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Feb 18 2008
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Recommended Reading: Jane Campion on Janet Frame

By Asides, Cinema, Literature and NZ

A little late, but still recom­men­ded, Jane Campion remem­bers Janet Frame and mak­ing An Angel at My Table, in The Guardian:

Each room and even parts of rooms were ded­ic­ated to a dif­fer­ent book in pro­gress. Here and there she had hung cur­tains to divide up the rooms like they do in hos­pit­al wards to give the patients pri­vacy. On the desk where she had last been work­ing was a pair of earmuffs.

“I can­’t bear any sound,” she explained. “The double bricks haven’t worked. I think I will have to move.”

Jan 30 2008
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Cat Power’s new on-stage persona

By Asides and Music

The new Cat Power reviewed in The Guardian by Maddy Costa:

She seems no less nervous than in her depressed, chaot­ic past, but in stamp­ing out the weak parts of her­self, Marshall has also des­troyed everything that was aching and haunt­ing and beau­ti­ful in her voice. The trans­form­a­tion is hor­ribly dis­il­lu­sion­ing to witness.

I was run­ning the Paramount when Cat Power played her solo show back in 2005. We had heard ter­rible stor­ies about self-destructive beha­viour and para­lys­ing stage-fright, and were warned not to sup­ply her with alco­hol, but it was one of the best shows I have ever seen: eth­er­e­al and highly music­al if that’s not too weird a choice of words. And she could have eas­ily freaked out when she found out that our dress­ing rooms had been demol­ished and we were build­ing two cinemas in the empty space. But she didn’t.

Jan 18 2008
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Sir Peter Hall on directing

By Asides, Cinema and Theatre

Sir Peter Hall tells a big­ger truth in a dis­cus­sion about directing:

I’ve worked with prac­tic­ally all the great dir­ect­ors, alpha­bet­ic­ally, from Bergman to Zeffirelli. It’s won­der­ful to be involved in the mys­tery of oth­er dir­ect­ors’ work, because they’re all different.

But most will know with­in the first three or four days wheth­er it’s going to work. The inter­est­ing thing is when it’s wrong they have to go on and they can­’t tell any­body it’s wrong.

[via The Telegraph]
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