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My first impression of James Gray’s film Two Lovers is posted at Filmwell.

[UPDATE: Apparently the "scoop" that I shared below may not be such a scoop after all. Here's the latest.]

Ever since Alfonzo Cuaron directed A Little Princess, I’ve been excited about his work. Since then, he’s given us Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (my favorite of the series), and Children of Men… all impressive in certain ways. I can’t wait to see what he does next.

So today’s news at /FILM is intriguing… (more…)

I’m listening to a lot of music these days.

Today, for instance, I need some inspiring music while I fill out interview questions about Raven’s Ladder that have been sent by various bloggers.  (Look, I appreciate your attention to my novel, but please, do everybody a favor and avoid asking the questions that a dozen bloggers have already asked about it. There are so many interesting things we could talk about.)

Anyway, I’m enjoying these three new releases… (more…)

Over at the blog called Lurv a la Mode, I’ve posted a story about the nightmares I used to suffer about what my book covers would someday look like. And then I share how the nightmares went away.

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My thoughts on The Wolfman have been published at Good Letters, the daily blog for Image.

Okay, so the majority rules that The Wolf Man is a miserable failure of a film.

Me? (more…)

A comic book adaptation of Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” series? (more…)

You read the darnedest things in Facebook status updates. Here’s a gem I stumbled across today. (more…)

I cannot put into words how encouraged I am by the responses of readers to Raven’s Ladder. (more…)

So, the filmmaker Olivier Assayas makes a beautiful, poetic film called Summer Hours, which ends up among the handful of movies most celebrated by critics in 2009.

It’s hard to find any fault with it. It explores a broad array of subjects – art history, nostalgia, globalism, family ties – and it does so because of its particularity. It is grounded in the experience of a specific family, deeply rooted in French history and tradition, and considers the influence of the European Union (EU) on trends in art and culture. And it does all of this with the help of a cast of some of the world’s finest screen actors, sumptuous cinematography, and poetic composition.

So, then what happens? (more…)