In a film-making career that stretched back to the early 60s, Bertolucci became a key figure of the extraordinary Italian new wave (alongside, and the equal of, Antonioni, Fellini, and Pasolini) but – uniquely – made a successful transition to large-scale Hollywood film-making with 1987’s The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars, including best picture and best director for Bertolucci.
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Human Rights Activists, Citing Pablo Neruda’s Rape Of A Maid, Protest The Naming Of An Airport After The Poet
Neruda, in his memoir, described raping a maid when he was in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1929: “After the woman ignored his advances, Neruda says he took ‘a strong grip on her wrist’ and led her to his bedroom. ‘The encounter was like that of a man and a statue. She kept her eyes wide open all the while, completely unresponsive,’ he recalled. ‘She was right to despise me.'”
How Did ‘The Favourite,’ One Of The Year’s Most Original Screenplays, Ever Get Made?
The original screenplay for this movie, centered around three women leads in early 18th-century England, was written two decades ago. But getting financing? Hm. “It was very difficult … because not only was it a story where there were three female leads, but there was also a gay angle. There was always interest, but it wasn’t an easy pitch.”
Language Evolves, But It Can Also Erase, And ‘Latinx’ Is (Maybe) An Example Of Both
When The New York Times used the word, the Facebook comments were … interesting, and some were thoughtful. One linguist: “In its attempt to be gender-inclusive… one can argue that it’s gender-erasing of women who have fought for a long time to not just have Latino, but to have Latino/Latina, to make sure women are represented.”
What Did British Theatre Do During – And For – The First World War?
It started with recruiting: “Music hall stars of the day such as Marie Lloyd, Phyllis Dare and Vesta Tilley believed they were doing their bit for the war effort by exhorting – and sometimes shaming – the men in the audience into joining up. ‘We don’t want to lose you / But we think you ought to go,’ went one not very subtle refrain.”
When The University Of Iowa Adds A TV Writing Course, You Know Times Are Changing
Blame, or credit, novelist David Simon and his series The Wire with leading the way.
‘Moonlight’ And ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins Says It’s (Past) Time For Hollywood To Draw From Black Authors’ Work
Jenkins says Hollywood “is also finally recognizing specifically that there is an audience for black literary adaptations: ‘It’s not only very clear there is an audience for this work, but to take it even further, there are people who are familiar with this work in its literary form — the same way people are familiar with work of non-black artists.'”
Longtime Principal Dancer At Milwaukee Ballet Charged With Domestic Abuse
The complaint says Davit Hovhannisyan, who is 37 and has been with the company since 2004, “began to whip [his ex-wife]’s face with a bath rug and then slapped her with an open fist, saying, ‘Don’t make me do this.'”
The Met Celebrates Placido Domingo’s 50th Anniversary
“‘For us, the opera singers, it is just like Frank Sinatra said: New York, New York, if you made it, you made it everywhere,’ the 77-year-old singer from Spain said Friday night when he was honored on stage for the 50th anniversary of his Met debut.”
It’s Time To Abandon The Most Profitable Business In The World
Is it oil? Banking? Nope: It’s academic publishing, and its time must come to an end. “Most of the costs of its content is picked up by taxpayers. Publicly funded researchers do the work, write it up and judge its merits. And yet the resulting intellectual property ends up in the hands of the publishers. To rub salt into the wound they then sell it via exorbitant subscriptions and paywalls, often paid for by taxpayers too.”