“We’d been very meticulous in the look and the detail of the film in its period accuracy, but the music, the score, should somehow be a voice that comes from a different place. It should somehow be an expression of the essence of Turner’s painting in some way.”
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The Car Mechanic’s Daughter Who Danced With Nureyev Calls It Quits
Sylvie Guillem: “One foot on stage. Curtain up. That was it… The relation I had with the audience, it was fantastic. It is always so strange. You dance, and there is an answer – that is always true. You put me in a room with people and I hide in the corner; put me on stage and I’m different.”
The Academy Might Make Bad Choices, But The Oscars Are Irresistible
“The Oscars mean something because, and this of course is what sets them apart from other awards that shall go nameless, they are given by a cross section of people from different crafts who actually make movies.”
The Barnes Museum Says It Has Discovered Two New Works By Cézanne
“Hidden beneath brown paper backing, the newly discovered pieces are unfinished, but they have sent tremors through the world of Cézanne scholarship, where additions to his body of work are exceedingly rare and where even the resurfacing of long-unseen pieces can be huge news.”
Right Actor, Wrong Movie, Or, Why Julianne Moore Will Win An Oscar For The Maudlin ‘Still Alice’
“In other words, you are not winning just for your performance. You are winning because a butterfly flapped its wings on Oscar night years earlier. And so now here we are, trapped in this uncomfortable loop.”
The First U.S. Actress To Win A French Oscar Is … The Star Of The Twilight Movies?
“Accepting the prize, Stewart shouted ‘I love you Juliette’ in French to her co-star Juliette Binoche.”
‘Parks And Recreation’ Co-Producer Found Dead At Home At Age 30
Harris Wittels was found by his assistant. “On ‘Parks and Rec,’ whose seventh and final season concludes Feb. 24, Wittels also served as a writer and occasionally appeared as an animal control staffer.”
National Gallery Workers Strike A Second Time
“About 200 workers are campaigning against plans to switch visitor services to a private company.”
Read The New (Lost) Sherlock Holmes Story That Was Found In An Attic
“‘We’ve had enough of old romancists and the men of travel’, said the Editor, as he blue-pencilled his copy, and made arrangements for the great Saturday edition of the Bazaar Book. ‘We want something up-to-date. Why not have a word from “Sherlock Holmes”?'”
The New York Times Tells You How To Use Big Data To Win Your Oscars Predictions Pool
“If people are going by what they enjoyed, they’re likely to be unwittingly picking more underdogs than makes sense.”