As well as dispensing with red carpet photocalls, there will not be a closing night film or use of the Fountainbridge cinema multiplex. There will be more discussions and more debates, apparently, to rebrand the festival as “the brain” of the UK film industry.
Tag: 05.18.11
Philip Roth Wins International Man Booker Prize
“I hope the prize will bring me to the attention of readers around the world who are not familiar with my work. This is a great honour and I’m delighted to receive it.”
When Mahler Took New York
“It was Mahler’s freshly imagined interpretive style of orchestral performance, its special qualities of instrumental blend, dynamic nuance and rhythmic plasticity that both inspired the musicians of the Philharmonic and mesmerized New York audiences all those years ago.”
Australian Screen Stalwart Bill Hunter Gravely Ill
“The 71-year-old actor, well known for his roles in hit Australian films Muriel’s Wedding, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Strictly Ballroom, was admitted to the hospice two days ago” with late-stage cancer.
At Cannes, A Record Number Of Female Directors (Four)
“This year, for the first time, four films by women directors, worlds apart in approach and theme, are in competition for the Palme d’Or.”
Who Holds The Keys To Christo’s Next Project? Bighorn Sheep
“Nearly 20 years after the artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, proposed draping a river canyon in southern Colorado in miles of translucent fabric, a federal thumbs up or down on the project may hinge on one factor above all others: the happiness of several hundred bighorn sheep.”
The Historic Sewers Of Europe Become Tourist Attractions
“Fortunately, the classic 1949 film with Orson Welles, The Third Man, climaxes in a dramatic chase through Vienna’s sewers. Capitalizing on that, [the city] launched a Third Man Tour of the subterranean waterways. Today, it’s an underground hit. [And] Vienna isn’t alone in plumbing the depths of tourism.”