Le notti bianche (1957)
We began this short week with a look at the enthusiastic response to Mark Harris’s
Mike Nichols: A Life, and opening this month’s round on new and noteworthy books, we turn to a few more biographies. For a
New York Times profile of literary biographer Hermione Lee, widely admired for her books on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald, Charles McGrath spoke recently with novelist Julian Barnes who recalled the day that playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard approached Lee and asked her if she might consider making him her next subject. When she asked why he’d set his sights on her, he replied, “Because I want it to be read.” When
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A Terry Gilliam Christmas
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Brazil and 12 Monkeys, released in December 1985 and 1995 respectively…
Former Python animation specialist, Terry Gilliam turned his hand to film direction and became known for creating films absolutely loaded with visual whimsy and outlandishly creative ideas. The limits of budget never stifled Gilliam’s own limits despite some frustrations, and he often had a difficult relationship with producers. Whether it was
Time Bandits,
The Fisher King or
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchhausen, the films would enrapture audiences, even if occasionally some couldn’t tune into the oddball humour.
Box office success has often eluded a director who has also had struggles even getting some films off the ground. His