Word: ibsenism
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...Pelican”—spending six months reading about Strindberg and perusing his work—but he has also retranslated them from the original Swedish with the help of Harvard Scandinavian Club president Maria E. Troein ’07. Strindberg, a contemporary of Ibsen, has long been written off as an insignificant playwright by English speakers mainly due to the sloppy translations of his plays...
...paper representing works in progress, he's amiable, chatty and deeply unpretentious--he refers to his writing as "scribbling." But it's at least a bit of a con--he's read practically everything, and he gets a sly kick out of reminding you of that. He references both Ibsen and Crichton, Joan Didion and Jean Genet. Before I arrived, just as a courtesy, he read my book...
Three answers: He has been pretty busy, playing intellectual types like Carl Jung and Ibsen's Brand onstage. He does not encourage the whole star thing. And, at 42, he's back in style as film's most winning lost soul. The Constant Gardener, an exhilarating take on John Le Carr's novel, by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine, is one of five Fiennes films to be released in 2005 (see box). He's a decadent art historian in Chromophobia (still awaiting a U.S. distributor), an upper-class satire that involved three...
...ULLMANN: Yes. The last thing he did was Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, three or four years ago. Then he said "this is the last." And when he did this film, which was a surprise for everybody, he said "This is the last I do," in terms of script and film. And now I know he really means...
With an extended stage taking up nearly as much space as the audience, director Robyn Nevin gives the lithe film star room to prowl. A new adaptation by Blanchett's husband, Andrew Upton, which splices up Ibsen's acerbic dialogue as if in a Robert Altman movie, keeps things brisk and tense. And Blanchett plays Hedda - whose dalliance with old flame Lovborg (Aden Young) brings her under scrutiny by family friend Judge Brack (Hugo Weaving) - as neither victim nor villain, but rather as a kind of classy control freak. This most un-neurotic of actresses makes Hedda's animal instinct...