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(‘Mr. Jones – a film directed by Agnieska Holland, with James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard)

Agnieska Holland Interview (Film Comment)

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Mr. Jones Quotes

“It was not unrest, it was a tactic. The Nazis now have an excuse to end all opposition.” – Gareth Jones
“War begins in the minds of men.” – Gareth Jones

On “Europa Europa”

Burning Bush miniseries directed by Agnieska Holland was on the tragic story of Czech dissident Jan Pallach.

Agnieska Holland directed Total Eclipse – Leo Dicaprio as Rimbaud and Verlaine played by David Thewlies.

Happy birthday Agnieska Holland!

Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s piece, titled “Floor Frame,” is displayed in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Washington. Noguchi is the first Asian American artist to be featured in the White House collection, according to the first lady and the White House Historical Association. He died in 1988. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Noguchi Sculpture for the White House Rose Garden

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Isamu Noguchi’s American Story: How a Small Sculpture Made a Big Impact at the White House

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The Last Life in the Universe – cinematography by Christopher Doyle.

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Soumitra Chatterjee: India acting legend dies, aged 85

Soumitra Chatterjee (January 19, 1935 — November 15, 2020)
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The third movie of the trilogy, Apur Sansar, which released in 1959, was also Chatterjee’s debut film. He would go on to star as the lead actor in 14 of Ray’s films.
Pauline Kael called Chatterjee Ray’s “one-man stock company” who moved “so differently in the different roles he plays that he is almost unrecognisable”.

Chatterjee, who starred in more than 300 movies, was also an accomplished playwright, theatre actor and poet.

Chaterjee shone even in non-Satyajit Ray films

Lesser Known facts about the living legend

Aldo TambelliniHe pioneered electronic intermedia, and is a painter, sculptor, and poet. He died at age 90, in 2020.

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Guardian Obit

Aldo Tambellini, the pioneering artist and film-maker who had an obsession with the colour black, has died aged 90. He will be remembered among other things for developing what he termed “electromedia” – the bringing together of multiple forms including strobes, dance, film, poetry and slide projection. “We have lost a titan,” said Stuart Comer, a curator at MoMA in New York.

Aldo Tambellini (born 29 April 1930) is an Italian American artist.

(R)evolution in Art & Physics: The All-Round Genius of Aldo Tambellini

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Beethoven, who had met Nannette in Augsburg years earlier, asked to borrow one of her pianos for a 1796 concert in Pressburg (now Bratislava). Writing to Andreas, Beethoven joked that it was too “good” for him, because he wanted the “freedom to create his own tone.” In a follow-up letter, he complained that the piano was still the least developed of all the instruments and that it sounded too much like a harp.

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The Woman who built Beethoven’s Pianos

Beethoven’s Great Love (French title: Un grand amour de Beethoven, US title: The Life and Loves of Beethoven) is a 1937 French film directed by Abel Gance. It stars Harry Baur (as Ludwig van Beethoven), Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Jane Marken, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Dalio. Dalméras plays the part of Franz Schubert.
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Death bed scene Beethoven Abel Gance.

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Abel Gance

(25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. Pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J’accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and the monumental Napoléon (1927).

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FIRST31B-C-26OCT01-DD-PC Sculptor/artist Alan Rath has created a series of sculptures using computer components and video screens which blink and wink at viewers. PAUL CHINN/S.F. CHRONICLE

Alan Rath, Bay Area Artist who pioneered electonic sculptures dies at 60

With a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rath cited a wide range of inspiration, including Alexander Calder, David Smith, Jimi Hendrix, NASA and Robert Moog, who designed analog synthesizers.

In Memory of Alan Rath

(Alan Rath – First work)