Berowne
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Film-Video Writer-Producer |
| Location | Connecticut, United States |
| Introduction | I taught for years on the university level, but my career was primarily in film. “Every year without knowing it I have passed the day when the last fires will wave to me and the silence will set out, tireless traveller, like the beam of a lightless star. Then I will no longer find myself in life as in a strange garment.” --W S Merwin |
| Favorite movies | I'm a fan of the classics: "Citizen Kane," "Grand Illusion," "The Rules of the Game," etc. My main favorites these days are often small, usually foreign films that can be extraordinary, though produced on a budget the size of the phone bill of Hollywood's usual car-chase, shoot-em-up, multi-million dollar epics. Check out "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," "Tulpan" and "Alexandra," as examples. "But nothing happens; there's nothing going on in those films," is the cry of some. My answer: "There's something going on in every frame. You've just got to be able to spot it." |
| Favorite music | I could toss around names like Miles Davis and a number of other similar geniuses, but the truth is, if I was stuck on a desert isle and was permitted a collection of music of just one composer, it would have to be that Salzburg Slasher, Wolfgang Amadeus. |
| Favorite books | Too many to list. I try to read at least some of the Man Booker Prize winners. I'm a fan of audio books: "reading" books while jogging. |
Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?
My answer: lionesses know they're grown up when the "mane man" of the pride -- i.e., a lion -- comes calling, murmuring seductively "taffeta phrases and silken terms precise." ("Love's Labour's Lost." V.ii)