FilmStruck is best known as the exclusive streaming home for The Criterion Collection, which was previously available to stream on Hulu. In addition to streaming films, FilmStruck also produced original content featuring director’s commentary and series such as film historian David Bordwell’s “Observations on Film Art.” When the service launched two years ago, it was touted as containing “the largest streaming library of contemporary and classic arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films.”
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France’s Latest Social Justice Battle Is Over Accents
It’s called glottophobie: “Derived from the Greek words for tongue and fear, it refers to discrimination against those who speak the language of Molière and Proust with non-standard pronunciation. Regional accents are hardly unique to France. But a history of imposing homogeneity means that, even today, those whose French does not sound Parisian face derision.”
Why Creating Monsters Is Useful
From the point of view of evolution, casting others as monsters would have been extremely adaptive and helpful to your own survival as a group. Nature was not a warm and fuzzy place. Some of these horror stories were helpful in getting you to be nervous about real predators—both non-human animals and human predators.
Annapurna Devi, The Greatest Sitar Player That Almost No One Heard, Dead At 91
She was the daughter of Allaudin Khan, the greatest Indian classical musician of his age; her brother was Ali Akbar Khan and her first husband was Ravi Shankar. Her specialty was the surbahar (bass sitar), and when she and her husband performed together, audiences were even more impressed by her than by him. About a decade into that (very stormy) marriage, she stopped performing in public entirely and became (though something of a recluse) one of India’s most revered classical music teachers.
Why Our Political Dramas Could Use Some Theatre Criticism
“In entreating my drama students to do their part in rescuing our faltering democracy, I was simultaneously asking them to redeem an idea of theater as something more than sound and fury. The stage, in its highest form, is a contemplative space, where dissenting voices are free to speak, where intellect and emotion can become better acquainted and hidden truths are allowed to emerge.”
James Karen, Prolific Character Actor, Dead At 94
After a thriving stage career, he went to Hollywood and appeared in 204 films, from Poltergeist to The China Syndrome to Return of the Living Dead to Mulholland Drive. Among his many TV appearances, he played the villain in the final episode of Little House on the Prairie and was for years the pitchman for Pathmark supermarkets.
How Do You Sell An Orchestra In Pittsburgh?
“We need to rethink who we’re pitching to. There are too many people that think: “Man, do we really need an orchestra that good if we can’t afford it? Isn’t good enough good enough?” That’s our problem. We have to educate people on why it’s important to invest in an orchestra like this. What’s the return on the investment?”
Remembering New York City Ballet’s Original Home, City Center
“Jacques d’Amboise, Patricia Wilde, Allegra Kent and Edward Villella talk about the roles they danced at the theater, which is celebrating George Balanchine and its 75th anniversary as a palace of the arts.”
Study: Why Meter And Rhyme Affect Us
Results of the study—which was carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig—showed that metered and rhymed verses were perceived as more intensely affecting and were aesthetically preferred over non-metered and non-rhymed versions.
Film Studio In Metro Atlanta Builds Itself An Entire Small City
“50 families have become the first permanent residents of Pinewood Forest, a strange hybrid of artist’s commune, luxury suburb and company town, built directly across the street from Pinewood [Atlanta] Studios, … the largest purpose-built studio outside Hollywood. … A few dozen homes are complete, but within 10 years the plan calls for 1,300 residences, along with a movie theater, a fitness center, pocket parks – and an entire town center. And the main local employer will be right across the street.”