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The Big Sleep is a film I have found a very intense love for. The rotating cast of shadowy crooks and deceptive dames coupled with the roller-coaster plotting makes this classic movie endlessly entertaining. Bogart and Bacall are electrifying together and the supporting cast is equally captivating. Considering it’s over 60 years old, The Big Sleep
still works in a big bad way and feels fantastically modern. It’s as if the film is simply too fast and too entertaining to age. It was crafted by the hands of some of Hollywood’s finest artists at the time and oozes quality as a result. Most of all though, this movie is just pulpy, fearless, fun and really, really cool. -
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posted by Trurl
on Apr 7, 2012 -
56 comments
The writer has—has been stricken with the—the passion and beauty of life, the world, and a—a demon-driven need to—to express that, to put it down on paper or cut it into marble or into music, and with that foreknowledge that he has only a limited time to do it, he may be dead tomorrow—he's got to do it all while he can still breathe, and it's a—a desire, a need, to put the whole history of the human heart into any and every word, every paragraph that he writes, and the obscurity comes from a belief which I hold, that—that there is no such thing as "was."
In the late 1950s William Faulkner was
writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia.
Extensive recordings of readings, reflections, and classes are now online.
NPR summarizes.
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posted by jjray
on Jul 15, 2010 -
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Faulkner Friday: William Faulkner's connection with the
University of Mississippi was a varied one, including a stint as an
abysmal postmaster. Regardless, Ole Miss has put together
a vast website dedicated to the writer. Learn about his
life,
his family tree, his
home at Rowan Oak, and
even a FAQ for those common questions. Learn about his
novels, his
short stories, and his
poems. And if that's all old hat, how about information on his
work in Hollywood, a
source of academic resources on the writer, a
listing of other websites on Faulkner, and lastly, a
page of trivia, quotes, and quizzes.
posted by Atreides
on Aug 14, 2009 -
7 comments
Rowan Oak: In 1930, William Faulkner purchased what was then known as "The Bailey Place," a large primitive Greek Revival house that pre-dated the Civil War standing on four acres of cedars and hardwoods. Take a virtual tour of the home that housed this great American writer.
posted by Fizz
on Aug 11, 2008 -
11 comments
Faulkneresque White House. Down the hall, under the chandelier, I could see them talking. They were walking toward me and Dick s face was white, and he stopped and gave a piece of paper to Rummy, and Rummy looked at the piece of paper and shook his head. He gave the paper back to Dick and Dick shook his head. They disappeared and then they were standing right next to me. Hemispheres Magazine's Faulkner Parody Contest (
Hemingway too) via
RobotWisdom
posted by publius
on Jul 23, 2005 -
5 comments
The Sound and the Fury. 75 years ago,
William Faulkner finished
his fourth novel. It was
published later in the fall (October 7, 1929), and for the first fifteen years sales totaled just over 3,300 copies (an
appendix was
added in 1946, when
most of Faulkner's books were
out of print. Of course, a few years after that he was awarded the
Nobel Prize). It was Faulkner's own favorite novel, primarily, he said, because he considered it his "most splendid failure".
Many critics think it's the finest work of an American Master: the key to Faulkner, wrote
Alfred Kazin (.pdf file), lies not only in the unflinching extremity of his God-blasted characters, but in the odd and unaccountable moments of redemptive human tenderness.
The Internet is very kind to Faulkner's fans: we can check out the
Faulkner home, his
manuscripts and even his pipe, trivia from his
Postmaster's days, we can read examples of his
snarkiness (hurled against Hemingway and
Clark Gable), we can admire the pages of
screenplays from his
Hollywood days. We can go to Faulkner academic conferences, too: in the
USA and
Japan. Want to know what
Bunny Wilson and
Ralph Ellison had to say about Faulkner?
Here.
(more inside, with Conan O'Brien)
posted by matteo
on Jun 11, 2004 -
30 comments
"GOLDILOCKS. Slim blond avatar of unreasoning womankind: who loved not the porridge itself, nor even the act of receiving it from whatever unknown animal might have been responsible for its preparation..."
From the
winning submission of the Faux Faulkner contest. Also check out
Faux Hemingway.
posted by Pinwheel
on Jul 23, 2003 -
11 comments
"I was driving a Lexus through a rustling wind." Did anyone recognize the opening sentence of Don DeLillo's
Underworld? First lines often set the tone for a whole novel but they're fun on their own too. So, after reading
this article by John Mullan, I found this interesting quiz to test my identification skills. Well! The warm-up exercises are recommended for giving you a false sense of security, btw... And here's a
bonus quiz for Faulkner fans. Just one example: "
The jury said "Guilty" and the Judge said "Life" but he didn't hear them." They don't get much better than that, do they?
posted by Carlos Quevedo
on Oct 28, 2002 -
36 comments
