With U.K. dream-pop pioneers Cocteau Twins, singer Elizabeth Fraser’s appeal had more to do with the way she projected raw emotions (joy, worry, uneasiness) than the songs she sang. Instead of attempting poetry, she sang in tongues, shaping her feelings with crude but often beautiful vocal sounds, and a few occasional words in English, which entwined themselves around her bandmates Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde’s fantasias. (Did she really say “silly, silly saliva”?) You didn’t listen to Cocteau Twins so much as you felt them. Fraser...
- 6/20/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
The following is an introduction to a new edition of Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" [W.W. Norton, $24.95] written by Andrew Biswell. The piece sheds light on the enduring legacy of the novel, and the various dystopian works that influenced Burgess's writing. Biswell also discusses Burgess's (often clever) responses to the novel's adaptation, and ideas for adaptations that never came to fruition:
In 1994, less than a year after Anthony Burgess had died at the age of seventy-six, BBC Scotland commissioned the novelist William Boyd to write a radio play in celebration of his life and work. This was broadcast during the Edinburgh Festival on 21 August 1994, along with a concert performance of Burgess’s music and a recording of his Glasgow Overture. The programme was called "An Airful of Burgess," with the actor John Sessions playing the parts of both Burgess and his fictional alter ego, the poet F. X. Enderby. On the same day,...
In 1994, less than a year after Anthony Burgess had died at the age of seventy-six, BBC Scotland commissioned the novelist William Boyd to write a radio play in celebration of his life and work. This was broadcast during the Edinburgh Festival on 21 August 1994, along with a concert performance of Burgess’s music and a recording of his Glasgow Overture. The programme was called "An Airful of Burgess," with the actor John Sessions playing the parts of both Burgess and his fictional alter ego, the poet F. X. Enderby. On the same day,...
- 9/25/2012
- by Madeleine Crum
- Huffington Post
In honor of the impending Halloween holiday, Dr. Jimmy Terror from Dr. Terror’s Blog of Horrors stops by The Liberal Dead to assist in merrymaking and overall mischief.
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead was recently released on October 18th. I’m sure you’ve been reading all about it, but for those of you who have not been sending out for more paramedics here’s the story thus far:
More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead is now available on DVD. It’s the ultimate account of the tongue-in-cheek, stylish and apocalyptic zombie movie. It features contributions from all the main cast as well as clips, photographs, storyboards, conceptual art, publicity materials, archival documents and behind-the-scenes footage.
Basically the best damn documentary you’re going to see all year. It’s this year’s Never Sleep Again (or at least that’s what I’ve...
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead was recently released on October 18th. I’m sure you’ve been reading all about it, but for those of you who have not been sending out for more paramedics here’s the story thus far:
More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead is now available on DVD. It’s the ultimate account of the tongue-in-cheek, stylish and apocalyptic zombie movie. It features contributions from all the main cast as well as clips, photographs, storyboards, conceptual art, publicity materials, archival documents and behind-the-scenes footage.
Basically the best damn documentary you’re going to see all year. It’s this year’s Never Sleep Again (or at least that’s what I’ve...
- 10/23/2011
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
From stage-door duties for the RSC, to the village famous for Straw Dogs, Observer writers reveal their idea of a perfect summer, past and present
● What are your tips for summer culture? Join the discussion
Kitty Empire
Pop critic
Let's be honest – the notion of summer as an extended golden period of rest and re-stimulation really now only applies to the young, the retired, or those in the teaching professions. The rest of us slog on, hoping to catch the odd festival (or maybe just gig in a park), marking time until camping in Cornwall or fly-drive to France, where finally luxuriating in the latest Alan Hollinghurst will come a distant second to stopping the youngest weeing in the hotel pool.
Once, though, I was artfully feckless too, making the rent by working as an usher for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the...
● What are your tips for summer culture? Join the discussion
Kitty Empire
Pop critic
Let's be honest – the notion of summer as an extended golden period of rest and re-stimulation really now only applies to the young, the retired, or those in the teaching professions. The rest of us slog on, hoping to catch the odd festival (or maybe just gig in a park), marking time until camping in Cornwall or fly-drive to France, where finally luxuriating in the latest Alan Hollinghurst will come a distant second to stopping the youngest weeing in the hotel pool.
Once, though, I was artfully feckless too, making the rent by working as an usher for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the...
