European film directors discuss Stanley Kubrick
European filmmakers, including George Sluizer (director of Spoorloos, aka The Vanishing. and Utz), Peter Delpeut (Felice..Felice..) and Harry Kümel (Daughters of Darkness, Malpertuis) discuss the…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 03/2014
‘Illness, Madness and Death’: The world of Edvard Munch and ‘The Scream’
Edvard Munch described his paintings as his children, and like children he believed they should go off into the world and have their own adventures.…
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: Rare interview together from 1961
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes discuss their work and life together in this interview for the BBC radio program Two of a Kind: Poets in…
Jessica Mitford’s eccentric piano-tuning son is living on a beach in Scotland
Jessica Mitford’s only surviving son, Ben Treuhaft, is currently living in a tent on Portobello Beach, in Edinburgh, Scotland, which, as you can imagine, is…
Fear is Just the Beginning: John Carpenter, Master of Horror
John Carpenter originally wanted to direct westerns just like his hero Howard Hawks. But those kind of movies weren’t so popular when Carpenter first started…
Stanley Kubrick’s daughter’s photographs of life with her famous father
Filmmaker/musician Vivian Kubrick, daughter of the great Stanley Kubrick, has posted a selection of photographs on Twitter, depicting her once close relationship working with her…