The awards season gets under full swing with Danny Boyle’s opening for the Olympics going up against the 37-plays-in-37-languages extravaganza of the Globe to Globe Festival.
Tag: 12.07.12
When Manhattan Had A Powerhouse Film Studio
How Buster Keaton got into the movies while walking on Broadway (yes, literally).
Niemeyer’s Brasilia: Beautiful, But What About Functional?
“The problem is that it’s not a city. It’s that simple. The issue is not whether it’s a good city or a bad city. It’s just not a city. It doesn’t have the ingredients of a city: messy streets, people living above shops, and offices nearby.”
Theatre Director To Culture Minister: Take Some Time To Engage With The Arts
Donmar Warehouse director Josie Rourke “said ten years of investment in the arts under the previous government had ‘provided the most unbelievable infrastructure,’ and expressed concern that the coalition ‘might be at the point of endangering that.'”
Let’s Make A Return To Old-Fashioned Filmmaking
“The things that set out to dazzle me merely fry my mind.”
Why The CBC Should Get Out Of The Ad Business
“Canada’s broadcasters are masters at marketing. Imagine what they could do – for themselves, for the CBC, and for a free market – if they got behind the cause of a public broadcaster that is truly publicly funded.”
TED’s Secret Sauce
“Why do audiences need TEDx when they have TED.com? That is, at a time when we can get the best of everything remotely, what’s the point of having in-person events?”
La Scala Slammed For Choosing Wagner Over Verdi
“The theatre’s decision to opt for Wagner, whose pounding operas were the soundtrack for German unification, over Verdi, whose uplifting works inspired Italy’s own Risorgimento, comes as Italians feel the bite of austerity policies they see as dictated by Berlin, a humiliation lightened only by Italy’s beating of Germany in the European championships this summer.”
Could Glasgow’s Multi-Tiered Gallery System Be A Model?
“Just as the self-supporting system has become a model for structuring artistic activity within the city, Glasgow can become a model for creative communities elsewhere.”
Kanzaburo Nakamura XVIII, Kabuki Legend, Dead At 57
“Mr. Kanzaburo’s career spanned five decades; his first performance was in 1959 at age 3, in the shadow of his father … [He] initially immersed himself in the classics before forging his own path. In 1994, he collaborated with the contemporary theater director Kazuyoshi Kushida to bring Kabuki performances to sites frequented more by Tokyo’s sneaker-wearing hipsters than by the theatergoing elite.”