At the closing ceremony of the 3rd edition of the Red Sea Film Festival Thursday, which took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in front of an audience that included Hollywood stars Nicolas Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Jason Statham and Adrien Brody, the Golden Yusr for best film and a $100,000 cash prize went to Pakistani-Canadian horror film “In Flames,” directed by Zarrar Kahn.
The director said that the indie movie was shot for “just $300,000 — the size of a Red Sea Fund production grant.” He urged “everyone who gets a grant to go make a movie, because this was made for nothing.”
The Silver Yusr prize for best feature film went to Tarsem Singh for “Dear Jassi.” The film, an India/Canada/U.S. co-production, is based on the true story of a Canadian Punjabi woman who ran afoul of her family’s expectations when she chose to marry a working-class...
The director said that the indie movie was shot for “just $300,000 — the size of a Red Sea Fund production grant.” He urged “everyone who gets a grant to go make a movie, because this was made for nothing.”
The Silver Yusr prize for best feature film went to Tarsem Singh for “Dear Jassi.” The film, an India/Canada/U.S. co-production, is based on the true story of a Canadian Punjabi woman who ran afoul of her family’s expectations when she chose to marry a working-class...
- 12/7/2023
- by Nick Holdsworth
- Variety Film + TV
By the mid-1960s, every Beatle but Paul McCartney had gotten married. They moved to estates in the suburbs of London and commuted into the city when they needed to work. While McCartney was in a long-term relationship, he hadn’t yet taken the next step. His relationship status, coupled with the fact that he still lived in the city, made McCartney feel much hipper than his bandmates.
Paul McCartney felt he was hipper than his Beatles bandmates
John Lennon was the first Beatle to get married in 1962. Ringo Starr came next in 1965, followed closely by George Harrison in 1966. While Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, did not have children, both Lennon and Starr did. McCartney, though, had yet to tie the knot. He was in a long-term relationship with Jane Asher, and while he proposed, they ended their engagement in 1968.
The Beatles | Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images
McCartney also...
Paul McCartney felt he was hipper than his Beatles bandmates
John Lennon was the first Beatle to get married in 1962. Ringo Starr came next in 1965, followed closely by George Harrison in 1966. While Harrison and his first wife, Pattie Boyd, did not have children, both Lennon and Starr did. McCartney, though, had yet to tie the knot. He was in a long-term relationship with Jane Asher, and while he proposed, they ended their engagement in 1968.
The Beatles | Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images
McCartney also...
- 6/18/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
By the mid-1960s, The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, were four of the most famous people in the world. Their fans showed unprecedented dedication to the group; the band members could hardly go out in public without being swarmed. They had an incredible amount of influence, and Starr wished they had used it to spark positive change.
Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney | Harry Hammond/V&a Images/Getty Images Ringo Starr wondered if The Beatles could have made a positive change with their power
McCartney admitted that The Beatles were not particularly politically aware in their early days as a band. He claims he politicized the group after a conversation with Bertrand Russell. After this, he said the band became vocal in their stance against the Vietnam War. They also voiced their support of the civil rights movement, refusing to play for segregated audiences.
Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney | Harry Hammond/V&a Images/Getty Images Ringo Starr wondered if The Beatles could have made a positive change with their power
McCartney admitted that The Beatles were not particularly politically aware in their early days as a band. He claims he politicized the group after a conversation with Bertrand Russell. After this, he said the band became vocal in their stance against the Vietnam War. They also voiced their support of the civil rights movement, refusing to play for segregated audiences.
- 5/4/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
John Lennon’s antiwar activism in his solo career caused people to see him as the most political member of The Beatles, but Paul McCartney said this was not the case. While Lennon might have been the most outspoken about politics in his solo career, McCartney claimed that he was the one to introduce political messages to the band. He explained that he felt more politically motivated after a conversation with Bertrand Russell.
Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon | Central Press/Getty Images Paul McCartney said he brought political messaging to The Beatles
The Vietnam War raged as The Beatles rose to success, but McCartney said they didn’t pay much attention to it. This changed after he met with Russell.
