List: Writers behind the Lens
1. Peter Handke
2. Jean Cocteau
3. Alexander Kluge
4. Pier Paolo Pasolini
5. Forough Farrokhzad
Special Mention:
Samuel Beckett
2. Jean Cocteau
3. Alexander Kluge
4. Pier Paolo Pasolini
5. Forough Farrokhzad
Special Mention:
Samuel Beckett
posted by Cheshire Cat at 9:31 AM
7 Comments:
Didn't know Beckett or Handke made movies. Handke wrote the monologues for wings of desire. I don't think he even wrote the screenplay.
and I will have to google for Farrokhzad. you know so many writers :)
I said it before, Cheshire, you are book beserk. Handke is also in for the most interesting translations...
Handke directed the film versions of his novels "Absence" and "The Left-handed Woman". I was under the impression Beckett directed his screenplay for "Film", but going to IMDB, I find that Alan Schneider is given credit. From what I read earlier, it seemed Beckett had control of most aspects of the production, including most crucially the choice of Buster Keaton for the lead.
Farrokhzad, actually, I know not through her work but through Kiarostami's "The Wind Will Carry Us" - the title of the film is also the title of a poem by her.
Antonia, you're not so far from bezerk yourself :) I like books, but most of all I'm fascinated by trivia, factoids... One of my favorite writers is David Markson -a couple of his late novels consist of nothing more than carefully arranged anecdotes about famous writers.
Most interesting translations... good category but you'll have to be the one to judge given my lack of French and German. From secondary material, I gather that Ralph Mannheim, Edith Grossman and Danuta Borchardt are all quite good, but I don't trust myself enough to make a list.
yes I have seen that, factoids and trivia.I myself am fascinated by the detail and the outcastthinker or -writer.
The Handketranslations are great and he - in this spirit - translated an awful lot of outsiderstuff,too (from french to german mostly) Does Markson write like Lowry (one of my secret heros)?
http://corpse.org/mississippi_corpse/Danuta_Borchardt.html
handke wrote the screenplay for wings of desire,about 3/4 of it; but none of he naturalistic dialogue, which he will only write by putting it in quotes.
see: http://www.handkefilm.scriptmania.com
for material and links.
HERE ARE SOME FURTHER HANDKE LINKS
various handke links Inbox A-HANDKE-LINKS
http://www.handke.scriptmania.com
+ 12 subsites, to prose, drama, film, etc
among them
http://www.handkeromance.scriptmania.com
http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com [dramA lecture]
http://www.kultur.at/lesen/index.htm [dem handke auf die schliche]
http://begleitschreiben.twoday.net/stories/2504464/
[three part interview with lothar struck about handke]
http://www.artscritic.blogspot.com [the handke/ milosevic controversy an American exposition]
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Mike, thanks for those links, they're a treasure trove. A few German writers I hadn't heard of before - Hans Nossack sounds very interesting.
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