At Cannes the Best Actress Award was given to “a family of actresses”, to the six actresses in Pedro Almodovar’s film Volver: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Chus Lampreave, Yohana Cobo and Blanca Portillo. Almodovar was given the award for Best Script.
I find myself waiting for films and books with certain signatures. This was [...]
Snow blanketed the field. This is not good enough. You have to find fresh language.
In Learning to Write I I quoted Ezra Pound. Here is something else he said: Make it new.
By this he meant exactly what he said, but he also meant that you should make it specific rather than general. Don’t say [...]
Why do you want to do it? It might be the wish to connect with other people on a deep level. The need to speak of inner feelings. It could be the pressure of emotion, which you can’t ignore. What are your own reasons?
Remember the element of play in writing. Build it up and knock [...]
Modernism was, of course, concerned with the modern world. But it made a necessary distinction between the modern and the Modernist. The modern was a matter of period and historical phase; the Modernist a matter of art and technique, a peculiar twist of vision.
Modernism brought together, married, dallied with, rejected and played out the interconnections [...]
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