Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Danny Boyle's Isles of Wonder celebrates the British countryside and is infused with literary references – and a British Library exhibition also explores this idea of pastoral paradise
Stratford, Newham, meets Stratford-upon-Avon this July, and a line spoken by Caliban in The Tempest has emerged as the guiding spirit of Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony: "Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises."
After Boyle's launch event last week, we now know that the stadium in Stratford is also to be full of cows, geese, and ducks (to say nothing of the three sheep dogs). It may say a lot about the country's anxiety for the future that the opening ceremony (or what we currently know of it) references not the white heat of digitally enabled tomorrows, but harks back to the earthly paradise of rural dreams; a vision of an eternal Britain that endures in the cycles...
Stratford, Newham, meets Stratford-upon-Avon this July, and a line spoken by Caliban in The Tempest has emerged as the guiding spirit of Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony: "Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises."
After Boyle's launch event last week, we now know that the stadium in Stratford is also to be full of cows, geese, and ducks (to say nothing of the three sheep dogs). It may say a lot about the country's anxiety for the future that the opening ceremony (or what we currently know of it) references not the white heat of digitally enabled tomorrows, but harks back to the earthly paradise of rural dreams; a vision of an eternal Britain that endures in the cycles...
- 6/20/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies (directed by Sherezada Kent) and Abraham's Boys (directed by Dorothy Street) are screening at the 2009 Chicago Horror Film Festival September 25th-27th, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies synopsis: When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape...
With limited resources and no sign of the attack waning, Brian (Mueller) and Molly (Webb) try to put brains and brawn together to find a way out. However, it's Max's (Carlisi) store of useless movie trivia that truly holds the key to their escape, a harebrained scheme that just may be crazy enough to work.
Abraham's Boys synopsis: Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets.
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies synopsis: When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape...
With limited resources and no sign of the attack waning, Brian (Mueller) and Molly (Webb) try to put brains and brawn together to find a way out. However, it's Max's (Carlisi) store of useless movie trivia that truly holds the key to their escape, a harebrained scheme that just may be crazy enough to work.
Abraham's Boys synopsis: Abraham van Helsing - infamous, angry, brilliant - a man haunted by the darkest of secrets.
- 9/15/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies is a new short film directed by Sherezada Kent playing at Another Hole In The Head Film Festival in San Francsico, CA this upcoming week!
When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape. With limited resources and no sign of the attack waning, Brian (Mueller) and Molly (Webb) try to put brains and brawn together to find a way out. However, it's Max's (Carlisi) store of useless movie trivia that truly holds the key to their escape, a harebrained scheme that just may be crazy enough to work.
Average: Select ratingSuckySeen WorseDecentPretty good!Awesome Your rating: None Average: 5 (2 votes)...
When three co-workers (Jesse Mueller, Michael Carlisi, and Mary Webb) find themselves trapped in their office basement by shambling zombies, the unlikely trio attempts to devise a plan of escape. With limited resources and no sign of the attack waning, Brian (Mueller) and Molly (Webb) try to put brains and brawn together to find a way out. However, it's Max's (Carlisi) store of useless movie trivia that truly holds the key to their escape, a harebrained scheme that just may be crazy enough to work.
Average: Select ratingSuckySeen WorseDecentPretty good!Awesome Your rating: None Average: 5 (2 votes)...
- 6/4/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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