Radha’s Dance and Cine-WWW
Radha’s Dance from the River by Jean Renoir
We added the dance sequence on youtube. (See previous post here.)
Additional Note:
The movie River served as a launching pad for the directorial career of Satyajit Ray, who met and befriended Renoir during the shooting of this film.
Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, & Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on Charlie Rose – an hour on film and friendship
Alfonso Cuaron is currently filming a drama, based on Mexico’s violent student revolt of 1968.
Hanif Kureishi on the birth of “Venus”
One sees why O’Toole jumped at the part. Hanif Kureishi has written a hugely impressive script – funny, poignant, wise and politically incorrect in equal measure. (via)
Daniel Craig was in “Mother” by Kureishi.
It’s obviously me and Roger, and our preoccupations, and our interest in people who are older, our interest in people who are in the second half of their lives, and finding a spark in them, I guess. Roger and I are not particularly old, but we both turned fifty. We’re on the last lap, as it were. Both of us are thinking about that, but also about bringing people into the cinema, characters who are not normally represented. (via)