“Most successful Woolf adaptations play fast and loose with their own medium.”
Archives for March 2, 2014
Helen Mirren Isn’t Having Any Of Your Excuses For Hollywood’s Gender Gap(s)
“‘Shut up,’ said Helen Mirren, ”cause Mama’s in the house. That includes all you guys over there near the bar.'”
Beyoncé Is The Gateway Drug To Literature (Yes, Really)
On her recent self-titled surprise album, the queen of pop music references novelist Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie – and that sets off a chain reaction of knowledge.
What We Can Learn From How Teenagers Use Social Media And The Internet
“Context is everything.” (And we perform different selves in different contexts – but the internet collapses them into one.)
How The Short Film (An Oscars Fave) About Pianist And Holocaust Survivor Alice Herz-Sommer Got Made
“‘I definitely see a Holocaust fatigue,’ [director Malcolm] Clarke said. ‘Initially, I actually didn’t want to make this film. I thought enough had been said on the topic.”
Writing Historically Accurate Music For ’12 Years A Slave’
“Mr. Britell, who developed the on-screen violin music and spirituals, had a unique set of challenges: being historically accurate to a time period from which no recordings, and little musical documentation of folk traditions, were available.”
What Sticks Around Longer In The Brain – Sight, Sound, Or Touch?
“Their study is the first to show that our ability to remember what we touch is roughly on par with our ability to remember what we see — which should surprise anyone who assumes sight is the most reliable sense.”
Not Even Writers Can Really Justify This Deeply Ingrained Habit
“I had inadvertently revealed my strongest personal compulsion, which is to hoard verbal matter, overheard conversation, stray remarks, stray thoughts, notes, lists, e-mails, gchats, text messages, diaries, notebooks, any and every piece of paper on which something mysterious or funny is written.”
When A (Real) Princess Taps You To Direct Her Ballet Company
“Creating a company gives me tools with which I can work,” Maillot said, “but being a choreographer is not being a painter or writer. You don’t have direct transmission of your work. It depends on others.”
Alain Resnais, Director Of French New Wave Cinema And Much More, Dies At 91
“His death on Saturday, the day after the Césars French cinema awards and on the eve of the Oscars, came as he prepared to launch his latest film, The Life of Riley later this month.”