paolo and Anne-Katrin Titze on Tennessee Williams: “I...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Anna Magnani, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Charlotte Rampling, Grace Kelly, Marcello Mastroianni, Rudolf Nureyev, Sophia Loren, Ezra Pound, Faye Dunaway, Monica Vitti, Giorgio de Chirico, Gina Lollobrigida, Tennessee Williams, Marlene Dietrich, Giulietta Masina, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Anita Ekberg, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Moravia, and many others were photographed by Bruce Weber’s muse and subject of his latest documentary The Treasure Of His Youth: The Photographs Of Paolo Di Paolo, which starts with an overture of images and film clips. After putting his camera away for decades we see di Paolo return to shoot Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2020 collection.
Paolo di Paolo with Silvia di Paolo and Anne-Katrin Titze on Tennessee Williams: “I...
- 12/7/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In last year's documentary "Val," Val Kilmer talks about his Broadway debut in "The Slab Boys." He was originally cast in the lead role but got bumped down to second lead when Kevin Bacon was suddenly available. Then, when Sean Penn also became free, he was relegated to the third-best part. You can still hear the resentment, but then the proud professional takes over as he quotes the old adage: "There are no small parts, only small actors."
I always found a disconnect between Kilmer's sun-kissed good looks and his pouting aloofness. It was like he thought he was the smartest guy in the room and was waiting for everyone else to catch up. The documentary makes some of these contradictions more understandable: As a precocious talent, he was the youngest person ever accepted by the Juilliard School's prestigious Drama Division at the time, driven in pursuit of excellence by...
I always found a disconnect between Kilmer's sun-kissed good looks and his pouting aloofness. It was like he thought he was the smartest guy in the room and was waiting for everyone else to catch up. The documentary makes some of these contradictions more understandable: As a precocious talent, he was the youngest person ever accepted by the Juilliard School's prestigious Drama Division at the time, driven in pursuit of excellence by...
- 9/15/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Opening with a clip 0f Donald Trump is a rare unwise choice made in “The March on Rome,” the latest film from Irish author and documentarian Mark Cousins. That’s not because Trump isn’t a fascist (where you have been?), it’s just that Cousins can, and will, tell the story of far-right politics’ inherent illusions — spring-boarding off Mussolini’s famous, semi-fictional voyage 100 years ago in October — with a little more grace than that.
Maybe grace isn’t the point. “A Noi!” (“To Us”) made for newsreels nationwide, Cousins entertainingly brings history, cinema, and the manipulative power of the movies together in just the way we’ve come to expect from him. If you’re at all intrigued by a movie called “The March on Rome,” you won’t be disappointed.
But don’t be fooled, either; trust no one, illusions are everywhere. Cousins’ title gives away the game,...
Maybe grace isn’t the point. “A Noi!” (“To Us”) made for newsreels nationwide, Cousins entertainingly brings history, cinema, and the manipulative power of the movies together in just the way we’ve come to expect from him. If you’re at all intrigued by a movie called “The March on Rome,” you won’t be disappointed.
But don’t be fooled, either; trust no one, illusions are everywhere. Cousins’ title gives away the game,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Adam Solomons
- Indiewire
Above: Poster for Bamboo Dogs. Art by Soika Vomiter.Unless you’ve been going to film festivals around the world for the past 15 years you may not have heard of Khavn dela Cruz. I had not myself until a poster caught my eye recently. It was a design for Orphea, a 2020 collaboration between the venerable 89-year-old German filmmaker Alexander Kluge and an artist called simply Khavn. The poster had a certain iconoclastic energy and a stylish title treatment and so I decided to dig deeper. And there was a lot to uncover. Born in Quezon City in the Philippines in 1973, Khavn has made over 50 features and 150 shorts over the past 20 years, but he is also a musician with 40 albums to his name, and a writer who has published eight books of poetry, a novel, and two collections of short stories and has twice won the most prestigious literary award in the Philippines.