“Just when we were getting to be well-known someone said to me, ‘Bertrand Russell is living not far from here in Chelsea why don’t you go and see him?...
Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon | Central Press/Getty Images Paul McCartney said he brought political messaging to The Beatles
The Vietnam War raged as The Beatles rose to success, but McCartney said they didn’t pay much attention to it. This changed after he met with Russell.
“Just when we were getting to be well-known someone said to me, ‘Bertrand Russell is living not far from here in Chelsea why don’t you go and see him?...
- 5/1/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Tl;Dr:
Paul McCartney said Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” inspired The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.”Paul said The Beatles were “breaking boundaries [and] questioning previous values” thanks to Dylan.“Hey Jude” held a chart record until Don McLean’s “American Pie” became a hit in the United States. The Beatles | John Pratt/Keystone/Getty Images
Paul McCartney said Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” partly inspired The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude.” Notably, “Hey Jude” broke a record because of its success. Subsequently, Don McLean and Taylor Swift songs both broke the record.
Paul McCartney discussed crossing paths with Bob Dylan alongside The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones and Keith Richards
In the 2015 book Conversations with McCartney, Paul discussed crossing paths with Dylan. “I remember going to see Dylan when he was at the Mayfair Hotel,” he said. “He’d be in the back room, there’d be me, Brian Jones,...
Paul McCartney said Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” inspired The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.”Paul said The Beatles were “breaking boundaries [and] questioning previous values” thanks to Dylan.“Hey Jude” held a chart record until Don McLean’s “American Pie” became a hit in the United States. The Beatles | John Pratt/Keystone/Getty Images
Paul McCartney said Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” partly inspired The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude.” Notably, “Hey Jude” broke a record because of its success. Subsequently, Don McLean and Taylor Swift songs both broke the record.
Paul McCartney discussed crossing paths with Bob Dylan alongside The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones and Keith Richards
In the 2015 book Conversations with McCartney, Paul discussed crossing paths with Dylan. “I remember going to see Dylan when he was at the Mayfair Hotel,” he said. “He’d be in the back room, there’d be me, Brian Jones,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The content lurking beneath the telemovie sheen of this religious drama veers from the suspect to the outright hateful
Rush-released for Easter, this warped evangelist item a perturbing Us sleeper hit proceeds from a semi-credible dramatic framework in initiating a debate between a pious student (Shane Harper) and his atheist professor (erstwhile Hercules Kevin Sorbo, an unlikely proponent of Bertrand Russell). The multi-stranded content lurking beneath its sun-dappled telemovie sheen, however, veers from the suspect (see the would-be Christian beaten by her Muslim father!) to the outright hateful: by the jawdropping climax, wherein a preacher is effectively granted divine right to mow down non-believers, "doing God's work" has become indistinguishable from Grand Theft Auto. Ban this sick filth.
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Rush-released for Easter, this warped evangelist item a perturbing Us sleeper hit proceeds from a semi-credible dramatic framework in initiating a debate between a pious student (Shane Harper) and his atheist professor (erstwhile Hercules Kevin Sorbo, an unlikely proponent of Bertrand Russell). The multi-stranded content lurking beneath its sun-dappled telemovie sheen, however, veers from the suspect (see the would-be Christian beaten by her Muslim father!) to the outright hateful: by the jawdropping climax, wherein a preacher is effectively granted divine right to mow down non-believers, "doing God's work" has become indistinguishable from Grand Theft Auto. Ban this sick filth.
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- 4/17/2014
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
After years of erudite movie mob bosses and Camus-quoting killers, Woody Harrelson has singlehandedly revived the good, old-fashioned thug
In the very first scene in the harrowing new film Out of the Furnace, Woody Harrelson swings opens the car door, tumbles out of the driver's seat and pukes his guts out. He then forces his gabby consort to swallow whole what appears to be a revolting hot dog, beats senseless a well-meaning but overmatched Sir Galahad who unwisely comes to her rescue, and spends the rest of the movie doing violent, horrible things, many of which result in other people's deaths. Not once does he say anything witty or incisive or clever, much less pithy. Not once does he say anything that could be construed as ironic. Not once does he engage his Jurassic associates in lighthearted banter. No, in Out of the Furnace, Harrelson plays a good, old-fashioned thug.
