The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969). "British erotica" has long been considered an oxymoron, and this distinction is not entirely unfounded. While European auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard, Tinto Brass, Walerian Borowczyk, and Luis Buñuel were treating copulation as a springboard to philosophical ruminations, the British were paying to see Barbara W...
Enda O’Doherty writes: Ronald Blythe, who died on January 14th aged one hundred, was best known for Akenfield, his study, published in 1969, of the life, over three generations, of an English village. Akenfield became an instant classic and was made into a film by Sir Peter Hall. The place Akenfield did not actually exist but seems to have been largely based on the village of Charsfield in Essex, near where Blythe was brought up and where he carried out most of his research, listening to the ...
The season is upon us, which means you’ll likely be gathering with family members and friends to share a holiday meal, but that can also mean sharing some dubious claim someone has seen on the internet. So we’d like to offer you a couple of tactics to use over the holidays to counter those claims you might face from your wacky relatives or friends — and to keep the peace. Moon landing Let’s start with a conspiracy theory that is very common. Ever since NASA sent men to the ...
The Lost Tapes Of Orson Welles The Lost Tapes Of Orson Welles was broadcast on the BBC World Service on 30th November, as part of the series The Documentary. It will be repeated tomorrow, and it was first broadcast in two episodes on Radio 4 last year (episode one on 19th December, and episode two on 26th December).The programme was presented by Christopher Frayling (author of numerous books, including The 2001 File, Ken Adam Designs The Movies, Ken Adam & The Art Of Production Design, Spag...
Ectropy (idea) See all of Ectropy, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 2 ( +8 / -6 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri Jan 09 2004 at 10:09:54 While discussing the coaction cardioid,in 1969, Willard Van Orman Quine coined the word ectropy. He reasoned that since entropy is Greek for turning in, the opposite term, turning out, in Greek would be ectropy. Ectropy also refers to the general increase in organization, or making order from chaos. It also lead to the coining ...