Sophies Choice

William Styron In A Daughter's Words

nytimes.com | DWIGHT GARNER | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: All the Finest Girls, Reading My Father, William Styron, Memoirs, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, Alexandra Styron Memoir, Alexandra Styron, Sophie's Choice, Books News

When Alexandra Styron, the youngest of the novelist William Styron’s four children, was growing up, she writes in her new memoir, there was one invi...

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ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Protect the Nation, Mysteries of Lisbon, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Henry Kissinger, Black Venus, The Tempest, Anti-Christ, Certified Copy, Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff, The Last of England, The Warning, Pinochet, Salvador Allenda, Sophie's Choice, Prisoner 13, Richard Nixon, Scenes From a Marriage, Medea, Roger & Me, Itt, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pale Flower, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Aurora, Boxing Gym, Police Incident, The Social Network, Nuremberg, Film Socialisme, Another Year, El Compadre Mendoza, Foreign Parts, Naked, Let's Go With Pancho Villa, Career Girls, Gatos Viejos, Inside Job, Julie Taymor, Silence, Hereafter, The Breakfast Club, Desperately Seeking Susan, Carlos, Smithereens, Revolucion, We-Are-What-We-Are, Arts News
Michael Vazquez

by Michael Vazquez Two weeks after the close of the New York Film Festival, herewith, my first posting, by way of random notes on thirty-nine films: ...

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Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raoul Wallenberg, Shoah, The Academy Awards, Nazi, Leni Riefenstahl, Propoganda, Stellan Skarsgard, Best Movies on DVD, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, The Pianist, Sophie's Choice, Vittorio De Sica, Fascism, Dominique Sanda, Sidney Lumet, The Diary of Anne Frank, Triumph of the Will, Meryl Streep, Genocide, The Holocaust, Documentary, Adrien Brody, Roman Polanski, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News
John Farr

We should all periodically revisit the best books and films on the Holocaust, however unpleasant, to keep our own awareness, watchfulness, and revulsion very much alive. There is no shortage of worthy choices.

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Random House Gives Up eBook Rights To Styron's Works

The New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Depression, Random House, Sophie's Choice, Ibooks, Kindle, Open Road, Styron, Jane Friedman, Ebooks, Markus Dohle, Ipad, Books News

After publicly staking a claim to the right to publish electronic versions of books that already have a long history in print, Random House appears to...

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eBook Rights: The Role Of Publishers Is Greater Than It May Seem

The New York Times | JONATHAN GALASSI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Road, Kindle, William Styron, Book Publishing, eBook Rights, Random House, Sophie's Choice, Ereaders, Publishing, Copyright, Amazon Kindle, Authors, Publishers, Ebooks, Books, Nook, Books News

News that the heirs of William Styron, the author of "Sophie's Choice," are licensing the electronic-publishing rights for some of his Random House bo...

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Jacqueline Bisset, Actress with Legendary Film Pedigree, Stars in Death in Love Filmed, Set & Opening in NYC

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surrealism, Trauma, Boaz Yakin, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Josh Lucas, Death in Love, The Night Porter, Paul Newman, Deborah Kerr, John Huston, Murder on the Orient Express, Sophie's Choice, Two for the Road, Casino Royale, David Niven, Day for Night, George Cukor, Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Francois Truffaut, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, New York News
Penelope Andrew

The film is set in New York City in the 1990s. Yakin, a native New Yorker, shot the film in 25 days and financed it himself.

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Women in Hollywood: The Critics, the Directors, the Actresses, the Oscars and Where are the Female D.P.s?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holywood Execs, Actresses, Feminist, Silver Screen, Womne, Sheery Lansing, Anne Hathaway, Studios, Sophie's Choice, Female Directors, Meryl Streep, Celluloid Ceiling, Directors of Photogrpahy, Motion Picture Association of America, Ocars, Academy, Entertainment News
Vivian Norris

It's Hollywood's loss. To keep women out of the nominations and awards for the Oscars. To ignore female film critics. To pretend women directors of photography do not exist.

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