Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for War for the Planet of the Apes.
War for the Planet of the Apes premiered across the United States last night, and since Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of my favorite movies, I was front and center to catch the latest film in this incredible series (literally, I was seated in the second row from the front, dead center). By the time the credits rolled, I was convinced I had seen not a modern day classic, but an all-time treatise on filmmaking. War is the best reviewed film in the series, and director Matt Reeves is firing on all cylinders, doing things with CGI characters that other filmmakers aren't even conceiving.
Related: War For The Planet Of The Apes Review - A Fittingly Personal Conclusion To A Great Trilogy
It isn't only Matt Reeves' effects work which wows. Reeves...
War for the Planet of the Apes premiered across the United States last night, and since Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of my favorite movies, I was front and center to catch the latest film in this incredible series (literally, I was seated in the second row from the front, dead center). By the time the credits rolled, I was convinced I had seen not a modern day classic, but an all-time treatise on filmmaking. War is the best reviewed film in the series, and director Matt Reeves is firing on all cylinders, doing things with CGI characters that other filmmakers aren't even conceiving.
Related: War For The Planet Of The Apes Review - A Fittingly Personal Conclusion To A Great Trilogy
It isn't only Matt Reeves' effects work which wows. Reeves...
- 7/14/2017
- by Brian Jasper
- LRMonline.com
On Feb. 12, the music industry’s brightest stars will gather to honor the very best works of the past year at the Grammy Awards. Until then, we’re celebrating the award-worthy hits by reliving the greatest achievements in song parodies of 2016.
With no shortage of amazing material, these funny people gave us brand new reasons to love some of our favorite music, from Lemonade to The Life of Pablo.
“Melanianade” by Saturday Night Live
SNL cast members Cecily Strong (as Melania Trump), Kate McKinnon (as Kellyanne Conway), Sasheer Zamata (as Omarosa) and Vanessa Bayer (as Tiffany Trump), along with host...
With no shortage of amazing material, these funny people gave us brand new reasons to love some of our favorite music, from Lemonade to The Life of Pablo.
“Melanianade” by Saturday Night Live
SNL cast members Cecily Strong (as Melania Trump), Kate McKinnon (as Kellyanne Conway), Sasheer Zamata (as Omarosa) and Vanessa Bayer (as Tiffany Trump), along with host...
- 2/7/2017
- by Lydia Price
- PEOPLE.com
Viewers seeing James Corden sitting in a car listening to music might expect a new carpool karaoke, the late night host’s wildly popular online segment, but this video is of a far more serious nature.
In a shaky, handheld video, likely shot on his personal phone, “The Late Late Show With James Corden” host filmed himself boarding a flight through Lax. It shows Corden asleep in the car, taking off his shoes, ordering a “yes, please grilled cheese,” and exchanging pleasantries with airport staff. In under two minutes, he is safely aboard his flight.
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At one point, Corden walks past peaceful protestors outside the international departures gate. One sign clearly says: “Let my people go,” referencing the famous American Negro Spiritual, “Go Down Moses.”
Text scrolling after Corden boards the plane reads: “Today,...
In a shaky, handheld video, likely shot on his personal phone, “The Late Late Show With James Corden” host filmed himself boarding a flight through Lax. It shows Corden asleep in the car, taking off his shoes, ordering a “yes, please grilled cheese,” and exchanging pleasantries with airport staff. In under two minutes, he is safely aboard his flight.
Read More: Bryan Cranston, Jessica Biel and Giovanni Ribisi Star In Kanye West-Themed Soap Opera On ‘The Late Late Show’
At one point, Corden walks past peaceful protestors outside the international departures gate. One sign clearly says: “Let my people go,” referencing the famous American Negro Spiritual, “Go Down Moses.”
Text scrolling after Corden boards the plane reads: “Today,...
- 1/31/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
People turns 40 this year, and we have to say, it's looking pretty good for having four decades in the spotlight. Just like any other cultural institution (the White House; The Peach Pit), the magazine has made more than a few appearances in TV and movies. Let's look at some of our favorites. Jeff Goldblum in The Big Chill Goldblum's performance as a sex-obsessed People journalist was dubbed "perhaps the Goldblummiest of Jeff Goldblum's early performances" by Slate. That said, it's not all that accurate. Not all People writers are self-loathing egomaniacs obsessed over their non-existent novel-writing careers. Just most of them - kidding!
