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The man who didn't sleep

19 hours ago | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

I met a man who didn't sleep. This was in the summer of 1988. I was in Toulouse, France, to visit a friend I'd made some years earlier in London, Dominique Hoff. Her sister, Marie-Christine, told me: "There is a man you must meet. He's the smartest man I know. He was my professor in dental school. He invents dental tools, and he can fix anything with his hands. He and his wife have converted a big old barn in the country into a home and workshop and a place for his collection." His collection? I said. The sisters laughed. "You'll see."

Les toits de Toulouse à partir de la fenêtre d'Hervé

Paul Delprat and his wife Danielle Moog did indeed occupy a vast old barn somewhere in the countryside. They called it Cambolevet. They were a jolly middle-aged couple, waiting for us in the farmyard. A dog came to investigate. »

- Roger Ebert

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Bright Star - More interview clips with Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw and Paul Schneider.

4 November 2009 5:42 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

We have three second-part clips from the interviews with "Bright Star" stars Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw and Paul Scheider. The Jane Campion romantic drama is currently in limited areas via Apparition. London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’s best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other... »

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Director Jane Campion: Drawn to the bright words of poet John Keats (PopWire)

24 September 2009 7:50 AM, PDT | PopMatters | See recent PopMatters news »

The Seattle Times (McT) -- "Write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair." -- John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 1819 ——— Toronto — Young love would be the only love the British poet John Keats would ever know. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" met his 18-year-old Hampstead neighbor, Fanny Brawne, when he was 23.… »

- By Moira Macdonald

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Bright Star Shines Brightly

18 September 2009 3:42 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

The actor Ben Whishaw has that dying poet thing down. In Jane Campion's new movie Bright Star, he is a tender presence, portraying the ill-fated John Keats who dies at age 25 before fulfilling the bright future suggested by the poetry that survives him, including "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "Endymion," "Lamia," and his famous odes. To make such a stunning movie that can convey the poet, his muse, and their world, that at the same time defies the conventions of period drama, is indeed a feat that augurs a bright future for the Australian Campion, and her distributor Apparition in their debut venture. Hosting the movie's stellar premiere at the Paris Theater with an afterparty at Rouge Tomate, Apparition's Bob and Jeannie Berney were joined by Campion, Whishaw, Abbie Cornish who plays Fanny Brawne, the poet's neighbor and muse,... »

- Regina Weinreich

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4 articles from 2009

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