Vitro Nasu

(Carrière died in Paris on 8 February 2021, aged 89)

Jean Claude Carriere, Belle de Jour, Tin Drum screenwriter (Obit from Hollywood Reporter)

Interview on youtube

Pierre Clementi from Belle de jour

(Via wiki)

Carrière was born in Colombières-sur-Orb, France, the son of Alice and Felix Carrière, a farmer.[2] He published his first novel, Lézard, in 1957. He was introduced to Jacques Tati, who had him write short novels based on his films. Through Tati, he met Pierre Étaix, with whom Carrière wrote and directed several films, including Heureux Anniversaire, which won them the Academy Award for Best Short Subject. His nineteen-year collaboration with Buñuel began with the film Diary of a Chambermaid (1964); he co-wrote the screenplay with Buñuel and also played the part of a village priest. Carrière and the director would collaborate on the scripts of nearly all Buñuel’s later films, including Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).

He also wrote screenplays for The Tin Drum (1979), Danton (1983), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), La dernière image (1986), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Valmont (1989), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Birth (2004), and Goya’s Ghosts (2006), and co-wrote Max, Mon Amour (1986) with director Nagisa Oshima. He also collaborated with Peter Brook on a nine-hour stage version of the ancient Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, and a five-hour film version. In 1998 he provided the libretto for Hans Gefors’ fifth opera Clara, which was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.[3]
His work in television includes the series Les aventures de Robinson Crusoë (1964), a French-West German production much seen overseas.

Thief of Paris, directed by Louis Malle, see Jean Claude Carrier in cameo appearing with Jean Paul Belmondo here.

Moreau as a chambermaid from the Diary of Chambermaid by Luis Bunuel.

In 2012, Carrière and Umberto Eco published a book of conversations on the future of information carriers.[4]
When Jean Claude Carrier imagined the future of Books with Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco, Previous post, We Salute the Enigma of his passing

Daniel Day Lewis and Lena Olin from the “Unbearable Lightness of Being”, scripted by Jean Claude Carrier.

Chinese Box
(Maggie Cheung and Jeremy Iron in the Chinese Box, also starring Gong-li)

Jean Claude Carrier assisted with scriptwriting for Wayne Wang in Chinese Box

Mary Catherine Bateson (wiki)

Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

MCBateson

We Are Not What We Know but What We are Willing to Learn.

Legacy Obit

Edge obit – Mary Catherine Bateson: Systems Thinker

Bateson & Mead

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Thank you Mary Catherine Bateson, this reader devoured her books, she was passionate.

The Moon in the Gutter – Crimson Kimono. com

David Goodis wiki (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967)

Shoot the Piano Player
(Truffaut archive here)

(Truffaut, Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois)

David Goodis Bleak Beautiful Vision of humanity

It’s difficult to find quotes from David Goodis about his own approach to writing, but the accolades and insights of others help fill the gap. Ed Gorman once said that “David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes,” and if we think of the literature of the suicide note, filled with equal parts anguish, guilt, love, and attempts to understand, then David Goodis’ work would easily fit within these bounds. His characters are broken down shadows of their former selves, worried more about damaging those they love then worrying about damage to themselves; as full of weaknesses, contradictions, and surprising resistances as Goodis himself.

Pulp International

David Goodis biography – LA times

(Photo of John Le Carre by Lord Snowdon)

Atlantic Obit

John le Carré Knew England’s Secrets
He revealed more about the country’s ruling class than any political writer of his era.

John Le Carre Com

wiki

Favorite Film Adaptations

Writers, Friends remembered John Le Carre

Actor Ralph Fiennes and author John Le Carre pose for photographs at an auction in aid of The Constant Gardeners’ Trust, at the Soho Hotel in London, Sunday March 12, 2006. The trust was set up to help the people of Kenya, where the book and film The Constant Gardener, was set. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA

Ralph Fiennes, actor
When I was approached by [producer] Simon Channing Williams in 2003 about making The Constant Gardener, I was already an enormous fan of le Carré’s books. I loved the world he created. And then I met the man, and he was so charming and generous of spirit and immediately available for conversation about the novel and the character. I must have fired all sorts of spurious questions at him but I just remember how he was very gregarious and excited about the project. (viaread more)

(Ralph Fiennes and Pete Postlethwaite from the Constant Gardner)
The Constant Gardner

John Le Carre on Philip Seymour Hoffman

(Philip Seymour Hoffman with German cast)

A Most Wanted Man – Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Last film

10 ways of getting to know John Le Carre Novels

Update: His son revealed that John Le Carre became Irish

Gore Vidal
Born Eugene Louis Vidal
October 3, 1925
West Point, New York, U.S

(Gore Vidal with Noam Chomsky –
Now is a great moment to listen to Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky talking in 1991)

Anais Nin and Gore

Gore Vidal in Rome

NY Magazine (Best of Enemies)

(Happy birthday Michael Ondaatjie– Sept 12)

See photos of him from his life here
In Ceylon

76 facts you might not know about on Michael Ondaatjie

31. Ondaatje calls his novels “cubist,” by which he means that he eschews linear narratives and experiments with the form.

See a photo of Ondaatjie and Ralph Fiennes here.
Breaking the Rules

One of his beloved books “Coming Through Slaughter” is a fictional story of New Orleans, Louisiana about 1900, very loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer E. J. Bellocq. Winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award.
New Orleans and vicinity at the turn of the century is the setting for the novel. Consider the places where the action occurs: N. Joseph’s Shaving Parlor, the river, Shell Beach, the Brewitts, Webb’s cottage, the streets of Storyville, Bellocq’s studio, Bolden’s home with Nora and the children, the mental hospital.