- 10/12/2014
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Fox announced their new ancient Egyptian soap opera 'Hieroglyph' today. It's basically 'Reign' only in Mesopotamia and with the same amount of historical integrity. You can see the trailer below and with what looks like ancient vampires, this is more Anne Rice than History Channel circa 1995. They canceled 'Almost Human' for this?! Well, let's try to parse out when all this drama is going down. 1. Even in Egypt, the protagonist has to be a white dude. Ancient Egypt was a vast empire that spanned thousands of years and is rich with real scandals, villainous conspirators, and virtuous heroes. But they're all brown. What a conundrum! Better scrap it and just make up some stuff to shoehorn in a lost European transplant to be the White Savior™. No one seems put off by his pale ass though so if Europeans are common, this sets us around 4th century BC at the earliest.
- 5/13/2014
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
In this extract from his forthcoming book, the Observer's new film critic, Mark Kermode, examines how the internet has changed the role of the professional reviewer. When everyone has an opinion, what value does the critic retain?
"Forrest Gump on a tractor." Those five words are probably my favourite film review ever. More importantly, they constitute the most damaging hatchet job I ever encountered, managing to do something I had often argued was impossible – to kill a movie stone dead. I didn't read them in a newspaper or on a blog, I didn't hear them on the radio or television; rather, they were whispered in my ear by a trusted friend and colleague, David Cox, as the house lights went down on a screening of David Lynch's The Straight Story.
I'd been really looking forward to that movie. I've been a huge Lynch fan ever since being blindsided by...
"Forrest Gump on a tractor." Those five words are probably my favourite film review ever. More importantly, they constitute the most damaging hatchet job I ever encountered, managing to do something I had often argued was impossible – to kill a movie stone dead. I didn't read them in a newspaper or on a blog, I didn't hear them on the radio or television; rather, they were whispered in my ear by a trusted friend and colleague, David Cox, as the house lights went down on a screening of David Lynch's The Straight Story.
I'd been really looking forward to that movie. I've been a huge Lynch fan ever since being blindsided by...
- 9/30/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Exodus: "Let my people go!" Christian Bale may be saying those very words (or something similar) to Joel Edgerton in Ridley Scott's upcoming Exodus, a movie inspired by the biblical account. Bale is already set to play Moses, and Edgerton is in talks to play Ramses, the oppressive Egyptian pharaoh. [Deadline] Vampire Academy: While every studio chases the young-adult (Ya) demographic that made The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games monster hits, Vampire Academy is taking a different route, with an aggressive -- as opposed to innocent and naive -- heroine (Zoey Deutch), a half-human, half-vampire who is being trained as a "supernatural bodyguard" for her best friend, a princess. One of the first images gives off a suggestion of menace -- note the...
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- 8/14/2013
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
No, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hasn’t set up a new category to honor writing about film. The Oscars of the title are my dog, Oscar the Groucho Marx Campbell (who is in no way named for the awards of the same name), and one of Kate’s two cats, Oscar Erbland (the other is named Felix, by the way, so you can guess what he’s named after). The two animals will be joining us next month for some actual Academy Awards fun, but for now they’re just being introduced to bring you the latest Reject Recap. Which, not coincidentally, reviews the week the Oscar nominations were announced. And of course we did report and comment on those nominations. But before we get to all that, the Oscars want to remind you to read our reviews of new releases, including Gangster Squad, 56 Up and Let My People Go, and...
- 1/12/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
French director Mikael Buch’s first offering Let My People Go is a lighthearted and occasionally thoughtful attempt to tease out the appeal of the ties that bind a gay and Jewish identity together. Buch’s stand-in protagonist, Ruben, is a French Jew living in bliss in Finland, land of Tom. The reference to the book of Exodus and the exilic condition in the title is about as biblical as the movie gets; but its dual meaning illuminates the pull of these two communities. Buch wants to let his people go – to leave behind the specificity and weight of an ethnic identity – but also wants their recognition of his freedom to be a gay man – to have them grant him freedom, too. This tension is played for comedy rather than pathos, which is for the better given how slight the drama ultimately is. The cartoonish situations, broad characterizations and color-saturated Pierre-et-Gilles aesthetic amplify each narrative stroke, resulting...