In the very first scene in the harrowing new film Out of the Furnace, Woody Harrelson swings opens the car door, tumbles out of the driver's seat and pukes his guts out. He then forces his gabby consort to swallow whole what appears to be a revolting hot dog, beats senseless a well-meaning but overmatched Sir Galahad who unwisely comes to her rescue, and spends the rest of the movie doing violent, horrible things, many of which result in other people's deaths. Not once does he say anything witty or incisive or clever, much less pithy. Not once does he say anything that could be construed as ironic. Not once does he engage his Jurassic associates in lighthearted banter. No, in Out of the Furnace, Harrelson plays a good, old-fashioned thug.
- 12/27/2013
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Introducing our look at the year that defined the modern era, the veteran writer recalls the extraordinary collision of politics, culture and social upheaval that he witnessed as a student
Was it a prefigurative year? I think so. Not that one thought of it as such at the time or even a few years later, when it was totally forgotten in the turbulence that engulfed the world. I am trying to recall that year, to find deep down some memories, even a few impressions on the basis of which I could reconstruct a misted-up past without too many distortions.
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. The Cuban missile crisis had temporarily boosted...
Was it a prefigurative year? I think so. Not that one thought of it as such at the time or even a few years later, when it was totally forgotten in the turbulence that engulfed the world. I am trying to recall that year, to find deep down some memories, even a few impressions on the basis of which I could reconstruct a misted-up past without too many distortions.
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. The Cuban missile crisis had temporarily boosted...
- 5/7/2013
- by Tariq Ali
- The Guardian - Film News
“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
Bertrand Russell
Why Is It Always About You? The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism:
1. Shamelessness: Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.
2. Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.
3. Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.
4. Envy: A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person’s ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.
5. Entitlement: Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic...
Bertrand Russell
Why Is It Always About You? The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism:
1. Shamelessness: Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.
2. Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.
3. Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.
4. Envy: A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person’s ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.
5. Entitlement: Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic...
- 3/18/2013
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Chinese-born author best known for her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing
Colonial Hong Kong, a doomed love affair and the echoes of revolution in China were the explosive mixture that made the reputation of the author Han Suyin, who has died aged 95. The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
She would shock people many times again as she acted out the philosophy expounded in the film by Jennifer Jones, playing a character based on the author: "To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise." Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.
The ambiguities of her identity, as the daughter of a Chinese engineer and his Belgian wife,...
Colonial Hong Kong, a doomed love affair and the echoes of revolution in China were the explosive mixture that made the reputation of the author Han Suyin, who has died aged 95. The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
She would shock people many times again as she acted out the philosophy expounded in the film by Jennifer Jones, playing a character based on the author: "To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise." Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.
The ambiguities of her identity, as the daughter of a Chinese engineer and his Belgian wife,...
- 11/6/2012
- by John Gittings
- The Guardian - Film News
The son of a vicar (and Charles Darwin was his great-uncle), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) became one of the most popular English composers. He studied under Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry at the Royal College of Music, but also read history and music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he palled around with the philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. He also went to Germany for lessons with Max Bruch, but ultimately rejected the 19th century German Romantic style Friendships with fellow Rcm students Gustav Holst and Leopold Stokowski later bore more fruit, in different ways: Stokowski, who moved to the United States, became Rvw's biggest supporter there; Holst and Vaughan Williams critiqued each others' work and joined in the study and collection of English folk songs. "The knowledge of our folk songs did not so much discover for us something new, but uncovered something which had been hidden by foreign matter,...
- 10/12/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Gamification has the ability to re-energise the most mundane of tasks says Cathie McGinn.
One of the buzzwords that’s circling boardrooms and blogs is ‘gamification’.
It’s an acknowledgment that it’s hard to get people to care about banking or washing powder, or even emotionally potent things like films or cars.
Everything we have, we come by in a fairly undramatic way: by hard work, certainly, but generally by walking into a shop and proffering cash.
Most of us in the developed world have the luxury of boredom. When things are easy, we don’t care very deeply about them. And so we yearn for excitement.