- 8/13/2021
- MUBI
At the movies, this year appeared to begin like any other: With winter releases in cinemas and Rotterdam, Sundance, and Berlin unveiling exciting new premieres, the shape of the year's cinema started to be defined.This all turned out to be false start, and too good to be true. Starting in March, the ways movies were released—if they were released at all—and how we watched them radically changed. Our end of year poll, now in its 13th edition, remains the same in conception: Asking 2020's Notebook contributors how they would program new premieres into double features with older movies watched this year. But, of course, how our many contributors encountered movies in 2020, what they had access to and what their normal viewing habits were—these have shifted dramatically. This year the fantasy double feature, pairing new and old viewings, have become an even more acute snapshot of how people watched movies,...
- 1/4/2021
- MUBI
Ernest Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast is in the works for the small screen. Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, along with Oscar-nominated actress Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, John Goldstone (Get Carter) and Marc Rosen (Sense8), have closed a deal to produce a television series based on the book. A search is underway for a writer.
Being told as a Hemingway origin story, A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s earliest known work about his years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book was first published in 1964 and describes the author’s apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
The memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. Other notable people featured in the book include Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,...
Being told as a Hemingway origin story, A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s earliest known work about his years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book was first published in 1964 and describes the author’s apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
The memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. Other notable people featured in the book include Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,...
- 8/13/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir “A Moveable Feast” is in the works at Village Roadshow Entertainment Group with Hemingway’s granddaughter Mariel Hemingway, John Goldstone and Marc Rosen set to produce the series, the company said Tuesday.
Like the memoir, first published in 1964, the series will follow the famed author’s years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. It will detail his apprenticeship as a young writer as well as his first marriage, to Hadley Richardson.
The book features appearances by other noteworthy figures of his era, including Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Pascin, Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Hermann von Wedderkop.
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Like the memoir, first published in 1964, the series will follow the famed author’s years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. It will detail his apprenticeship as a young writer as well as his first marriage, to Hadley Richardson.
The book features appearances by other noteworthy figures of his era, including Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Pascin, Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Hermann von Wedderkop.
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- 8/13/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Mile 22“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” This astonishing quotation comes from an essay by American journalist H. L. Mencken. Writing in 1919 about a certain rage perceived in new writing from Ezra Pound, Mencken at first expresses tongue in cheek sympathy with Pound's anger—“the stupidity he combats is actually almost unbearable”—before dismissing it as detrimental to the writer’s poetry. Put into the mouth of John Malkovich’s CIA honcho James Bishop in Peter Berg’s latest film Mile 22, however, this incendiary quotation becomes much more ambiguous—particularly since there is no citation given, appearing as it does to be just another whimsical thought spoken out loud by this eccentric character. Bishop, as head of a special black ops division, is deadly serious and clearly sympathetic towards the sentiment. Whether the film itself is remains another story,...
- 9/2/2018
- MUBI
The Video Essay is a joint project of Mubi and Filmadrid Festival Internacional de Cine. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that already has its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both Mubi and Filmadrid will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The six selected works will be shown during the dates of Filmadrid on Mubi’s cinema publication, the Notebook. There will also be a free public screening of the selected works during the festival. The selection was made by the programmers of Mubi and Filmadrid.HollisA video essay by Miguel RodríguezThis essay examines the visual similitudes, double strategies...
- 6/10/2018
- MUBI
The once-intriguing possibilities of 3D films have become a gimcrack commodity, one used by producers to inflate the price of movie tickets and increase revenue. For Hollywood films, it’s usually done as a post-production conversion, nothing more than a brummagem, money-grabbing afterthought devoid of sincere artistic purpose. It is, in a way, a bastard descendant of the crafty stratagems of William Castle (Smell-o-Vision, the flying skeletons, etc.), but without his passion and showmanship, and certainly without his thriftiness. Prototype, Blake William’s hour-long, innominate new feature, is the rare film to not only take advantage of the unique possibilities of 3D technology, but to become symbiotic with it. In the film one find flickers of hope for the medium. You cannot watch Prototype in 2D; it simply does not work. The ineluctable ambition of the film—of its formal experimentation, its assured daring—needs, and deserves, to be experienced as intended,...
