8.31.2014

Unquiet Film Series - Bearing Witness

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Mike Hodges on Flash Gordon

Alain Resnais Interview

Sir Richard Attenborough on Chaplin

Writing with Light : Vittorio Storaro (1992)

8.29.2014

Roger Ebert Interviews Arthur C. Clarke

8.28.2014

Chris Nolan on Following

A Most Wanted Man - Anton Corbjin

I worked for Anton Corbjin on a Depeche Mode video. Super nice guy. 


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Orlando Bloom: 'Romeo and Juliet' - In Performance

Alan Cumming - In Performance - Lady Macbeth

Frankenstein: Defining the Monster

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8.27.2014

Harold Ramis talks about his favorite movies

Shelby Foote on William Faulkner and the American South

A History of Hamlet

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Shakespeare's Beasts

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Freetown! Shakespeare and Social Flourishing

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8.26.2014

Who is it that can tell me who I am?: performing the role of Lear

Acting as possession: experiments in musicality and song for Lady Macbeth

Shakespeare at the edge

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Alan Cumming discusses MACBETH

University Lecture: Macbeth and the Show of Kings, William Carroll

8.25.2014

Back To Work

The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained



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The Story of Crime Fiction

Oxford University: Crime Fiction





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On the joy of not rehearsing Shakespeare

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'

8.24.2014

Kubrick Visions: Kelvin Pike

SALES & DISTRIBUTION | Filmmaker Bootcamp Panel | TIFF Industry 2013

Distribution Panel Sundance 2014

Producer Panel Sundance 2014

Film Financing Panel Sundance 2014

8.23.2014

Exploring Original Pronunciation - Richard II

Nicholas Hytner Lecture on How to do Shakespeare

Peter Hall in conversation with Nicholas Hytner

Peter Hall (Artistic Director of the National Theatre, 1973-1988) reflects on his career, directing the original English-language production of Waiting for Godot, working with Harold Pinter and staging Shakespeare:



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Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection

"Definitely the hardest job is Producing" Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen



Full Conversation:

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8.22.2014

Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk
90. Guardians of the Galaxy
91. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
92. The World's End
93. The Thin Man
94. His Girl Friday
95. Miami Vice

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Epic Potholes

Dante Street in New Orleans:


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Visions of Light

The Science and Engineering of Sound

Launch of Viking 1

Inside The Edit

From Mentorless:

What Inside the Edit offers to future students, wherever they are around the world is an access to a series of tutorials (25 are available so far, but the number will go up to 80 overtime for this first phase of teaching) that gives a better grasp at the artistic process attached to being an editor. 
The Creative Editing Course Tutorial 1.1 from Inside The Edit on Vimeo.

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Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

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8.21.2014

Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays

Martin Scorsese- History Man

Paul Cantor on Shakespeare

Paul Cantor on "Antony and Cleopatra"

What can those who teach and study Shakespeare learn from those who perform his plays and vice versa

8.20.2014

The Scottish Play

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Richard Burton reads 'Elegy' (for his father) by Dylan Thomas

Anthony Hopkins reads Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

Julie Taymor's Titus

Julie Taymor on The Tempest

Julie Taymor's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Trailer

8.19.2014

Much Ado About Nothing At The Old Vic

Creative Spark: Ruth E. Carter

Money, Method & Madness - Making "Apocalypse Now"

Cinefile : Robert Altman

Paul Robeson's Othello

8.18.2014

Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk
90. Guardians of the Galaxy
91. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
92. The World's End
93. The Thin Man
94. His Girl Friday

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Paul Robeson discusses Othello

James Earl Jones reads Othello

Variety Artisans: How Much Does A Hit Song Cost?

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Wim Wenders: Interview at Cannes 2014

BAFTA Guru: In Focus: Cinematography

8.17.2014

Our Curiosity

Best Movies To Watch To Learn The Craft Of Filmmaking by Jack Perez

Creative Mind: The Poet as Creator

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Charlie Chaplin Directs City Lights

Werner Herzog's Masterclass

8.16.2014

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Terminal

I love this place. Love that they have restored it to its old style. I feel like I should be in a suit and fedora whenever I go in. And, I feel like i am going to go on one of those plane rides in Indiana Jones that are traced on a map:







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E.L. Doctorow reads Herman Melville's thoughts on Shakespeare

Creative Mind: The Architect as Creator

Creative Method: Gyorgy Kepes on Design

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The World After Tomorrow with Cory Doctorow, Steve Fuller and Kate Russell

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Gregory Peck Speaks About Friend Lauren Bacall

8.15.2014

Frank Ledbetter Sculpture In Kenner on Loyola

Variety Artisans: “Does Anybody Know What a Music Supervisor Does?”