Philosopher Bertrand Russell said: “Civilized life has altogether grown too tame and, if it is to be stable, it must provide harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.”
What better way to do that than by constructing...
One of the buzzwords that’s circling boardrooms and blogs is ‘gamification’.
It’s an acknowledgment that it’s hard to get people to care about banking or washing powder, or even emotionally potent things like films or cars.
Everything we have, we come by in a fairly undramatic way: by hard work, certainly, but generally by walking into a shop and proffering cash.
Most of us in the developed world have the luxury of boredom. When things are easy, we don’t care very deeply about them. And so we yearn for excitement.
Philosopher Bertrand Russell said: “Civilized life has altogether grown too tame and, if it is to be stable, it must provide harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.”
What better way to do that than by constructing...
- 9/13/2012
- by Zoe Ferguson
- Encore Magazine
Taking the arch writing of Gore Vidal and giving those words to James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen and Eric McCormack, is nothing short of brilliant.
In the revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," the Schoenfeld Theatre is decked out in red, white and blue bunting as the audience watches the behind-the-scenes maneuvering at a 1960 presidential convention in a Philadelphia hotel.
Though it is not said which party this is -- or if it is, it is certainly not stressed -- it does not matter. What matters is politics.
The play, which was also a 1964 movie, revolves around what could be a brokered convention. Former Secretary of State William Russell (Larroquette, a Tony winner last season for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," TV's "Night Court") is running against Sen. Joseph Cantwell (McCormack, TV's "Will & Grace"). Russell is an intellectual who quotes Bertrand Russell,...
In the revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," the Schoenfeld Theatre is decked out in red, white and blue bunting as the audience watches the behind-the-scenes maneuvering at a 1960 presidential convention in a Philadelphia hotel.
Though it is not said which party this is -- or if it is, it is certainly not stressed -- it does not matter. What matters is politics.
The play, which was also a 1964 movie, revolves around what could be a brokered convention. Former Secretary of State William Russell (Larroquette, a Tony winner last season for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," TV's "Night Court") is running against Sen. Joseph Cantwell (McCormack, TV's "Will & Grace"). Russell is an intellectual who quotes Bertrand Russell,...
- 4/10/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
"In the week where the film industry honor the six decade career of the late director Ken Russell, comes the announcement of the death of Christopher Logue," writes Rhett Bartlett. "Mr Logue wrote the screenplay for Ken Russell's sole film in 1972 — Savage Messiah," a biopic based on the life of French sculptor Henri-Gaudier Brzeska. "One year before his screenplay, Mr Logue appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 bold film — The Devils, as Cardinal Richelieu, the French clergyman who begins the film by influencing Louis Xiii to raze fortified castles and suppress feudal nobility." Bartlett also notes that Logue appeared as the "Spaghetti-eating Fanatic" in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky and "made a brief appearance in Jerzy Skolimowski's Moonlighting (1982) and 19 years later in [Charles Shyer's] The Affair of the Necklace. Christopher Logue died on 2 December 2011, five days after Ken Russell."
"'Now hear this' — the three words that Christopher Logue, who has...
"'Now hear this' — the three words that Christopher Logue, who has...
- 12/8/2011
- MUBI
'I used to pick up animals on the street and throw them as far as I could'
Billie Piper, 29, was born in Swindon. She studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. At 15, she became a pop star with the hit song Because We Want To. At 18, she married broadcaster Chris Evans. Since her early 20s, she has concentrated on acting. On TV she played Rose in Doctor Who and Belle in The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. Film credits include Animals United, Spirit Trap and Things To Do Before You're 30. In 2007, she made her stage debut in Christopher Hampton's Treats and she is currently starring in Neil Labute's Reasons To Be Pretty at the Almeida in London. She is married to the actor Laurence Fox. They have a son and live in West Sussex.
When were you happiest?
My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky,...