- 1/12/2018
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Claire Simon's The Graduation (1936) is playing September 11 - October 11, 2017 in the United Kingdom and most countries around the world as part of We Don't Need No Education: A Back-to-School Series.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.— Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” “I hope it’s not just the quantity that counts. I said what I have to say.”— Applicant exiting exam hall, The GraduationFilm school: who needs it? In The Graduation (2016), Claire Simon’s account of the protracted admissions process at France’s most prestigious film school, La Fémis, the question is implicit—and the myriad answers are potentially troubling. Writing about the film in the New Yorker earlier this year, Richard Brody remarked: “Seeing, in Simon’s documentary, the directing candidates forced to analyze a scene,...
- 9/12/2017
- MUBI
On Monday, September 18th at 7pm, Triumvirate Artists will present a one-night-only' reading of Pound by playwright Sean O'Leary featuring award winning actor Christopher Lloyd Back to the Future trilogy as Ezra Pound and directed by Kathleen Butler. The play is produced by Triumvirate Artists John Essay, Daniel Butler and Kathleen Butler.
- 9/7/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
“Movies” or…? Quo Vadis: One of the first feature films ever made, Enrico Guazzoni's Italian epic came out in 1913, going on to become a global sensation. Should American “moving picture” fans of the early 1910s have referred to it as a “photoplay” or a “movie”? Silent bites: The birth of 'the movies' In 1926, in her native England, Iris Barry published what is generally considered the first serious historical study of the motion picture as an art form. Utilizing the British slang term, she chose to title it Let's Go to the Pictures. Later that same year, when the book was published in the United States, the title was changed to Let's Go to the Movies, in recognition of what had become the most familiar form by which the motion picture was known – and would continue to be known.[1] The history of the term “movies” is a fascinating one, dating...
- 8/12/2017
- by Anthony Slide
- Alt Film Guide
All right now, settle down. Here it is, already the new year and we haven’t even started yet. Started what? That’s just about the kind of question I’d expect from you, mister smarty pants!
We can begin with a gripe, follow with a premature digression and then maybe segue into a topic. Ready for the gripe? Here goes: Geez, a lot of stuff sucks!
But let me tell you about my early days in the writing dodge. When I was groping through the universe, certain of very little, a person or persons whose identity I’ve forgotten told me that clarity was of high importance. Or maybe even crucial. I believed him/her/them and conducted my professional life accordingly, and it seemed to me that the perpetrators of the novels and comic books and films and plays and short stories I was absorbing mostly did the same.
We can begin with a gripe, follow with a premature digression and then maybe segue into a topic. Ready for the gripe? Here goes: Geez, a lot of stuff sucks!
But let me tell you about my early days in the writing dodge. When I was groping through the universe, certain of very little, a person or persons whose identity I’ve forgotten told me that clarity was of high importance. Or maybe even crucial. I believed him/her/them and conducted my professional life accordingly, and it seemed to me that the perpetrators of the novels and comic books and films and plays and short stories I was absorbing mostly did the same.
- 1/6/2017
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Louisa Mellor Sep 28, 2017
To mark National Poetry Day in the UK, we celebrate a dozen of TV’s best worst fictional poets…
The best words in their best order. That’s how Samuel Taylor Coleridge summed up the task of a poet.
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Not everyone, however, can be Coleridge, nor can they follow his advice, as this slim volume of fictional TV poets proves…
12. Charlie and Dee – It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Makeup... smearin'/No power steerin'/He be talkin'/but we don't be hearin'/Speaks like Zeus/Smells like poops/Rage all over from his head down to his shoes.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s alliances between Dee and Charlie are always excellent value. She’s ridiculous,...