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Variety Artisans: How Do You Learn To Be a Music Supervisor?

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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

The Man From Stratford

Creative Mind: The Writer as Creator

8.14.2014

Creative Method: Dore Schary on Movie Production

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Creative Method: Harold Clurman on Directing

Creative Method: Lee Strasberg on Acting

The History of Sound at the Movies

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - the Man and His Work

8.13.2014

Boat & Barge on the Mississippi River

Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk
90. Guardians of the Galaxy
91. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
92. The World's End
93. The Thin Man

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In The Teeth of Jaws

Sir Richard Eyre and Simon Russell Beale on The Hollow Crown

Simon Russell Beale on the wedding scene in 'Much Ado About Nothing'

Jude Law On Playing Hamlet

LDSD: Supersonic Test Flight - NASA Flying Saucer

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8.12.2014

My Current Resume

As always, more can be found at IMDB, but this is a list of my current resume/credits:

Mind Puppets - Locations Assistant
Independent Feature Film
2014

The Originals - Production Coordinator - NOLA Shoot
CW TV Series
2014

Ravenswood - APOC
ABC Family Series - Season 1
2013

Una Vida - Production Coordinator
Independent Feature Film
2013

Second Sight - APOC
CBS Pilot
2013

Remember Sunday - Locations Assistant
Hallmark MOW
2013

Boulevard H - Production Coordinator
Independent Feature Film
2012

White Rabbit - Production Coordinator
Independent Feature Film
2012

Nothing to Fear - APOC
Independent Feature Film
2012

Common Law - Production Secretary
USA TV Series - Season 1
2011 - 2012

Hide - Production Secretary
TNT MOW
2011

Ricochet - Production Secretary
TNT MOW
2011

Memphis Beat - Production Secretary
TNT Series - Season 2
2011

Worst. Prom. Ever. - Office PA
MTV MOW
2010

On The Road - Office PA
Feature Film
2010

Memphis Beat - Production Secretary
TNT Series - Season 1
2010

If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise - Key Office PA
HBO Documentary
2010

The Mechanic - Production Secretary
Millennium Feature Film
2009

The Expendables - Production Secretary
Millennium Feature Film
2009

Alabama Moon - Office PA
Independent Feature Film
2008

The Final Destination - Production Secretary
New Line Feature Film
2008

Welcome to Academia - APOC
Independent Feature Film
2007

Racing For Time - Office PA
Lifetime MOW
2007

Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Accounting Assistant
Warner Bros/Paramount Feature Film
2006 - 2007

Life Is Not A Fairy Tale - Office PA
Lifetime MOW
2006

The Riches - Office PA
FX TV Pilot
2006

Labou - Production Coordinator
Independent Feature Film
2005 - 2006

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Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk
90. Guardians of the Galaxy
91. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
92. The World's End

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South Bank Show - Merchant of Venice w/ Dustin Hoffman

Sam Mendes on the Greatest Scene in Shakespeare

Simon Russell Beale on Shakespearean Soliloquys

Wes Anderson via kogonada

Linklater // On Cinema & Time

8.11.2014

Ozu: Passageways

Design & Fiction

Understanding Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Michael Wood - In Search of Beowulf

In Search of Shakespeare

8.10.2014

Speaking the bright and beautiful English of Shakespeare - Ben Crystal

Mackendrick on Film - Updated

BAFTA Guru: Inside The Writers' Room

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Burn The Man Down Kickstarter

David Lynch and Tati

Film Meets Art

8.09.2014

Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk
90. Guardians of the Galaxy
91. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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History of the English Language















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Talking to Louis Malle

Variety Artisans: Bringing A Concept to Life

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Andre de Toth Interview

Jeff Bridges: Working with Hal Ashby

8.08.2014

Boat On The Mississippi

Taken at The Fly:


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Morning Listening

King Lear Montage

Darren Aronofsky: Movies in Your Brain

DP/30: Calvary, John Michael McDonagh & Brendan Gleeson

Royal Shakespeare Company: Why Shakespeare?