Billie Piper, 29, was born in Swindon. She studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. At 15, she became a pop star with the hit song Because We Want To. At 18, she married broadcaster Chris Evans. Since her early 20s, she has concentrated on acting. On TV she played Rose in Doctor Who and Belle in The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. Film credits include Animals United, Spirit Trap and Things To Do Before You're 30. In 2007, she made her stage debut in Christopher Hampton's Treats and she is currently starring in Neil Labute's Reasons To Be Pretty at the Almeida in London. She is married to the actor Laurence Fox. They have a son and live in West Sussex.
When were you happiest?
My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky,...
- 11/19/2011
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
We’re almost at the halfway point: it’s Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 6, entitled “Cornered”. If we’re continuing the pattern of the last few titles, “Cornered” will end up referring to both a literal and figurative “Corner” — perhaps Walt will feel “cornered” by Gus when Gus forces him to fold the corner of his The Corner DVD while eating candy corn on his after-school talk show “Corner’s Korner.” And wouldn’t you know it? That’S Literally What Happens. Also, we meet this guy, aka Mayor MethCheese: Generally speaking, “Cornered” was a pretty standard mid-season episode: We get detailed, drawn-out character moments on both the Walt and Jesse sides of the coin (and there’s a thrilling literal-coin scene! Two coin meanings! They should’ve called the episode “Coinered” and gone for the octuple pun!) But there aren’t any story-shattering developments, and the plot only advances very slightly from the week before.
- 8/22/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
Gully Wells, features editor at Conde Nast Traveler, has been in the center of London, Paris, Oxford, and New York’s intellectual set, having globe-trotted in her youth with her mother Dee Wells, a rebellious American journalist, and her stepfather A. J. Ayer, a preeminent Oxford philosopher. In her new book, The House In France: A Memoir (Knopf), Wells recollects spending time with Iris Murdoch, Martin Amis, Bertrand Russell, and Bobby Kennedy and summers at La Migua—her mother’s cherished farmhouse in Provence. Below, she revisits arriving to her Bank Street home in New York, where she happily played hostess for “the Hitch.” Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 6/24/2011
- Vanity Fair
Ever feel like information threatens to overwhelm meaning? Nicholas Carr says that's the troubling conclusion of James Gleick's impressive new history, The Information.
At a technology conference last year, Google's outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt tried to put our current "information explosion" into historical perspective. Today, he said, we create as much information in 48 hours-five billion gigabytes worth-as was created "between the birth of the world and 2003." It's an astonishing comparison, and it seems to illuminate something important about the times we live in. But the harder you look at Schmidt's numbers, the fuzzier they become. What does it mean to create information? When we measure information, what exactly are we measuring? What the heck is "information," anyway?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Google + 1: Forget the Social Stuff, Google!
None of those questions, it turns out, is easy to answer. Wikipedia isn't much help. "As a concept," it tells us,...
At a technology conference last year, Google's outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt tried to put our current "information explosion" into historical perspective. Today, he said, we create as much information in 48 hours-five billion gigabytes worth-as was created "between the birth of the world and 2003." It's an astonishing comparison, and it seems to illuminate something important about the times we live in. But the harder you look at Schmidt's numbers, the fuzzier they become. What does it mean to create information? When we measure information, what exactly are we measuring? What the heck is "information," anyway?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Google + 1: Forget the Social Stuff, Google!
None of those questions, it turns out, is easy to answer. Wikipedia isn't much help. "As a concept," it tells us,...
- 3/1/2011
- by Nicholas Carr
- The Daily Beast
We open to Peter finding a picture of Neal with Vincent Adler. Cut to Neal's apartment that night where Neal is working on a Monet-like painting when Peter drops by. Peter questions him about it, but painting clears Neal's head. He isn't excited to see Peter. Peter confronts Neal about Adler and Neal says "he's the man who made me who I am today," raising the stakes. Peter accuses Neal of holding out, but Neal needs to "reconcile the Adler I knew with the man responsible for…" Obviously Neal is struggling with the new info, but Peter's excited about catching Adler. He even bought beer (Neal: "I'm not much of a beer drinker.") for himself and cheap wine for Neal. Again, Neal's not thrilled. "Wow! I don't even need a corkscrew." Bwah! Peter wants to know everything Neal knows about Adler but Neal won't implicate himself in past crimes. "A few secrets are good Peter.