- 8/1/2011
- by Kitty Empire, Mark Kermode, Rowan Moore, Philip French, Susannah Clapp, Laura Cumming, Luke Jennings, Fiona Maddocks, Rachel Cooke, Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
Courtney Love is looking for a new husband in England. The Hole rocker, who is currently dating British art dealer Henry Allsopp, was recently elected the first Non Executive Officer for Rock 'n' Roll of The Conservative Association at England's prestigious Oxford University (Ouca), and told students she wants to settle down in the U.K.
"She said she wanted to launch a new life as a country squire," Ouca president-elect Joe Cooke said. "Her exact words to me were, I want to find a new husband. She thought we were the best place to find one."
Courtney, who has an 18-year-old daughter, Frances Bean, with her late husband Kurt Cobain, recently paid a visit to the association's Port & Policy debate, where Joe said she was carrying a cane she claimed had belonged to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which she said she had bought as a present for rap mogul P. Diddy.
"She said she wanted to launch a new life as a country squire," Ouca president-elect Joe Cooke said. "Her exact words to me were, I want to find a new husband. She thought we were the best place to find one."
Courtney, who has an 18-year-old daughter, Frances Bean, with her late husband Kurt Cobain, recently paid a visit to the association's Port & Policy debate, where Joe said she was carrying a cane she claimed had belonged to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which she said she had bought as a present for rap mogul P. Diddy.
- 2/23/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
First photo from The Lorax, stills from True Grit and Burke and Hare, and photos of the action figure versions of the Frost Giant from Thor.
Posters for Little Fockers, Skyline, Tron Legacy,Coriolanus, Restless, Made in Dagenham, For Colored Girls, The Warrior's Way, The Next Three Days.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has launched the new site IJustWanttobePerfect.com for Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan". The site features a look into the disturbing mind of Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman).
"Kasabian musician Sergio Pizzorno has done the original score for "The Departed" scribe William Monahan’s directorial debut "London Boulevard". The Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell-led drama/thriller opens in the UK November 26th and in the Us sometime in February…" (full details)
"Indie psychological drama "Frankie & Alice", starring Halle Berry as a woman with multiple personality disorder, will score an awards season qualifying run starting December 17th in New York...
Posters for Little Fockers, Skyline, Tron Legacy,Coriolanus, Restless, Made in Dagenham, For Colored Girls, The Warrior's Way, The Next Three Days.
Fox Searchlight Pictures has launched the new site IJustWanttobePerfect.com for Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan". The site features a look into the disturbing mind of Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman).
"Kasabian musician Sergio Pizzorno has done the original score for "The Departed" scribe William Monahan’s directorial debut "London Boulevard". The Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell-led drama/thriller opens in the UK November 26th and in the Us sometime in February…" (full details)
"Indie psychological drama "Frankie & Alice", starring Halle Berry as a woman with multiple personality disorder, will score an awards season qualifying run starting December 17th in New York...
- 10/26/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
According to London's "Independent," Punk eccentric Julian Cope, former lead for The Teardrop Explodes and solo artist of alternative hits "Trampolene" and "World Shut Your Mouth," received the big-screen treatment recently when British actor and filmmaker David Morrissey bought the film rights to Cope’s biography “Head On.” Perhaps more enticing than Cope’s LSD-soaked concert appearances and Rock Star debauchery is his post-punk life as an expert on ancient stone circles, a cosmic shaman, museum lecturer and author of history books. “I secured the screen option to Julian’s "Head On,"" Morrissey said. "I think there’s a really good story to be told.”...
- 10/14/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Julian Cope has suggested that he enhanced his own myth by staying out of the limelight. The singer-songwriter fronted The Teardrop Explodes from 1978 to 1982, with the band releasing two albums in their lifetime. Since then, Cope has continued to release music, as well as write novels and pen poetry. Cope told The Daily Telegraph: "My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth. "A lot of artists think, (more)...
- 7/1/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
The New Yorker writer on Herman Melville, Eastbound & Down, and an actress he fears may be too young for him. Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker who's written several well-received books. But he's also a guy who records theme songs for the protagonists of his novels, releases sets of books that look like accordions, and maintains a website which invites visitors to write letters to fictional characters. Along that epistolary theme, his latest book, What He's Poised to Do, is a short-story collection in which many characters are letter writers. (One of the stories is set on the moon.) We chatted with Greenman about premature ejaculation, Herman Melville, and the reason he almost paid money to see Marmaduke. Julian Cope People like to dismiss Julian Cope as an eighties relic, or as an acid casualty, but they couldn't be more wrong than [...]...
- 6/29/2010
- by Ryan Britt
- Nerve
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