Ben Loory is a screenwriter who’s done project work for Jodie Foster and Alex Proyas, so it seems appropriate that his debut short-story collection, Stories For Nighttime And Some For The Day, brings the thrifty, breezy storytelling of the screen to prose fiction. Clocking in at 40 stories in 200 pages, this single-serving approach reads like Grimm’s Fairy Tales filtered through George Saunders with a short attention span. It’s immensely entertaining, full of funny, thoughtful modern fables and fairy tales designed to be unsuitable for bedtime stories, and sprinkled with just enough darker ones to provide a ...
- 8/10/2011
- avclub.com
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only Julie Taymor admirer in the world. Titus Andronicus was brilliant, Frida was absolutely brilliant, Across the Universe had problems but was inventive and now we have another stab at Shakespeare with The Tempest.
A new crop of images from the film have been put online and they are quite simply stunning. But what else would you expect from Miss Taymor? I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing her before she set off to direct this latest film and she was quite brilliant to talk to. If anybody is interested you can read my interview (here).
I do hope one day people realise what a great film-maker she is and my friend, the writer Ben Loory, will stop saying “strawberry jamz” every time I mention my admiration for Taymor’s work! You can see the trailer here
Synopsis:
In her big-screen adaptation of...
A new crop of images from the film have been put online and they are quite simply stunning. But what else would you expect from Miss Taymor? I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing her before she set off to direct this latest film and she was quite brilliant to talk to. If anybody is interested you can read my interview (here).
I do hope one day people realise what a great film-maker she is and my friend, the writer Ben Loory, will stop saying “strawberry jamz” every time I mention my admiration for Taymor’s work! You can see the trailer here
Synopsis:
In her big-screen adaptation of...
- 11/10/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Last week at the May Fair Hotel in central London I sat down with documentary filmmaker Yony Leyser to discuss his excellent new feature William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.
My own opinion of the American writer isn’t a comfortable one and Leyer’s movie didn’t change my mind on Burrough’s work or his character, but it did offer a fresh glimpse of the man and his extremely complex personality. Indeed, the film’s subtitle – A Man Within – highlights the drive of the documentary.
It is well made film on an often lurid and strange individual. I had to share my interview time with a journalist from The Independent, and it would have been great to chat with Leyser more in depth about Burroughs and his movie. Alas, it was not to be.
As my friend, the writer Ben Loory told me, Burroughs is a writer who...
My own opinion of the American writer isn’t a comfortable one and Leyer’s movie didn’t change my mind on Burrough’s work or his character, but it did offer a fresh glimpse of the man and his extremely complex personality. Indeed, the film’s subtitle – A Man Within – highlights the drive of the documentary.
It is well made film on an often lurid and strange individual. I had to share my interview time with a journalist from The Independent, and it would have been great to chat with Leyser more in depth about Burroughs and his movie. Alas, it was not to be.
As my friend, the writer Ben Loory told me, Burroughs is a writer who...
- 10/26/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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