http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sammendes Posts tagged with 'sammendes' at MetaFilter. Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:27:08 -0800 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:27:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/66696/Much%2DAdo%2DAbout%2DShakespeare <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/18/nbeeb118.xml">BBC/HBO to film all 37 of Shakespeare's plays</a> Oscar-winning director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mendes">Sam Mendes</a> will produce the entire canon over 12 years. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66696 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:27:08 -0800 bbc hbo sammendes shakespeare crossoverman http://www.metafilter.com/62028/Revolutionary%2DRoad Sam Mendes is currently directing an <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959337/">adaptation</a> of <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1312156,00.html">Richard Yates's</a> 1961 novel <a href="http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2005-01/yates.htm"><i>Revolutionary Road</i></a>. Ignored for much of Yates's lifetime the 2000 edition, championed by <a href="http://www.tbns.net/elevenkinds/richardford.html">Richard Ford</a>, received renewed critical acclaim and the book went on to make Time's <a href="http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/0,24459,revolutionary_road,00.html">all-time 100 novels</a> list. For those re-discovering it <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/about/staff_information/jm.htm">John Mullen</a> offers a four part reading guide: <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1306187,00.html">imaginary dialogue</a>, <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1311409,00.html">the epigraph</a>, <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1317057,00.html">comic dialogue</a>, <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1322148,00.html">the ending</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62028 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:48:48 -0800 books films johnmullan literature richardyates sammendes ninebelow