TortsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
John Goldberg (Harvard) has responded to Judging Plaintiffs by Jason Solomon (Georgia) in Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc. Here is the abstract: Jason Solomon’s very interesting Article Judging Plaintiffs argues that neither efficient-deterrence theories nor corrective justice theories adequately explain...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Jason Solomon (Georgia) has posted Equal Accountability Through Tort Law on SSRN. Here's the abstract: The traditional conception of tort law as individual justice has been revived in recent years, particularly through the idea of "corrective justice." But as corrective...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Class dismissed The best French film of the year, Laurent Cantet's Cannes-winner Entre les murs (or The Class), will not be released in the UK in time to qualify for the next Baftas. As France's official entrant for the foreign language Oscar, the film is getting a limited release on 30 January in the US in order to qualify, but unfortunately its distributors have not been so bold in the UK, where...
TortsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Jason Solomon (Georgia) has posted on SSRN Equal Accountability Through Tort Law. Here's the abstract: The traditional conception of tort law as individual justice has been revived in recent years, particularly through the idea of "corrective justice." But as corrective...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Paddy's no dinosaur Paddy Considine is stretching out his talents. After winning a Bafta for his short film Dog Altogether, starring Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman, he is planning to turn it into a feature film. Ahead of a career retrospective at Bristol's Encounters festival, he told me: 'I do hope to get this done in the New Year. It's called Tyrannosaur and it's based on taking those two characters...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
When director Laurent Cantet accepted the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, he took to the stage surrounded by a large cast of children. African, Caribbean, white, Arab, Chinese - these French faces were the young stars of his film Entre les murs (The Class). It was a stirring, televised spectacle for the host nation - not only was it the first time in 21 years that a French film had picked up cinema's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
If I were a British film-maker and someone gave me a few quid to make a movie, I'd cast two British actors as my leads: Mark Strong and Paddy Considine. They're both always brilliant in whatever film they're in, powerful character actors who hold the screen and who can switch the mood from dark to light and back again in an instant. Well, I'm not making a film this week, but the very least I can do...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... of the original. The young Sam Riley joins a formidably lived-in line-up including: Ray Winstone, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta and Mickey Rourke. But Géla has also been recruiting extras in New York's warehouses and along the New Jersey shoreline. Unlike Michael Haneke's remake of his own Funny Games, I understand Babluani has made several changes to his original, including now shooting in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
The 52nd London Film Festival enjoyed its finest ever year of box office, breaking records with two days (and a Bond screening) to go. It matched its commercial success with an impressive breadth of quality programming sandwiched by Frost/Nixon, an illustrious opener, and Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, perhaps the most rousing, delightful film ever to have graced closing night. Boyle's 'rags to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Is this the best ever week for British releases, with a triple whammy of the latest Bond film, Quantum of Solace , Terence Davies's Of Time and the City and Steve McQueen's haunting Hunger all on nationwide release? To celebrate, Jason Solomons talks to director Marc Forster, who went from Finding Neverland to The Kite Runner to 007, about his take on Bond. He also chats with Ralph Fiennes,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
For shame, Mr Darcy Here's one I can't wait to see: Colin Firth and Snoop Dogg riding their bikes round Amsterdam, getting stoned for a documentary called Super Smoke Me. The charming Mr Firth, attending the Mayor's Gala screening of his latest film Genova, told me how the rap star had approached him with the idea a year ago and is refusing to let the project drop. Colin interviewed Snoop for a documentary...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Oscar-winning director of The Exorcist and The French Connection talks to Jason Solomons
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
On this week's Film Weekly, Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton tells Jason Solomons how being barred from a party in Cannes led to her role as an alcoholic in Erick Zonca's new film, Julia . Over satsumas, she also talks about her career to date and how Martin Scorcese is helping her bring world cinema to children worldwide. Then, actor Eddie Marsan, fresh from winning a British independent...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Director of Y tu mamá también Alfonso Cuaron talks to Jason Solomons about his latest film, Año uña, and his plans to make a road movie in Britain
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
City of God and The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles talks to Jason Solomons about his new film Blindness, working with cinematographer César Charlone and his dream of making a hopeful, funny film
