By JAMES BOWMAN in The American
Clint Eastwood, an icon of American heroism recognized throughout the world, made a movie last year about one of the best-known battles of World War II, a movie that lacked both a hero and so much as a glance in the direction of what was being fought over. It was [...]
12/12/2007
The Good, the Bad, and the Japanese
12/12/2007
British Library’s £1.1m saves Pinter’s papers for nation
One of the most important postwar literary archives will remain in Britain after the British Library yesterday announced it had acquired the letters, manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, programmes and emails of Harold Pinter.The library has paid £1.1m for more than 150 boxes of the dramatist’s personal archive, which includes more than 12,000 letters between Pinter and [...]
12/12/2007
Film on Wednesday: Michelangelo Antonioni – L’avventura (1960)
L’avventura (The Adventure) is a 1960 Italian film written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. The film is notable for its slow pacing and careful composition, and for its unusual narrative structure. It was produced on location in Italy under difficult financial and physical conditions and made Monica Vitti an [...]
