“There is quite a lot of rural Canada, you see, and [Doig] says that he and Doige were in different bits, and that he never served time anywhere.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Who Won Big At The Toronto International Film Festival?
The highly anticipated “12 Years A Slave” takes top honors.
The Oh So Subtle Movie Score, And How It Wacks Out Our Emotions
“We can feel it going into our ears via sound waves and it can produce all sorts of physical responses, including in the right circumstances an actual thud to the stomach.”
Jesus Is Everywhere (In Literary Fiction)
“The story in the gospels intrigues novelists because: ‘It is a story freighted with the most immense irony imaginable – the decisive embodiment of divine action and purpose and power in the human world turns out to be not only a wandering peasant shaman, but a figure who fails to persuade and ends up humiliated and executed.'”
Why Should Actors Have To Suffer So Much To Film Good Movies?
“Is there a line to draw between artistic dedication and expectation of realism from a medium of entirely artificial construction? Does an actor’s physical and emotional investment in their work constitute a reasonable exchange for a viewer’s entertainment?”
The Author of ‘Bunheads’ Didn’t Even Like Dance At First
“I was intimidated and found it difficult to keep up, but I kept coming back despite feelings of defeat and frustration.”
Could We Love TV Villains Without Shakespeare?
Sure, sometimes any play can be boring – but if you go see “Macbeth,” you can “think of it as ‘Breaking Bad’ without the meth.”
Can The Brits Suss Out The Perfect Reading Chair?
Oxford’s New Bodleian Library “is currently undergoing a £78m renovation by Wilkinson Eyre architects – due to open next year – as a home for special collections. And special collections clearly need a very special chair.”
Bad Guys: Destroyed By Snark, But Why?
“What with their over-inflated budgets, film-makers in Hollywood seem to have forgotten an ancient truth: it’s the no-frills finales that really chill. Kicking a dog or telling a child there’s no Santa Claus – now that’s bad.”
How To Achieve Eight Decades Of Stardom In Show Business
Voice actor June Foray, the voice of Cindy Lou Who and many, many more, won her first Emmy at age 94 and is still performing.