Guillermo del Toro - Pinocchio - Imbues story with historical darkness

Of the numerous films Federico Fellini was unable to make in his lifetime, his version of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio is perhaps the one he most lamented. Characteristically nonconformist as a kid, Fellini disliked books, which he associated with adults and school, and "school did not seem to be something that opened up the world," he said in I, Fellini, "but something that closed it, something that interfered with my freedom and imprisoned me for the longest and be...

Wrangling the Western Metaphor: Charles Belden’s Wyoming Imagery

Reaching the Pitchfork Ranch in the 1920s wasn’t easy. In fact, it was arduous. Imagine yourself on the trek. After transferring at the Billings, Montana, branch line to the end of the rails in Cody, Wyoming, a light horse-drawn stage drives you over rutted dirt roads to Meeteetse, a little town some forty miles to the southeast. The delights of Meeteetse entail a hotel room shared with two to three other guests, a barber shop with a wood burning stove boiling hot water for the town’s only pu...

Contemporary English Homers - Homer in Print - The University of Chicago Library

Contemporary English Homers During the second half of the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first, poets, classicists, and others have produced an astounding number of distinguished English translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This may be surprising at first, since the study of Greek and of the Homeric te...

Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76 22

The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...

Ignasi Ribó's “Prose Fiction” published in Persian - Tehran Times

TEHRAN – "Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative" by Catalan writer Ignasi Ribó has been published in Persian. Siahrud is the publisher of the book translated by Vafa Miah. This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analyz...

Mirror-less camera (thing) by The Debutante - Everything2.com

Mirror-less camera (thing) See all of Mirror-less camera, no other writeups in this node. There are lots of different types of camera out there, from pinholes that you can make yourself using a cardboard box, to large format cameras that use one sheet of film per exposure, via instamatics and 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. Recently, however, there has been a trend towards 'mirror-less cameras'. They are commonly seen as a bridge between compact cameras and SLRs, but there's a b...

Found footage at the receding of the world

Of the various developments following the recent and ongoing reassessments of Stanley Cavell’s writing on film, one of the most important has been some scholars’ proposal of a greater rapprochement between Cavell’s thought and experimental or non-narrative cinema. Increasingly such scholars are recognizing that despite Cavell’s seeming disavowal of experimental film, the implications his writing bears for it are substantial.11 So far, however, there has been no explicit accounting of Cavell’s...

Also starring a telephone as The Telephone

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Also starring a telephone as "The Telephone" (idea) See all of Also starring a telephone as "The Telephone", no other writeups in this node. (idea) by RalphyK Thu Oct 10 2002 at 22:13:54 You know it when you see it. It's a classic device to increase tension in a movie. The hero goes to see a friendly person who might have information for him. After much questioning, the friendly person denies knowing anything, so eventually the...

music of trees: the intergenerative tie between primary care and public health

The music of trees: the intergenerative tie between primary care and public healthclose- 2010 - u22Just a Girlu22: The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995-2007BookmarkFull text linkFind related documentsAbstractFound in the most recent group of cult heroines on television, community-centered cult heroines share two key characteristics. The first is their youth and the related coming-of-age narratives that result. The second is their emphasis on communal heroic action that challen...

Mars Blackmon (person) by Billy - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Mars Blackmon (person) See all of Mars Blackmon, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Billy Sun Apr 20 2003 at 18:44:06 Spike Lee character from Lee's 1986 film She's Gotta Have It, but more known for a series of Nike commercials with Michael Jordan in the late '80s and early '90s. In the movie, Blackmon is one of the three men battling for the attention of Nola Darling. Blackmon is a bike messenger from Brooklyn who talks...

Arien Wilkerson - new installation on climate change seeks out universal human core

The lights inside the performance installation EQUATORS are spare. Much of the gallery space remains pitch black. To follow the action, the eye has to look for the dancer’s body through the darkness.Arien Wilkerson, founder/director of the cross-disciplinary performance company Tnmot Aztro and the sole dancer in EQUATORS, noted that the lights in their show stay set in place, never changing position."You don’t move the sun. The sun is where it is, and you move into light," Wilkerson said. "I ...

Best sci-fi movies based on books - Space.com

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but these pictures owe their existence to some of the finest sci-fi novels out there. These are the best sci-fi movies based on books. It's easy to see why Hollywood loves turning books into movies - you get an established story, characters, and fanbase.  That fanbase can be a double edged sword though if your adaptation fails to live up to expectations. That wasn't a concern for the movies below though, which more or less smashed it out o...

K as symbol for baseball strikeout - and O as a richly layered historical letter

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The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...

Act of Smelling- The - Camphor and Petrichor

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A History Of Kung Fu Movies Part 2: The Shaw Brothers | 25YL

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To Thine Own Self Be True: Your Favorite Shakespeare Adaptions

As the summer comes to a close, one of the season’s annual recurring traditions (at least for many open-aired amphitheaters across the United States) concludes with it: Shakespeare in the Park. For many decades, the plays of William Shakespeare have been performed for audiences in outdoor venues, often free-of-charge, hoping to inspire the next generation of Bard-obsessed aficionados. Not to be outdone, the silver screen has also produced a vast, memorable group of productions honoring the...

Look who's back: 3-meter-tall monolith reappears in Diyarbakır | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

A three-meter-tall (9.8-foot-tall) mysterious metal monolith reappeared in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakır province, just a few months after it was discovered in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa province for the first time and was later revealed to be part of the unveiling of the country's National Space Program. The metal slab has words carved on it in the Göktürk alphabet, the Old Turkic script, with the words "Look at the sky if you want to see the Moon." The monolith, which was placed near...

He’s All That - Review

Watch He’s All That with the theme in mind of the mirror or twin storyworld is intermedial or self-referential maybe; and whatever the implications are for gender transpositions, consider those too Page C8

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

It is strange to have as my subject freedom to write coming from an island which, for a quarter of its modern history, was a slave society. Though there were major differences, the literature of the era abounds with comparisons between the convict society of Van Diemen’s Land and the slave societies of the Americas. My forebears were transported as convicts from Ireland, frequently in the same ships and similar conditions to those which had transported Africans into American slavery, now p...

Once upon a time in Hollywood, again: Tarantino revises his fairy tale

Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood (2019).I guess what I’m always trying to do is use the structures that I see in novels and apply them to cinema.–Quentin TarantinoDB here:Tarantino has often embraced print-based texts that revise or complement his films. He’s shared screenplays that differ sharply from the finished product, and written graphic novels derived from Django Unchained. Now he’s gone farther. He’s published a novelization that playfully modifies the  film’s title: Once Upon a Ti...

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Novel in Progress - Poem

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Duos 19 – Adverts for Actual Hats

The poems are taken from a series, Adverts for Actual Hats, in which William Repass and Dan Ivec observed a number of Ivec's illustrations - all featuring a hat of some sort - and dreamed together prose poems which act as deranged commercials for the hats seen in the drawings. If the reader is understandably covetous of such headgear, they may direct queries via Instagram: @venial_usa. In the 19th of the Duos series, new poetry by Dan Ivec and William Repass. The post Duos #19 – Advert...

Aimé Césaire (person) by Gethsemane - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Aimé Césaire (person) See all of Aimé Césaire, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Gethsemane Thu Aug 31 2000 at 9:05:01 "Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge." Aimé Césaire (b. 1913 in Martinique) is amongst the foremost poets of the Caribbean. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he was a progenitor, with Léon Gontran-Damas and Léopold Senghor, of the notion of Négri...