“Adapted from a posthumously published EM Forster novel that is likewise overshadowed in reputation by other works in his canon – like, well, Howards End and A Room With a View – Merchant Ivory’s film opened hot on the heels of their broadly beloved, Oscar-garlanded adaptation of the latter. Almost immediately, it was filed away as, if not a disappointment, a lesser diversion.” But now, in the post-Brokeback, post-Moonlightera and with a new high-def restoration, Guy Lodge argues that the time for this soft-spoken romance may finally have arrived.
Tag: 05.19.17
Merchant And Ivory’s Own 45-Year Love Story
As James Ivory, now 89 and still traveling and writing, tells Sarah Larson, “[Ismail] was my life’s partner. From the beginning right on down to his final day. I lived openly with him for forty-five years, in New York and wherever else we were. That says what it says.”
Mass MoCA Is Using Its Big, New Expansion For Big, New, Long-Term Projects
“Building 6, is a three-story, 130,000 sq. ft. structure now outfitted with long-term shows and installations by five artists. They include a 15-year installation by Jenny Holzer, whose art will be projected on the building and surrounding landscape, and a 25-year James Turrell retrospective with nine of the artist’s light works.”
How Much Control Should Artist Estates Have Over Their Work?
“It’s legal. But is it ethical? Is it fair that contemporary directors should be chained by the views of a writer who died a year ago, especially if those views demand active and explicit racial discrimination?”
Why It’s So Difficult For Humans To Live In The Moment
“What best distinguishes our species is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate the future. Our singular foresight created civilization and sustains society. It usually lifts our spirits, but it’s also the source of most depression and anxiety, whether we’re evaluating our own lives or worrying about the nation. Other animals have springtime rituals for educating the young, but only we subject them to ‘commencement’ speeches grandly informing them that today is the first day of the rest of their lives.”
Director Peter Brook At 92: The Meaning Of Theatre
Although Brook has the aura of a sage, he rejects the kind of theater in which artists condescend to their audience by assuming superior knowledge. Such “pretension” offends him. It’s the problem he has with Brecht, whose “tremendous scenic talent” has been eclipsed by his theoretical writings. As for the influence of Artaud, Brook classified him with the modernist English theater artist Edward Gordon Craig “as visionaries who gave their life to try to say what meaningful theater could be,” even if they weren’t able to achieve it themselves in performance.
The Houston Symphony Lays Off Three People In Administration
In addition, there was a “restructuring,” but it didn’t affect any musicians.
What Will Happen Now To Canada’s Premiere English-Language Magazine, The Walrus?
It’s a big question, especially because “The magazine’s high-profile editor-in-chief, Jonathan Kay – under social-media fire after coming to the defence of another magazine editor who had lost his job over an editorial advocating cultural appropriation – resigned .”
Imagine What Will Happen When Your Car Gets Hacked
Uh oh. “We’re going to see ransomware against our cars. Our digital video recorders and web cameras will be taken over by botnets. The data that these devices collect about us will be stolen and used to commit fraud. And we’re not going to be able to secure these devices.”
Stephen Fry Says Theatre Needs To Understand Actors’ Mental Health Is As Important As Their Physical Health
Fry, who left a production in 1995 to figure out his own mental health, said, “Swings and dance captains are there in order, every single day, to work out if there’s an injury who will be replacing who in the chorus, who is coming in to double for this part and so on. The day may come when someone says: ‘I’ve broken my ankle’, and [someone else says]: ‘I’ve got the day off because I have had a depressive episode’, and it will sound the same.”