November 22, 2011
November 9, 2011
November 4, 2011
The movie “Anonymous” has breathed new life into an old controversy. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2011/11/shakespeare.
In anticipation of our "Movie Night' next Wednesday, here are a few chuckles for you....
BZ
"Song of Lunch" on PBS
"Masterpiece" will present "Song of Lunch," starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, on Sunday, November 13th, at 9 pm.
It is based on a poem (yes, a poem), by Christopher Reid, about old lovers meeting again after many years. Reid said he was inspired in part by the section in Ulysses in which Joyce described a pub. He wanted to try something similar with lunch in a restaurant. (So there's the Rosenbach link in case you were not convinced to watch the show by the names of its stars.)
It just premiered on British TV and got wonderful reviews.
Paris, the Luminous Years - Toward the Making of the Modern
Jesse Ruhl tipped me off to this amazing documentary: Paris, the Luminous Years - Toward the Making of the Modern. It's well worth the 1 hour 53 minutes, in fact I was wishing, as Oliver does, for a little more please!
November 2, 2011
Civil War Program Alert
"Lincoln and the Widow Bixby" Premieres this Friday
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 2:09PM Judy Giesberg tells the story of the most famous condolence letter ever written in “Lincoln and the Widow Bixby,” the next episode of Humanities on the Road premiering this Friday on PCN-TV.
Giesberg, who is Associate Professor of History at Villanova University, introduces audiences at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia to the story of Lydia Bixby, a mother living in Boston who allegedly lost five sons on Civil War battlefields. Moved by the family’s sacrifice for the country, President Lincoln wrote Bixby a condolence letter after hearing of her loss.
Check out PCN-TV website for times and more info at
http://www.humanitiesontheroad.org/home/lincoln-and-the-widow-bixby-premieres-this-friday.html
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