An Evening with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Skirball presents an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, whose book
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, inspired the Skirball s current online exhibition. The conversation and Q&A will be moderated by Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen University. Signed books aare available for purchase at bronxriverbooks.com.
Artist Arshile Gorky, pictured here in childhood with his mother, inspired the collaborative film, They Will Take My Island. (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tuesday, Jan. 26; 4 p.m. PST
They Will Take My Island
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps…
Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of the director walk the set, see superstars, and watch their parent in charge of the whole affair. In all walks of life it’s certainly not uncommon to find yourself following a career path that a parent did. It tends to work out either that way, or in active rebellion. Of course the lure to become a film-maker is inherently more likely to appeal than wanting to become a chimney sweep (no offence intended to chimney sweeps).
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King said: “With the numbers being off for so long, to be part of a conversation that’s saying you could possibly, finally, see an Academy ceremony with more than one best picture or best director nomination for a woman is fantastic.
“Being talked about in the same conversations as Zhao is… wow. It’s gratifying.”
The Academy has recently introduced strict diversity guidelines for films hoping to qualify for best picture, requiring studios to boost diversity in front of and behind the camera, as well as in executive roles, and King is hopeful it will make a difference.
She said: “I hope that it will encourage people to broaden their perspective and make for richer storytelling.
Entebbe, BBC2, 10.25pm Shortly after Air France flight 139 departs Tel Aviv carrying predominantly Israeli and Jewish passengers, German revolutionaries Wilfried Bose (Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike) and their accomplices retrieve guns from hand luggage and storm the cockpit. The terrorists divert the plane to Benghazi in Libya, where Wilfried clashes with flight engineer Jacques Le Moine (Denis Menochet) during several hours on the runway to refuel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and the rest of the cabinet, are faced with a ransom demand: the lives of the passengers in exchange for the release of prisoners. Entebbe is a tense geo-political thriller based on the real-life hijacking of an Air France flight in June 1976, although it fails to make the most of Bruhl and Pike.