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How Shakespeare Changed My Life Trailer

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8.07.2014

2014 National Lighthouse Day - New Canal Lighthouse

We went to the New Canal Lighthouse today:










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Hitchcock Techniques

Mise-en-scene Rear Window

Theater Talks at the Schomburg: Romeo and Juliet

The Player One On One with Robert Altman

Found at Cinephilia & Beyond:



Also, Epix has a documentary coming up on Altman:

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2014 Romeo and Juliet on Broadway

A showcase of the 2014 production of Romeo and Juliet on Broadway starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad directed by David Leveaux:

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8.06.2014

Working and Writing

Notebooks, books, and legal pad:


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John Lithgow on The Role of a Lifetime

Sir Richard Eyre and Simon Russell Beale on The Hollow Crown

Shakespeare: Original pronunciation

Voice - Text Work: Hamlet





The full set of voice work videos from the National Theatre:

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Ian McKellen Discusses "Waiting for Godot"

Conversations with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart

8.05.2014

In Our Time: General Shakespeare Episodes


Melvyn Bragg examines what we know about the life of William Shakespeare. Charles Dickens said of the deeply enigmatic Shakespeare, “It is a great comfort…that so little is known concerning the poet. The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something should turn up”. 
The mystery may have been a pleasure to Dickens but for forgers, conspiracy theorists and Shakespeare scholars it is a tantalising conundrum that has exercised minds since the day the playwright died. How was the low born son of an illiterate craftsman, with a meagre education, able to write with such skill and erudition? How did a provincial man manage to become so attuned to the politics of kings? And how do we know that the plays that we have are the right plays, written by the right man and published in the form they were written? 
With Katherine Duncan-Jones, Professor of English at Somerville College, Oxford; John Sutherland; Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English at University College, London and textual scholar Grace Ioppolo, lecturer in English at the University of Reading

Shakespeare's Works:

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of William Shakespeare. He was nominated as the Man of the last Millennium and he steps into this one - on film, on stage, in academia, in schools, in private passions, probably in song and dance as well - every bit as briskly as he did in 1600. He's been called our greatest living playwright. We are told he taught us how to be modern. That he is the true Bible of our times. We are also told that his work is irrelevant to a massive percentage of the population, sandbanked by critics, neutered by establishments and, above all, embalmed in a cargo of language increasingly out of reach and ken of those who might heave him up the next century. 
William Shakespeare 'was not of an age, but for all time' according to Ben Johnson. That was in the seventeenth century and it's a claim that has often been repeated since, but is it really true? Is what we see in theatre and increasingly at the cinema the work of a playwright whose works live on, or are we merely watching historical reconstructions - museum pieces - with any contemporary meaning obscured by the reverence we pay to the author? 
And if Shakespeare is for all time, what is it about him that makes him so eternally special?
With Professor Sir Frank Kermode, literary critic and author of Shakespeare's Language; Michael Bogdanov, theatre, television, opera and film director and a founder member of the English Shakespeare Company; Germaine Greer, Professor of English and Comparative Studies, Warwick University 

Shakespeare & Literary Criticism:

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare. Did he invent the human personality as we inhabit it now? Professor Harold Bloom claims: 
“Shakespeare is universal. Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. One has to ask the biblical question “Where shall wisdom be found? And I suppose for me the answer is: wisdom is to be found in Shakespeare provided you get at it in the right way.” 
But why does Shakespeare still hold the popular and indeed academic imagination in the twentieth century? Should we read him above all others as Harold Bloom suggests in the way he suggests? And what does this say about the state of literary criticism today? 
With Harold Bloom, literary critic, Professor of Humanities, Yale University and Berg Professor of English, New York University; Jacqueline Rose, literary critic and Professor of English, University of London. 

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Walter Murch and Jon Favreau: Movies in Your Brain

Ethan Hawke's Macbeth

The Lincoln Center performance of Macbeth starring Ethan Hawke and directed by Jack O'Brien:

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In Our Time: The Tempest


Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Written in around 1610, it is thought to be one of the playwright's final works and contains some of the most poetic and memorable passages in all his output. It was influenced by accounts of distant lands written by contemporary explorers, and by the complex international politics of the early Jacobean age. 
The Tempest is set entirely on an unnamed island inhabited by the magician Prospero, his daughter Miranda and the monstrous Caliban, one of the most intriguing characters in Shakespeare's output. Its themes include magic and the nature of theatre itself - and some modern critics have seen it as an early meditation on the ethics of colonialism.

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Variety Artisans: What Makes a Great Collaboration?

