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Better than the book: James Caan, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and John Cazale in 'The Godfather'

... REBECCA necessarily a literal one. Coppola Most directors would have made an While not exactly a classic of transplanted Joseph Conrad's 'Heart absolute mess of Thomas Keneally's literature, Daphne Du Maurier's of Darkness' to 20th century Vietnam story ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 449 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW CINEMA

... 50s? (j) Which Orson Welles film was famously hacked to pieces by his studio? (a) What was the nouvelle vague? (b) What Joseph Conrad novella was 'Apocalypse Now' based on? (c) Which otherwise respectable writer was involved in writing the script of 'Ben ...

Published: Monday 23 April 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Farewell to a beauty of the Cutty Sark, RIP

... great laureates of the ocean, during the brief reign of the clippers: the Pole, Joseph Conrad; the Englishman, John Masefield, and the Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson. Joseph Conrad's novels, beginning with Nigger of the Narcissus of 1897 and Lord Jim a couple ...

Published: Tuesday 22 May 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 590 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

KRZYZOWKA Rozwivanie z zesztego tygodnia 'FASOLA'. W tym tygodniu rozdajemy Da Vinci Code - Paris Walsk Patera ..

... Francji, Anglii i Irlandii. Cena biletu na 3 czerwca: €3O). Festiwalowi w Cobh towarzyszyd bcdzie wystawa zatytutowana Joseph Conrad. Micdzy ladem a morzem, upamietniajlica 150. rocznicc urodzin pisarza (otwardie - 31 maja, godz. 19.00, galeria Sirius ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 2007
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

schools

... has raised concerns because some classics currently in the curriculum including works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Joseph Conrad would be removed to make way for the new titles. Culture Minister Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski said it was completely ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 2007
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Book-banning, homophobia and Tinky-Winky

... Quo Vadis, which concerns Christian persecutions under). sics currently in the curriculum - including works by Goethe, Joseph Conrad, himself a Pole, Dostoevsky or Kafka - would be removed. Culture Minister Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski said it was completely ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 2007
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 446 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

AS WE KNOW FROM

... book ever convinced me that the Apocalypse was so close. Favourite book? Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Favourite film? In the week of his death, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Seventh Ceal and the extraordinary Scenes From ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

Brando: a genius whose flaws should be forgiven

... do his best to concur with the director's wishes and read in advance Heart of Darkness, the slim and modest novella by Joseph Conrad on which Coppola's story was based. On foot of these not unreasonable conditions, he would be paid a million dollars for ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

From soaking to sniffing, it's Fringe

... deep in the jungle, is Gavin Kostick and one of his two Fringe contributions, The Heart of Darkness. Kostick delivers Joseph Conrad's text (and we're guessing that means reading) in its entirety. For five and a half hours. That's what I call fringe! ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 2007
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 395 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

•. a a • .1L .4

... find their careers in jeopardy when they pursue the matter with the police. Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam-set take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness certainly isn't without its flaws, but when it hits the spot it does so spectacularly. Martin Sheen ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 2007
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 353 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

BOOK WORM

... Selma Lagerlof were honoured, and who reads or has even heard of any of those now? Henry James, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy were spurned, while the accolade was given to Verner von Heidenstam, Karl Gjellerup and Carl Spitteler ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 2007
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

gingster novel, The Godfather, and Coppola's subsequent film achieved that rarest of - artistic brilliance and ..

... sequel was, according to some, even better, and gave Coppola the licence to disappear into the jungle to do battle with Joseph Conrad. - Quietly, but memorably, Marti n Scorsese had made his mark in the early 70s with gritty urban dramas like Mean Streets ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 67 | Tags: none