Programme for May's three-week arts celebration – released today – will feature Emil and the Detectives, Judith Kerr and Michael Rosen's orchestral work for kids, The Great Enormo
Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kästner's 1929 classic story about a boy who enlists the help of friends to foil a bank robber – is the book at the heart of this year's Brighton festival, which is guest-directed by author, broadcaster and former children's laureate Michael Rosen.
Rosen, who was read the book in weekly instalments by his class teacher when he was nine – and who remembers elaborating and acting out episodes of it with his friends – said the book was "very special in a variety of ways. It was the first of its kind: the first book in which children are detectives and solve a crime. And it was completely new in its attitude to the city. There's a tradition in literature of...
Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kästner's 1929 classic story about a boy who enlists the help of friends to foil a bank robber – is the book at the heart of this year's Brighton festival, which is guest-directed by author, broadcaster and former children's laureate Michael Rosen.
Rosen, who was read the book in weekly instalments by his class teacher when he was nine – and who remembers elaborating and acting out episodes of it with his friends – said the book was "very special in a variety of ways. It was the first of its kind: the first book in which children are detectives and solve a crime. And it was completely new in its attitude to the city. There's a tradition in literature of...
- 2/27/2013
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
"Václav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died. He was 75." Karel Janicek for the AP: "Havel was his country's first democratically elected president after the nonviolent 'Velvet Revolution' that ended four decades of repression by a regime he ridiculed as 'Absurdistan.' … Havel left office in 2003, 10 years after Czechoslovakia broke up and just months before both nations joined the European Union. He was credited with laying the groundwork that brought his Czech Republic into the 27-nation bloc, and was president when it joined Nato in 1999. Shy and bookish, with wispy mustache and unkempt hair, Havel came to symbolize the power of the people to peacefully overcome totalitarian rule."
"In his youth he formed a literary circle called Thirty-Sixers, after the year of its members' birth," notes Books and Writers.
"In his youth he formed a literary circle called Thirty-Sixers, after the year of its members' birth," notes Books and Writers.
- 12/18/2011
- MUBI
Emjag Productions and Platinum Studios, Inc. have partnered together to bring “Blood Nation”, the Platinum Studios’ comic book series to the silver screen. Created by Rob Moran with art by James Devlin and John Keane, “Blood Nation” is about a world after an outbreak of vampirism has occurred, leading to an uneasy truce between humanity and vampires until rumors force a small group of humans to pierce into the heart of the vampire nation on a mission that reveals that everything they’ve known about their enemies might be totally wrong. Emjag’s Alexandra Milchan and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, CEO and Chairman of Platinum Studios, will be producing “Blood Nation”, with former Universal Pictures [...]...
- 4/28/2010
- by Costa Koutsoutis
- ShockYa
For 14 season, The Amazing Race has attracted millions of viewers to follow a ragtag group of adveturers each season, competing for the fabulous cash prize of 1 million dollars. One of the unifying forces behind the differently themed series' is composer Lee Sanders who provided both original and catalogue music for all seasons of the show. Getting the job after a couple of successful clips done for the Lord of the Rings website, The Amazing Race has been a great opportunity for Lee to deliver something exciting every week.
How did you get interested in music?
I was three years old—my next door neighbors had a piano, and from all reports I became addicted straightaway. I've been formally involved with music in some capacity since about age four, although I did dabble in several other majors as an undergraduate before settling into music composition.
What does your musical education consist of?...
How did you get interested in music?
I was three years old—my next door neighbors had a piano, and from all reports I became addicted straightaway. I've been formally involved with music in some capacity since about age four, although I did dabble in several other majors as an undergraduate before settling into music composition.
What does your musical education consist of?...
- 5/18/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
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