If actor-turned-director Brady Corbet’s post-World-War-i saga, The Childhood of a Leader, did little more than send American readers to Jean-Paul Sartre’s lesser known short story of the same name, one would be thanking the cinematic gods for its appearance.
The final story in his Sartre’s 1939 collection, The Wall, “The Childhood of a Leader” chronicles the life of Lucien from his rebellious potty training days as a lovely, long-haired tot, son of a rich industrialist, to his transformation into anti-Semitic murderer. There goes Holden Caulfield but for the grace of God.
When we first meet Lucien, with his lustrous blond curls and attired in a blue angel’s costume, he is mistaken by his mother’s consorts as a girl.
“What’s your name? Jacqueline, Lucienne, Margot?”
The embarrassed boy blushes and sets the record right, but “[h]e was no longer quite sure about not being a little...
The final story in his Sartre’s 1939 collection, The Wall, “The Childhood of a Leader” chronicles the life of Lucien from his rebellious potty training days as a lovely, long-haired tot, son of a rich industrialist, to his transformation into anti-Semitic murderer. There goes Holden Caulfield but for the grace of God.
When we first meet Lucien, with his lustrous blond curls and attired in a blue angel’s costume, he is mistaken by his mother’s consorts as a girl.
“What’s your name? Jacqueline, Lucienne, Margot?”
The embarrassed boy blushes and sets the record right, but “[h]e was no longer quite sure about not being a little...
- 8/14/2016
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Zweig peeled back the veneer of Austro-Hungarian culture to expose sexual repression and the nature of love – no wonder he inspired Anderson's latest film
Why read Stefan Zweig? It is wonderful that Wes Anderson has cited him as an inspiration for his latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, but there have been quite a few people who would rather you didn't. Most famous of these were Hitler and Goebbels, for the very simple reason, at the same time both boring and terrifying, that Zweig was a Jew, on top of being the most translated author writing in German at the time. Being both was an intolerable affront, and if Hitler or his agents never laid hands on him, it was because they didn't have to: not only would burning all copies of Zweig's works have been a time-consuming exercise, he and his wife killed themselves, in exile in Brazil in...
Why read Stefan Zweig? It is wonderful that Wes Anderson has cited him as an inspiration for his latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, but there have been quite a few people who would rather you didn't. Most famous of these were Hitler and Goebbels, for the very simple reason, at the same time both boring and terrifying, that Zweig was a Jew, on top of being the most translated author writing in German at the time. Being both was an intolerable affront, and if Hitler or his agents never laid hands on him, it was because they didn't have to: not only would burning all copies of Zweig's works have been a time-consuming exercise, he and his wife killed themselves, in exile in Brazil in...
- 2/25/2014
- by Nicholas Lezard
- The Guardian - Film News
So, the first reviews are now in, and it looks like Rocksteady have a bona-fide classic on their hands with Batman: Arkham City. Scores are almost uniformly at the very top end, with most reviewers taking away no more than one point from their final evaluation.
While we wait to get our own review up, below is a selection of the gaming world authorities who I personally turn to for their opinions. And while I’m wholly jealous that they got their hands on the game first (we’ll get it early next week and review it as soon as I can get through the campaign – so the next day I’d wager, since I plan on pulling a sicky), what I’m reading is extremely exciting…
IGN Rating: 9.5/10
Not quite the full marks that were being predicted from the premiere reviewing site, but a 9.5 is still a very impressive...
While we wait to get our own review up, below is a selection of the gaming world authorities who I personally turn to for their opinions. And while I’m wholly jealous that they got their hands on the game first (we’ll get it early next week and review it as soon as I can get through the campaign – so the next day I’d wager, since I plan on pulling a sicky), what I’m reading is extremely exciting…
IGN Rating: 9.5/10
Not quite the full marks that were being predicted from the premiere reviewing site, but a 9.5 is still a very impressive...
- 10/14/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Repertory theaters on the coasts are truly offering a window onto the world this spring, with Jia Zhangke and Bong Joon-ho retrospectives, as well as New French Cinema in New York, "Freebie and the Bean," "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and Jason Reitman's favorite films invade Los Angeles, and the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is offering a fond farewell to the video cassette. But consider this a hello to seeing classics, oddities and rarities on the big screen over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
- 2/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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