Дом из песка и тумана (The house of sand and fog).

Дом из песка и тумана (The house of sand and fog).:
Дом из песка и тумана (The house of sand and fog).
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Продолжительность: 126

США 2003

Режиссер: Вадим Перельман
Продюсер: Майкл Лондон, Вадим Перельман

Сценарий: Вадим Перельман, Шон Лоренс Отто (по роману Андрю Дюбю III)

В ролях: Дженнифер Коннелли, Бен Кингсли, Шорех Агдашпур, Рон Элдард, Фрэнсис Фишер, Ким Диккенс, Карлос Гомес и др. 

Музыка: Джеймс Хорнер

Оператор: Роджер Дикинс, Дэвид Стоктон

20.05.2004

John Bayley: Of literature and love.

Obituary: John Bayley: Of literature and love | The Economist:
"WHEN he had tucked his wife, Dame Iris Murdoch, the great novelist, into bed, registering from her expression of sweet content that Dr Alzheimer had been temporarily banished by sleep, John Bayley would go downstairs. There, at the kitchen table, he would pour himself a drink and find a book to read. Among the piles of unwashed plates, papers and pill packets—and, somewhere, a large pork pie which they had put down and never seen again—would be a Jane Austen or a Barbara Pym, well-worn and ever welcome.
As he read, though, his thoughts would start to wander, first ambling and then running, like a horse let out in a field. He had held them back all day, of necessity, as Iris had rattled the front door crying to escape, or fought against putting on her shoes. Now he did not resist them. Like the devil Belial in “Paradise Lost”, he surrendered to open-ended daydreaming.


"For who would lose
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
These thoughts that wander through eternity?"

Wise Advice from Tchaikovsky’s Father.

What to Do When Your Wife Is More Successful than You: Wise Advice from Tchaikovsky’s Father, 150 Years Ahead of Its Time | Brain Pickings:
“Married happiness is based upon mutual respect, and you would no more permit your wife to be a kind of servant, than she would ask you to be her lackey.”
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Mike Leigh.

The Baftas vs Mike Leigh: why is our best auteur continually snubbed? | Film | The Guardian:
"Mike Leigh is one of the UK's greatest living artists. Awards won't boost or diminish that.
He's the kind of artist whose work saves lives..... A bit dramatic to say but his character's struggles in life strengthen the viewer.
His films are like novels.... full of depth.
He's up there with Shakespeare and Dickens (who I know people see as untouchable gods) - but he mixes comedy and tragedy and in a 100 years people will be watching and reading his work, which will give one of the most honest pictures of our times and how we live.
Thank god for Mike Leigh."

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Joan Didion.

Joan Didion and Celine: Slouching Towards Bendel's - The Atlantic:
Joan Didion is a style icon and literary legend. In her work, fashion and loss are inextricable.
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Young Susan Sontag.

Rereading as Rebirth: Young Susan Sontag on Personal Growth, the Pleasures of Revisiting Beloved Books, and Her Rereading List | Brain Pickings

"In a testament to one of Italo Calvino’s 14 definitions of a classic — “The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: ‘I’m rereading…,’ never ‘I’m reading…'” — here are a few of Sontag’s favorite rereads, as recorded in her journal:

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and the Gentle Lena by Gertrude Stein
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- The Journals of André Gide
- Faust by Goethe
- The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
- The Immoralist by André Gide
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
- Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
- Muirhead’s Guide to London by Findlay Muirhead"

A new book features the four wives of Ernest Hemingway.

BBC News - A new book features the four wives of Ernest Hemingway:
"Ernest Hemingway was married to four different women, for forty years of his life. Three of them were the author's mistress before becoming his wife. A fictionalised profile of the Nobel prize winner's wives has been made by author Naomi Wood. She met the BBC's Nick Higham to talk about her novel, Mrs Hemingway."

Ernest Hemingway: Four marriages, endless mistresses | Daily Mail Online:
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood.

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . .

Paula McLain’s New York Times–bestselling novel piqued readers’ interest about Ernest Hemingway’s romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle’s bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Naomi Wood’s Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong.

Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. Spanning 1920s bohemian Paris through 1960s Cold War America, populated with members of the fabled "Lost Generation," Mrs. Hemingway is a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

Naomi Wood was born in 1983 and lives in London. She studied at Cambridge and at UEA for her MA in Creative Writing. Originally from York, she has gone on to live in Hong Kong, Paris and Washington DC. She is the author of The Godless Boys and Mrs. Hemingway.

Talking Mrs Hemingway with Naomi Wood | Kate Braithwaite | Historical Novel Society: