Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice Photo: El Deseo / Iglesias Más
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the six Spotlight selections of the 58th New York Film Festival. They are Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, starring Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans and Bill Murray; David Dufresne’s title The Monopoly Of Violence which quotes Max Weber; Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Human Voice, his adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play, which centres on Tilda Swinton’s performance, is shot by José Luis Alcaine and is scored by Alberto Iglesias; Hopper/Welles, Orson Welles’ conversation with Dennis Hopper, resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski; All In: The Fight For Democracy, directed by Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, and Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia.
David Byrne’s Broadway hit, American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee is a Spotlight selection Photo:...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the six Spotlight selections of the 58th New York Film Festival. They are Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, starring Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans and Bill Murray; David Dufresne’s title The Monopoly Of Violence which quotes Max Weber; Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Human Voice, his adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play, which centres on Tilda Swinton’s performance, is shot by José Luis Alcaine and is scored by Alberto Iglesias; Hopper/Welles, Orson Welles’ conversation with Dennis Hopper, resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski; All In: The Fight For Democracy, directed by Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, and Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia.
David Byrne’s Broadway hit, American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee is a Spotlight selection Photo:...
- 8/27/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Leading educational sociologist and academic who became the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
Jean Floud, who has died aged 97, was one of Britain's leading educational sociologists. Her career was a triumph of brains, charm and presence over class and gender prejudice.
She was born Jean McDonald in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Her father was a shoemender and salesman; her mother suffered from frequent ill-health. Jean went to local primary and secondary schools. When the family moved to Stoke Newington, north London, in 1927, she attended North Hackney Central school for girls.
At the London School of Economics, she studied sociology under David Glass, Th Marshall, Morris Ginsberg and Karl Mannheim, graduating in 1936. Two years later she married an upper-class communist, Peter Floud, then starting a curatorship at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with whom she had three children, Andrew, Frances and Esther. It was in his leftwing upper-class milieu that she shed the traces of her working-class origins.
Jean Floud, who has died aged 97, was one of Britain's leading educational sociologists. Her career was a triumph of brains, charm and presence over class and gender prejudice.
She was born Jean McDonald in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Her father was a shoemender and salesman; her mother suffered from frequent ill-health. Jean went to local primary and secondary schools. When the family moved to Stoke Newington, north London, in 1927, she attended North Hackney Central school for girls.
At the London School of Economics, she studied sociology under David Glass, Th Marshall, Morris Ginsberg and Karl Mannheim, graduating in 1936. Two years later she married an upper-class communist, Peter Floud, then starting a curatorship at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with whom she had three children, Andrew, Frances and Esther. It was in his leftwing upper-class milieu that she shed the traces of her working-class origins.
- 4/4/2013
- by Robert Skidelsky, Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Carl Barat has admitted that he was too "idealistic" about the Dirty Pretty Things as a band. The group played their final gig together on December 20 after announcing their plans to split up. "I do have regrets," Barat told NME. "I have to refer you to Max Weber and functionalism - democracy can’t always work. I was a bit idealistic. I wanted a band of brothers and friends." The group formed in 2004 after the break-up of Barat's old group The Libertines and consisted of drummer Gary Powell, (more)...
- 12/23/2008
- by By David Balls
- Digital Spy
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