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Oscars night... *yawn*
Edit: OMG TILDA! OSCAR WINNER! TILDA SWINTON!! (Red carpet pictures. And Nathaniel has transcribed her acceptance speech.)
Vanity Fair pictures from the new movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. The cast includes Ben Whishaw as Sebastian, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, and Hayley Atwell as Julia, as well as Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Gretta Scacchi, and Felicity Jones. ( ONTD) [imdb]
Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Miller's Crossing) will adapt and direct The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Based on the alternate history detective novel by Michael Chabon, in which the State of Israel does not exist and the WWII Jewish refugees were relocated to a Yiddish-speaking settlement in Alaska. January Magazine describes it as "a thoughtful reconsideration of Jewish identity cleverly disguised as a detective novel." (Variety)
This portrait of Heath Ledger which he sat for not long before his death is so creepy, considering how Captain Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp, is one of the actors who will take over Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
British director Peter Greenaway talks to the Australian:
"Every artist should use the technology of his or her own age," he says. "All the painters that were worthwhile have always been extremely contemporary people; in the early 1990s I nearly gave up cinema thinking it was boring, moribund and dead. I still believe that, I really believe that 'cinema' is dead. And I think the laptop generation needs a damn sight more than the notions of cinema. But I do think that the language of cinema is extraordinary, and maybe it's wasted on cinema, if that's a paradox you can comprehend: cinema is wasted on cinema.
Greenaway's future projects includes an attempt to convert Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper into a narrative film. (Guardian)
Billy Mills suggests some essential reading for poetry-phobes, including Edward Fitzgerald's translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Edit: OMG TILDA! OSCAR WINNER! TILDA SWINTON!! (Red carpet pictures. And Nathaniel has transcribed her acceptance speech.)
Vanity Fair pictures from the new movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. The cast includes Ben Whishaw as Sebastian, Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder, and Hayley Atwell as Julia, as well as Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Gretta Scacchi, and Felicity Jones. ( ONTD) [imdb]
Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Miller's Crossing) will adapt and direct The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Based on the alternate history detective novel by Michael Chabon, in which the State of Israel does not exist and the WWII Jewish refugees were relocated to a Yiddish-speaking settlement in Alaska. January Magazine describes it as "a thoughtful reconsideration of Jewish identity cleverly disguised as a detective novel." (Variety)
This portrait of Heath Ledger which he sat for not long before his death is so creepy, considering how Captain Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp, is one of the actors who will take over Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
British director Peter Greenaway talks to the Australian:
"Every artist should use the technology of his or her own age," he says. "All the painters that were worthwhile have always been extremely contemporary people; in the early 1990s I nearly gave up cinema thinking it was boring, moribund and dead. I still believe that, I really believe that 'cinema' is dead. And I think the laptop generation needs a damn sight more than the notions of cinema. But I do think that the language of cinema is extraordinary, and maybe it's wasted on cinema, if that's a paradox you can comprehend: cinema is wasted on cinema.
Greenaway's future projects includes an attempt to convert Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper into a narrative film. (Guardian)
Billy Mills suggests some essential reading for poetry-phobes, including Edward Fitzgerald's translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.