Hero worship can be the damndest thing, just look at the life of John Malcolm Brinnin.
Despite himself being a well known and critically lauded poet, the late writer was best known for his appreciation for the work of legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and ultimately his attempt to bring him stateside. The first person to do so, he penned a full book about the exploits on that tour, Dylan Thomas In America, and it couldn’t be a greater textual example to the negatives of hero worship.
However, it’s also a far more nuanced subject, and thankful the filmic take on this very time period is awash in nuance.
The debut feature of director Andy Goddard, Set Fire To The Stars not only takes its name from the most famous of all Dylan Thomas poems, but looks directly at this moment in history, when the legendary and troubled Irish-born icon jumped stateside.
Despite himself being a well known and critically lauded poet, the late writer was best known for his appreciation for the work of legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and ultimately his attempt to bring him stateside. The first person to do so, he penned a full book about the exploits on that tour, Dylan Thomas In America, and it couldn’t be a greater textual example to the negatives of hero worship.
However, it’s also a far more nuanced subject, and thankful the filmic take on this very time period is awash in nuance.
The debut feature of director Andy Goddard, Set Fire To The Stars not only takes its name from the most famous of all Dylan Thomas poems, but looks directly at this moment in history, when the legendary and troubled Irish-born icon jumped stateside.
- 6/13/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
(Cbr) The dark corners of the DC Universe are no place for the average mortal or superhero. Malevolent forces lurking in the shadows regularly wield arcane magic, possess bodies and rip souls to shreds. That's where John Constantine comes in. Based on the popular comic book character, the freshman TV series "Constantine" follows the exploits of John Constantine (Matt Ryan), a smart-ass Brit who reluctantly stares death in the eye for the greater good. A self-proclaimed exorcist and master of the dark arts, Constantine is hoping to find some redemption after a job gone wrong lands the soul of a little girl in hell. "Constantine" executive producer Daniel Cerone recently spoke with Cbr News to discuss bringing John Constantine to the small screen, how Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing" plays into the first season's arc, the show's mythology and incorporating Dcu's mystical characters into the new television series. Cbr News:...
- 10/23/2014
- by Bryan Cairns, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
This 1929 article by Paul Gilson, something of a forgotten classic in France, was published in the third issue of Jean George Auriol’s Du Cinéma (which would become the better known La Revue du Cinéma with the next issue) to coincide with the French release of Harry Langdon’s underappreciated masterpiece Three’s a Crowd. The magazine, close to various avant-garde circles, featured everything from screenplays to reportages to reviews, testifies to the effervescent, and relatively little known, film culture in Paris at the time. For those familiar with the bland, descriptive write-ups of most movie reviews of the era, this piece comes off as an exhilarating exercise in a deliriously subjective, free-form style of poetic film writing that is more inspired by the film than about it — an approach that, to this day, remains largely unexplored.
“Bombay, December 5th — The Bombay Chronicle brings to our attention an extraordinary botanical phenomenon.
“Bombay, December 5th — The Bombay Chronicle brings to our attention an extraordinary botanical phenomenon.
- 3/4/2013
- by Noah Teichner
- MUBI
When London Boulevard’s Mitchel is released from a three year stretch at Pentonville he fully intends to do the right thing. To turn his back on his underworld past and shake off the ties that bind him to the tower blocks and petty crime of a London he left behind.
Reclusive movie star Charlotte is a prisoner in her Holland Park mansion, trapped by the paparazzi and the ghosts of her own past. The two are drawn to one another and dare to imagine a future beyond the London they have grown to despise. Finding comfort in stolen moments together they tentatively take the first steps towards a new life. Mob boss Gant despises the thought of losing Mitchel to the straight and narrow – he’d rather see him dead than redeemed. Despite himself Mitchel is seduced by the prospect of battle, he has no intention of going down...
Reclusive movie star Charlotte is a prisoner in her Holland Park mansion, trapped by the paparazzi and the ghosts of her own past. The two are drawn to one another and dare to imagine a future beyond the London they have grown to despise. Finding comfort in stolen moments together they tentatively take the first steps towards a new life. Mob boss Gant despises the thought of losing Mitchel to the straight and narrow – he’d rather see him dead than redeemed. Despite himself Mitchel is seduced by the prospect of battle, he has no intention of going down...
- 11/25/2010
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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