- 1/11/2013
- by Mark James
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
“On a set I feel like the strongest person in the world,” says Mikael Buch, quickly adding, “In real life, things are far more complicated!” Buch’s new film, Let My People Go!, is his first full-length feature. But in directing and co-writing this frisky combination of sexual farce, romantic comedy, and family drama revolving around a young, gay, Jewish Frenchman named Ruben (Nicolas Maury) and his international misadventures, Buch had some stalwart support, including co-writer Christophe Honoré and actor Carmen Maura (of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown fame). “All these people gave me the confidence I needed,” says …...
- 1/11/2013
- by Jim Allen
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The best thing about "Scandalous," Kathie Lee Gifford's Broadway play, is that it represents dreams realized.
Gifford long wanted to make this musical about evangelist preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. Gifford wrote the book, the lyrics and some of the music, and has used her host spot on "Today" to promote it.
I suppose we should be happy when someone works so hard and for so long, then achieves that goal.
Though seeing her dream come to fruition may be grand for her, that's not the case for anyone who enters the Neil Simon Theatre. This is so cliched and amateurish, you half expect the curtain to fall and the school principal to come out on stage, thank the teachers who stayed after school to make this play happen and ask for a round of applause for the woodworking class for crafting the sets.
"Scandalous" is painfully dull and a...
Gifford long wanted to make this musical about evangelist preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. Gifford wrote the book, the lyrics and some of the music, and has used her host spot on "Today" to promote it.
I suppose we should be happy when someone works so hard and for so long, then achieves that goal.
Though seeing her dream come to fruition may be grand for her, that's not the case for anyone who enters the Neil Simon Theatre. This is so cliched and amateurish, you half expect the curtain to fall and the school principal to come out on stage, thank the teachers who stayed after school to make this play happen and ask for a round of applause for the woodworking class for crafting the sets.
"Scandalous" is painfully dull and a...
- 11/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Zeitgeist Films has sent along the poster and images from Mikael Buch's Let My People Go!, starring Nicolas Maury and Carmen Maura. The film opens on January 11th in New York City, and the Los Angeles the week after. Mikael Buch directs from he script he wrote alongside renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs), A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch’s Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Regular Lovers’ Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his Ma in “Comparative Sauna Cultures”) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers’ quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family—including Almodovar goddess Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,...
- 11/12/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Zeitgeist Films has sent along the poster and images from Mikael Buch's Let My People Go!, starring Nicolas Maury and Carmen Maura. The film opens on January 11th in New York City, and the Los Angeles the week after. Mikael Buch directs from he script he wrote alongside renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs), A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch’s Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Regular Lovers’ Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his Ma in “Comparative Sauna Cultures”) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers’ quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family—including Almodovar goddess Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,...
- 11/12/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Zeitgeist Films has acquired Ben Shapiro’s documentary “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters” and plans to open it at Film Forum October 31 before a nationwide release. Crewdson is an influential photographer who took inspiration from Diane Arbus, Edward Hopper and films such as “Vertigo,” “The Night of the Hunter” and “Blue Velvet” in creating his elaborately staged photographs of small-town American life. Shapiro’s documentary had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Read More: Exclusive: Zeitgeist Films Acquires Gay Jewish Comedy 'Let My People Go!' Zeitgeist has recently released “Elena,” “Payback” and “China Heavyweight.”...
- 8/22/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Christophe Honoré's latest film stars some of the greatest actors in contemporary France. Beloved features Catherine Deneuve, who appears alongside her real-life daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, as well as Ludivine Sagnier, who is best-known for her work in François Ozon's racy film Swimming Pool. Make no mistake -- Beloved is about women, although the men are no slouches: Milos Forman, Louis Garrel, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech and Rasha Bukvic round out the main cast. But Honoré's focus is about love and loss, specifically for the multifaceted and often mysterious female characters we see on screen. We had the opportunity to sit down with the filmmaker to discuss his life and work in order to find out more about his motivations. Scroll down for images.
You’ve recently co-written ‘Let My People Go.’ How did you get involved with this project?
It’s actually really simple. I give some courses at Fémis,...
You’ve recently co-written ‘Let My People Go.’ How did you get involved with this project?
It’s actually really simple. I give some courses at Fémis,...
- 8/18/2012
- by Kathleen Massara
- Huffington Post
Zeitgeist Films has acquired the French, gay, Jewish comedy "Let My People Go!," directed by newcomer Mikael Buch and starring Pedro Almodovar veteran Carmen Maura. The company nabbed the film at the Berlin Film Market from Les Films du Losange. According to a press release from Zeitgeist, "Let My People Go!" features an international cast and is a "Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce" that "follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben, a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers’ quarrel exiles the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family." Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo, who are responsible for the film's acquisition from Agathe Valentin at Les Films du Losange, said the film is "so much fun to watch, you forget what terrific acting is involved and what a smart screenplay it.
- 6/28/2012
- by Srimathi Sridhar
- Indiewire
by Matt Adler
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” has invaded theaters, featuring His Excellency, the incomparable Admiral General Aladeen, in his feature film debut.
But the beloved Admiral General is far from the only despot to reign over the big screen throughout the years, so as a celebration of this momentous occasion in his glorious reign, we thought it might be instructive (not to mention entertaining) to take a look a back at some of filmdom’s other most feared (or mocked) tyrants.
Pharaoh Rameses II
A heavyweight among our lineup of autocrats, Rameses II has roots that are not just historical, but biblical to boot. But it was the screen presence of Yul Brynner that brought him to life in modern times, as the vindictive and arrogant Pharaoh in 1956’s "The Ten Commandments," who just doesn’t know when to quit, even after Moses (Charlton Heston) tells him to “Let my people go!
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” has invaded theaters, featuring His Excellency, the incomparable Admiral General Aladeen, in his feature film debut.
But the beloved Admiral General is far from the only despot to reign over the big screen throughout the years, so as a celebration of this momentous occasion in his glorious reign, we thought it might be instructive (not to mention entertaining) to take a look a back at some of filmdom’s other most feared (or mocked) tyrants.
Pharaoh Rameses II
A heavyweight among our lineup of autocrats, Rameses II has roots that are not just historical, but biblical to boot. But it was the screen presence of Yul Brynner that brought him to life in modern times, as the vindictive and arrogant Pharaoh in 1956’s "The Ten Commandments," who just doesn’t know when to quit, even after Moses (Charlton Heston) tells him to “Let my people go!
- 5/17/2012
- by MTV Movies Team
- MTV Movies Blog
Let My People Go!
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is living a similarly idyllic life. His lover, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi), is a blonde bombshell of a boyfriend, he finds steady work as a postal worker, his neighbours seem to like him, and nobody seems to mind that he’s homosexual. To Ruben, life is gay. This all changes when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions. He’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France, leaving behind his dream life for a hellish nightmare.
Back home, Ruben is reunited with his dysfunctional family, and as tensions come to a boil, secrets and harboured resentments are finally brought to the forefront. However, the film never elevates beyond genre conventions. The characters are stock, their problems are clichéd, and they way they resolve the conflicts are overly sentimental.
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is living a similarly idyllic life. His lover, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi), is a blonde bombshell of a boyfriend, he finds steady work as a postal worker, his neighbours seem to like him, and nobody seems to mind that he’s homosexual. To Ruben, life is gay. This all changes when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions. He’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France, leaving behind his dream life for a hellish nightmare.
Back home, Ruben is reunited with his dysfunctional family, and as tensions come to a boil, secrets and harboured resentments are finally brought to the forefront. However, the film never elevates beyond genre conventions. The characters are stock, their problems are clichéd, and they way they resolve the conflicts are overly sentimental.
- 5/16/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Let My People Go!
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
While confiding with his Rabbi, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) begins checking off his laundry list of foibles. From his precarious relationship with a schoolteacher in Finland to his exhausting family problems back home in France, Ruben becomes disillusioned with his fate and his faith, declaring how his life is “one bad Jewish joke”.
Let My People Go!, a film about Ruben’s said life problems, is, as predicted, exactly as he describes. Earnest while being endearing, it’s a cheerfully fun film that’s sadly unfunny.
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben is enjoying the good life, working as a cheerful postal carrier and living with his blonde bombshell boyfriend, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi). However, when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions, he’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France.
Directed by Mikael Buch
Written by Mikael Buch and Christophe Honoré
France, 2011
While confiding with his Rabbi, Ruben (Nicolas Maury) begins checking off his laundry list of foibles. From his precarious relationship with a schoolteacher in Finland to his exhausting family problems back home in France, Ruben becomes disillusioned with his fate and his faith, declaring how his life is “one bad Jewish joke”.
Let My People Go!, a film about Ruben’s said life problems, is, as predicted, exactly as he describes. Earnest while being endearing, it’s a cheerfully fun film that’s sadly unfunny.
