Humiliation. In a Q&A, the filmmaker, up for what could be his second Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar (though he won’t be at the ceremony), talks about the painful dynamic between the couple at the center of the story.
Tag: 02.08.17
Hollywood Organizes For Political Action
United Talent Agency (UTA) on Wednesday canceled its annual Oscars party and said it will instead hold a rally in Beverly Hills two days before the Feb. 26 Oscar ceremony to protest “anti-immigrant sentiment” in the United States. “If our nation ceases to be the place where artists the world over can come to express themselves freely, then we cease, in my opinion, to be America,” UTA chief executive Jeremy Zimmer said in a statement.
What Would The Subjects Of Oscar-Nominated Documentaries Say If They Got Up On That Stage?
“Five of the 10 feature-length and short documentaries nominated for Oscars are directly or indirectly about refugees. … Several of the documentarians wanted to bring their subjects to the Oscar ceremony, but plans were upended by President Trump’s [travel ban].” So the Times‘s Carpetbagger asked what they’d say if they got the chance.
U.S. Universities Must Fight To Defend Immigrants, Science, And Actual Facts, Writes Leon Botstein
The conductor and president of Bard College, himself an immigrant, in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Not since the era of witch hunts and ‘red baiting’ has the American university faced so great a threat from government. … What, then, are we, the leaders of our institutions of higher education, to do when faced with a president who denies facts, who denies science?”
Where Did The Alt-Right Come From? Italian Futurism
Jay Griffiths lays out how the ideas and propaganda techniques of the early-20th-century movement can be heard and seen in the words and actions of Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nigel Farage, and Donald Trump. (Her thorough conflation of libertarianism with the alt-right and fascism is less convincing.)
Oprah Sells A Klimt For $150 Million
While the painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, was hanging at MoMA last year (she lent it anonymously in 2014), David Geffen approached her to say that Larry Gagosian had a buyer lined up. (Gossip!) And she made quite a profit.
How Iván Fischer And His Orchestra Triumphed Over The Travel Ban
The conductor’s current tour with his Budapest Festival Orchestra hit a big snag just before it started: one of the cellists has dual citizenship in Hungary and Iraq and was initially denied entry to the U.S. Then Fischer sprang into action.
Sotheby’s Sues Dealer Over Fake Frans Hals
Last year the auction house discovered that the Portrait of a Gentleman that it had sold to a collector in 2011 was a forgery – and it reimbursed that collector. So Sotheby’s is taking dealer Mark Weiss to court to get its money back.
Bolshoi Ballet Has ‘Recovered’ From The Acid Attack And The Ugliness That Followed
Historian Simon Morrison (Bolshoi Confidential) talks with Here & Now‘s Robin Young about how turmoil has abounded at the theater for all of its 241 years, and how the ballet company has stabilized following the horrific attack on former ballet artistic director Sergei Filin (and after Filin’s subsequent involuntary departure from the company). (audio)
Henry-Louis De La Grange, 92, Dean Of Mahler Scholars
His four-volume, 3,600-page biography of Mahler made him the world’s pre-eminent expert on the composer. His collaboration in countless concerts, festivals, exhibitions, and documentaries played a huge part in establishing Mahler’s place in the modern concert repertoire.