The video of the Sundance Award Ceremony…
…at 1:13:04 Miles Joris-Peyrafitte & the “As You Are” crew take the stage! Embed from Getty Images
Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition: Special Jury Award to director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for “As You Are”!!!
Variety Sundance: 19 Biggest Breakthrough Performances (17) Owen Campbell, “As You Are” Best known for a memorable recurring role on FX’s “The Americans,” Campbell scores a leading man breakout in first-time director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s haunting teen angst drama. He nails the loneliness of a young man not quite sure of his place in the world and anchors the ’90s-set bizarre love triangle. – G.B. (18) Charlie Heaton, “As You … Read more Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition: Special Jury Award to director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for “As You Are”!!!
Uri Avnery: The Pied Piper of Zion
January 30, 2016 HAMELIN, A small town in Germany (not so far from where I was born), was infested with rats. In their despair, the burghers called upon a rat-catcher and promised him a thousand guilders for liberating them from this plague. The rat-catcher took his pipe and played such a sweet melody that all the rats came out of their holes and joined him. He marched them to … Read more Uri Avnery: The Pied Piper of Zion
To quote the backdrop of Wolfgang Rihm’s staging of “Die Hamletmaschine”
HOPE IS BUT A LACK OF INFORMATION
Egyptian Poet Fatima Naoot Gets Three-year Jail Sentence for ‘Insulting Islam’
via Arab Literature (in English) & mlynxqualey: Poet Fatima Naoot was sentenced today to three years in prison and a 20,000LE fine, found guilty of “contempt of religion”: Photo from Poetry International. According to Ahram Online, Naoot goes to prison immediately and must appeal from there. Naoot was charged not for her poetry, but for a Facebook post from October 2014. That’s when she described the Eid Al-Adha’s tradition of slaughtering sheep as the “greatest massacre … Read more Egyptian Poet Fatima Naoot Gets Three-year Jail Sentence for ‘Insulting Islam’
Celan the Aphorist
Over the last two year it has been a great pleasure to work on & off at translating Paul Celan’s unpublished miscellaneous prose works that were gathered some years ago by Barbara Wiedemann and Bertrand Badiou in the volume Mikrolithen sinds, Steinchen (Microliths these are, little Stones [Pebbles]). Having put the work on the proverbial backburner for some six months, I am now in the process of pulling it out again & going … Read more Celan the Aphorist
On the Road to Sundance…
Will be gone for the weekend, driving from Boise to Park City to attend premiere of Miles’ movie. Yesterday’s New York Times also quoted that photo:
Ettore Scola (1931-2016)
Filmography as director Let’s Talk About Women (1964) Thrilling (1965) Hard Time for Princes (1965) The Devil in Love (1966) Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?(1968) Police Chief Pepe (1969) The Pizza Triangle (1970) My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971) The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972) Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam (1973) Festival Unità (1973) – documentary We All … Read more Ettore Scola (1931-2016)
ABDELFATTAH KILITO’S ‘THOU SHALT NOT TRANSLATE ME,’ TRANSLATED
In March 2010, Moroccan writer and scholar Abdelfattah Kilito gave a talk at the Sharjah Art Foundation Symposium titled “Thou Shalt Not Translate.” Naser Albreeky has translated: Presented by Moroccan Writer Abdelfattah Kilito Translation by Naser Albreeky Figure: Kalila wa-Dimna. Syrian manuscript. Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, MS arabe 3465, folio 57. The title that I have suggested for my talk includes something of a jest. I invite … Read more ABDELFATTAH KILITO’S ‘THOU SHALT NOT TRANSLATE ME,’ TRANSLATED
Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 01/14/2016 Humanity has become a geological force that is able to suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a study now published in the renowned scientific journal Nature shows. Cracking the code of glacial inception, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found the relation of insolation and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to be … Read more Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age