In a small, idyllic Finnish town, Ruben is enjoying the good life, working as a cheerful postal carrier and living with his blonde bombshell boyfriend, Teemu (Jarkko Niemi). However, when Ruben delivers a package of spurious intentions, he’s forced to pack his bags and head back to France.
- 5/8/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Most of us already know the story of Passover: Charlton Heston tells Yul Brynner “Let my people go you damn dirty pharaoh!” then they both sing “When You Believe”. Great holiday. If you don’t know the story behind Passover, though, and wish to learn this story in the most straightforward, accurate and adorable way possible, then watch the following video of a 3-Year-Old amateur historian retelling the story of the Jews in Egypt. Next step – getting this little guy to narrate Ken Burns Documentaries: And that kid grew up to be…Bob Dylan:...
- 4/6/2012
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
We don’t often post updates about People’s Sexiest Man Alive 2009 Donald Sutherland, but he just landed a huge role as President Snow in the box office juggernaut The Hunger Games, and unrelatedly (or possibly relatedly?), he is also now Moses: “Let My People Go…see The Hunger Games!” is what he’s saying there, while handing The Ten Commandments to the fan in the lower-right of the photo after autographing them. Just a heads up, if any casting agents out there are still looking for someone to star in that Ten Commandments reboot “Lucky Number Slev10 Commandments,” you’ve got your perfect choice right there, and he won’t require the beard-cgi you had planned for Channing Tatum. After the jump, two more photos of Donald ‘Now Moses’ Sutherland parting the Red Sea (not pictured): (pics via Splash News)...
- 3/26/2012
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
Many entrepreneurs and leaders come and go without passing on what made them great. But there have been others who decided to pick up a pen, sit at a typewriter, or dictate into a recorder. While we have featured many business books this year in our Leadership Hall Of Fame, we have avoided biographies. Well, here is a list of those remarkable businessmen and women who decided to tell their life's story and impart their wisdom, from Ash to Welch.
• Mary Kay: Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics: The woman behind the hugely successful cosmetics company talks about her life, her work, and how to sell.
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard The bohemian executive, and founder of Patagonia, talks about creating the company, making profit responsibly, and creating an enjoyable company culture.
• Mary Kay: Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics: The woman behind the hugely successful cosmetics company talks about her life, her work, and how to sell.
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard The bohemian executive, and founder of Patagonia, talks about creating the company, making profit responsibly, and creating an enjoyable company culture.
- 8/4/2011
- by Kevin Ohannessian
- Fast Company
This week I'm catching up with 2011 Spirit Award nominees that I missed last year in preparation for the live webchat I'm hosting during the show on IFC.com. Last night I watched "Night Catches Us" by Tanya Hamilton, a moving period drama about two former Black Panthers linked by death, love, and guilt years after their revolutionary days have ended. The Panthers are played beautifully by Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington. The film's nominated in the Best First Feature category against some very stiff competition, including presumptive favorite "Tiny Furniture," but it is a very good debut feature worthy of recognition.
Especially worthy of recognition is the movie's phenomenal soundtrack, an amazing collection of funk, soul, gospel, and blues tunes (plus a score composed and performed by The Roots) that form the sonic landscape of film's Philadelphia circa 1976. The only problem is, as is often the case with small indie films like "Night Catches Us,...
Especially worthy of recognition is the movie's phenomenal soundtrack, an amazing collection of funk, soul, gospel, and blues tunes (plus a score composed and performed by The Roots) that form the sonic landscape of film's Philadelphia circa 1976. The only problem is, as is often the case with small indie films like "Night Catches Us,...
- 2/23/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
We continue our examination of the business book The 4-Hour Workweek with an interview of author Tim Ferriss. What inspired the book, and why did he follow that up with a book on fitness and diet?
What was the impetus for you to write 4-Hour Workweek?
It was based on a guest lecture I have given at Princeton University since 2003 in "High-Tech Entrepreneurship," and my own experience of extricating myself from a self-made prison of a start-up. In the middle was a global walk-about that led to the complete automation of my own business, as well as odd adventures around the world: tango, philosophical epiphanies, etc. The catalyst was having a long-term relationship end in 2004 because of my workaholic schedule.
Why do you think the book was so successful and resonated with the business world in the way that it did?
It doesn't force people to choose between being Jack Welch or being Gandhi,...
What was the impetus for you to write 4-Hour Workweek?
