The whole thing started with a film club in 2002. But then, “Cinespia has sold out each of its screenings, with thousands of attendees per its 25 screenings a season over the last several years. ‘The experience of watching a classic film with 4,000 people heightens the experience, it’s something you cannot get in front of your computer at home alone.'”
Tag: 08.11.17
‘Dunkirk’ Was Great And All, But We Seriously Need To Fix The Gender Representation Gap
A recent Annenberg study was pretty depressing in terms of representation for people of color, and even white women, in Hollywood. But “how do you persuade the dream factory to dream a lot bigger than the lives of white men in the United States and Britain? The Annenberg study favours industry targets and movie contracts in which top talent would demand on-set equity from the studio bosses. Maybe this shaming will have some effect. … Giving female screenwriters and non-white screenwriters more chances seems more likely to produce a wider range of stories and different approaches to storytelling.”
This Is How Scandinavian Crime Fiction Took Over The World
In Sweden in 1998, “among the ten bestselling books of the month was not even a single Swedish crime novel. There were historical novels, chick lit, contemporary novels, satire. And just two crime novels of any description: one British, one American. That’s how the literary scene looked just 20 years ago! … The Swedish crime novel — the Scandinavian crime novel — was stuck in a rut of whodunnits, essentially the same thing written over and over again.” Then things changed.
An Orchestra Runs Out Of Money In Pennsylvania
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic plans to play one final concert, in October, and then shut down. “The orchestra ended last season with a $235,000 deficit. Officials say the executive director, the music director and the office staff have gone months without a paycheck.”
Pianist Vikingur Olafson On Why Philip Glass Is Important, And How To Play His Music
“He treats Mr. Glass’s music like a sculpture, worth studying from all angles in search of new interpretations and surprises. ‘I came to the conclusion that it’s not a repetition,’ Mr. Olafsson said of Mr. Glass’s music. ‘It’s a rebirth. It’s not treading the same path, but traveling in a spiral. That’s the image I have.'”
It’s The 50th Anniversary Of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ – And *That* Pauline Kael Essay
This is how film criticism changed forever: Kael “was on her way out the door at TNR when she penned a lengthy (roughly seven thousand words) essay on Bonnie and Clyde, which the magazine politely declined. Too long, they told her. Her agent, Robert Mills, reached out to William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker; they had published a more free-form Kael essay, “Movies on Television,” earlier that summer. Maybe he’d like to take a look?”
As Barbara Cook Lay Dying, Singers And Other Musicians Came To Her Bedside To Sing Her Home
The list of performers who came to sing Sondheim and so much more is long, and those who couldn’t be there in person sent audio and video songs as well. “In at least one moment, Ms. Cook seemed to signal that she was hearing them, according to [singer Jessica] Molaskey. ‘We started singing and she lifted her finger up to her mouth. … She tapped her lips twice and I thought she was singing with us.'”
What Happened This Summer Is An Actual Hollywood Horror Moment
Aside from Wonder Woman and a few others, this was the entire summer for Hollywood: “Now the chickens of failure have come home to roost.”
University of Arizona’s De Kooning, Stolen 31 Years Ago, Is Recovered After An Estate Sale
A man who buys art in estate sales snagged the entire contents of a house – and that happened to include the “Woman-Ochre,” stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in the 1980s. He was going to hang it in his own house until people in his shop noticed it was a de Kooning – and a Google search led him to the truth.
Phillip Kennicott: Unique Louis Kahn Concert Hall barge Belongs In DC
“The boat belongs in Washington, a city both blessed and socially determined by its rivers. The nation’s capital was founded at the confluence of the Potomac and the Anacostia, near the ports of Georgetown and Alexandria, and is home to the country’s oldest naval base. At times, the city has embraced its river setting, most significantly in 1901 when the McMillan Plan created the Mall, new parks along the waterfront and Memorial Bridge, which created a symbolic (though often illusory) post-Civil War rapprochement between the North and the South by joining the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington Cemetery.”