“Twickenham Film Studios, which have been used for films as diverse as Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and current Oscars hopeful My Week with Marilyn, are to be closed just one year ahead of the facility’s centennial anniversary.”
Tag: 02.21.12
The Trouble At/With English National Ballet
Judith Mackrell, commenting on Wayne Eagling’s sudden resignation as artistic director: “ENB has always had a tricky position to maintain within the UK’s dance culture: funded at a much lower level than the Royal Ballet, for example, and with a remit to tour widely, it has very little leeway for risk-taking.”
Munch’s Scream Could Sell For $80M At Auction
“Sotheby’s will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s haunting work The Scream at an auction in New York on May 2 where it expects to fetch over $80 million, the highest pre-sale value the auctioneer has ever put on a work of art.”
Monica Mason Looks Back At 54 Years With Royal Ballet
The retiring director of British dance’s flagship company remember highlights of her long career.
Ai Weiwei Documentary To Hit Theaters This Summer
“Alison Klayman’s documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, an award-winning chronicle of that provocative Chinese artist who was detained by his country’s government for three months last year, has been acquired for North American distribution by Sundance Selects and will receive a theatrical release this summer.”
Colorblind “Oklahoma” Casting Has Seattle Audiences Uncomfortable
“This production has some audience members squirming in their seats. Not only are they struggling with their memories of, and expectations for the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, they’re seeing on stage one of the ugliest stereotypes in our history: an imposing black man ravaging a petite white woman.”