Co-adapter and -director Robert Icke: “[Orwell] thought that we would be reporting on ourselves, which is now obviously very true with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the fact that our phones now know exactly where we are … We are all completely self-reporting, which prompted us to switch round the words ‘Big Brother is watching you’ into ‘Big Brother is you watching’, which we’ve incorporated into our script.”
Tag: 05.07.14
A ‘Baffling’ And ‘Dour’ Turner Prize Shortlist
Adrian Searle surveys “a Turner shortlist that’s intent on being more serious – or at least more difficult and demanding than usual. Apart from the work of Phillips, there are few concessions here to visual pleasure or the easy headlines the prize often attracts.”
Why Atom Egoyan Is So Frustrated Over His West Memphis Three Film
Critics have suggested that, with three or four documentaries on the case already out there, Devil’s Knot didn’t need to be made. Says Egoyan, “Journalists forget people haven’t seen the documentaries and don’t need the documentaries. … For people who don’t know the case, it’s a powerful experience. And it’s a huge risk dramatically, using a huge number of genres to tell the story – murder mystery, courtroom drama, procedural … It’s all over the map.”
No One Ever Directs Ellen Burstyn
“Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do. As a matter of fact, when I was doing Law & Order: Special Victims Unit … the director came up and he gave me a direction. … But as he walked away, he said, ‘You don’t mind me saying that to you, do you?’ And I said, ‘Mind? It’s the first piece of direction I’ve gotten in ten years! I love it!'”
Is This The Future Of Ballet Photography?
Ingrid Brugge spent a two-season residency with the Royal Danish Ballet creating collages and manipulated images. “These have been collected within Bugge’s print book The Essence of Ballet. But they’ve been given an alternative life in a complementary interactive ibook in which Bugge both records and re-enacts aspects of her working process.”
Poisoned Gift? Cornelius Gurlitt Leaves Entire Art Hoard To Swiss Museum
The Bern Art Museum’s director says he’s thrilled but mystified by the gift, since Gurlitt, a reclusive Munich resident, had no connection at all to the museum or city. The collection, estimated to be worth roughly $1 billion, includes many works thought to have been looted from Jewish owners during World War II, so sorting out ownership issues will be long and messy.
New Hollywood Production Company Plans Films Based On Hard-Hitting Journalism
“An Oscar-winning screenwriter, a billionaire film financier and a well-known magazine editor have come together to form a movie and television company built on a journalism foundation.”
Opera San Jose’s Founder/Director Retires After Three Decades
“Now 88 years old, sharp as a tack and still the motivating force behind Opera San Jose, which she founded 30 years ago, [Irene] Dalis … is retiring. On June 30, she will let go of ‘my baby,’ … ceding her position as general director to Larry Hancock, her hand-groomed successor.”
Going To A Play Feels As Good As Getting A Raise (Says Study)
“People who attend plays have a level of wellbeing equivalent to the amount of happiness derived from a £1,000 annual income increase, new research on the social impacts of culture has found.”
The Importance Of Staging Noël Coward
“Michael Blakemore, aged 85, is directing Angela Lansbury in … Blithe Spirit in the West End. Meanwhile the director Blanche McIntyre, 33, is staging Coward’s Tonight at 8.30, a series of nine one-act plays, on tour. Here, they swap ideas about his plays and his politics.”