To mark National Poetry Day in the UK, we celebrate a dozen of TV’s best worst fictional poets…
The best words in their best order. That’s how Samuel Taylor Coleridge summed up the task of a poet.
See related Star Trek: Discovery episode 2 review - Battle At The Binary Star Star Trek: Discovery episode 1 review - The Vulcan Hello Star Trek Discovery: take our special quiz here!
Not everyone, however, can be Coleridge, nor can they follow his advice, as this slim volume of fictional TV poets proves…
12. Charlie and Dee – It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Makeup... smearin'/No power steerin'/He be talkin'/but we don't be hearin'/Speaks like Zeus/Smells like poops/Rage all over from his head down to his shoes.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s alliances between Dee and Charlie are always excellent value. She’s ridiculous,...
- 10/6/2016
- Den of Geek
Here's something for hardcore cineastes: an incredible restoration of Marcel L'Herbier's avant-garde silent feature, which looks unlike any other movie of its time. The weird story is about a Swedish engineer who wins the hand of famous singer by demonstrating a machine that can revive the dead. The film's designs are by score of famous architects and art notables of the Paris art scene circa 1924. L'Inhumaine Blu-ray Flicker Alley 1924 / Color tints / 1:33 Silent Aperture / min. / Street Date March 1, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Georgette Leblanc, Jacque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat, Fred Kellerman, Robert Mallet-Stevens. Cinematography Roche, Georges Specht Art Direction, design, costumes, Claude Autant-Lara, Alberto Cavalcanti, Fernand Léger, Paul Poiret, Original Music Darius Milhaud (originally), Aidje Tafial / Alloy Orchestra Written by Pierre MacOrlan, Marcel L'Herbier, Georgette Leblanc Produced and Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Followers of art, architecture, literature and French art movies of the early 1920s...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Followers of art, architecture, literature and French art movies of the early 1920s...
- 2/21/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In an ideal world, every filmmaker would live long enough to see the premiere of their final film, even if their life is ended sooner than expected. It’s one thing to experience shooting the film and editing the final product, but it is another thing entirely to witness your creation with an audience seeing it for the first time. Pier Paolo Pasolini is one such director who never witnessed his final film in the company of an audience. 20 days before the premiere of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom at the 1975 Paris Film Festival, an unknown assailant, or group of assailants, murdered Pasolini. A well-known provocateur in film and the political arena, Pasolini unknowingly saved his most controversial work for last.
Salò is a notorious adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s equally infamous novel The 120 Days of Sodom. In Pasolini’s film, however, the novel’s four wealthy,...
Salò is a notorious adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s equally infamous novel The 120 Days of Sodom. In Pasolini’s film, however, the novel’s four wealthy,...
- 11/27/2015
- by William Penix
- SoundOnSight
Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress (first chapter here). Warning: more highly graphic Tmi.
A weekend of fruitless fretting almost led Walter to agree that Martial had the right idea and the show should go on with no guitarist, and with just Walter on keyboards, but really all he'd come up with for sure was a new band name -- The Living Section, for the Wednesday arts portion of The New York Times. The other guys all agreed that was an improvement. However, he couldn't bring himself to propose to them what, in his head, he had dubbed the Martial Plan.
The thing about the band was, it had to be fit in between all the stuff that going to college was actually about, such as attending classes. So on Monday, it was back to the usual schedule, which meant one of his favorite...
A weekend of fruitless fretting almost led Walter to agree that Martial had the right idea and the show should go on with no guitarist, and with just Walter on keyboards, but really all he'd come up with for sure was a new band name -- The Living Section, for the Wednesday arts portion of The New York Times. The other guys all agreed that was an improvement. However, he couldn't bring himself to propose to them what, in his head, he had dubbed the Martial Plan.
The thing about the band was, it had to be fit in between all the stuff that going to college was actually about, such as attending classes. So on Monday, it was back to the usual schedule, which meant one of his favorite...
