Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 May 2019
Thursday, 1 November 2018
FILM 1859: CAMPFIRE TALES
FILM 1859: CAMPFIRE TALES
TRIVIA: Film debut of Jacinda Barrett.
Originally intended for a theatrical run, the film was eventually released direct-to-video in 1998.
Saturday, 27 October 2018
FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ
FIVE HELPFUL BLOG POSTS TO READ
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4. 25 NETFLIX HIDDEN TREASURES YOU REALLY SHOULD BE WATCHING
5. 19 WIKIPEDIA PAGES THAT'LL SEND YOU INTO A WEEK-LONG WIKIHOLE
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
BOOK 181: INTO THE WOODS: HOW
STORIES WORK AND WHY WE TELL THEM: JOHN YORKE
This book is a writing guide that
proposes a five act structure to film and television narrative, tying it back
into classical mythology and playwriting techniques. The book draws extensively
from Yorke's own research and experience, using examples from projects such as EastEnders and Spooks.
This has since spun off into seminars and classes, taught by Yorke.
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
BOOK 179: ON WRITING: CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Sharp and moving reflections and
ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most
iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters.
Charles Bukowski’s stories, poems,
and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of
correspondence—letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers—the
writer shares his insights on the art of creation.
On Writing reveals
an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work and canny and
uncompromising about the absurdities of life—and of art. It illuminates the
hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and counterculture
icon—the “laureate of American lowlife” (Time)—who stoically recorded
society’s downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an artist grounded in the
visceral, whose work reverberates with his central ideal: “Don't try.”
Piercing, poignant, and often
hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines
but also with Bukowski’s trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace,
pathos, and intimacy.
(Info from: Amazon)
Monday, 1 May 2017
FILM 1640: FAHRENHEIT 451
TRIVIA: Oskar Werner cut his
hair for the final scene to purposely create a continuity error. This was due
to his hatred for the director.
The film's credits are spoken, not
read, in keeping with the film's theme of destruction of reading material.
According to producer Lewis M. Allen, François Truffaut
and Oskar Werner
hated each other by the end of filming. For the last two weeks, they didn't
speak to one another.
Author Ray Bradbury never
did any fact-checking in regards to the title. He asked a fire chief what
temperature book paper burned at, and was given the answer "451 degrees
Fahrenheit." He liked the title so much, he didn't bother to see if it was
the correct temperature. Actually, The Chief went to burn an actual book,
because he didn't know the answer when Bradbury asked him; he read the
temperature with a thermometer.
Producer Lewis M. Allen said
the studio's legal department requested that only books in the public domain be
shown burning for fear of being sued by offended authors. Director François Truffaut
and Allen ignored the request, believing that anyone would be flattered to have
their book included.
François Truffaut
reportedly said that he found science fiction films uninteresting and
arbitrary. Because of this, a friend of his told him the story of Ray Bradbury's novel
'Fahrenheit 451'. Immediately afterward, Truffaut wanted to make a film from
the novel and subsequently spent years raising the financing.
Among the books burned by the
firemen is the film journal "Cahiers du Cinema" for which director François Truffaut
wrote. Pictured on the cover is a picture from Breathless (1960),
written by Truffaut. Also among the books burned is "The Martian
Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451" itself, both written by Ray Bradbury.
The monorail featured in the film
had been built in France in 1959 by the SAFEGE consortium as a test track. It
was dismantled shortly after filming.
The first and only English language
film for director François Truffaut.
Books shown or mentioned in the
movie: Don Quixote - Othello, the Moor of Venice - Vanity Fair - Madame Bovary
- Le monde a coté - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the
Looking-Glass - Gaspard Hauser - Robinson Crusoe - The World of Salvador Dali -
Jeanne d'Arc - Life and Loves - The Weather - My Autobiography by Charles
Chaplin - Les negres - Confessions of an Irish Rebel - The Ginger Man -
Petrouchka - The Catcher In The Rye - The Moon and Sixpence - Lolita - David
Copperfield - Mein Kampf - She Might Have Been Queen - Social Aspects of
Disease - The Ethics of Aristotle - The Brothers Karamazov - The Sorrows of
Young Werther - The Martian Chronicles - Plato's Republic - Fahrenheit 451 -
Pride and Prejudice - Gone with the Wind - Animal Farm - No Orchids for Miss
Blandish - Jane Eyre - Moby Dick - The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer - The Trial.
According to producer Lewis M. Allen, it
was his last-minute idea to have Julie Christie play both main female roles. Allen says Terence Stamp then
withdrew from playing Montag because Stamp felt that with two parts, Christie
would overshadow him.
Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Aznavour, Peter O'Toole, and Terence Stamp were
all considered for the role of Montag.
Thursday, 27 April 2017
BOOK 173: SLOUCHING TOWARDS
BETHLEHEM: JOAN DIDION
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a
1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California
during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming", by W. B. Yeats.
The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
(2006).
The title essay describes Didion's
impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the
neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center. In contrast to the more utopian
image of the milieu promoted by counterculture sympathizers then and now, Didion offered a
rather grim portrayal of the goings-on, including an encounter with a
pre-school-age child who was given LSD by her parents.
In The New York Times Book Review, the novelist and screenwriter Dan Wakefield
wrote, "Didion's first collection of nonfiction writing, Slouching Towards
Bethlehem, brings together some of the finest magazine pieces published by
anyone in this country in recent years. Now that Truman Capote
has pronounced that such work may achieve the stature of 'art,' perhaps it is
possible for this collection to be recognized as it should be: not as a better
or worse example of what some people call 'mere journalism,' but as a rich
display of some of the best prose written today in this country."
(Information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem)
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