Word: directors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...craggy, dark-haired director has been through hours of interviews already, but doesn't look it. Relaxed and slouching in a tweed coat, he looks at first glance more like an English professor than one of the foremost (and quirkiest) Irish directors working today. The rigors of a promotional tour aren't new to Jordan--he's weathered the gonzo publicity machines surrounding his more high-profile efforts, including 1992's The Crying Game, for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar, and Interview with the Vampire, which came out as the worldwide Brad Pitt craze was fast approaching...
...aspects of the filmmaking process: "I prepare everything-all the lighting situations, all the camera moves-prepare as much as I possibly can, and if you are that prepared you create a space where the actors can function better." But does all of this control during production give the director an idea of how a film will do commercially? "Haven't got a clue." Critically? "Haven't got a clue either. This is an adult movie, and it deals with themes that you don't see in the cinema very often." Jordan's best films tend to receive modest...
...Center for Business and Government (CBG) will produce research, sponsor two fellowships and run executive conferences as benefits of its partnership with Keizai Doyukai (Doyukai), a Japanese business association, said J.H. Dow Davis, executive director...
...establishment of a long-term relationship with the Kansai region is one of this year's most satisfying developments for the [CBG]," said Roger B. Porter, the director of CBG, who is also IBM professor of business and government at KSG, in a press release...
Going to an A.R.T show always brings with it a certain air of the carnivalesque. Artistic Director Robert Brustein has assembled an astonishingly innovative team of theater technicians, and they're usually over-eager to flex their muscles. Ivanov is certainly not without its own bag of tricks. But Yeremin never lets these tricks develop into a full-fledged side-show. And how could they? Yeremin's staging and visual landscaping of Chekov's play is so breath-taking that we cannot be distracted from it. In Yeremin's hands, Ivanov on stage becomes as lush as Dr. Zhivago...