10-18-09: Looks like someone had fun painting the mural on the construction site adjacent to the IFC Center.
As Brian Brooks wrote in indieWIRE, “New York’s IFC Center is expanding its venue from three to five auditoriums, augmenting the arthouse theater’s capacity by 25%. Construction is underway, in the space once used as a bar and restaurant, and the new theaters are expected to open to the public in early 2010.”
Earlier this evening, costume designer Pat Field (The Devil Wears Prada, Sex and the City) and the cast of Ugly Betty sat down for a conversation with Horacio Silva from “T: The New York TImes Style Magazine” to usher in the new season of the show, which shoots in the Silvercup Studios in Long Island City and locations around town.
10-12-09: Pat Field and the cast of Ugly Betty agreed that their jobs were “almost 100% fun”
10-12-09: Pat Field grew up in Queens (like Betty) to a mixed Greek family and said that
a multicultural family is in a better position in today’s world
When the French Institute Alliance Française commissioned a performance by husband and wife partners Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson, the two incorrectly assumed that their work needed to have a French subject. That’s how “Comme Toujours Here I Stand” came to be— inspired by the screenplay for the seminal Agnes Varda film from 1962, Cleo from 5 to 7, wherein a singer goes about her life as she awaits the results from a cancer test. The couple chose not to watch the film until late in the process. The resultant performance is a satirical take on the story, with lively costumes, sets, music, and dance numbers. The highly ambitious avant-garde piece uses audio and video to capture the film experience. Knowledge of the film is unnecessary to enjoy this exciting staged work.
“Comme Toujours Here I Stand” is currently at The Kitchen in Chelsea.
Publicity photo from the production
This is what I tweeted last week on my WeekofWonders twitter account:
Romantic in the classical sense, BRIGHT STAR is a perfect film. Perfect. Film.
Did I hear Tony Scott on “At the Movies,” say that “Bright Star is porno for English majors”?
OK. He’s got my number.
Some smart person at distributor Apparition or publicist Donna Daniels picked the charming, historic Tilden Mansion as the setting for television and other interviews with director Jane Campion, producer Jan Chapman, and actors Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, and Paul Schneider. Built in the 1840s, the Victorian mansion now houses the National Arts Club.
Inside the Tilden Mansion on Gramercy Park
There, lovely, gestural Abbie Cornish, who plays Fannie Brawne, said that this poem is one of her favorites:
Ode To A Nightingale
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thy happiness,—-
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
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