It was based on a guest lecture I have given at Princeton University since 2003 in "High-Tech Entrepreneurship," and my own experience of extricating myself from a self-made prison of a start-up. In the middle was a global walk-about that led to the complete automation of my own business, as well as odd adventures around the world: tango, philosophical epiphanies, etc. The catalyst was having a long-term relationship end in 2004 because of my workaholic schedule.
Why do you think the book was so successful and resonated with the business world in the way that it did?
It doesn't force people to choose between being Jack Welch or being Gandhi,...
- 1/19/2011
- by Kevin Ohannessian
- Fast Company
We finally really did it!
Well the first half of the season came to an end. What is it we thought we saw? What do you BeLIEve? Let’s go!
And I think it's gonna be a long long timeTill touch down brings me round again to findI'm not the man they think I am at homeOh no no no I'm a rocket manRocket man burning out his fuse up here aloneRocket Man lyrics by Elton John
Taking the Nestea Plunge
An interesting scene the meeting of Thomas, Isabelle, Sophia and Simon gathered around the table. The classic tea ceremony. A part of the tradition in Chinese culter people make serious apologies to others by pouring tea for them. For example, children serving to their parents is a sigh of regret and submission. How telling is it that Thomas is willing to put on such a show of such cultural...
Well the first half of the season came to an end. What is it we thought we saw? What do you BeLIEve? Let’s go!
And I think it's gonna be a long long timeTill touch down brings me round again to findI'm not the man they think I am at homeOh no no no I'm a rocket manRocket man burning out his fuse up here aloneRocket Man lyrics by Elton John
Taking the Nestea Plunge
An interesting scene the meeting of Thomas, Isabelle, Sophia and Simon gathered around the table. The classic tea ceremony. A part of the tradition in Chinese culter people make serious apologies to others by pouring tea for them. For example, children serving to their parents is a sigh of regret and submission. How telling is it that Thomas is willing to put on such a show of such cultural...
- 12/3/2010
- by iowa card
Before our generation comes to a close, all of ancient history and mythology will have been filmed through a Zack Snyder / Frank Miller lens. Variety reports that the next ancient text to get the green-screened sepia treatment is the tale of Moses. Yes, Ten Commandments Moses.
20th Century Fox and its new big dog, Peter Chernin, have snapped up a pitch to retell "Let my people go!" in 300 fashion, and put Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to work penning a script. You might not remember their names now, but they're also pairing up with Timur Bekmambetov to remake the story of Moby Dick in a 300 "graphic novel style." Variety notes that all the elements you know and love from the story of Moses will be there (the Red Sea, the plague of locusts, the golden calf) but they will also incorporate "brand new elements" drawn from Midrashic sources. I wonder...
20th Century Fox and its new big dog, Peter Chernin, have snapped up a pitch to retell "Let my people go!" in 300 fashion, and put Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to work penning a script. You might not remember their names now, but they're also pairing up with Timur Bekmambetov to remake the story of Moby Dick in a 300 "graphic novel style." Variety notes that all the elements you know and love from the story of Moses will be there (the Red Sea, the plague of locusts, the golden calf) but they will also incorporate "brand new elements" drawn from Midrashic sources. I wonder...
- 10/12/2009
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
Move over Charlton Heston. Variety writes that 20th Century Fox plans on producing a new cinematic version of Exodus. As if that weren't enough, they want to do it in the style of 300. Yes, that 300 — the male meat-fest from "visionary director" Zack Snyder.
Hmmm ... so can we count on seeing a Moses who's less world-weary and wise than he is lean and mean with ripped abs? Should we expect: "Let my people go, you scum-sucking Egyptian!"? Or a desert scene with Israelites sampling heaven's food before crying out, "This ... is ... Manna!!!"
The script will be written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (Accepted), who have already been approved to draft a graphic novel-style adaptation of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick for director Timur Bekmambetov. We certainly love graphic novels and the way they've gained acceptance as a legitimate artform. But seriously . . . Moby Dick?
Cooper and Collage's script for the...
Hmmm ... so can we count on seeing a Moses who's less world-weary and wise than he is lean and mean with ripped abs? Should we expect: "Let my people go, you scum-sucking Egyptian!"? Or a desert scene with Israelites sampling heaven's food before crying out, "This ... is ... Manna!!!"
The script will be written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (Accepted), who have already been approved to draft a graphic novel-style adaptation of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick for director Timur Bekmambetov. We certainly love graphic novels and the way they've gained acceptance as a legitimate artform. But seriously . . . Moby Dick?
Cooper and Collage's script for the...
- 10/12/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
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