Willem Dafoe interviewed Michael Ondaatjie
He has given many interviews but the interview with William Dafoe, Michael became more open and revealing. He said, “I went into a tailspin after The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. I won an award for it in Canada and I went into this hole. So I wrote Coming Through Slaughter, which was a huge fury about fame. It was on a very small scale, but it was big enough. I mean, the thing is to continue to avoid being self-conscious. To write and forget that you wrote other books.”
“I have a tendency to remove more and more in the process of editing. Often I’ll write the first chapter last, because it sets up the story. The last thing I wrote in Coming Through Slaughter was “His geography,” almost like a big landscape shot, with buried clues you can pick up later. ”

On the genesis of plane crash image for English Patient:

“WD: Where did you get the central image of the plane crash, do you even remember?
MO: I just got the image and it was there. The artist, Joseph Beuys, was in a plane crash in the far north, not in the desert, but I already had this image in my head. It was one of those things where I’d heard about Beuys and his obsession with felt and that worked its way in too. That was enough. I didn’t need to know anymore. The medicine man… ”
He then continues to talk about Herodotus, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.
“MO: I had already read some of him. Then there was a reference to him in one of the explorer’s desert journals; one guy who said, “I was responsible for our library on one of our expeditions. But our library was only one book, Herodotus” And I thought that was great, because he was an historian writing about a place where these guys are many hundreds of years later. The idea of a contemporary history and an ancient history that links up… These explorers in the 1930s were out of time. I love the idea of them checking out sand dune formations. I love historical obsessives. And I kept thinking of writers like Charles Olson and Robert Creeley in some odd way. Creeley in his toughness, brittleness and lovely guarded lyricism was a clue for me about the patient, Almasy. And this wonderful, heroic era of exploration that was then ignored, while the twentieth century became more mercenary or mercantile. Also Herodotus’ sense of history is great because it’s very much based on rumor. “

The End Judges Everything by Herodotus (with original greek text)
The world according to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories

Michael O. shares birthday with these two historical figures.
Lorenzo di Medici
9/12/1492 – 5/4/1519
Florentine ruler (1513-9)

Francis I
9/12/1494 – 3/31/1547
French king and patron of the arts and scholarship (1515-47 )

Larry Kramer, Aids activist dies

Larry Kramer, groundbreaking author and Aids activist, dies aged 84

Larry Kramer wiki

Mark Ruffalo Came To Love Larry Kramer While Making “The Normal Heart”

“Larry cried in my arms once. He was so young. I melted.” — Ken Russell

(via Lisi Tribble)

Larry Kramer scripted “Women in Love”

Biographer of Beckett, Beauvoir & Jung, Deirdre Bair Died (NYtimes)
Irish Times obit

Wiki

Deirdre Bair (21 June, 1935 – 17 April, 2020) was an American writer and biographer. She was the author of six works of nonfiction.
Bair received a National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978).[1][a] Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung[2] were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by The New York Times as “Best Books of the Year”,

On the difficulty of convincing Samuel Beckett of just about anything

Deirdre Bair, Biographer of Record, Recalls Their First Meeting

(Literary Hub)

(Photo of Samuel Beckett by Steve Schapiro)
Samuel Becket Archive

Saul Steinberg

RIP Patricia Bosworth April, 2020.
April 24 – birthday of Patricia Bosworth, biographer of Marlon, Monty and Diane Arbus

(Jojo Rabbit – Thomasin McKenzie, Roman Griffin Davies and Taika Waititi)

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

Page 93 from the Screenplay of Jojo Rabbit
(Rilke was born in Prague. Jojo Rabbit was filmed in historical towns and villages in the Czech Republic. The interiors were built in the Barrandov Studios in Prague.)

See where this screenplay showed up first.
Jojo R Script
(For Your Consideration)

(Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance from the film “Waiting for the Barbarians”)

The Nobel Prize bio of J. M. Coetzee.

John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February 1940′

J. M. Coetzee
Coetzee completed a Master’s thesis on Ford Madox Ford

John Malkovich
Disgrace

Review of Disgrace by Roger Ebert

I awaited the closing scenes of “Disgrace” with a special urgency, because the story had gripped me deeply but left me with no idea how it would end. None — and I really cared. This is such a rare movie.

Paul Auster and Coetzee see a cartoon and read the New Yorker article – The Better Player.

Click to see large Who is this?

Previous Post The Seven Samurai and Coetzee.

Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them

Little Free Library Little free library

(Screenplay-Hidden Life)

(Screenplay- Jojo Rabbit)

Brief interview

Found this book “Archive Fever” – A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida.. from neighbor’s friendly book recycle box, this morning. Now I am curious about the former owner of this book.

“Derrida, convincingly argues that, although the archive is a public entity, is nevertheless is the reposittory of the private and personal, including even intimate details” – Choice_

Great News for Milan Kundera (Guardian)

Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship restored after 40 years

Milan Kundera wiki
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Czech premier proposes restoring writer Kundera’s nationality

Brno daily

In Photos: Exhibition “Milan Kundera (Not Lost) in Translation”

(Kundera, Vera Kundera and Roth)
With Philip Roth