"The material includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts, hundreds of photographs, bundles of correspondence and boxes of personal effects that experts say are bound to reshape public and scholarly perception of an artist whose life and work defined an era." - The New York Times
"Dietrich learnt from von Sternberg exactly how lighting could accentuate every hollow and curve in her face.... She would sometimes refer to herself in the third person, as if her persona were a lifelong portrait she might layer and finesse, year on year." - Psyche
Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the medium’s evolution, he was the first filmmaker to recognize that cinema’s classic period was over and a new era of a new kind of movie and a new type of filmmaker had begun. - The...
A member of the Stolen Generation, he struggled repeatedly with crime and addition earlier in his adult life; he also founded Australia's first Aboriginal theatre company and appeared in numerous plays and films, including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Blackfellas. - The New York Times
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known films tended toward a stark neorealism, laced with incisive dialogue and an arid wit, and often centered on characters struggling against conformity." - The New York Times
His take on contemporary culture made him seem antique. “We are still living in the aftermath,” he wrote in 1982, “of the insidious assault on the mind that was one of the most repulsive features of the radical movement of the Sixties.” - City Journal
"While I don’t think of myself as someone who would have judged by appearances much before Bell’s palsy, it has given me a greater empathy for people who might have a mismatch between the outward and the inward," Ruhl says - and it's changed how she sees actors. - The Guardian (UK)
Russell told Business Media News he envisioned it as a business news show that would appeal to a mass audience, not just executives and investors. The show is currently heard by more than 12 million listeners weekly on more than 800 public radio stations nationwide. - Inside Radio
Polshek rarely worked for private clients. He devoted himself to public buildings, ranging from the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Museum of Natural History in New York to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Equally rare, Polshek, who died last week at 92, chose commissions that were consistent with his politics. - Architectural Record
She was certainly a canny operator, but she was working to maintain safety and authority for herself and her sons (all three of whom became king) and stability for France. Though blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, she spent years trying to make peace between Catholics and Huguenots. - Smithsonian Magazine
The 15 million yen (currently $104,000) prizes have been awarded to artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (sculpture), filmmaker Wim Wenders (theatre/cinema), pianist Krystian Zimerman (music), artist Giulio Paolini (painting), and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the firm SANAA (architecture). - Artforum
"Notwithstanding her many roles in a wide range of Hollywood, international and Greek films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969), Papas always gave the impression that there was an Electra, Antigone or Clytemnestra bubbling beneath the surface." - The Guardian
When we speak of adored artists, we often flash on the first time we encountered their work, a tendency that evokes first love. I was in college when I saw my first Godard film, “Every Man for Himself” (1980), widely considered a return to form. - The New York Times
"The overriding themes of (his) novels ranged widely: murder mysteries, espionage, family secrets and more. He could keep it light or go graphically violent. Yet his novels had a heavy overlay of emotional and moral fog that left the characters ... trying to grope their way ahead." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"The medical report on the death of the 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life. He 'had recourse to legal assistance in Switzerland for a voluntary departure' because he was 'stricken with 'multiple incapacitating illnesses'.'" - The Guardian