- 9/8/2015
- by RomanAkLeff
- www.culturecatch.com
"He ate the painting," Will says. "He ate it?" Jack responds. Will intones, with a verbal shrug, "He ate it up."Jack Crawford, fisher of men (Manfisher?), sounds surprised by this scenario. Apparently he's the only person who hasn't seen Manhunter or Red Dragon. Will's irreverent demeanor, juxtaposed with Jack's typical straight-faced severity, suggests someone amused by the absurdity of the situation in which he finds himself, but who is unable to do anything about it. This opening conversation is indicative of the entire episode's wry attempt to twist the various moments from Red Dragon and its subsequent adaptations into something new, or at least something self-aware enough to acknowledge its own redundancy, a sort of perverse play on Ezra Pound's famous line. Hannibal interprets Ezra Pound literally: He’s helping to make a man new. Francis is scared; he doesn’t want to hurt Reba. Francis is losing...
- 8/16/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
Leonard is regarded as the greatest American crime writer, surpassing even Raymond Chandler. But it is time to drop the qualification of genre
The best novelists create a world around the reader. You can feel it bubbling up in irrepressible invention. So we have "a guy by the name of Booker, a twenty-five-year old super-dude twice convicted felon" in his Jacuzzi when the telephone rings. No one answers it, and Booker gets out of the Jacuzzi. At the other end of the line, a woman, Moselle, asks him to sit down. When he does, she informs him that he's triggered a bomb in the chair – "when you get up, honey, what's left of your ass is gonna go clear through the ceiling". The bomb-disposal boys arrive in their nonchalant way: "Booker said 'Another one goes hmmmmm. I'm sitting here on high explosives the motherfucker goes hmmmmm.'" Is there a bomb?...
The best novelists create a world around the reader. You can feel it bubbling up in irrepressible invention. So we have "a guy by the name of Booker, a twenty-five-year old super-dude twice convicted felon" in his Jacuzzi when the telephone rings. No one answers it, and Booker gets out of the Jacuzzi. At the other end of the line, a woman, Moselle, asks him to sit down. When he does, she informs him that he's triggered a bomb in the chair – "when you get up, honey, what's left of your ass is gonna go clear through the ceiling". The bomb-disposal boys arrive in their nonchalant way: "Booker said 'Another one goes hmmmmm. I'm sitting here on high explosives the motherfucker goes hmmmmm.'" Is there a bomb?...
- 1/28/2012
- by Philip Hensher
- The Guardian - Film News
Oh yeah, it feels weird typing “2012″ in the post title. Guess we’re — as in the “collective we” — still getting our legs under us for the new year, so not too many links again:
Making Light of It, making a nice return of things, has lots of gorgeous film stills from Brakhage’s Unconscious London Strata. Plus, a comparison of Ezra Pound’s The Return with Nathaniel Dorsky’s The Return.Donna k. suggests some places where one can read about women artists.Luke Black debuts the very fine poster for his latest film Beef Barley Brothers.The Horror Club very nicely put Paul Campion’s The Devil’s Rock on its Best of 2011 list.Congrats to Bill Plympton on his recent nuptials! I really want some of that cake or whatever it is he and his bride are posing in front of…The Phantom of Pulp lists his Best...
Making Light of It, making a nice return of things, has lots of gorgeous film stills from Brakhage’s Unconscious London Strata. Plus, a comparison of Ezra Pound’s The Return with Nathaniel Dorsky’s The Return.Donna k. suggests some places where one can read about women artists.Luke Black debuts the very fine poster for his latest film Beef Barley Brothers.The Horror Club very nicely put Paul Campion’s The Devil’s Rock on its Best of 2011 list.Congrats to Bill Plympton on his recent nuptials! I really want some of that cake or whatever it is he and his bride are posing in front of…The Phantom of Pulp lists his Best...
