Posted 27 July, 2007 in Jottings |
- A peculiarly literary podcast from the CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi interviews Don McKellar, who is currently shooting an adaptation of José Saramago’s novel Blindness; McKellar’s script is being directed by Fernando Meirelles, with Julianne Moore, McKellar, and Gael Garcia Bernal among the cast members. I haven’t been this excited about a single film in years. (My favourite Ghomeshi quote from the McKellar interview: “The end of civilization should include me.” If we cast our minds back to his days with Moxy Fruvous, it could be argued that it already has.) The podcast also features interviews with Veronica Tennant, currently serving as something called a “movement director” for the stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad in London, and “cuddly” ninja blogger George Murray, talking about one of TSR’s favourite sites, Bookninja.
- Speaking of Bookninja, the site currently features a new story called “Impossible to Die in Your Dreams” by Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell.
- Nerd alert: Zach Snyder (300) is directing an adaptation of Alan Moore’s groundbreaking
comic book graphic novel Watchmen, which will star Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, and Jackie Earl Haley.
- Tim O’Brien, interviewed at Artful Dodge: “The purpose of writing is to enhance mystery, not solve it.”
- Anthony Lane, reviewing Danny Boyle’s Sunshine in The New Yorker: “Their task is to explode a stellar bomb, ‘with a mass equivalent to Manhattan island,’ on the surface of the sun. The effect will be, we are told, ‘to create a star within a star,’ a plan that has not succeeded since the union of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland.”
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