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November 23, 2009
- <span style="font-weight:bold;">Latent shame over the Jews' failure to stand up to the Nazis is cited as a reason for the success of "Inglourious Basterds." </span>By Matt Beynon Rees - <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/general/091118/israel-holocaust-tarantino-spielberg?page=0,0">GlobalPost</a> JERUSALEM, Israel — Quentin ...
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November 10, 2009
- Sriram Das’ Santa Monica-based Das Films and GreeneStreet Films have hired British film-maker Miguel Sapochnik to direct The Contortionist’s Handbook. Production is due to start in May next year. http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/afm/das-greenestreet-hire-miguel-sapochnik-to-direct-contortionists-handbook/5007754.article
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October 8, 2009
- I am toughening up in the chilly English weather - there's me, in a coat, scarf and knee-high boots while around me, students stroll in T-shirts and flip-flops. I feel a bit mad. But... we joined an outdoor swimming pool for the winter!!! I can't quite believe it. It's three minutes walk from our house, and actually, it's very refreshing. The whole set up is a bit posh, the revamped Lido, with ...
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September 12, 2009
- Sometimes when I'm writing, because everything appears to me as a film, I like to cast a real-life version of the story. Check out the updated Film page to see who would I'd cast in the main roles for a movie version of Ice Song. "Lean and hardship-pared" Sorykah would be best played by a woman with androgynous qualities so that she could also convincingly play an epicene man--a bit ...
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September 11, 2009
- I know. It's been a long time. I've been working on the new books. And I should be working on them right now, except:1. I don't want to, and2. I have to bitch about somethingBut first let's talk about Jane Bites Back. It's all done and now I'm just enduring the wait until it's released on December 29. This is always a strange time, particularly if you've moved on to other projects. The book ...
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September 9, 2009
- So we’ve just had a long weekend. If you live in Seattle, like I do, you were kept in for at least a portion of the weekend by wind and rain — great writing weather. If you live in a sunnier climate (or just wanted to enjoy the holiday weekend, like a normal person), you may not have gotten your writing time in.But I have good news about that: Just because you’re not sitting at the computer ...
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September 8, 2009
- 'CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY' - In Wide Release October 2nd /// "It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship. /// "It's not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like ...
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August 31, 2009
- “High School Musical - Across the Pond” On the day when Disney have purchased Marvel Entertainments, for $4 billion in cash and stocks. Bringing the prospects of many more films involving the more than 5,000 characters, I got to pondering over how you change a book into a film, or even get a book looked at to become a film.As several people have remarked in my reviews the Across the Pond ...
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August 31, 2009
- Time in film is often an artful edit, a story told in film language. When I was in college I had a brilliant professor who taught me to 'read' film, not just see it, or feel it. Film is the great language of symbolism, verisimilitude deconstructed, syntagmatic readings of the psyche in juxtaposition. Propaganda in filmic doses . Montage in the hands of editors and directors who cut into our ...
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August 30, 2009
- Why do children play with dolls? One reason is that they like to make up stories and act them out. Dolls serve as permissible figures that allow children to become comfortable with who they, and others, are and to explore what this humanity might mean in an attempt to figure out how to inhabit it. They have not yet learned to hide their imaginations in some secret pocket or channel their ...
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