- 1/8/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Are our most popular films, books and TV shows too entrenched in nostalgia? Robert McCrum and Boyd Hilton debate the state of British culture
Robert McCrum, Observer assistant editor
A Martian, scanning any current listings magazine, might be forgiven for thinking that we Brits really haven't shaken off the post-imperial nostalgia that's been such a feature of postwar culture. Tinker Tailor… (cold war nostalgia); the latest episodes of Downton Abbey (Great War nostalgia); the BBC's forthcoming adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, Parade's End (ditto); and the "Great" (Britain) campaign just launched by the prime minister in New York suggest a society apparently fixated on the stories and images of past glory.
And if you go just below the cultural waterline it's not hard to bump into the outline of a trend: pop "eating itself" in the endless recycling of its material. I do think we are in thrall to the past,...
Robert McCrum, Observer assistant editor
A Martian, scanning any current listings magazine, might be forgiven for thinking that we Brits really haven't shaken off the post-imperial nostalgia that's been such a feature of postwar culture. Tinker Tailor… (cold war nostalgia); the latest episodes of Downton Abbey (Great War nostalgia); the BBC's forthcoming adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, Parade's End (ditto); and the "Great" (Britain) campaign just launched by the prime minister in New York suggest a society apparently fixated on the stories and images of past glory.
And if you go just below the cultural waterline it's not hard to bump into the outline of a trend: pop "eating itself" in the endless recycling of its material. I do think we are in thrall to the past,...
- 9/24/2011
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Adam Nevill.
Apartment 16 is Adam Nevill's second book and much of the story takes place in London. However, England is only one of the settings, as parts of novel take place in a occult world derived from the concept of vorticism. Voriticism is a 20th Century art movement that never caught on. If you studied this style of artistry, then you would no why e.g. lots of straight lines and little continuity. Moving along, vorticism brings a lonely nightwatchmen, Seth, into the haunted abode of a ficitonal artist named Hessen. Here, vorticism takes hold of him and of other characters, most significantly Apryl, a visiting niece. These two characters make up the bulk of Apartment 16, while the deceased artist Hessen makes himself more and more known in later, terrifying pages.
Apryl visits London to settle her aunt's estate, but she finds something strange. In several journals, Lillian has documented her bizarre life,...
Apartment 16 is Adam Nevill's second book and much of the story takes place in London. However, England is only one of the settings, as parts of novel take place in a occult world derived from the concept of vorticism. Voriticism is a 20th Century art movement that never caught on. If you studied this style of artistry, then you would no why e.g. lots of straight lines and little continuity. Moving along, vorticism brings a lonely nightwatchmen, Seth, into the haunted abode of a ficitonal artist named Hessen. Here, vorticism takes hold of him and of other characters, most significantly Apryl, a visiting niece. These two characters make up the bulk of Apartment 16, while the deceased artist Hessen makes himself more and more known in later, terrifying pages.
Apryl visits London to settle her aunt's estate, but she finds something strange. In several journals, Lillian has documented her bizarre life,...
- 9/6/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Filed under: Movie News
Here's the latest on 'The Great Gatsby' casting front: Australian actor Joel Edgerton has been cast in the plum role of Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic. The film, which is readying for an August production start, has gathered an all-star cast: Leonardo DiCaprio will play Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire is playing Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, Carey Mulligan is playing Gatsby's love, Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man having an affair with a mistress, played by Isla Fisher. Edgerton has appeared in several films, including 'King Arthur,' 'Star Wars: Episode II' and 'III,' 'Kinky Boots,' 'Smokin' Aces,' and 'Animal Kingdom,' and will soon be seen in 'Warrior' and the remake of 'The Thing.' Ben Affleck was an early Luhrmann choice,...
Here's the latest on 'The Great Gatsby' casting front: Australian actor Joel Edgerton has been cast in the plum role of Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic. The film, which is readying for an August production start, has gathered an all-star cast: Leonardo DiCaprio will play Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire is playing Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, Carey Mulligan is playing Gatsby's love, Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man having an affair with a mistress, played by Isla Fisher. Edgerton has appeared in several films, including 'King Arthur,' 'Star Wars: Episode II' and 'III,' 'Kinky Boots,' 'Smokin' Aces,' and 'Animal Kingdom,' and will soon be seen in 'Warrior' and the remake of 'The Thing.' Ben Affleck was an early Luhrmann choice,...
