The early nomination date, Jan. 10, “may help with another perennial Oscar problem, the sense that few viewers at home have seen the top films. Most studios depend on a nomination ‘bounce’ to help their roll-out to theaters, so art houses and indie cinemas, and even multiplexes, across the country may have a plethora of options earlier than usual.”
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Michiko Kakutani Writes Review In Verse
“Did you think it was funny? Did you think that we just wouldn’t notice it if it ran the Tuesday before Thanksgiving? When we were out of town, or rushing to get ready for the holiday weekend? Do you know that almost worked?”
What Your E-book Reader Knows About You
“Did they read the whole book, or lose interest after a few pages? Did they skip certain chapters? Did they highlight and revisit favourite passages? Now the makers of the Kobo, Kindle and Nook are collecting hard data about exactly how their customers read.”
Italy Struggles To Save Earthquake-Damaged Art
“Ever since May, the race has been on to retrieve thousands of delicate artworks from damaged buildings before the rains and frosts of winter destroy them forever.”
Will Canada’s Contemporary Artists Finally Get Respect?
“In Canada it seems you have be one very dead white guy buried, preferably, under a huge mound of snow or crimson maple leaves to receive that sort of approbation.”
Dutch Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award
“The Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, 42, has won the University of Louisville’s 2013 Grawemeyer Award for music composition in recognition of his work “Up-close” for cello, string ensemble, electronic soundtrack and film.”
British Award Winners Speak Out Against Funding Cuts
Nicholas Hytner: “For the length of my directorship of the National, it has been by and large properly funded. I know that a lot of other London theatres don’t have it so good and theatres outside London have it even worse. Now we are being told to expect less funding and this is completely nuts. It makes no economic sense whatsoever.”
An Epiphany In The Home Of A Master
Choreographer Matthew Bourne had been avoiding Sleeping Beauty – until he got a private tour of Tchaikovsky’s house.
Ryan Murphy, TV’s Auteur Of Camp
“‘The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste,’ the playwright Joe Orton once wrote. That motto might be stitched into the silk pillowcase of the TV creator [of Glee, American Horror Story and The New Normal], whose taste is called into question nearly every week.”