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8.04.2014

Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk
90. Guardians of the Galaxy

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In Our Time: King Lear

Make Up Artist Dick Smith

Coen Brothers and Roger Deakins

John Bell on King Lear

M and Sound Motif

8.03.2014

Apollo 15 Rover Television Camera

Variety Artisans: Working With Actors

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National Theatre: Stage Fighting

Othello - The History of Black Performances



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Talking Lear

Interviews with the cast from King Lear at the National Theatre directed by Sam Mendes and starring Simon Russell Beale:
















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8.02.2014

Michael Pennington On King Lear

BBC: Off By Heart Shakespeare


In April 2011 BBC launched Off By Heart Shakespeare - a performance contest for 13-15 year olds to be filmed for a BBC Two documentary. We challenged 10 celebrities to perform one of the speeches from the Off By Heart Shakespeare set speech list.

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Sir Ian McKellen & Shakespeare

Guillermo Del Toro & Robert Rodriguez

Lectures on The Tempest

8.01.2014

Movies in 2014

1. The Hot Rock
2. The Valley Of Gwangi
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. To Have And Have Not
5. The Third Man
6. Below
7. It Happened One Night
8. State And Main
9. Furious 6
10. Vengeance
11. Running Scared (1986)
12. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
13. The Thing From Another World
14. Matilda
15. The Shaolin Temple
16. The Avengers
17. The Raid
18. In The Heat Of The Night
19. Dillinger
20. The Mission (Johnnie To Film)
21. Odds Against Tomorrow
22. Outrage
23. My Name Is Nobody
24. The Wolverine
25. Fulltime Killer
26. Muppets From Space
27. The Man With The Iron Fists
28. Mad Detective
29. Batman Returns
30. Riddick
31. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
32. Captain Phillips
33. The Lego Movie
34. Now You See Me
35. Bull Durham
36. Nebraska
37. Big Trouble In Little China
38. Death Rides A Horse
39. Zero Effect
40. The Mercenary
41. A Fistful Of Dollars
42. World War Z
43. Batman
44. Monte Walsh (1970)
45. Ride The High Country
46. The 13th Warrior
47. Nothing Left To Fear
48. Raiders of the Lost Ark
49. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
50. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
51. Mud
52. Stagecoach
53. Kill Bill Vol. 2
54. Iron Man Three
55. Dallas Buyers Club
56. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
57. Looking for Richard
58. Fort Apache
59. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2
60. 12 Years A Slave
61. Dead Man
62. Macbeth (Welles)
63. Dragonslayer
64. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
65. Pacific Rim
66. American Hustle
67. About Time
68. The Searchers
69. Labor Day
70. Solomon Kane
71. How To Train Your Dragon 2
72. R.I.P.D.
73. Pain And Gain
74. The Wolf Man
75. Frankenstein (1931)
76. All Monsters Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge
77. Joint Security Area
78. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
79. Terror of MechaGodzilla
80. From Russia With Love
81. Goldfinger
82. Thunderball
83. You Only Live Twice
84. The Bride of Frankenstein
85. Son of Frankenstein
86. The Mummy
87. The Ghost of Frankenstein
88. House of Frankenstein
89. Hulk

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Mississippi River Today

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Allen Ginsberg Teaches The Tempest

Found at Open Culture:

Like so many great poets, Allen Ginsberg composed extemporaneously as he spoke, in erudite paragraphs, reciting lines and whole poems from memory—in his case, usually the poems of William Blake. In a 1966 Paris Reviewinterview, for example, he discusses and quotes Blake at length, concluding “The thing I understood from Blake was that it was possible to transmit a message through time that could reach the enlightened.” Eight years later, Ginsberg would begin to midwife this concept as a teacher at the newly-founded Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Ginsberg taught summer workshops at the school from 1974 until the end of his life, eventually spending the remainder of the year in a full-time position at Brooklyn College. The Internet Archive hosts recordings of many of these workshops, such as his lectures on 19th Century Poetry, Jack Kerouac, Spiritual Poetics, and Basic Poetics. In the audio lectures here, from August 1980, Ginsberg teaches a four-part course on Shakespeare’s The Tempest (parts one and two above, three and four below), a play he often returned to for reference in his own work.









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F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads Othello

Kuleshov Effect

Baseball, White House & War Photography with David Hume Kennerly

Roger Deakins' Favorite Scenes : The Shawshank Redemption