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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

PAT STACEY'S TV CHOICE

... experience than a movie,' admitted Francis Ford Coppola at the Cannes screening of his Vietnam epic, freely adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. 'At the beginning there's a story. Along the way the story becomes less important and the experience ...

Published: Friday 14 March 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: 109 | Tags: none

TV GUTDE

... were afraid to venture on to its filthy, dangerous streets. And ,he ity Lng, tnd of seafaring tradition, bu.. spirit of Joseph Conrad, the gloomy Polish exile who wrote so brilliantly in what was in fact his third language. Bragg's series began last week ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 565 | Page: 133 | Tags: none

FIRST NIGHT

... in 1936. Oddly, the same year Hitchcock also made Sabotage, which was actually based on a book called The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad's famously unreadable classic). We know espionage is meant to be confusing, but this takes the biscuit. Back to the beginning ...

Published: Friday 23 May 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1175 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

BOOK WORM

... even if all are very loosely based on their originals Ernest Hemingway in Hawks's case, Daphne du Maurier in Roeg's and Joseph Conrad's in Coppola's. And Bernardo Bertolucci's dazzling The Conformist (1970) is far more potent than the Alberto Moravia novel ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1111 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

Manuscripts of Joyce, Greene, and Conrad

... Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night 1934, sold for 54.200 A First English Edition of 'Victory, An Island 'hale' by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) sold for $25,000 at a New York sale. This particular copy was dedicated by the Polish author to Perceval and ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1024 | Page: 77 | Tags: none

JOYCE SOLD FOR

... long-time friends of the Conrads. `Victory' came out in England on 24 September 1915 and was a great popular success. Also by Joseph Conrad was a typescript of the short story Falk with very extensive revisions by Conrad. The tale first appeared in 'Typhoon ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 77 | Tags: none

mayhem and madness produced a masterpiece

... done. Cimino's shoot, though, was a brisk one compared to Francis Coppola's. In attempting to translate to the screen Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Coppola was hoping to succeed where the likes of Orson Welles and John Milius had failed. ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 932 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

FIRST NIGHT

... lf-hours' long one-man show, then I'm more confused than ever. Playwright and now performer, Gavin Kostick has turned Joseph Conrad's novella, The Heart of Darkness, into just such a chunky evening of theatre, performing the entire text (give or take ...

Published: Monday 06 October 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

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... element. ance is one we recognise more clearly But the aptness of this strange adven- each news cycle. tore is unignorable. Joseph Conrad's standard text was first published in book - UM (INKY ...

Published: Monday 06 October 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

1 – . .... IP 414.°

... 1 nislaw Lem i Joseph Conrad (prawdziwe nazwisko J6zef Korzeniowski) pojawili sie w odpowiedziach po 2 razy. Teatr przemilczano. Znane osoby Kategoria trzecia, jak moina sic bylo spodziewad, sprawila kiopoty tylko niewielkiej cze§cl respondent6w - mianowicie ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 2008
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

LIISH RTWO

... romantic novels. No matter how hard I tried, I could not persuade her to share my enthusiasm for the novels of Henry James, Joseph Conrad and George Eliot. After she passed away, I began to reflect on her life, and eventually it dawned on me that she read to ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 2008
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 599 | Page: 70 | Tags: none