- 2/3/2011
- by Dahne
From the moment that Hal Holmes and I slipped quietly into his basement and he showed me his father's hidden collection of Playboy magazines, the map of my emotional geography shifted toward Chicago. In that magical city lived a man named Hugh Hefner who had Playmates possessing wondrous bits and pieces I had never seen before. I wanted to be invited to his house.
I was trembling on the brim of puberty, and aroused not so much by the rather sedate color "centerfold" of an undressed woman, as by the black and white photos that accompanied them. These showed an ordinary woman (I believe it was Janet Pilgrim) entering an office building in Chicago, and being made up for her "pictorial." Made up! Two makeup artists were shown applying powders and creams to her flesh. This electrified me. It made Pilgrim a real person. In an interview she spoke of her life and ambitions.
I was trembling on the brim of puberty, and aroused not so much by the rather sedate color "centerfold" of an undressed woman, as by the black and white photos that accompanied them. These showed an ordinary woman (I believe it was Janet Pilgrim) entering an office building in Chicago, and being made up for her "pictorial." Made up! Two makeup artists were shown applying powders and creams to her flesh. This electrified me. It made Pilgrim a real person. In an interview she spoke of her life and ambitions.
- 11/7/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Hey Gang! Comic-Con International has unveiled the full schedule for Saturday July 24th! If you thought Thursday and Friday were insanely awesome and crazy, wait until you see what's planned for Saturday! There is a ton of great stuff going on that you're going to want to see! We've got all Marvel film panel with Thor, Captain America and The Avengers. There's also Green Lantern, Cowboys & Aliens, Sucker Punch, Harry Potter, Paul, and a ton of other great stuff! And if you aren't able to make it out to Comic-Con this year don't worry we got your back, and will be covering everything we possibly can. I've highlighted all the events we hope to cover. If you're going to comic-con we will be having a little meet up. The details for that will be revealed soon. Now check out the full schedule below and start planning out your Comic-Con geekdom.
- 7/10/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Chris Morris has been bold in his choice of target, but his home-grown jihadists are little more than sitcom characters
Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.
Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...
Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.
Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...
- 5/8/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; Art by Alecos Papadatos; Color by Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury, September 2009, $22.95
Ever so often, there’s an object lesson that proves the saying so many of us like to make: that comics aren’t just for adventure stories, that they’re suitable for any kind of story. If we’re lucky, those paradigm-breakers are also really successful – and Logicomix is both of those things. It’s a major graphic novel on an unexpected topic – the life of Bertrand Russell, with a strong emphasis on his work attempting to create a solid foundation for mathematics, and thus all of learning – and it’s been quite commercially successful, alighting on bestseller lists occasionally and moving a surprising number of copies.
Logicomix, though, is also a piece of metafiction – the first character we see, on the first page of this graphic novel,...
Written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; Art by Alecos Papadatos; Color by Annie Di Donna
Bloomsbury, September 2009, $22.95
Ever so often, there’s an object lesson that proves the saying so many of us like to make: that comics aren’t just for adventure stories, that they’re suitable for any kind of story. If we’re lucky, those paradigm-breakers are also really successful – and Logicomix is both of those things. It’s a major graphic novel on an unexpected topic – the life of Bertrand Russell, with a strong emphasis on his work attempting to create a solid foundation for mathematics, and thus all of learning – and it’s been quite commercially successful, alighting on bestseller lists occasionally and moving a surprising number of copies.
Logicomix, though, is also a piece of metafiction – the first character we see, on the first page of this graphic novel,...
- 12/29/2009
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
A Greek graphic novel based on maths and logic has topped sales charts in the UK and the Us, Afp has reported. Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth tells the story of British logician Bertrand Russell, one of the founders of analytic philosophy. Key events in Europe, such as the Nazis' rise to power, serve as the book's backdrop. "He was a political activist, a womaniser, traveller, adventurer, great talker, a wit and a dandy," said Apostolos Doxiadis, who co-authored the title with computer science professor Christos Papadimitriou. "He was the only (more)...
