normblog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The Point of No Return blog was set up about five years ago to spotlight the forgotten plight of a million Jews driven out of Arab and Muslim countries. Although born in the UK, blogger Bataween, a journalist and mother...
Avuncular American (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Do you remember the scene in David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia, where Colonel TE Lawrence, to shouts of "Aurens! Aurens!" rides back to his Bedouin allies in the company of... mercenaries? "Killers, cutthroats," say the disgusted princes and...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
To admirers of David Lean’s epic film Lawrence of Arabia, the outline of the traditional Arab garments in a cabinet at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford should be instantly familiar.
LEELA SOMA (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Wallowed in David Lean's spectacular film of EM Foster's 'Passage to India'on Saturday afternoon on Channel Five. The scenes at the club in the film reminded me of Madras Club in my hometown. The film caused controversy when the rock caves were blasted to create the scene that David Lean wanted. As Ian Jack of the Times wrote it was almost as sacrilegious as blasting Stonehenge. Media hype I suppose,...
DWx (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Alan Catlin had alerted me that David Chorlton would be passing through the Albany area so I invited him to come & read at a "salon" at my house, in an intimate setting with select Albany poets. David Chorlton has lived in Phoenix since 1978 but he was born in Austria & grew up in Manchester, close to rain and the northern English industrial zone. He is the winner of Slipstream 's...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
A.O. Scott has an interesting piece in Sunday's Times about the films of 1962. Scott thinks 1962 matters for two reasons: The sheer number of good movies, and the collision of two eras in filmmaking. Scott's examples include The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Lawrence of Arabia , not to mention Truffaut's Jules and Jim and what Scott calls the start of a real "film culture". In the early...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
THE British Academy of Film and Television Arts will welcome multi award-winning writer/director Atom Egoyan to BAFTA HQ for the Academy’s annual film industry address on Friday, October 23. Over the course of three decades at the forefront of the international film industry, Atom Egoyan has become one of cinema’s most celebrated writer/directors. With feature films including Speaking Parts,...
Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Whenever we try and imagine the typical Bitterwallet reader, we think of someone shovelling handfuls of cakey biscuits into their gob while lounging around in the middle of the day watching old films. The kind of oaf who would be far too fat around the fingers to be able to use a mini-laptop. Is that you? [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Oscar-winning editor Anne V. Coates will discuss her esteemed, ongoing career at the academy tonight. Anne V. Coates' uncle, famed British movie producer J. Arthur Rank ("The Red Shoes"), wasn't thrilled when he learned she wanted to join the family business as an editor. But she had discovered the magical power of cinema when she saw William Wyler's 1939 classic version of "Wuthering...
Submarine Port (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
This is a regular post, but with various options for inserting media used. Andy Warhol paints his iconic image of Marilyn Andy Warhol paints his iconic image of Marilyn Andy Warhol paints his iconic image of Marilyn The 1st image was inserted with a size restriction (medium). The second image was inserted as a thumbnail. The third image full size. David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia premieres...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Reporting from San Francisco “Brief Encounter,” David Lean’s 1945 film based on Noel Coward’s one-act play “Still Life” from his “Tonight at 8:30” series, can scarcely be improved upon, so compactly perfect is this absorbing tale of two married people...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Film satisfies by taking an art-house darling, adding an attractive wild card, and mixing with love.
Ivoland! (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) “The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered ...
Isaac Schrödinger (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
I consider David Lean to be the greatest director to ever come out of Hollywood. The Bridge on the River...
Who Walk In Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
There’s a new book in town! Now that the professional mourners have put their veils and candles away, the enormity of the artistic life of Michael Jackson remains. To help us make sense of and celebrate those numerous achievements, Armond has put together a collection of his MJ writings under the title Keep Moving and [...]
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