“Hitchcock remembered that his early work had taught him to ‘change the way audiences read an action or an expression by changing the intertitle’.” Anna Aslanyan explains how that concept reached an apotheosis in the Soviet release of the 1922 British silent Three Live Ghosts.
Tag: 05.18.16
Will Virtual Reality Technology Change Our Perceptions Of What’s Real?
“Along with transforming everyday life, a VR revolution could fundamentally change how we understand and define what is real.”
Writers Will Steal Your Life And Use It For Their Books
“I was nonplussed by this awful reaction. I had borrowed certain traits, gestures, tricks of speech and various mannerisms from members of the family, but had fixed them on to characters with very different careers and past lives.”
Choosing The Right New Ballet – And The Right Title
“People don’t know that it’s a ballet, but you can imagine it – because it’s all dark passion, love and landscape – that it sounds really interesting.”
National Theatre Sneakily Does Away With Plus Ones For Reviewers
“On a press relations level, the move smacked of sour grapes – a retaliatory swipe at Fleet Street for not cooing over every offering in Rufus Norris’s strong but hardly faultless first year. On a pecuniary level, it’s hard to see how redistributing that modest allocation to other (presumably online) outlets in the name of broadening critical diversity and bringing in new audiences stacks up.”
Why Lindy West Feeds The Trolls
“I don’t care about ‘feed the trolls’ versus ‘don’t feed the trolls.’ I care about me, and what makes me feel better. And sometimes what makes me feel better is just making fun of some jackass. … And it’s important to me that these people know that harassing me online is not a consequence-free hobby.”
The Filmmaker Who Casts Only Cardboard Actors
“[Guy] Brunet makes his own actors and builds his film sets from found cardboard boxes that he cuts and paints. He paints film posters on old architectural plans and other large paper scraps that he tapes together. He also writes his own screenplays, lends his voice to all the characters in his movies, and even draws the DVD covers for his films.”
‘It’s Cheap Words I Hate, And I Hate Adverbs’
Christian Lorentzen: “Let’s begin with the big problem. The adverb is an incoherent lexical category, a catchall. How are ‘there,’ ‘yesterday,’ ‘quite,’ ‘assiduously,’ and ‘indeed’ all members of the same family?”
Itzhak Perlman Cancels A North Carolina Appearance Because Of The State’s New Bigotry Laws
“It is discriminatory — and it’s not just about bathrooms. It’s about dignity, like [U.S. Attorney General] Loretta Lynch said. I’ve been an advocate of equality for the disabled, and this is just another situation in which this is the subject. We are dealing with the equality and dignity of citizens.”
They’ve Found A Prop From The Original Production Of ‘Romeo And Juliet’
“Archaeologists excavating the playhouse where Romeo and Juliet was first staged have found artefacts that could have been used during the iconic play’s original production.”