- 10/12/2009
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
Squash has its share of unusual personalities. Derrick Niederman—former Yale No. 1, onetime 35-and-over national champion, mathematics PhD from M.I.T., crossword-puzzle constructor, mystery writer, and investment counselor—is one of them. I sat down with Niederman not far from the Squash and Tennis Club in Newton, Massachusetts, of which he is president. He has a new book out, Number Freak: From 1 to 200—the Hidden Language of Number Revealed. It's a fun book, but definitely challenging. The entry for number 19, for instance, both explains why Kellogg's named its response to General Mills’ Total cereal “Product 19”—it was the company’s 19th product since the introduction of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes—and dilates on philosopher Bertrand Russell's quest to identify “the least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables.” Niederman calls the book “a painless introduction to numbers for the intellectually curious, and it doesn't presuppose that they are crazy about the subject.
- 9/16/2009
- Vanity Fair
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
Bloomsbury, September 2009, $22.95Despite the modern framing at the end of this book arguing about whether or not this was a tragedy or a happy ending by bringing computers into the whole thing to support the side of happy, which puts a pimple onto something that is quite near-perfection otherwise, I will say that this is, in the imperfect vernacular, freakin’ awesome.
Being an Aristotelian and Thomist (Thomas Aquinas, 13th C.), mainly an Ethicist and Metaphysician, though I am acquainted with modern philosophies, they are not my favourite dance floor. I am neither adept at nor a fan of analytical philosophy – where they turn premises and sentences into symbols like mathematical equations. So I am absolutely gobsmacked that three Greek guys and one Italian-French chick got a hold of Bertrand Russell (19th-20th C. Logician, Mathematician), and not only...
by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
Bloomsbury, September 2009, $22.95Despite the modern framing at the end of this book arguing about whether or not this was a tragedy or a happy ending by bringing computers into the whole thing to support the side of happy, which puts a pimple onto something that is quite near-perfection otherwise, I will say that this is, in the imperfect vernacular, freakin’ awesome.
Being an Aristotelian and Thomist (Thomas Aquinas, 13th C.), mainly an Ethicist and Metaphysician, though I am acquainted with modern philosophies, they are not my favourite dance floor. I am neither adept at nor a fan of analytical philosophy – where they turn premises and sentences into symbols like mathematical equations. So I am absolutely gobsmacked that three Greek guys and one Italian-French chick got a hold of Bertrand Russell (19th-20th C. Logician, Mathematician), and not only...
- 9/11/2009
- by Alexandra Honigsberg
- Comicmix.com
By Michael Atkinson
To each fiery cinema individualist his own honorial DVD box set: here we have a reacquaintance . or initiation, for the babies of the Reagan/Thatcher era . with the unique howl of Derek Jarman, dead in 1994 from AIDS at the age of 52, a career attenuated by the very same fate that ended up giving it such amperage. You'd never know it, but there was a time when British filmmakers, emboldened by punk culture, fueled by hatred for Thatcherite conservatism, and funded by the BFI and the new Channel Four, made outrageous, experimental, high culture vs. low culture collision movies, doped on structuralism and gender-bending and period-picture mockery. Jarman was the moment's jester prince; he never made a film you'd mistake for the work of another, or a film that doesn't manifest on the screen as an unpredictably impish riff on serious matters, Art-making and Sex and Death. Not to mention,...
To each fiery cinema individualist his own honorial DVD box set: here we have a reacquaintance . or initiation, for the babies of the Reagan/Thatcher era . with the unique howl of Derek Jarman, dead in 1994 from AIDS at the age of 52, a career attenuated by the very same fate that ended up giving it such amperage. You'd never know it, but there was a time when British filmmakers, emboldened by punk culture, fueled by hatred for Thatcherite conservatism, and funded by the BFI and the new Channel Four, made outrageous, experimental, high culture vs. low culture collision movies, doped on structuralism and gender-bending and period-picture mockery. Jarman was the moment's jester prince; he never made a film you'd mistake for the work of another, or a film that doesn't manifest on the screen as an unpredictably impish riff on serious matters, Art-making and Sex and Death. Not to mention,...
- 6/24/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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