CDR Salamander (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
This week's book recommendations come from United States Naval Academy Professor of English, Bruce Fleming. If you want to know what he wants bouncing around the nogg'n of tomorrow's leaders in the Navy and Marine Corps, well here is your chance. Prof. Fleming's personal top five book suggestions for leaders and wannabe leaders, and perhaps all alpha types: l. THE QUIET AMERICAN , by Graham Greene....
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
#1 YOUTUBE.COM : Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 , Part 10 , Part 11 Directed by George Cukor Produced by James Cresson Robert Fryer Written by Jay Presson Allen Hugh Wheeler Based on the novel by Graham Greene Starring Maggie Smith Alec McCowen Music by Tony Hatch Cinematography Douglas Slocombe Editing by John Bloom Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Carey Mulligan John Hurt Helen Mirren Pete Postlethwaite and Sam Riley as 'Pinkie' look at that cast. the name of the film they are all making together is 'brighton rock.' the popular and prolific writer graham greene wrote the novel 'brighton rock' in 1938. it is my personal favorite of his many books i have read. in 1947 it was first filmed and that version is really good though very hard to come...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I mean no disrespect when I say that I imagine Graham Greene conceived of Loser Takes All (one of his self-described "entertainments") as a film before he decided to write it as a short novella. It's big and colorful and hangs on two cunning twists that neatly divide the piece into curtain act one and curtain act two. The story concerns the honeymoon of Mr. Bertram and his bethrothed Cary....
The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Ben Macintyre tells us that the internet is killing storytelling. A provocative and worthwhile essay at the UK Times from Nov 5th. "The internet... does not really 'do' narrative." :: This link is iffy; or try this alternate. ****************************************** # In an excerpt from his book of memoirs My Paper Chase , Harold Evans recounts how he and his newspaper unmasked the notorious...
The Botheration Log (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I wouldn't blame you if you were put off by the title of this post. After all, it's a pretty moot point which people will continue to argue over, disagree about and use as a subject for television documentaries probably for decades to come. And whenever these discussions kick off, Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane always gets mentioned, much to the annoyance of those people who don't rate it very...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
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'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The first book in the Patrick Hamilton’s Gorse trilogy, part of which sourced the excellent tv series The Charmer, was The West Pier . Graham Greene generously described it as ‘the best book written about Brighton’. It was published in 1951, and was followed by Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953) and Unknown Assailant (1955). The series was actually meant to be a quartet, but the fourth...
Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Well, these are a hoot for fans of actor Nathan Fillion and writer/producer Joss Whedon ... Castle: "Space Cowboy" (Firefly/Serenity) [Castle ABC] Sneak Peek at 2x06 "Vampire Weekend:" It's Just A Theory! [Oct 26 2009] Related link: Watch CASTLE on ABC Publishing news (July 10) (ABC's fictional sleuth Richard Castle writes a book, a long-lost whodunit by Graham Greene , and Wonder...
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Last night, Jonathan Lethem took to the book-shaped podium at Powell's to read—in front of a not-quite-packed house—from his new novel Chronic City . The reading really impressed upon me how much most published authors could stand to learn from the average kindergarten teacher. Lethem is an excellent reader, and why? It's because he reads like he's talking to a room full of kids. He's...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The next of the classic films to be remade looks to be Carol Reed's The Third Man, an absolute classic adapted from the Graham Greene story and starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. Well, if you believe the rumour that is. However it's not hard not to believe it, since the strangest of decisions are being made these days in Hollywood, and the rumour does have a strength to it considering there's...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but of Frank Darabont's two Depression-era Stephen King prison movies, I actually prefer 'The Green Mile' over 'The Shawshank Redemption.' The main reason is that while...
blogTO (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Photo: "Taxi Driver - Let's Go" by Mike Manalang , member of the blogTO Flickr Pool . Events on Toronto's Radar for WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2009... lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar . FILM FESTIVAL | imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Indigenous peoples have been well-represented throughout the history of cinema. Err, maybe that should be well-misrepresented. The debut...
Phil's Treehouse (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
There are a few fiction writers who have the gift for giving global issues a human face; Graham Greene was one such author and John le Carre is another. Le Carre’s brilliant explorations of the Cold War through the eyes of George Smiley are peerless and I recently watched again the T.V. series based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . Alec Guiness is masterful as Smiley and the cast are a roll...
Triablogue (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
OK, I’m glad the filmmakers are focusing on better quality. I salute you. But take some lessons from the past. I am currently teaching a course entitled “Major Christian Authors,” covering such authors as Dante, Spenser, Herbert, Bunyan, Hopkins, Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor. NONE of them wrote about people’s...
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