Aniery Mohan
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There is beauty in your interpretations. I instinctively adhere to your personal, cultural and political sensibilities. You make me feel that each art work has a story of its own, to be felt and known by any amateur interested by aesthetics.
There is no intellectualism in your podcast. With admirable ease, you render the artists work intelligible to a layperson.
BRAVO! I am waiting eagerly for your next podcasts.
There is no intellectualism in your podcast. With admirable ease, you render the artists work intelligible to a layperson.
BRAVO! I am waiting eagerly for your next podcasts.
Coming from a stifling Quaker middle-class family who frowned on movies, David Lean worked his way up through the lowest ranks of British cinema to become a top editor, then a director. Isn't he a beacon of hope for youngsters who have to fight the Family and the Establishment to realize their dreams?
Here is an amusing anecdote (my contribution for your much awaited return after a long period of strike!!!) that happened during the shooting of "Dr Zhivago":
The film was shot in Spain during the regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. While the scene with the crowd chanting the Marxist theme was being filmed (at 3:00 in the morning), police showed up at the set thinking that a real revolution was taking place and insisted on staying until the scene was finished. Apparently, people who lived near where filming was taking place had awoken to the sound of revolutionary singing and had mistakenly believed that Franco had been overthrown.!!!
You didn't mention his two other famous films: "The bridge over the river Kwai" and "A passage to India".
His epic adaptation of Pierre Boulle's Japanese prisoner-of-war story "The Bridge on the River Kwai", expanded the dimensions of serious filmmaking.
In his last film, his adaptation of the 1924 novel by E. M. Forster, David Lean abandons Forster's strong moral and political stand on the damaging effects of colonialism in India, in favor of a wider ranging, panoramic love story.
I would have liked to have your opinion on "Ryan's daughter" (a script version of Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary"). The critics, almost universally condemned the slowness and seeming self-indulgence of its drama and scale. Many attribute the bad reviews to critics' expectations being too high as Lean had directed three epic blockbusters in a row prior to making Ryan's Daughter.
"Ryan's Daughter" is made with all of Lean's legendary craftsmanship, resulting in sequences of breathtaking beauty and erotic symbolism, and which perfectly captures the wonderful Irish landscape and seascape, as well as the claustrophobia of village life.
The film was a critical and popular failure. Lean was so upset that did not make another film for fourteen years.
Do you plan to make a podcast on Ken Loach? He is one of my favourite British director...
Here is an amusing anecdote (my contribution for your much awaited return after a long period of strike!!!) that happened during the shooting of "Dr Zhivago":
The film was shot in Spain during the regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. While the scene with the crowd chanting the Marxist theme was being filmed (at 3:00 in the morning), police showed up at the set thinking that a real revolution was taking place and insisted on staying until the scene was finished. Apparently, people who lived near where filming was taking place had awoken to the sound of revolutionary singing and had mistakenly believed that Franco had been overthrown.!!!
You didn't mention his two other famous films: "The bridge over the river Kwai" and "A passage to India".
His epic adaptation of Pierre Boulle's Japanese prisoner-of-war story "The Bridge on the River Kwai", expanded the dimensions of serious filmmaking.
In his last film, his adaptation of the 1924 novel by E. M. Forster, David Lean abandons Forster's strong moral and political stand on the damaging effects of colonialism in India, in favor of a wider ranging, panoramic love story.
I would have liked to have your opinion on "Ryan's daughter" (a script version of Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary"). The critics, almost universally condemned the slowness and seeming self-indulgence of its drama and scale. Many attribute the bad reviews to critics' expectations being too high as Lean had directed three epic blockbusters in a row prior to making Ryan's Daughter.
"Ryan's Daughter" is made with all of Lean's legendary craftsmanship, resulting in sequences of breathtaking beauty and erotic symbolism, and which perfectly captures the wonderful Irish landscape and seascape, as well as the claustrophobia of village life.
The film was a critical and popular failure. Lean was so upset that did not make another film for fourteen years.
Do you plan to make a podcast on Ken Loach? He is one of my favourite British director...
Hi Yesha,
I was wondering if you knew the work of American cartoonist, animator and illustrator Nina Paley. Inspired by Sita, she created "The Sitayana":
www.ninapaley.com/Sitayana/
I find Nina's animated feature very creative even though her Sita is not very feminist!
Here is a presentation of her work by the "Hafta" magazine:
haftamag.com/content/view/77/37/
:)
Mohan
I was wondering if you knew the work of American cartoonist, animator and illustrator Nina Paley. Inspired by Sita, she created "The Sitayana":
www.ninapaley.com/Sitayana/
I find Nina's animated feature very creative even though her Sita is not very feminist!
Here is a presentation of her work by the "Hafta" magazine:
haftamag.com/content/view/77/37/
:)
Mohan