I’ve been interviewed by the fine gentlemen of the Earth Station One.
It was quite fun, wonderful hosts, great show.
So, if you want to listen to me talking about one of my favorite subjects – myself – and also movies, comics, books etc. … well, just point your browsers to the Earth Station One website.
Isn’t this writing business just great.
In what other field could I spend the afternoon re-watching the great Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile, and still call it research?
And by the way, the movie is from 1978, not 1974 as the trailer caption puts it.
And yes, I might inflict my opinions about the movie on you, one of these nights.
One of my guilty pleasures (and not so guilty, aftert all) is Trailers from Hell!, a video-blog of sorts in which famous genre directors, screenwriters and producers present the trailers of their favorite movies, providing an off-beat commentary in voiceover.
The brainchild of director Joe Dante, and with regular contributions by the likes of John Landis, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Guillermo Del Toro and many other personal idols of mine, this is one of the best programs about movies on the internet, and it is highly recommended. It’s one of the most refreshing, funny and intelligent ways to spend five minutes watching a video on Youtube. Continue reading
Curiously enough, I got caught in this sort of discussion at lunchtime.
Life imitating art… or something like that.
Here’s the esteemed Lindybeige.
Enjoy!
Second episode in the adventures of Pauline cliffhanger, and a poor copy, I am afraid.
But you know how it goes – Pauline wants to take a vacation… danger and derrimg-do ensue.
Last installment and last gallery for the 1958 Fratelli Fabbri edition of a selection of tales from the Arabian Nights.
The last story in the book is The Tale of Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the Barber, and once again it is illustrated by Benvenuti. This is the widest selection of illustrations: the two previous tales got ten images each, but the final tale gets nineteen. And we won’t complain for that!
Once again, if you’d like to read the original, you can check out the version available at Sacred Texts.
For a complete version of the Arabian Nights, Project Gutenberg offers both the Andrew Lang translation, and the “complete” 1890 “Aldine edition”. But the Gutenberg guys really have a wide selection of versions of the book.
Print editions are many and deserve a separate post (maybe, one day).
And now, here’s the gallery.
Here’s something I found online.
I’m trying to get more information about this 1923 movie, but so far all I got was
Documentary exposé of the then-popular fad of spiritualism, of which Arthur Conan Doyle was a proponent.
Any ideas?
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