“In his own nonfiction films, Herzog wants to tell stories and he doesn’t feel beholden to fact. … Just because something is factually true, he argues, ‘it does not constitute truth per se.’ Herzog likes to respond to and collaborate with his subjects; if he bends fact – by inventing dialogue, for instance – it is to the ends of ‘truth’.”
Tag: 03.26.11
Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Of Music Teams Up With Carnegie Hall To Bring National System To US
Over its 125-year history, the Conservatory has developed one of the world’s best-organized exam-based systems for teaching music to children and adults of all ages and abilities. And it is ready to export this know-how.
Ambitious Opera Made For $1000
“OperaUpClose is now working its way through opera’s greatest hits. The supplementary titles indicate the company’s approach: each opera is re-imagined both dramatically and musically, and the results have divided critics and audiences alike. Some love the immediacy, while others find the interpretations intrusive.”
Natalie Portman’s Black Swan Body Double: It Was Me, Not Her
“Of the full body shots, I would say 5 percent are Natalie… I mean, from a professional dancer’s standpoint, she doesn’t look like a professional ballet dancer at all and she can’t dance in pointe shoes. And she can’t move her body; she’s very stiff.”
Black Swan Producers Deny Body Double Claims
“We were fortunate to have Sarah there to cover the more complicated dance sequences and we have nothing but praise for the hard work she did. However, Natalie herself did most of the dancing featured in the final film.”
Blockbuster Video To Close 186 Stores
“As it heads toward the auction block in early April to end its troubled bankruptcy process, Blockbuster Inc. is shuttering 186 stores.”
Tim Waterstone Makes A Run At The Bookstore Chain He Started
“Tim Waterstone is working with Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut on a bid for Waterstone’s and would take a senior role at the book chain that bears his name if they were to win control.”
The Human-Filtered Web
“The good news is that we’re curating all the time, whether we realize it or not. Every time we post a video, like a link or comment on a blog post, we are making editorial decisions and curating. In the coming years, the major change in curation will be in how the skill is packaged and sold. And any of us can sell it.”
Compulsive Collector Opens Private Museum In France
“Christian Levett, the 41-year-old son of an Essex bookmaker, is to throw open the doors of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art next month for visitors to admire approximately 700 works spanning 5,000 years that he has acquired over the past seven years.”
Professor Henry Hill Goes To Tennessee? (Theme Park Edition)
Dennis Peterson came to a town near Nashville with plans to build a $750 million theme park. Local officials eagerly signed on. And yet, there are big warning signs…