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Drowning Ulster Orchestra Gets Lifeline From Northern Ireland Assembly
“The orchestra had been facing closure but a deal was announced this week to provide funding – reportedly in the region of £400,000 – giving the body a reprieve.”
French Mayor Bans Oscar-Nominated Anti-Jihadist Muslim Film
“While Charlie Hebdo returned to Parisian newsstands with a defiant image of a contrite Mohammad emblazoned on its cover, Timbuktu, a much-praised, Oscar-nominated movie by the internationally known Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, was unceremoniously yanked out of a theater in the Paris suburb Villiers-sur-Marne.”
The Polish Author And Filmmaker Who Illuminated The 20th Century Journey Of Disillusionment
“Often experimental in structure, mixing diary entries with intensely lyrical passages, [Tadeusz] Konwicki’s work was not always political, though his anti-Soviet novels, published underground, are among his most esteemed works.”
Do Britain’s Film Awards Not Care About The Great Mike Leigh Because He Spurns Them?
“Bafta does not have a dazzling modern-day record in the field of independent voting. The shifting of its awards ceremony in 2001 to pre-empt the Oscars has done nothing to diminish the impression that it will always be a feeble facsimile of its US counterpart. The difference now is that, rather than mimicking the Oscar nominations, the Baftas mostly second-guess them.”
Henning Mankell, Author Of The Wallender Books, On The Horrors Of Having Cancer
“When I got the diagnosis in January of 2014, it was a catastrophe for me. Everything that was normal to me up to that point was gone all of a sudden. No one had died of cancer in my family. I had always assumed I’d die of something else.”
Does The Academy Give Nominations And Awards As ‘Make-up’ Oscars?
“That’s what happened in 1960, she adds, to a certain violet-eyed 28-year-old, Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor went unrewarded by the Academy for National Velvet, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer. She won for Butterfield 8, a movie she herself called a stinker.”
Yes, Yes, Read The Book Before You See The (Oscar-Nominated) Movie
“Long before Hollywood became obsessed with superheroes, the studios looked to the publishing world for content and inspiration.”
The World Of (No) Money Kills Off A Socially Responsible Architecture Firm
“Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit design group that sought to repair the world with socially conscious construction in places like Kosovo, Haiti and hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, has abruptly closed its San Francisco headquarters and plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.”
Without A Big Budget Picture Among The Nominees, The Oscars Are Sunk For Viewership
“‘When the audience has skin in the game, and they have a movie to root for that they’ve actually seen, certainly it makes for a more compelling viewing experiencing,’ said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for entertainment data firm Rentrak.”