Commentary: To judge from its trailer, Sam Mendes’ upcoming 1917, like most modern war dramas — Hacksaw Ridge, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse, even Dunkirk — is essentially a personal story. In the fourth year of World War I, two British soldiers, played by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, thread their way through a near-hopeless mission in the trenches of Belgium.
The film is based on the recollections of Mendes’ grandfather and is said to unfold in one, long, Birdman-style take. Cinematically, it doesn’t get more personal than that.
Yet that title — 1917 — suggests something larger than the fate of two boyish protagonists. It provokes thoughts about a year, an era, a major historical moment as distant from ourselves as, well, our long-dead grandparents.
And at least one of those thoughts seems hard to avoid. Namely, things were worse back then. Much worse.
Lately, we’ve tended to view our own age as being particularly troubled,...
The film is based on the recollections of Mendes’ grandfather and is said to unfold in one, long, Birdman-style take. Cinematically, it doesn’t get more personal than that.
Yet that title — 1917 — suggests something larger than the fate of two boyish protagonists. It provokes thoughts about a year, an era, a major historical moment as distant from ourselves as, well, our long-dead grandparents.
And at least one of those thoughts seems hard to avoid. Namely, things were worse back then. Much worse.
Lately, we’ve tended to view our own age as being particularly troubled,...
- 10/1/2019
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
This is a busy weekend for awards, and the first major awards have just been handed out. The winners of the 2011 Chesley Awards were announced today at Renovation, the WorldCon going on right now in Reno, Nevada. The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year for excellence in genre art.
Paperback: Jason Chan, for Geist by Phillipa Ballantine (Ace) Hardcover: Michael Whelan, for The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor) Magazine: Nick Greenwood, for Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show #17 Three-Dimensional: Mark Newman, Eel Walker; bronze Interior: Donato Giancola, Middle Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth Unpublished Color: Julie Dillon, “Planetary Alignment” Unpublished Monochrome: Ian Miller, “Triptych” Product: Sam Weber, Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, promo art for Tor ebook Gaming: Lucas Graciano, Amorphous Drake (Legends of Norrath) (Sony Online Entertainment) Art Director: Jon Schindehette — Wizards of the Coast Lifetime Achievement:...
Paperback: Jason Chan, for Geist by Phillipa Ballantine (Ace) Hardcover: Michael Whelan, for The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor) Magazine: Nick Greenwood, for Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show #17 Three-Dimensional: Mark Newman, Eel Walker; bronze Interior: Donato Giancola, Middle Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth Unpublished Color: Julie Dillon, “Planetary Alignment” Unpublished Monochrome: Ian Miller, “Triptych” Product: Sam Weber, Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, promo art for Tor ebook Gaming: Lucas Graciano, Amorphous Drake (Legends of Norrath) (Sony Online Entertainment) Art Director: Jon Schindehette — Wizards of the Coast Lifetime Achievement:...
- 8/20/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Why is Doctor Who always a Time Lord and not a Lady? Journeys to the centre of the Earth; The meaning of a hiding to nothing
Why is Doctor Who always regenerated as a Time Lord, not a Time Lady?
In Doctor Who the process of regeneration is the renewing of every cell in a Time Lord's dying, damaged or unwanted body. Since Time Lords (and Time Ladies, and perhaps even Time Tots, as the children of Gallifrey are known) can change species when they regenerate, there is presumably no reason why they can't also swap sex. There's certainly nothing in the TV series' history to contradict this theory and indeed no way of telling whether the Master, the Doctor's sworn enemy, spent one or more of his 13 wasted lives as a femme fatale called the Mistress.
Kieran Grant, London N22
Time Lords can be male or female. One of...
Why is Doctor Who always regenerated as a Time Lord, not a Time Lady?
In Doctor Who the process of regeneration is the renewing of every cell in a Time Lord's dying, damaged or unwanted body. Since Time Lords (and Time Ladies, and perhaps even Time Tots, as the children of Gallifrey are known) can change species when they regenerate, there is presumably no reason why they can't also swap sex. There's certainly nothing in the TV series' history to contradict this theory and indeed no way of telling whether the Master, the Doctor's sworn enemy, spent one or more of his 13 wasted lives as a femme fatale called the Mistress.
Kieran Grant, London N22
Time Lords can be male or female. One of...
- 3/3/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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