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« Reply #5777 on: 20:28:38, 22-09-2008 » |
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They dont make films like that anymore!
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« Reply #5778 on: 22:03:55, 22-09-2008 » |
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They dont make films like that anymore!
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« Reply #5781 on: 16:50:30, 23-09-2008 » |
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What films?
Here's a list of a few. I wouldn't say it's my favourite genre. In fact I don't think I've ever seen a zombie film all the way through. Today was a good day. More like this please. |
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« Reply #5782 on: 17:10:55, 23-09-2008 » |
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Do you know what a zombie is? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWIatFCH1Q Coming back on Stanley's remark: yes, it's true that Aldous Huxley wrote the screenplay for Jane Eyre. He also worked on the screenplay of Robert Z. Leonard's version of Pride and Prejudice (1940). I first read about this in Thomas Anthony Birrell's history of English literature. Birrell was a student of F.R. Leavis and he lectured at Nijmegen University in the 1960s. I don't know if he's still alive and I also don't know if his history of English literature was ever published in English (the original manuscript was written in English but the Dutch publisher only issued a translation in the Prisma pocket books series). Birrell's opinions of many writers have been heavily influenced by F.R. Leavis, but he's not so terribly hostile towards Milton as Leavis was. |
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« Reply #5783 on: 17:25:17, 23-09-2008 » |
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Aldous Huxley wrote the screenplay for Jane Eyre. He also worked on the screenplay of Robert Z. Leonard's version of Pride and Prejudice (1940). I first read about this in Thomas Anthony Birrell's history of English literature. Birrell was a student of F.R. Leavis and he lectured at Nijmegen University in the 1960s. I don't know if he's still alive and I also don't know if his history of English literature was ever published in English (the original manuscript was written in English but the Dutch publisher only issued a translation in the Prisma pocket books series). Birrell's opinions of many writers have been heavily influenced by F.R. Leavis, but he's not so terribly hostile towards Milton as Leavis was.
That's very interesting, Pim. Of course, the project of writing a 'history of English literature' in itself is not something Leavis would ever have been likely to undertake: it's quite alien to his way of thinking. Do let me know if you find anything out about the English manuscript having been published. It would certainly be worth a peak peek. |
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« Reply #5784 on: 17:29:45, 23-09-2008 » |
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Yes, indeed, Pim. Huxley wrote a most stylish screenplay for MGM's "Pride & Prejudice" (1940) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. I'm just getting stuck into Ian Hamilton's 'Writers in Hollywood' (1990) and realise that the subject could provide a fine thread in Cinema. Lots of scribbled notes so far. Huxley also wrote the screenplay for 'A Woman's Vengeance' (1948), adapted from his story and play, 'A Gioconda Smile' - I saw it at the NFT in the 1970s. He also worked on several projects that never reached production, including 'Jacob's Hands', about a faith healer, which he co-wrote with Christopher Isherwood.
I enjoyed the comment by writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes): "His erudition was staggering. I never discovered how many languages he knew, but one day I found him in his office at MGM reading Persian."
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« Reply #5785 on: 17:34:16, 23-09-2008 » |
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This is a film of a Russian persian cat being washed. "I never discovered how many languages he knew, but one day I found him in his office at MGM reading Persian."
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« Reply #5786 on: 17:51:03, 23-09-2008 » |
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I'm generally feeling quite happy this afternoon. I had a rather awkward experience yesterday (which I'll probably post about later on another thread), and I overslept today and I had to go out and run some errands this afternoon, and I haven't really got started yet on the work I need to do this week, but nonetheless I'm feeling quite cheerful - in large part because when I woke up there was an email waiting for me which was a reply to something I'd sent in July, and as a result I've arranged a meeting with a publisher next week about a project I've been trying to get off the ground for ages. Right ... time to do some listening in preparation for a composer profile I have to write! See you all later. |
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I'm feeling quite cheerful - in large part because when I woke up there was an email waiting for me which was a reply to something I'd sent in July, and as a result I've arranged a meeting with a publisher next week about a project I've been trying to get off the ground for ages.
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as a result I've arranged a meeting with a publisher next week about a project I've been trying to get off the ground for ages.
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« Reply #5789 on: 19:30:11, 23-09-2008 » |
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Indeedy doobrey! Go, tinners! |
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