- 5/18/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Moviefone
As the publisher's website explains, New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914-1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."
Few American publishers have been more useful to the cause of poetry. Yes, Nd has published much great prose as well, both original (notably a huge number of Henry Miller essay collections), and in translation (Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, the success of which funded many other projects; Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea) or reprinted/collected (Delmore Schwartz's In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories), but poetry -- less often supported by the major presses, especially early in a poet’s career -- is where the press has made its biggest impact.
Few American publishers have been more useful to the cause of poetry. Yes, Nd has published much great prose as well, both original (notably a huge number of Henry Miller essay collections), and in translation (Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, the success of which funded many other projects; Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea) or reprinted/collected (Delmore Schwartz's In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories), but poetry -- less often supported by the major presses, especially early in a poet’s career -- is where the press has made its biggest impact.
- 5/11/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Sarah Churchwell sees Hemingway through the eyes of his first wife
The 1920s is back in vogue: Baz Luhrmann is remaking The Great Gatsby, a staged reading of Fitzgerald's masterpiece proved a big success off-Broadway last year, and HBO's 1920-set Boardwalk Empire is the flagship programme of the new Sky Atlantic channel. And now comes McLain's The Paris Wife, the story of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage, to Hadley Richardson, and their heady days in jazz age Paris. In fact, The Paris Wife also shares in the current fashion for biographical fiction, including Jay Parini's The Passages of Herman Melville, David Lodge's A Man of Parts, about Hg Wells, and David Miller's Today about the death of Joseph Conrad.
The story of The Paris Wife is familiar to anyone who knows A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of "how Paris was in the early days when we were very...
The 1920s is back in vogue: Baz Luhrmann is remaking The Great Gatsby, a staged reading of Fitzgerald's masterpiece proved a big success off-Broadway last year, and HBO's 1920-set Boardwalk Empire is the flagship programme of the new Sky Atlantic channel. And now comes McLain's The Paris Wife, the story of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage, to Hadley Richardson, and their heady days in jazz age Paris. In fact, The Paris Wife also shares in the current fashion for biographical fiction, including Jay Parini's The Passages of Herman Melville, David Lodge's A Man of Parts, about Hg Wells, and David Miller's Today about the death of Joseph Conrad.
The story of The Paris Wife is familiar to anyone who knows A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoir of "how Paris was in the early days when we were very...
- 3/26/2011
- by Sarah Churchwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Rubicon is receiving growing excitement and anticipation as the buildup to the premiere continues. Though it technically already premiered back in June, the series will air before Mad Men on AMC with a two-hour premiere, adding the first hour to a second, previously unseen hour starting at 8/7c. The first episode was previously referred to only as a "Sneak Peek." Now, as it turns out, the episode was titled "Gone in the Teeth," which is a reference to Ezra Pound's poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." The line, "An old bitch gone in the teeth," refers to Pound's hatred of World War I and of consumerist society.
In addition to gone in the teeth, nine other episode titles were released, meaning that only three episodes remain untitled in the first season. The second episode, which airs Sunday night, is titled "The First Day of School." Following are the rest of the...
In addition to gone in the teeth, nine other episode titles were released, meaning that only three episodes remain untitled in the first season. The second episode, which airs Sunday night, is titled "The First Day of School." Following are the rest of the...
- 7/31/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Much modern architecture has grown tiresome to me. It does not gladden the heart. It doesn't seem to spring from humans. It seems drawn from mathematical axioms rather than those learned for centuries from the earth, the organic origins of building materials, the reach of hands and arms, and that which is pleasing to the eye. It is not harmonious. It holds the same note indefinitely.
