“For an intellectual product of any value to exert an immediate influence which shall also be deep and lasting, it must rest on an inner harmony, yes, an affinity, between the personal destiny of its author and that of his contemporaries in general.”—Thomas Mann, Death in Venice Barry Lyndon. I can’t believe there was a time when I didn’t know that name. Barry Lyndon means an artwork both grand and glum. Sadness inconsolable. A cello bends out a lurid sound, staining the air before a piano droopingly follows in the third movement of Vivaldi's “Cello Concerto in E Minor.” This piece, which dominates the second half of the film, steers the hallowed half of my head to bask in the film’s high melancholic temperature. Why should I so often remember it? What did I have to do with this film? I only received it with...
- 10/15/2017
- MUBI
Esquire has announced its selection for the 2014 Sexiest Woman Alive, and Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz has claimed the title.
In a feature story about the Spanish beauty, the magazine notes that it's both her knockout looks and fiercely private personality that make her alluring.
"She is impossibly beautiful," writes reporter Chris Jones of Cruz. "When she walks into a room, men start walking into furniture. Up close, however, she becomes almost hard to look at, like staring into the most unflattering mirror. ... Cruz has no physical flaws, the bent noses and crooked teeth we would normally use as signifiers. Her face contains no secrets, at least not about her. But her face tells you and the room plenty about you. If you want to feel like the world's most judged man, sit down at a table in a restaurant with the Sexiest Woman Alive."
For her part, the actress told...
In a feature story about the Spanish beauty, the magazine notes that it's both her knockout looks and fiercely private personality that make her alluring.
"She is impossibly beautiful," writes reporter Chris Jones of Cruz. "When she walks into a room, men start walking into furniture. Up close, however, she becomes almost hard to look at, like staring into the most unflattering mirror. ... Cruz has no physical flaws, the bent noses and crooked teeth we would normally use as signifiers. Her face contains no secrets, at least not about her. But her face tells you and the room plenty about you. If you want to feel like the world's most judged man, sit down at a table in a restaurant with the Sexiest Woman Alive."
For her part, the actress told...
- 10/13/2014
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
Hot mama! Penelope Cruz can now add yet another honor to her already-long list of accomplishments: The actress, 40, has just been named Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive for 2014. Cruz, who was born in Spain, sat down with the magazine recently for an interview in her native Madrid. She declined to talk about either her personal life or her plans for a new movie with director Pedro Almodovar, but she captivated writer Chris Jones nonetheless. "She is impossibly beautiful," he writes in the November issue. "When she walks [...]...
- 10/13/2014
- Us Weekly
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