It was not always so. My first girlfriend when I moved to Chicago was Tal Gilat, an architect from Israel. She was an admirer of Mies. Together we explored his campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. She showed me his four adjacent apartment buildings on Lake Shore Drive and said they looked as new today as when they were built. It is now 40 years later, and they still look that new.
Then I was impressed Now I think of it as the problem.
It was not always so. My first girlfriend when I moved to Chicago was Tal Gilat, an architect from Israel. She was an admirer of Mies. Together we explored his campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. She showed me his four adjacent apartment buildings on Lake Shore Drive and said they looked as new today as when they were built. It is now 40 years later, and they still look that new.
Then I was impressed Now I think of it as the problem.
- 7/17/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Jean‑Luc Godard's masterpiece remains a startling example of the French new wave and marked the arrival of one of cinema's most influential directors
Two trailers bookend my half-a-century of writing professionally about the cinema and bracket the career of the man who is arguably the most influential moviemaker of my lifetime. Fifty years ago this month I dropped into an Oslo cinema while waiting for a midnight train and saw an unforgettable trailer for a French picture. It cut abruptly between a handsome, broken-nosed actor I'd never come across before, giant posters of Humphrey Bogart, and the familiar features of Jean Seberg, whom I knew to be an idol of French cinéastes as the protegee of Otto Preminger. Shot in high contrast monochrome, rapidly edited, interspersed with puzzling statements in white-on-black and black-on-white lettering, it was like no other trailer I'd seen, and I was captivated. Not until my...
Two trailers bookend my half-a-century of writing professionally about the cinema and bracket the career of the man who is arguably the most influential moviemaker of my lifetime. Fifty years ago this month I dropped into an Oslo cinema while waiting for a midnight train and saw an unforgettable trailer for a French picture. It cut abruptly between a handsome, broken-nosed actor I'd never come across before, giant posters of Humphrey Bogart, and the familiar features of Jean Seberg, whom I knew to be an idol of French cinéastes as the protegee of Otto Preminger. Shot in high contrast monochrome, rapidly edited, interspersed with puzzling statements in white-on-black and black-on-white lettering, it was like no other trailer I'd seen, and I was captivated. Not until my...
- 6/9/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Spoken words Aaron Kunin, author of the novel The Mandarin, straddles that literary fence of poet/fiction-writer (or fiction-writer/poet, depending on your view). A master of both lyrical balance and fine, angst-ridden storytelling, he serves up this collection with a defiant bent that shines through a great deal of raw self-awareness. In the collection, Kunin explains that he’s been “compulsively transcribing everything I say, hear, read or think” over the past few years, which may explain why his personal vocabulary plays out so well on the page and when read aloud. In mapping out his take on Ezra Pound’s...
- 5/18/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
He had never written or made a film before, but failure is not in the dictionary of Tom Ford. He tells Andrew Pulver how A Single Man inspired him, scared him – and got him addicted
It's not every day that a tycoon with a billion-dollar turnover makes his first movie, paid for from his own pocket; but Tom Ford would be a special, exotic creature in any environment. Fashion designer, brand developer, hobnobber with the rich and famous, Ford has now has put himself in an extraordinary, exceptional position – his film-making debut, A Single Man, is a potentially important, award-winning movie, one that looks set to make a significant impact on the culture. It's adapted from a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood about a gay man's grief after his partner is killed in a car accident; it stars Colin Firth, giving a performance that is already registering on the awards circuit,...
It's not every day that a tycoon with a billion-dollar turnover makes his first movie, paid for from his own pocket; but Tom Ford would be a special, exotic creature in any environment. Fashion designer, brand developer, hobnobber with the rich and famous, Ford has now has put himself in an extraordinary, exceptional position – his film-making debut, A Single Man, is a potentially important, award-winning movie, one that looks set to make a significant impact on the culture. It's adapted from a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood about a gay man's grief after his partner is killed in a car accident; it stars Colin Firth, giving a performance that is already registering on the awards circuit,...
- 1/29/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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